| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7326.36 | 230 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4319.02 | 194 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3703.18 | 226 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1395.4 | 56 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1348 | 85 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1172.66 | 37 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1109.99 | 113 |
| 8 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1021.95 | 27 |
| (8) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 994.78 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 983.97 | 28 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 948.79 | 31 |
| 11 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 887.11 | 13 |
| 12 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 808.65 | 80 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 796.69 | 70 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 781.35 | 23 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 780.23 | 33 |
| 16 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 764.27 | 59 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 714.74 | 19 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 676.75 | 27 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 669.79 | 26 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 659.95 | 24 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 657.28 | 21 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 651.43 | 25 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 650.67 | 30 |
| 23 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 631.8 | 32 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 599.81 | 28 |
| 25 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 589.11 | 24 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 589 | 25 |
| (26) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 578 | 34 |
| (26) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 571.16 | 15 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 567.59 | 31 |
| 28 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 564.81 | 47 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 557.71 | 37 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 533.48 | 17 |
| (30) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 527.91 | 16 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 509.31 | 19 |
| 32 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 505.99 | 11 |
| 33 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 503.79 | 45 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 493.72 | 21 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 484.01 | 21 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 478.26 | 22 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 465.33 | 21 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 463.65 | 30 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 461.43 | 23 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 458.84 | 34 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 454.03 | 33 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 451.78 | 28 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 451.66 | 19 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 426.78 | 13 |
| 44 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 424.68 | 43 |
| 45 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 423.07 | 18 |
| 46 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 421.89 | 30 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 420.58 | 37 |
| 48 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 407.05 | 21 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 402.73 | 19 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 400.6 | 14 |
| 51 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 397.55 | 27 |
| 52 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 394.86 | 23 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 391.63 | 21 |
| 54 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 388.83 | 40 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 387.84 | 22 |
| 56 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 387.31 | 17 |
| 57 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 380.75 | 15 |
| 58 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 380.23 | 67 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 369.58 | 19 |
| 60 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 366.75 | 25 |
| 61 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 362.75 | 9 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 361.41 | 29 |
| 63 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 355.89 | 26 |
| 64 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 351.01 | 19 |
| 65 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 349.01 | 21 |
| 66 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 345.66 | 26 |
| 67 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 339.04 | 11 |
| 68 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 337.8 | 25 |
| 69 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 326.25 | 23 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 321.09 | 28 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 311.01 | 21 |
| (71) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 308.06 | 13 |
| 72 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 307.61 | 25 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 306.03 | 10 |
| 74 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 303.45 | 44 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 299.02 | 21 |
| 76 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 295.78 | 34 |
| (76) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 294.98 | 16 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 291.61 | 22 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 290.9 | 8 |
| 79 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 289.49 | 18 |
| 80 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 289.43 | 23 |
| 81 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 286.43 | 54 |
| 82 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 283.76 | 11 |
| 83 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 279.81 | 37 |
| 84 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 276.36 | 33 |
| 85 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 276.25 | 21 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 266.16 | 16 |
| (86) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 264.47 | 7 |
| (86) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 261.75 | 19 |
| (86) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 260.26 | 26 |
| 87 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 260.08 | 21 |
| 88 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 257.78 | 11 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 256.45 | 14 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 254.43 | 10 |
| 90 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 253.23 | 30 |
| 91 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 252.73 | 11 |
| 92 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 251.65 | 9 |
| 93 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 251.3 | 24 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 250.91 | 15 |
| (94) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 249.26 | 9 |
| 95 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 248.91 | 27 |
| 96 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 248.28 | 27 |
| 97 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 245.68 | 5 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 245.53 | 10 |
| 99 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 245.43 | 23 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 241.44 | 10 |
| 101 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 239.34 | 18 |
| 102 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 238.25 | 27 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 237.41 | 17 |
| 104 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 234.23 | 19 |
| 105 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 233.86 | 26 |
| 106 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 229.25 | 4 |
| 107 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 229.08 | 7 |
| (107) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 228.91 | 6 |
| 108 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 228.78 | 45 |
| 109 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 228.11 | 20 |
| (109) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 225.86 | 4 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 225.23 | 20 |
| 111 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 223.68 | 37 |
| 112 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 223.66 | 17 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 223.56 | 21 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 222.83 | 9 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 221.91 | 19 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 220.6 | 15 |
| 117 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 219.44 | 14 |
| (117) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 219.11 | 13 |
| (117) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 215.41 | 19 |
| 118 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 215.41 | 19 |
| 119 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 214.36 | 22 |
| 120 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 212.49 | 19 |
| 121 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 212.33 | 8 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 211.83 | 24 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 210.08 | 13 |
| 124 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 208.9 | 20 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 208.61 | 15 |
| 126 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 208.61 | 35 |
| 127 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 207.84 | 13 |
| 128 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 207.33 | 10 |
| 129 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 205.21 | 17 |
| 130 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 204.58 | 21 |
| 131 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 204.23 | 11 |
| 132 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 202.06 | 12 |
| (132) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 201.08 | 4 |
| 133 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 200.43 | 14 |
| 134 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 199.59 | 15 |
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