| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8081.92 | 250 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4675.44 | 204 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4460.88 | 260 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1596.23 | 63 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1548.35 | 92 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1259.16 | 36 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1232.54 | 128 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1142.05 | 92 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1085.52 | 31 |
| 10 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1076.15 | 28 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1054.15 | 37 |
| (11) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1043.31 | 25 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1008.92 | 31 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 996.16 | 85 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 917.3 | 12 |
| 15 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 909.96 | 93 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 895.91 | 26 |
| 17 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 833.41 | 60 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 786.9 | 32 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 759.75 | 20 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 758.74 | 29 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 753.23 | 23 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 748.73 | 33 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 725.08 | 25 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 700.93 | 25 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 699.75 | 30 |
| 25 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 669.56 | 51 |
| 26 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 654.8 | 32 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 651.81 | 28 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 639.3 | 21 |
| 29 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 638.12 | 47 |
| 30 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 628.4 | 27 |
| (30) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 619.91 | 18 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 615.83 | 29 |
| (31) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 607.11 | 15 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 602.83 | 25 |
| 33 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 602.11 | 39 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 598.49 | 24 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 592.54 | 32 |
| 36 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 587.97 | 45 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 587.13 | 26 |
| (37) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 578.92 | 34 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 545.35 | 17 |
| (38) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 536.75 | 22 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 529.75 | 36 |
| 40 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 525.95 | 11 |
| 41 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 520.05 | 26 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 516.01 | 35 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 491.68 | 21 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 485.01 | 35 |
| 45 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 476.94 | 48 |
| 46 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 474.71 | 29 |
| 47 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 473.84 | 15 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 460.74 | 38 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 460.48 | 29 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 458.78 | 21 |
| (50) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 455.86 | 24 |
| 51 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 452.44 | 23 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 450.1 | 19 |
| 53 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 446.61 | 30 |
| 54 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 440.67 | 18 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 440.55 | 22 |
| 56 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 435.05 | 28 |
| 57 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 431.05 | 30 |
| 58 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 428.36 | 24 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 426.66 | 18 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 426.51 | 16 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 410.33 | 22 |
| 62 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 409.49 | 10 |
| 63 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 404.36 | 9 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 399.25 | 32 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 399.05 | 20 |
| 66 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 398.29 | 17 |
| 67 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 386.52 | 53 |
| 68 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 378.05 | 26 |
| 69 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 377.68 | 24 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 373.1 | 16 |
| 71 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 372.18 | 24 |
| 72 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 370.85 | 25 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 370.43 | 32 |
| 74 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 369.73 | 26 |
| 75 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 368.81 | 27 |
| 76 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 362.79 | 39 |
| 77 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 359.2 | 23 |
| 78 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 358.95 | 29 |
| 79 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 347.94 | 11 |
| 80 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 343.23 | 19 |
| 81 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 333.19 | 61 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 329.03 | 12 |
| 83 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 328.36 | 35 |
| 84 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 327.92 | 21 |
| 85 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 327.11 | 29 |
| 86 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 325.6 | 23 |
| 87 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 321.59 | 33 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 321.28 | 20 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 319.63 | 22 |
| 89 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 318.08 | 23 |
| 90 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 317.58 | 31 |
| 91 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 310.61 | 61 |
| (91) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 309.4 | 13 |
| (91) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 307.28 | 59 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 302.99 | 29 |
| 93 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 301.77 | 25 |
| (93) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 300.23 | 16 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 297.56 | 8 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 296.53 | 15 |
| 96 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 295.69 | 35 |
| 97 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 294.41 | 16 |
| 98 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 290.35 | 34 |
| 99 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 290.18 | 11 |
| (99) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 288.51 | 27 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 286.07 | 11 |
| 101 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 284.98 | 25 |
| 102 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 284.9 | 14 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 284.75 | 17 |
| 104 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 283.5 | 24 |
| 105 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 281.11 | 27 |
| (105) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 278.63 | 10 |
| 106 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 275.28 | 27 |
| 107 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 274.66 | 9 |
| 108 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 271.45 | 11 |
| 109 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 270.9 | 41 |
| 110 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 270.5 | 23 |
| (110) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 268.97 | 7 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 267.65 | 23 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 265.25 | 14 |
| (112) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 261.18 | 9 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 259.91 | 8 |
| 114 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 259.48 | 28 |
| 115 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 257.87 | 21 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 256.83 | 11 |
| 117 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 256.81 | 9 |
| 118 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 255.53 | 10 |
| 119 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 254.53 | 32 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 254 | 23 |
| (120) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 253.16 | 22 |
| 121 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 253.16 | 22 |
| 122 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 252.75 | 4 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 252.43 | 14 |
| 124 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 249.24 | 8 |
| (124) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 249.08 | 7 |
| 125 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 248.46 | 20 |
| (125) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 247.86 | 14 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 247.75 | 17 |
| 127 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 246.7 | 23 |
| 128 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 243.7 | 27 |
| 129 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 242.21 | 15 |
| (129) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 242.11 | 4 |
| 130 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 239.83 | 12 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 238.16 | 15 |
| 132 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 236.36 | 5 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 235.83 | 25 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 235.7 | 15 |
| 135 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 231.93 | 23 |
| 136 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 231.75 | 28 |
| 137 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 228.34 | 4 |
| (137) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 228.34 | 4 |
| 138 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 228.04 | 20 |
| (138) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 227.38 | 16 |
| (138) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 224.74 | 37 |
| 139 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 223.16 | 15 |
| 140 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 221.75 | 26 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 219.99 | 14 |
| 142 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 219.83 | 10 |
| 143 | Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Getulio Vargas Foundation | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 218.41 | 12 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 217.93 | 17 |
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