| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13734 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 9222 | 185 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 5399 | 194 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2529 | 82 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2339 | 40 |
| 6 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2315 | 51 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2131 | 104 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1717 | 28 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1633 | 29 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1575 | 31 |
| 11 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1541 | 79 |
| 12 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1489 | 58 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1477 | 28 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1397 | 12 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1350 | 23 |
| (15) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1274 | 24 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1243 | 25 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1241 | 24 |
| 17 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1225 | 36 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1205 | 19 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1203 | 34 |
| 19 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1192 | 32 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1182 | 26 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1162 | 30 |
| 22 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1151 | 45 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1120 | 23 |
| 24 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1111 | 23 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1100 | 23 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1077 | 28 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1075 | 20 |
| (27) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1070 | 21 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1052 | 28 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1037 | 21 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1008 | 17 |
| 31 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1002 | 40 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 997 | 22 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 994 | 22 |
| 34 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 955 | 23 |
| 35 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 938 | 40 |
| (35) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 933 | 14 |
| 36 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 911 | 17 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 907 | 17 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 881 | 19 |
| 39 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 859 | 25 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 854 | 33 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 852 | 26 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 836 | 29 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 831 | 27 |
| 44 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 829 | 26 |
| 45 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 810 | 24 |
| (45) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 804 | 16 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 803 | 14 |
| 47 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 789 | 19 |
| 48 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 783 | 19 |
| 49 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 762 | 13 |
| 50 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 756 | 21 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 740 | 32 |
| 52 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 739 | 39 |
| 53 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 724 | 45 |
| 54 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 714 | 11 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 710 | 29 |
| 56 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 709 | 36 |
| 57 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 706 | 57 |
| 58 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 703 | 11 |
| 59 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 700 | 21 |
| 60 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 698 | 23 |
| 61 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 688 | 23 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 666 | 31 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 664 | 26 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 659 | 20 |
| 65 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 657 | 33 |
| 66 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 656 | 36 |
| 66 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 656 | 18 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 650 | 16 |
| 69 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 647 | 23 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 643 | 21 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 640 | 21 |
| 72 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 638 | 15 |
| (72) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 628 | 13 |
| (72) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 625 | 10 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 611 | 22 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 598 | 20 |
| (74) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 593 | 16 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 592 | 10 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 586 | 21 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 577 | 29 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 576 | 25 |
| (78) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 560 | 24 |
| 79 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 545 | 17 |
| 80 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 541 | 52 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 527 | 8 |
| 82 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 519 | 8 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 515 | 19 |
| 84 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 507 | 27 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 506 | 19 |
| (85) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 497 | 7 |
| 86 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 491 | 26 |
| 87 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 489 | 19 |
| 88 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 472 | 28 |
| 89 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 467 | 22 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 463 | 13 |
| 91 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 462 | 8 |
| (91) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 460 | 13 |
| 91 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 460 | 16 |
| 93 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 458 | 18 |
| 94 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 457 | 27 |
| 95 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 448 | 11 |
| (95) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 444 | 18 |
| (95) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 442 | 13 |
| 96 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 440 | 44 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 440 | 13 |
| 98 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 438 | 15 |
| 99 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 437 | 13 |
| 100 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 435 | 10 |
| 101 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 434 | 35 |
| (101) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 433 | 16 |
| 101 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 433 | 16 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 428 | 15 |
| 103 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 428 | 5 |
| (104) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 422 | 12 |
| 104 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 422 | 18 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 418 | 15 |
| 107 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 415 | 10 |
| 107 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 415 | 16 |
| (108) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 414 | 4 |
| (108) | Maastricht research school of Economics of TEchnology and ORganizations (METEOR), Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 410 | 11 |
| 109 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 407 | 13 |
| (109) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 407 | 13 |
| 110 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 406 | 16 |
| 110 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 406 | 7 |
| 110 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 406 | 17 |
| (110) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 406 | 7 |
| 113 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 403 | 16 |
| 114 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 402 | 15 |
| (114) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 402 | 16 |
| 115 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 400 | 33 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 399 | 8 |
| (116) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 398 | 19 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 397 | 25 |
| 117 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 397 | 19 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 396 | 14 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 392 | 18 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 391 | 12 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 390 | 15 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 389 | 9 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 387 | 14 |
| 125 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 385 | 19 |
| (125) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 384 | 4 |
| (125) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 384 | 32 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 382 | 10 |
| 127 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 379 | 17 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 377 | 12 |
| 129 | Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Getulio Vargas Foundation | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 376 | 13 |
| 130 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 375 | 10 |
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