| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 63099.97 | 246 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 35947.59 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 29739.45 | 256 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12624.96 | 90 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 11456.28 | 61 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10845.25 | 37 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 9129.83 | 81 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7980.01 | 127 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7901.88 | 29 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7318.28 | 31 |
| 11 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7294.64 | 89 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6764.16 | 30 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6421.58 | 28 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6305.33 | 25 |
| (14) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6248.58 | 25 |
| (14) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6213.18 | 29 |
| 15 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5959.66 | 12 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5937.08 | 25 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5915.83 | 35 |
| 17 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5915.23 | 58 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5898.11 | 25 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5871.64 | 23 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5831.08 | 24 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5732.66 | 20 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5708.15 | 28 |
| 23 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5403.64 | 51 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5174.35 | 26 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 5150.83 | 29 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 5137.58 | 33 |
| (26) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5043.41 | 15 |
| 27 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4777.49 | 27 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4678.83 | 30 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4639.74 | 38 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4622.33 | 21 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4584.11 | 32 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4494.38 | 39 |
| 33 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 4415.86 | 46 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4391.93 | 29 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4241.14 | 14 |
| 36 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4208.33 | 11 |
| (36) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4097.98 | 22 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 4034.5 | 19 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4009.23 | 32 |
| 39 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 3997.25 | 17 |
| 40 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 3990.04 | 88 |
| 41 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3802.18 | 45 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3749.13 | 21 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3698.33 | 17 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3647.76 | 27 |
| 45 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3623.99 | 34 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3428.61 | 37 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3412.11 | 15 |
| 48 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3401.96 | 28 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3377.91 | 21 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3365.71 | 23 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3281.51 | 21 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3235.81 | 18 |
| 53 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3168.36 | 23 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3168.26 | 36 |
| 55 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 3161.49 | 22 |
| 56 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3143.75 | 10 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3121.01 | 23 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3105 | 17 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3080.41 | 8 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2984.06 | 24 |
| 61 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2947.03 | 26 |
| 62 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2859.33 | 16 |
| 63 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 2857.5 | 25 |
| (63) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2827.59 | 22 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2801.1 | 29 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 2751.76 | 34 |
| (65) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2732.83 | 18 |
| 66 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 2727.75 | 30 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2707.11 | 30 |
| 68 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2697.58 | 24 |
| 69 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2682.81 | 26 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2604.41 | 22 |
| (70) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2594.94 | 13 |
| 71 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2555.08 | 14 |
| 72 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2485.75 | 33 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2423.25 | 22 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2420.66 | 22 |
| 75 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2405.29 | 50 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2389.33 | 10 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 2384.71 | 29 |
| 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) | 2352.43 | 15 |
| 80 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2330.83 | 17 |
| (80) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2326.28 | 16 |
| (80) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2317.91 | 12 |
| 81 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2316.56 | 27 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2314.16 | 13 |
| 83 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2314.16 | 11 |
| 84 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2307.13 | 22 |
| 85 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2294.16 | 17 |
| 86 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2281.83 | 45 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2274.91 | 30 |
| 88 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 2259.91 | 22 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2256.66 | 15 |
| 90 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2246.83 | 29 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2229.16 | 12 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2220.99 | 25 |
| 93 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2216.66 | 25 |
| 94 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2190.13 | 11 |
| 95 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2182 | 19 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2160.81 | 11 |
| 97 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2154.58 | 23 |
| (97) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 2143.08 | 20 |
| 98 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2134.16 | 9 |
| 99 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2084.25 | 8 |
| 100 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2073.23 | 37 |
| (100) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2065.08 | 28 |
| 101 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2053.83 | 8 |
| (101) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2040.19 | 7 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 2036.25 | 17 |
| 103 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2030.16 | 21 |
| 104 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1978.58 | 20 |
| (104) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1972.3 | 9 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 1961.59 | 10 |
| 106 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1950.58 | 36 |
| 107 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1926.33 | 24 |
| (107) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1926.31 | 15 |
| 108 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1922 | 15 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1901.75 | 16 |
| 110 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1894.41 | 9 |
| 111 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1881.73 | 14 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1881.41 | 15 |
| 113 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 1866.06 | 15 |
| 114 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1846.58 | 25 |
| 115 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1840.61 | 13 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 1832.74 | 14 |
| 117 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1821.35 | 41 |
| 118 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1812.23 | 23 |
| 119 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1766.08 | 15 |
| 120 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1763.9 | 16 |
| 121 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1760.02 | 4 |
| (121) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1760.02 | 4 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1758.49 | 6 |
| 123 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1745.33 | 3 |
| 124 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1729.81 | 27 |
| 125 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1727.83 | 19 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1718.33 | 15 |
| (126) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1717.74 | 22 |
| 127 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1717.74 | 22 |
| 128 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1717.13 | 8 |
| (128) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1712.16 | 18 |
| 129 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1699.83 | 57 |
| 130 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 1697.16 | 5 |
| 131 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 1697.04 | 24 |
| 132 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1695.83 | 10 |
| (132) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1694.83 | 7 |
| (132) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1690.83 | 9 |
| 133 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1673.68 | 37 |
| (133) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1668.6 | 14 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1658.16 | 12 |
| (134) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1656.16 | 12 |
| (134) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1650 | 7 |
| (134) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1640.83 | 55 |
| 135 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 1638.41 | 16 |
| 136 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1621.83 | 10 |
| 137 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 1617.5 | 24 |
| 138 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1610.66 | 13 |
| 139 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1610.01 | 9 |
| 140 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1582.55 | 13 |
| 141 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1562.28 | 14 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 1556.08 | 17 |
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