| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9679 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 6075 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 5740 | 233 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1903 | 85 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1864 | 55 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1703 | 116 |
| 7 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1546 | 84 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1454 | 37 |
| 9 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1288 | 27 |
| (9) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1244 | 25 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1242 | 29 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1233 | 28 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1175 | 31 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1169 | 76 |
| 14 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1125 | 59 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1041 | 32 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1035 | 13 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 934 | 23 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 902 | 26 |
| 18 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 898 | 45 |
| 19 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 897 | 48 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 891 | 21 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 886 | 26 |
| 22 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 874 | 33 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 854 | 24 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 848 | 30 |
| 25 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 846 | 37 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 825 | 21 |
| 27 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 817 | 27 |
| (27) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 814 | 35 |
| 28 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 813 | 46 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 786 | 29 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 777 | 31 |
| 31 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 762 | 70 |
| 32 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 750 | 41 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 741 | 25 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 737 | 31 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 716 | 21 |
| (34) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 715 | 15 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 690 | 23 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 688 | 17 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 686 | 21 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 670 | 22 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 661 | 19 |
| (39) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 649 | 16 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 646 | 34 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 640 | 34 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 640 | 19 |
| 43 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 637 | 22 |
| 44 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 636 | 28 |
| 45 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 610 | 32 |
| 46 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 607 | 23 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 595 | 25 |
| 48 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 591 | 27 |
| 49 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 580 | 28 |
| 50 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 575 | 14 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 571 | 37 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 569 | 19 |
| 53 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 568 | 25 |
| 53 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 568 | 11 |
| (54) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 564 | 21 |
| 55 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 559 | 17 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 548 | 22 |
| 57 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 542 | 22 |
| 58 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 540 | 36 |
| 58 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 540 | 19 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 526 | 19 |
| 61 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 523 | 26 |
| 62 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 519 | 54 |
| 63 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 514 | 25 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 511 | 21 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 510 | 29 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 503 | 19 |
| 67 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 502 | 45 |
| 68 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 501 | 22 |
| 69 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 496 | 5 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 493 | 15 |
| 71 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 487 | 11 |
| 71 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 487 | 22 |
| 73 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 482 | 16 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 480 | 21 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 474 | 28 |
| 76 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 455 | 19 |
| 77 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 444 | 9 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 438 | 22 |
| 79 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 436 | 24 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 428 | 21 |
| 81 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 422 | 25 |
| 81 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 422 | 35 |
| (82) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 416 | 13 |
| 83 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 413 | 21 |
| 84 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 412 | 23 |
| (84) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 411 | 26 |
| 85 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 406 | 27 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 401 | 8 |
| 87 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 398 | 34 |
| 88 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 396 | 20 |
| (88) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 388 | 16 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 388 | 21 |
| 90 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 384 | 20 |
| (90) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 381 | 9 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 381 | 10 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 375 | 23 |
| (92) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 374 | 19 |
| 92 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 374 | 19 |
| 94 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 367 | 30 |
| 95 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 365 | 49 |
| (95) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 361 | 33 |
| 96 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 360 | 9 |
| 96 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 360 | 26 |
| 98 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 358 | 35 |
| 98 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 358 | 27 |
| 100 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 356 | 15 |
| 101 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 355 | 17 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 354 | 10 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 353 | 14 |
| 103 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 353 | 20 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 349 | 21 |
| 106 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 347 | 16 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 344 | 21 |
| 108 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 343 | 37 |
| 109 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 341 | 19 |
| 110 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 340 | 32 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 335 | 25 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 333 | 27 |
| 113 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 332 | 18 |
| 114 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 331 | 18 |
| 115 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 330 | 11 |
| 116 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 327 | 11 |
| (116) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 327 | 12 |
| (116) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 326 | 7 |
| (116) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 324 | 14 |
| 117 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 323 | 21 |
| 118 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 320 | 15 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 318 | 15 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 317 | 8 |
| 121 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 316 | 20 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 309 | 9 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 308 | 15 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 307 | 18 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 305 | 15 |
| 125 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 305 | 15 |
| 127 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 304 | 14 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 302 | 13 |
| 129 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 301 | 16 |
| 129 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 301 | 25 |
| 131 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 300 | 39 |
| 132 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 299 | 15 |
| 132 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 299 | 14 |
| (133) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 297 | 13 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 297 | 13 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 295 | 15 |
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