| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7595.37 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4436.84 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4112.7 | 241 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1435.06 | 88 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1406.4 | 57 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1241.94 | 122 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1195.16 | 37 |
| 8 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1049.31 | 28 |
| (8) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1019.98 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1010.19 | 36 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 990.32 | 29 |
| 11 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 976.4 | 85 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 962.45 | 31 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 900.25 | 13 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 880.87 | 79 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 791.38 | 23 |
| 16 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 780.22 | 60 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 737.23 | 22 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 734.96 | 21 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 733.81 | 32 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 701.75 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 694.24 | 26 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 667.23 | 31 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 666.45 | 24 |
| 23 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 658.51 | 84 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 657.25 | 30 |
| 25 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 645.96 | 33 |
| (25) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 628.84 | 35 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 606.73 | 28 |
| (26) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 605.41 | 17 |
| 27 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 602.23 | 49 |
| 28 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 598.15 | 26 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 592.86 | 39 |
| (29) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 575.83 | 15 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 566.79 | 20 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 562.5 | 30 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 555.83 | 27 |
| 33 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 555.27 | 45 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 552.87 | 22 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 545.14 | 17 |
| 36 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 534.42 | 44 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 521.33 | 36 |
| (37) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 518.5 | 22 |
| 38 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 507.12 | 11 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 496.55 | 24 |
| 40 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 491.8 | 24 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 485.74 | 29 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 484.18 | 22 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 464.01 | 34 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 460.83 | 19 |
| 45 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 458.95 | 14 |
| 46 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 455.03 | 44 |
| 47 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 450.28 | 33 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 442.49 | 38 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 427.4 | 19 |
| 50 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 415.77 | 22 |
| 51 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 415.55 | 28 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 415.43 | 15 |
| 53 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 408.61 | 23 |
| 54 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 408.41 | 17 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 401.97 | 21 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 400.21 | 21 |
| 57 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 385.98 | 17 |
| (57) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 379.76 | 21 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 379.73 | 18 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 373.91 | 19 |
| 60 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 371.4 | 19 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 370.83 | 29 |
| 62 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 370.41 | 9 |
| 63 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 367.8 | 24 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 363.81 | 24 |
| 65 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 362.81 | 26 |
| 66 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 353.35 | 22 |
| 67 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 352.58 | 25 |
| 68 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 349.28 | 28 |
| 69 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 344.5 | 48 |
| 70 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 340.77 | 11 |
| 71 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 332.16 | 22 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 330.09 | 30 |
| 73 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 326.7 | 19 |
| 74 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 326.58 | 25 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 323.03 | 11 |
| 76 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 323.01 | 37 |
| 77 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 317.63 | 27 |
| 78 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 315.53 | 36 |
| (78) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 315.06 | 13 |
| 79 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 313.53 | 26 |
| (79) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 312.46 | 27 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 310.47 | 23 |
| 81 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 304.56 | 7 |
| 82 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 298.94 | 23 |
| (82) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 297.06 | 16 |
| 83 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 296.13 | 56 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 295.78 | 22 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 294.9 | 8 |
| 86 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 292.73 | 15 |
| 87 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 287.93 | 10 |
| 88 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 286.93 | 30 |
| 89 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 283.99 | 21 |
| 90 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 281.94 | 34 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 274.07 | 11 |
| 92 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 273.32 | 25 |
| 93 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 272.03 | 53 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 269.26 | 28 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 269 | 16 |
| (95) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 268.69 | 51 |
| (95) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 267.47 | 7 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 265.83 | 22 |
| 97 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 265.11 | 11 |
| 98 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 263.07 | 15 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 262.7 | 15 |
| 100 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 262.24 | 40 |
| 101 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 261.41 | 27 |
| 102 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 260.1 | 34 |
| (102) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 259.09 | 9 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 257.98 | 23 |
| 104 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 256.91 | 22 |
| 105 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 256.65 | 30 |
| (105) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 255.65 | 9 |
| 106 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 253.48 | 9 |
| 107 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 251.7 | 10 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 251.41 | 15 |
| 109 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 251.23 | 21 |
| 110 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 251.01 | 23 |
| 111 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 249.78 | 27 |
| 112 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 245.03 | 20 |
| 113 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 243.61 | 29 |
| 114 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 241.53 | 26 |
| 115 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 240.37 | 18 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 239.91 | 17 |
| 117 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 238.64 | 19 |
| 118 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 237.25 | 4 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 236.41 | 9 |
| 120 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 236.4 | 17 |
| (120) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 235.11 | 14 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 234.66 | 21 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 234.16 | 9 |
| 123 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 231.41 | 7 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 231.24 | 6 |
| (123) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 230.61 | 4 |
| 124 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 229.08 | 27 |
| (124) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 226.75 | 21 |
| 125 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 226.75 | 21 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 224.94 | 16 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 224.33 | 25 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 223.35 | 15 |
| 129 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 222.35 | 14 |
| 130 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 216.33 | 24 |
| 131 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 216.03 | 36 |
| 132 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 214.16 | 5 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 212.24 | 13 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 210.78 | 13 |
| 135 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 210.66 | 10 |
| 136 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 210.41 | 23 |
| 137 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 209.98 | 14 |
| 138 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 208.9 | 19 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 208.6 | 18 |
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