| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15681 | 246 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 10253 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 9377 | 256 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3026 | 61 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2931 | 90 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2645 | 36 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2501 | 127 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2408 | 37 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2282 | 89 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1902 | 29 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1899 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1703 | 81 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1594 | 28 |
| 14 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1554 | 58 |
| (14) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1539 | 25 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1534 | 30 |
| 16 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1528 | 88 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1482 | 12 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1441 | 25 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1430 | 29 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1387 | 35 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1384 | 26 |
| 20 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1360 | 45 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1331 | 20 |
| 22 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1324 | 51 |
| 23 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1315 | 39 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1279 | 23 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1271 | 25 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1250 | 21 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1245 | 30 |
| 27 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1245 | 32 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1210 | 33 |
| 30 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1204 | 27 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1198 | 24 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1198 | 28 |
| 33 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1191 | 46 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1169 | 29 |
| 35 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1159 | 45 |
| (35) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1153 | 22 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1149 | 32 |
| 37 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1115 | 7 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1067 | 17 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1045 | 37 |
| 40 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1038 | 24 |
| (40) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1022 | 18 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1022 | 23 |
| (41) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1002 | 15 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 999 | 21 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 999 | 25 |
| 44 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 955 | 34 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 955 | 27 |
| 46 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 938 | 17 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 932 | 29 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 921 | 19 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 916 | 26 |
| 50 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 894 | 37 |
| 51 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 892 | 28 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 884 | 26 |
| 52 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 884 | 25 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 867 | 17 |
| (54) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 858 | 22 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 850 | 22 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 841 | 15 |
| 57 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 824 | 30 |
| 58 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 821 | 14 |
| 59 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 819 | 19 |
| 60 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 808 | 22 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 807 | 38 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 801 | 21 |
| 63 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 800 | 50 |
| 64 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 791 | 29 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 770 | 30 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 767 | 34 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 767 | 30 |
| 68 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 762 | 27 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 760 | 17 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 757 | 29 |
| 71 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 743 | 37 |
| 72 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 742 | 23 |
| 73 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 741 | 11 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 737 | 21 |
| 75 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 736 | 17 |
| 76 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 723 | 11 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 717 | 18 |
| 78 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 716 | 22 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 701 | 24 |
| 79 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 701 | 22 |
| (80) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 660 | 28 |
| 81 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 659 | 33 |
| (81) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 656 | 13 |
| 82 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 642 | 24 |
| 83 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 641 | 23 |
| 84 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 638 | 59 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 637 | 22 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 627 | 12 |
| 87 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 623 | 36 |
| (87) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 615 | 16 |
| 87 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 615 | 10 |
| 89 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 614 | 29 |
| 90 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 610 | 22 |
| (90) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 592 | 22 |
| 90 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 592 | 22 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 592 | 20 |
| 92 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 591 | 34 |
| 93 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 578 | 24 |
| 94 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 575 | 25 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 569 | 23 |
| 96 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 562 | 25 |
| 97 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 558 | 57 |
| 98 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 556 | 24 |
| 99 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 553 | 17 |
| (99) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 551 | 55 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 547 | 22 |
| 101 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 543 | 41 |
| 102 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 540 | 8 |
| 103 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 538 | 27 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 537 | 11 |
| 105 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 534 | 29 |
| (105) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 534 | 7 |
| 106 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 532 | 30 |
| 107 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 529 | 18 |
| (107) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 526 | 15 |
| 108 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 524 | 15 |
| 109 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 523 | 26 |
| 110 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 522 | 8 |
| (110) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 511 | 7 |
| 111 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 506 | 13 |
| (111) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 497 | 14 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 494 | 6 |
| 113 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 489 | 28 |
| 114 | Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 483 | 3 |
| 115 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 482 | 15 |
| 116 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 478 | 11 |
| 116 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 478 | 21 |
| 118 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 476 | 15 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 475 | 14 |
| 120 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 472 | 5 |
| 121 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 468 | 9 |
| 121 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 468 | 37 |
| (122) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 465 | 14 |
| 123 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 462 | 25 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 462 | 23 |
| 125 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 461 | 15 |
| 126 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 457 | 11 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 457 | 9 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 455 | 10 |
| (128) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 452 | 13 |
| 129 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 451 | 47 |
| (129) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 447 | 37 |
| 130 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 445 | 19 |
| 131 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 438 | 9 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 436 | 15 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 434 | 8 |
| 134 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 432 | 15 |
| 135 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 430 | 27 |
| (135) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 430 | 4 |
| (135) | Maastricht research school of Economics of TEchnology and ORganizations (METEOR), Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 429 | 13 |
| (135) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 426 | 21 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 426 | 17 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 422 | 13 |
| 138 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 421 | 16 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 420 | 15 |
| 140 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 419 | 19 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 419 | 14 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 416 | 13 |
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