| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7102.47 | 225 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4161.89 | 190 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2464.02 | 200 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1337.75 | 84 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1213.78 | 53 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1170.83 | 38 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1042.87 | 107 |
| 8 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 998.78 | 27 |
| (8) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 971.61 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 944.75 | 30 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 908.3 | 28 |
| 11 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 869.86 | 12 |
| 12 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 799.01 | 80 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 778.39 | 32 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 774.6 | 23 |
| 15 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 763.61 | 59 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 713.24 | 19 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 675.58 | 27 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 666.13 | 25 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 658.2 | 24 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 652.03 | 21 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 650.42 | 30 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 630.7 | 25 |
| 22 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 629.71 | 32 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 599.31 | 29 |
| 24 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 586.61 | 24 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 578.5 | 23 |
| (25) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 576.25 | 34 |
| (25) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 569.41 | 15 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 560.42 | 29 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 554.71 | 37 |
| 28 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 539.53 | 44 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 532.65 | 17 |
| (29) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 525.41 | 16 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 517.06 | 19 |
| 31 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 502.66 | 11 |
| 32 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 497.87 | 45 |
| (32) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 482.01 | 21 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 470.39 | 48 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 469.76 | 22 |
| 35 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 461.54 | 21 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 456.68 | 33 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 451.39 | 33 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 451.1 | 23 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 445.5 | 19 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 444.78 | 27 |
| 41 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 424.78 | 13 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 421.74 | 18 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 418.08 | 29 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 411.1 | 14 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 408.43 | 18 |
| 46 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 402.71 | 21 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 399.9 | 18 |
| 48 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 393.53 | 23 |
| 49 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 393.35 | 27 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 388.13 | 21 |
| 51 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 384.48 | 18 |
| 52 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 384.24 | 40 |
| 53 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 383.76 | 40 |
| 54 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 380 | 15 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 373.74 | 19 |
| 56 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 368.9 | 67 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 364.25 | 25 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 357.91 | 29 |
| 59 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 354.28 | 26 |
| 60 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 350.91 | 9 |
| 61 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 345.68 | 18 |
| 62 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 345.68 | 21 |
| 63 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 339.83 | 25 |
| 64 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 338.46 | 11 |
| 65 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 338.05 | 25 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 330 | 30 |
| 67 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 322.08 | 23 |
| 68 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 320.79 | 45 |
| 69 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 320.7 | 26 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 320.64 | 21 |
| (70) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 308.06 | 13 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 306.03 | 10 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 300.81 | 21 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 300.56 | 26 |
| 74 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 295.03 | 24 |
| (74) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 294.48 | 16 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 293.93 | 20 |
| 76 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 292.11 | 34 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 288.61 | 22 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 288.4 | 8 |
| 79 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 284.76 | 11 |
| 80 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 280.73 | 54 |
| 81 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 276.56 | 37 |
| 82 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 265.83 | 16 |
| 83 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 264.11 | 31 |
| (83) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 262.47 | 7 |
| 84 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 261.75 | 17 |
| 85 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 258.28 | 11 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 255.86 | 14 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 255.43 | 10 |
| 87 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 255.16 | 20 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 250.41 | 15 |
| 89 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 249.78 | 27 |
| (89) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 247.76 | 9 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 247.53 | 10 |
| 91 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 246.59 | 21 |
| 92 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 246.33 | 19 |
| (92) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 244.76 | 24 |
| 93 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 244.58 | 27 |
| 94 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 244.15 | 8 |
| (94) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 243.9 | 18 |
| 95 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 242.64 | 18 |
| 96 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 240.91 | 8 |
| (96) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 240.75 | 7 |
| 97 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 240.43 | 22 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 239.58 | 10 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 236.33 | 25 |
| 100 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 236 | 26 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 234.41 | 17 |
| 102 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 233.89 | 19 |
| 103 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 232.53 | 26 |
| 104 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 230.46 | 5 |
| 105 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 229.53 | 29 |
| 106 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 229.25 | 4 |
| 107 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 227.78 | 20 |
| (107) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 225.86 | 4 |
| 108 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 222.91 | 17 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 222.81 | 21 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 222.33 | 9 |
| 111 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 221.35 | 37 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 220.1 | 15 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 219.08 | 19 |
| 114 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 218.28 | 13 |
| (114) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 218.11 | 13 |
| 115 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 216.86 | 44 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 215.31 | 19 |
| 117 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 213.74 | 18 |
| 118 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 211.66 | 8 |
| (118) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 211.16 | 18 |
| 119 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 211.16 | 18 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 209.86 | 15 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 209.08 | 13 |
| 122 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 206.99 | 10 |
| 123 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 205.21 | 17 |
| 124 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 204.23 | 19 |
| 125 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 203.34 | 13 |
| 126 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 202.81 | 9 |
| 127 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 201.73 | 11 |
| (127) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 200.58 | 4 |
| 128 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 199.5 | 21 |
| 129 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 198.23 | 14 |
| 130 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 198.15 | 12 |
| (130) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 196.83 | 19 |
| 131 | Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Getulio Vargas Foundation | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 195.75 | 13 |
| 132 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 195.42 | 14 |
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