| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 58876.69 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 32899.48 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 26027.09 | 233 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11302.3 | 85 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9998.66 | 37 |
| 6 | CESifo | München, Germany | 9924.95 | 55 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 8194.33 | 76 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7739.01 | 29 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7233.84 | 116 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7172.5 | 32 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6692.28 | 31 |
| 12 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6436.23 | 84 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6168.58 | 27 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6004.58 | 25 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5952.16 | 23 |
| 15 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5807.66 | 59 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5657.33 | 24 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5618.16 | 26 |
| 18 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5582.66 | 13 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5529.33 | 35 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5384.78 | 22 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5371.18 | 26 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5320.7 | 21 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5270.4 | 29 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4968.59 | 21 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4903 | 15 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 4627.5 | 25 |
| 24 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4609.49 | 27 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 4606.24 | 31 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4567.95 | 31 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4386.33 | 30 |
| 28 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4381.31 | 48 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4284.5 | 37 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4170.54 | 37 |
| 31 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4166.14 | 14 |
| 32 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4151.75 | 11 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3941.83 | 28 |
| 34 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3912.81 | 33 |
| 35 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3876 | 19 |
| 36 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 3826.2 | 46 |
| (36) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3799.14 | 21 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3761.38 | 23 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3652.19 | 17 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 3555.16 | 19 |
| 40 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 3481.33 | 16 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3480.13 | 22 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3342.53 | 19 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3287.08 | 34 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3256.85 | 22 |
| 45 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3239.33 | 32 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3237.78 | 15 |
| 47 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3231.51 | 45 |
| 48 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3230.96 | 27 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3182.48 | 19 |
| 50 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3102.86 | 22 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3046.51 | 23 |
| 52 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 2945.5 | 22 |
| 53 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2921.5 | 9 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2915.88 | 21 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2810.45 | 25 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 2744.66 | 9 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 2670.09 | 34 |
| 58 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2659.81 | 26 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2658.64 | 21 |
| 60 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2656.75 | 15 |
| 61 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2620.68 | 25 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2581.26 | 21 |
| (62) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2557.11 | 13 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2524.11 | 29 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2505.25 | 22 |
| (64) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2498.85 | 21 |
| 65 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 2491.33 | 21 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2461.41 | 23 |
| 67 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2437.5 | 19 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2315 | 21 |
| (68) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2312.99 | 16 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2296.16 | 21 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2251.18 | 28 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2244.28 | 16 |
| 71 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2242.41 | 11 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2231.5 | 19 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2223.66 | 14 |
| 74 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2221.83 | 17 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2219.83 | 10 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2212.16 | 15 |
| 77 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2190 | 27 |
| 78 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2172.05 | 22 |
| 79 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2163.33 | 28 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2161.16 | 10 |
| 81 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2150.49 | 7 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2149.33 | 6 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2133.66 | 25 |
| 83 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2131.3 | 10 |
| 84 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2053.83 | 7 |
| 85 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2050.83 | 19 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2044.08 | 21 |
| 87 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2042.08 | 8 |
| 88 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2035.68 | 70 |
| (88) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2022.25 | 10 |
| 89 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2022.25 | 11 |
| 90 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2008.96 | 24 |
| (90) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2002.69 | 7 |
| 91 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1969.75 | 27 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1965.08 | 17 |
| 93 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1964.16 | 41 |
| 94 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1951.08 | 20 |
| 95 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1948.49 | 13 |
| 96 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1945.03 | 45 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1933 | 28 |
| (97) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1888.63 | 9 |
| 98 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1887.5 | 10 |
| 99 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1884.83 | 34 |
| 100 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1880.41 | 18 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1875.9 | 10 |
| 102 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1821.13 | 9 |
| 103 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1814.73 | 14 |
| 104 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1802.81 | 35 |
| 105 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1786.59 | 15 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1764.24 | 16 |
| 107 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 1753.23 | 15 |
| 108 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1750.16 | 9 |
| (108) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1745.16 | 8 |
| 109 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1735.58 | 15 |
| 110 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1728.66 | 25 |
| 111 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1725.49 | 21 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1707.08 | 8 |
| 113 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 1675 | 19 |
| (113) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1674.16 | 9 |
| 114 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1662.23 | 13 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1658.99 | 15 |
| 116 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1644.56 | 25 |
| (116) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1642.58 | 26 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1642.16 | 11 |
| 118 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1633.33 | 3 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1622.16 | 6 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1614.25 | 21 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 1608.83 | 9 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1598.24 | 15 |
| (122) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1591.76 | 13 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1589.16 | 12 |
| 123 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1567.5 | 11 |
| 124 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1557.71 | 11 |
| 125 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1547.35 | 4 |
| (125) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1547.35 | 4 |
| 126 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1544.21 | 14 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 1542.08 | 13 |
| 128 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1538 | 7 |
| (128) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1535.83 | 7 |
| 129 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 1517.58 | 16 |
| 130 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1513.33 | 18 |
| 131 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 1504.33 | 7 |
| (131) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1498.74 | 19 |
| 132 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1498.74 | 19 |
| 133 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1486.35 | 11 |
| (133) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1486.16 | 18 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1472.16 | 15 |
| (134) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1462.66 | 6 |
| 135 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1453.06 | 18 |
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