| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15321 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 10108 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 9190 | 252 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2981 | 59 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2883 | 89 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2621 | 36 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2400 | 123 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2302 | 36 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2078 | 86 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1854 | 31 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1827 | 28 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1616 | 28 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1616 | 81 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1568 | 25 |
| 14 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1554 | 59 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1510 | 30 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1504 | 12 |
| 17 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1477 | 87 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1418 | 25 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1403 | 29 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1378 | 35 |
| 19 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1304 | 39 |
| 20 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1292 | 44 |
| 21 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1278 | 50 |
| 22 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1264 | 33 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1261 | 26 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1258 | 23 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1231 | 30 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1226 | 21 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1219 | 34 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1208 | 19 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1206 | 24 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1187 | 28 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1180 | 24 |
| 32 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1152 | 45 |
| 33 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1147 | 46 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1145 | 29 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1141 | 22 |
| 34 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1141 | 26 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1122 | 31 |
| 37 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1098 | 7 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1057 | 17 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1033 | 36 |
| 40 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1023 | 24 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1018 | 23 |
| (41) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1004 | 18 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 994 | 25 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 986 | 21 |
| (43) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 984 | 15 |
| 44 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 952 | 34 |
| 45 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 927 | 28 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 925 | 26 |
| 47 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 922 | 17 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 904 | 19 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 895 | 25 |
| 50 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 889 | 28 |
| 51 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 879 | 37 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 878 | 18 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 874 | 26 |
| 54 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 868 | 25 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 824 | 14 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 821 | 21 |
| 57 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 814 | 19 |
| 58 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 809 | 14 |
| 59 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 803 | 29 |
| 60 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 799 | 18 |
| 60 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 799 | 22 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 797 | 21 |
| 63 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 777 | 28 |
| 64 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 776 | 49 |
| (64) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 769 | 21 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 768 | 37 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 767 | 34 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 765 | 29 |
| 68 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 756 | 26 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 743 | 29 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 738 | 29 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 736 | 22 |
| 72 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 732 | 23 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 728 | 19 |
| 74 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 723 | 36 |
| 75 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 722 | 11 |
| 76 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 719 | 11 |
| 77 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 718 | 17 |
| 78 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 713 | 22 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 691 | 23 |
| 80 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 690 | 22 |
| (80) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 670 | 27 |
| (80) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 651 | 13 |
| 81 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 646 | 32 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 636 | 23 |
| 83 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 623 | 59 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 621 | 12 |
| 85 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 616 | 23 |
| (85) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 609 | 16 |
| 86 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 603 | 35 |
| 87 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 601 | 10 |
| 88 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 598 | 21 |
| 89 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 591 | 29 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 584 | 19 |
| 90 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 581 | 24 |
| (90) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 575 | 8 |
| 91 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 572 | 24 |
| (91) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 569 | 21 |
| 91 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 569 | 21 |
| 93 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 566 | 34 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 564 | 22 |
| 95 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 554 | 25 |
| 96 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 551 | 55 |
| 96 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 551 | 25 |
| 98 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 550 | 23 |
| 99 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 549 | 17 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 547 | 22 |
| (100) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 544 | 53 |
| 101 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 539 | 8 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 534 | 11 |
| 103 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 533 | 41 |
| 104 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 531 | 27 |
| 105 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 529 | 30 |
| 106 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 527 | 29 |
| 107 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 524 | 26 |
| 108 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 519 | 8 |
| 109 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 515 | 15 |
| (109) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 509 | 7 |
| (109) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 496 | 14 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 491 | 6 |
| 111 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 482 | 16 |
| 111 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 482 | 27 |
| 113 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 473 | 38 |
| 114 | Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 472 | 3 |
| 115 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 470 | 5 |
| 116 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 468 | 11 |
| (116) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 468 | 14 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 468 | 14 |
| 118 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 467 | 15 |
| 118 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 467 | 9 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 462 | 23 |
| 120 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 462 | 14 |
| 122 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 458 | 11 |
| 123 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 457 | 9 |
| (123) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 456 | 14 |
| 124 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 453 | 15 |
| 124 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 453 | 24 |
| (125) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 450 | 13 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 442 | 16 |
| 127 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 436 | 9 |
| 128 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 435 | 20 |
| 129 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 434 | 19 |
| 130 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 432 | 12 |
| (130) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 432 | 37 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 428 | 13 |
| 132 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 427 | 45 |
| (132) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 426 | 4 |
| 133 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 425 | 15 |
| (133) | Maastricht research school of Economics of TEchnology and ORganizations (METEOR), Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 425 | 12 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 421 | 15 |
| (134) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 420 | 20 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 420 | 8 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 419 | 17 |
| 137 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 417 | 16 |
| 138 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 416 | 25 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 415 | 13 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 414 | 14 |
| (140) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 411 | 18 |
| 141 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 410 | 19 |
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