| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13472.75 | 250 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 5125.79 | 204 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3524.98 | 260 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2110.06 | 31 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1627.72 | 36 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1376.62 | 26 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1273.5 | 92 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1235.85 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1077.99 | 32 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1039.24 | 128 |
| 11 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1010.96 | 27 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 906.78 | 25 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 899.84 | 63 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 852.5 | 26 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 850.16 | 24 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 809.1 | 25 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 767.67 | 15 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 720.28 | 17 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 719.09 | 29 |
| 18 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 698.9 | 12 |
| 19 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 676.74 | 21 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 676 | 16 |
| 21 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 674.02 | 92 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 660.13 | 25 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 647.76 | 28 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 647.06 | 34 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 638.81 | 32 |
| 25 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 617.86 | 60 |
| 26 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 606.03 | 32 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 583.1 | 21 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 581.28 | 39 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 574.33 | 26 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 553.22 | 20 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 550.26 | 16 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 529.88 | 29 |
| (32) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 528.91 | 22 |
| 33 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 526.53 | 11 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 526.5 | 22 |
| 35 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 503.15 | 22 |
| (35) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 483.43 | 13 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 466.64 | 36 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 433.27 | 85 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 422.18 | 28 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 421.27 | 15 |
| 40 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 417.42 | 26 |
| 41 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 407.22 | 19 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 402.34 | 26 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 400.04 | 24 |
| 44 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 388.61 | 16 |
| 45 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 383.54 | 15 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 370.33 | 10 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 369.34 | 13 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 362.19 | 29 |
| 49 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 355.15 | 11 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 347.39 | 30 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 345.53 | 23 |
| (51) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 345.38 | 4 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 339.9 | 14 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 335.84 | 33 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 335.21 | 22 |
| (54) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 331.07 | 27 |
| (54) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 330.72 | 16 |
| 55 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 315.08 | 11 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 309.75 | 21 |
| 57 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 309.04 | 24 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 301.72 | 23 |
| 59 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 300.79 | 15 |
| (59) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 299.77 | 7 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 297.85 | 32 |
| 61 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 294.66 | 3 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 294.22 | 29 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 293.92 | 38 |
| 64 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 290.08 | 45 |
| 65 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 283.04 | 51 |
| 66 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 282.22 | 4 |
| 67 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 282.14 | 11 |
| 68 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 278.58 | 9 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 272.09 | 35 |
| (69) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 271.68 | 7 |
| (69) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 263.69 | 18 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 261.78 | 28 |
| (70) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 260.87 | 4 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 257.64 | 25 |
| 71 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 257.22 | 53 |
| (71) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 255.57 | 24 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 249.62 | 20 |
| (72) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 248.91 | 2 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 247.93 | 18 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 247.38 | 9 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 245.4 | 11 |
| (74) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 245.39 | 2 |
| 75 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 244.59 | 3 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 243.2 | 15 |
| 77 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 243.08 | 9 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 240.82 | 23 |
| 79 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 239.69 | 93 |
| 80 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 239.57 | 47 |
| 81 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 237.57 | 8 |
| 82 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 236.39 | 18 |
| 83 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 232.66 | 35 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 230.07 | 32 |
| 85 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 228.34 | 7 |
| 86 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 224.37 | 23 |
| 87 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 223.83 | 30 |
| (87) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 223.28 | 8 |
| (87) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 222.1 | 4 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 220.57 | 16 |
| 89 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 213.33 | 11 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 210.53 | 8 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 208.08 | 11 |
| 92 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 206.76 | 6 |
| (92) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 204.78 | 1 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 200.9 | 14 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 196.77 | 8 |
| 95 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 195.58 | 14 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 190.13 | 11 |
| 97 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 189.86 | 8 |
| (97) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 189.74 | 7 |
| (97) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 188.21 | 10 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 184.43 | 15 |
| (98) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 184.34 | 12 |
| 99 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 184.25 | 33 |
| (99) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 182.59 | 4 |
| (99) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 182.43 | 22 |
| 100 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 182.43 | 22 |
| 101 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 180.99 | 15 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 179.63 | 12 |
| (102) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 178.71 | 14 |
| 103 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 178.31 | 9 |
| 104 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 178.15 | 10 |
| (104) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 178.14 | 9 |
| 105 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 174.32 | 48 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 172.96 | 37 |
| 107 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 172.1 | 21 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 169.41 | 14 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 168.86 | 12 |
| 110 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 168.79 | 25 |
| 111 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 168.78 | 10 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 168.66 | 13 |
| (112) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 165.28 | 16 |
| 113 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 162.7 | 16 |
| 114 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 162.12 | 28 |
| 115 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 161.54 | 8 |
| (115) | Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 160.56 | 2 |
| 116 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 160.37 | 13 |
| 117 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 159.49 | 15 |
| 118 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 157.28 | 10 |
| (118) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 157.14 | 12 |
| (118) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 156.75 | 5 |
| (118) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 156.3 | 5 |
| 119 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 153.19 | 9 |
| (119) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 152.83 | 5 |
| 120 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 152.04 | 21 |
| (120) | Centre for the Study of International Economic Relations (CSIER), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 150.23 | 1 |
| 121 | Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) | Waterloo, Canada | 150.23 | 1 |
| 122 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 145.97 | 10 |
| (122) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 145.86 | 2 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 145.77 | 13 |
| 124 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 143.93 | 5 |
| (124) | Department of Economics, London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 143.6 | 7 |
| (124) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 140.54 | 7 |
| 125 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 140.06 | 23 |
| 126 | School of Economics, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 138.8 | 6 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 138.58 | 17 |
| 128 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 137.76 | 35 |
| 129 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 137.44 | 29 |
| (129) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 135.11 | 19 |
| 130 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 134.86 | 19 |
| 131 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 133.85 | 39 |
| 132 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 133.13 | 9 |
| 133 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 132.57 | 8 |
| 134 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 131.75 | 13 |
| (134) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 131.09 | 2 |
| 135 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 130.9 | 61 |
| 136 | Institutet för Näringslivsforsking (IUI) | Stockholm, Sweden | 128.03 | 14 |
| 137 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 126.61 | 27 |
| 138 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 125.58 | 17 |
| 139 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 124.98 | 12 |
| 140 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 124.43 | 10 |
| 141 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 123.5 | 13 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 122.87 | 3 |
| (142) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 122.24 | 2 |
| 143 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 121.84 | 11 |
| 144 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 120.59 | 20 |
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