| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14407 | 230 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 9722 | 194 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 7956 | 226 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2788 | 56 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2594 | 85 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2316 | 113 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2262 | 37 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1816 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1809 | 28 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1585 | 80 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1583 | 33 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1533 | 27 |
| 12 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1533 | 59 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1491 | 25 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1453 | 13 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1402 | 70 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1394 | 25 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1354 | 23 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1265 | 26 |
| 18 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1234 | 37 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1229 | 34 |
| 19 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1225 | 32 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1219 | 27 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1214 | 19 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1181 | 30 |
| 23 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1171 | 45 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1151 | 24 |
| 25 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1139 | 47 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1131 | 28 |
| 27 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1114 | 24 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1112 | 25 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1096 | 31 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1073 | 21 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1068 | 21 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1062 | 23 |
| 32 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1018 | 17 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1006 | 19 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 977 | 22 |
| (34) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 964 | 15 |
| 35 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 961 | 23 |
| 36 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 958 | 40 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 920 | 19 |
| 38 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 914 | 17 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 912 | 28 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 909 | 21 |
| 41 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 895 | 21 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 878 | 25 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 874 | 33 |
| 44 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 872 | 26 |
| 45 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 847 | 30 |
| 46 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 841 | 27 |
| 47 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 833 | 43 |
| (47) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 828 | 16 |
| 48 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 825 | 25 |
| 49 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 822 | 19 |
| 50 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 819 | 67 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 809 | 19 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 799 | 30 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 795 | 14 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 776 | 22 |
| 55 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 767 | 13 |
| 56 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 766 | 26 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 759 | 37 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 752 | 19 |
| 59 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 751 | 21 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 747 | 34 |
| 61 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 737 | 37 |
| 62 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 723 | 25 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 717 | 28 |
| 64 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 716 | 11 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 713 | 21 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 711 | 18 |
| 67 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 706 | 21 |
| 68 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 705 | 11 |
| 69 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 703 | 18 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 701 | 29 |
| 71 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 666 | 34 |
| 72 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 660 | 23 |
| 73 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 648 | 44 |
| 74 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 643 | 15 |
| (74) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 629 | 13 |
| (74) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 628 | 9 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 627 | 21 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 611 | 22 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 606 | 21 |
| (77) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 604 | 26 |
| (77) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 604 | 16 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 592 | 10 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 589 | 21 |
| 80 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 585 | 33 |
| 81 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 581 | 54 |
| 82 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 577 | 5 |
| 83 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 566 | 9 |
| 84 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 547 | 17 |
| 85 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 546 | 9 |
| (85) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 546 | 19 |
| 85 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 546 | 19 |
| 87 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 541 | 21 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 533 | 8 |
| 89 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 522 | 30 |
| 90 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 518 | 23 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 515 | 19 |
| 92 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 508 | 26 |
| 93 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 505 | 24 |
| (93) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 502 | 7 |
| 94 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 496 | 19 |
| 95 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 495 | 27 |
| 96 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 481 | 20 |
| (96) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 480 | 19 |
| 97 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 478 | 27 |
| 98 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 476 | 23 |
| 99 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 464 | 45 |
| (99) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 461 | 13 |
| 100 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 460 | 18 |
| 100 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 460 | 14 |
| 102 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 456 | 22 |
| (102) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 455 | 14 |
| 103 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 452 | 37 |
| 103 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 452 | 11 |
| 105 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 450 | 11 |
| 106 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 447 | 15 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 443 | 10 |
| 108 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 442 | 21 |
| (108) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 439 | 12 |
| 108 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 439 | 35 |
| 110 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 437 | 12 |
| 111 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 436 | 11 |
| 112 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 433 | 19 |
| 113 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 430 | 9 |
| 114 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 427 | 14 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 424 | 15 |
| 116 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 423 | 31 |
| 117 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 421 | 11 |
| 118 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 420 | 16 |
| (118) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 418 | 13 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 417 | 14 |
| (119) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 416 | 4 |
| (119) | Maastricht research school of Economics of TEchnology and ORganizations (METEOR), Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 412 | 11 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 409 | 13 |
| 121 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 407 | 16 |
| 122 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 404 | 20 |
| 122 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 404 | 43 |
| 124 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 402 | 8 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 401 | 14 |
| (125) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 401 | 19 |
| (125) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 401 | 33 |
| 126 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 399 | 18 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 398 | 15 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 395 | 12 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 393 | 10 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 393 | 20 |
| (129) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 393 | 16 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 392 | 18 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 392 | 15 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 391 | 9 |
| 134 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 386 | 16 |
| 134 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 386 | 19 |
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