| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 61997.75 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 35266.93 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 29235.54 | 252 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12496.21 | 89 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 11205.28 | 59 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10175 | 36 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 8707.41 | 81 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7848.71 | 28 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7788.76 | 123 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6920.11 | 31 |
| 11 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6857.64 | 86 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6700.5 | 30 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6430.58 | 28 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6266.58 | 25 |
| (13) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6176.18 | 29 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6102.66 | 12 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6093.49 | 25 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5895.58 | 35 |
| 16 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5878.99 | 59 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5871.66 | 26 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5863.97 | 23 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5830.11 | 25 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5730.66 | 24 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5664.15 | 28 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5516.5 | 19 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 5137.58 | 34 |
| 24 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5070.89 | 50 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 5002.33 | 29 |
| (25) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4943 | 15 |
| 26 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4691.99 | 26 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4598.33 | 30 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4551.45 | 31 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4542.16 | 21 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4437.38 | 39 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4367.33 | 28 |
| 32 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 4355.53 | 46 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4353.75 | 37 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4202.05 | 24 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4173.14 | 14 |
| 36 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4159 | 11 |
| 37 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4070.98 | 33 |
| (37) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4037.31 | 22 |
| 38 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 3937.5 | 17 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 3897.99 | 19 |
| 40 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 3895.63 | 87 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3754.86 | 17 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3697.63 | 21 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3624.49 | 34 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3524.66 | 26 |
| 45 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3449.84 | 44 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3439.11 | 14 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3437.11 | 36 |
| 48 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3401.46 | 28 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3380.91 | 22 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3354.88 | 23 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3297.31 | 19 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3277.01 | 21 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3197.2 | 18 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3163.43 | 36 |
| 55 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3155.53 | 23 |
| 56 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 3148.83 | 22 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3121.01 | 23 |
| 58 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3006.5 | 10 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2927.89 | 23 |
| 60 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2881.35 | 25 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 2874.66 | 8 |
| 62 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2853.66 | 16 |
| 63 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 2820.16 | 25 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2790.6 | 29 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 2736.26 | 34 |
| (65) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2722.99 | 18 |
| 66 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 2686.08 | 29 |
| 67 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2671.31 | 26 |
| (67) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2663.93 | 21 |
| (67) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2633.95 | 13 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2613.78 | 29 |
| 69 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2613.58 | 24 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2520.41 | 21 |
| 71 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2432.25 | 32 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2428.66 | 23 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2421.25 | 22 |
| 74 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2405.41 | 14 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 2394.71 | 29 |
| 76 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2369.16 | 18 |
| 77 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2360.49 | 49 |
| 78 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2355.83 | 7 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2354.66 | 6 |
| 79 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2341.93 | 14 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2329.83 | 10 |
| 81 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2314.56 | 27 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2314.16 | 13 |
| (82) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2311.28 | 16 |
| 83 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2286.16 | 17 |
| 84 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2276.13 | 22 |
| 85 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2268.41 | 11 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2256.66 | 15 |
| 87 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 2246.91 | 22 |
| 88 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2239.46 | 11 |
| 89 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2224.66 | 45 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2208.16 | 12 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2205.99 | 25 |
| 92 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2193.83 | 25 |
| 93 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2183.66 | 28 |
| 94 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2179 | 19 |
| (94) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2168.25 | 12 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2148.15 | 11 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2129.25 | 22 |
| 97 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2129.16 | 9 |
| (97) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 2119.25 | 19 |
| 98 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2084.25 | 8 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2068.58 | 29 |
| 100 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2053.83 | 8 |
| (100) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2042.58 | 27 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 2021.75 | 17 |
| (101) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2018.19 | 7 |
| (101) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2008.3 | 9 |
| 102 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2002.89 | 36 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1892.41 | 9 |
| 104 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1874.08 | 35 |
| 105 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1857.33 | 23 |
| 106 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1852.08 | 20 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1849.25 | 16 |
| 108 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 1845.89 | 15 |
| 109 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1835.76 | 16 |
| 110 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1833.08 | 25 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 1828.74 | 14 |
| 112 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1803.73 | 14 |
| 113 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1802.23 | 24 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 1794.26 | 9 |
| 115 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 1782 | 20 |
| 116 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1775.01 | 41 |
| 117 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1763.21 | 9 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1758.49 | 6 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1752.41 | 15 |
| 120 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1745.33 | 3 |
| 121 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1742.75 | 15 |
| 122 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1739.66 | 10 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1734.66 | 9 |
| 123 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1726.9 | 16 |
| 124 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1721.81 | 26 |
| 125 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1717.13 | 8 |
| 126 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1711.02 | 4 |
| (126) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1711.02 | 4 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1702.16 | 16 |
| 128 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1698.33 | 55 |
| 129 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 1696.66 | 5 |
| (129) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1670.24 | 21 |
| 130 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1670.24 | 21 |
| (130) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1668.1 | 14 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1655.16 | 12 |
| (131) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1648 | 7 |
| (131) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1645.83 | 7 |
| (131) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1639.33 | 53 |
| 132 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 1638.04 | 24 |
| 133 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1631.66 | 19 |
| 134 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 1626.41 | 16 |
| 135 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1610.01 | 9 |
| (135) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1606.66 | 18 |
| 136 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1605.84 | 37 |
| 137 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1602.66 | 13 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1578.16 | 12 |
| (137) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1573.16 | 8 |
| 138 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 1564.66 | 23 |
| 139 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1564.05 | 14 |
| 140 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1557.38 | 12 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 1548.08 | 17 |
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