| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 66340.64 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 39263.85 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 31537.79 | 264 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13050.38 | 95 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 12915.28 | 66 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11228.91 | 36 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 9605.58 | 88 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8689.71 | 31 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8303.36 | 132 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8102.03 | 95 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7614.78 | 29 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7470 | 31 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7218.66 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7110.41 | 29 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6660.75 | 28 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6649.83 | 26 |
| (16) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6487.75 | 25 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6408.14 | 24 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6361.06 | 60 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6294.68 | 30 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 6233.16 | 29 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6098.91 | 26 |
| 21 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6055.25 | 12 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5976.15 | 29 |
| 23 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5972.16 | 52 |
| (23) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5860.41 | 16 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5818 | 20 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 5562.41 | 35 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5537.51 | 25 |
| 27 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 5395.03 | 96 |
| (27) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5183.83 | 36 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5123.33 | 20 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 5079.91 | 42 |
| 30 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5032 | 13 |
| 31 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4900.83 | 27 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4856.33 | 31 |
| 33 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 4782.77 | 50 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4731.64 | 27 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4703.61 | 33 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4598.6 | 30 |
| 37 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4582.16 | 41 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4575.75 | 21 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4444.99 | 15 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4371.89 | 33 |
| 41 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4250.6 | 46 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4230.49 | 36 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4203.98 | 22 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4154.63 | 22 |
| 44 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 4102.41 | 18 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3983.93 | 30 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3874.66 | 16 |
| 47 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3705.43 | 28 |
| 48 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 3655.24 | 26 |
| 49 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3559.46 | 27 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3544.28 | 36 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 3537.66 | 18 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3524.48 | 19 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3502.28 | 15 |
| 54 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3494.58 | 11 |
| 55 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 3473.99 | 25 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3459.21 | 23 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3441.35 | 22 |
| 58 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3408.7 | 24 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3382.91 | 9 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3266.18 | 37 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3265.33 | 15 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3245.18 | 23 |
| 63 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3206.56 | 27 |
| 64 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3172.45 | 28 |
| (64) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3162.11 | 26 |
| 65 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3119.33 | 16 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 3025.93 | 36 |
| 67 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 2954.26 | 56 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2864.91 | 14 |
| (68) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2824.49 | 18 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2822.78 | 21 |
| 70 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2785.75 | 24 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2761.83 | 16 |
| 72 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 2752.75 | 32 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2737.11 | 32 |
| 74 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2730.98 | 29 |
| 75 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2708.25 | 35 |
| 76 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2695.25 | 14 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2682.91 | 22 |
| 78 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2611.55 | 16 |
| 79 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2600.25 | 22 |
| 80 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2593.25 | 49 |
| 81 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2582.54 | 25 |
| 82 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2571.1 | 15 |
| (82) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2570.11 | 12 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2568.83 | 21 |
| 84 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 2547.08 | 24 |
| 85 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2528.13 | 54 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2500.58 | 23 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2466.33 | 11 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 2465.63 | 29 |
| (88) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2432.08 | 12 |
| 89 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2407.5 | 11 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2405 | 10 |
| (89) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2402.78 | 16 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2392.66 | 24 |
| 91 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2383.16 | 8 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2382 | 7 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2380.58 | 32 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2356.91 | 12 |
| 94 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2355.91 | 30 |
| 95 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2340.5 | 17 |
| 96 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2335.73 | 27 |
| 97 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2253.16 | 9 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2251.48 | 11 |
| 99 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2208.83 | 18 |
| 100 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2202.71 | 10 |
| 101 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2200.99 | 23 |
| 102 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2194.96 | 11 |
| 103 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 2191.61 | 37 |
| 104 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2179.58 | 23 |
| 105 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2170.91 | 8 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 2167.08 | 22 |
| (105) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2152.58 | 23 |
| 106 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2152.58 | 23 |
| 107 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2146 | 63 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 2133.25 | 17 |
| (108) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2118.52 | 7 |
| 109 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 2109.66 | 21 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2085.58 | 17 |
| (110) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2085.33 | 28 |
| 111 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2072.73 | 36 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2065.91 | 11 |
| (112) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2063.75 | 61 |
| 113 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2053.83 | 8 |
| (113) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2018.81 | 16 |
| 114 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2018.24 | 25 |
| 115 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2000.5 | 10 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1998.41 | 15 |
| 117 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1979.76 | 40 |
| (117) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1978.61 | 10 |
| (117) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1977.13 | 9 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 1967.59 | 9 |
| 119 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1941.25 | 25 |
| 120 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 1920.36 | 5 |
| 121 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1897.89 | 14 |
| 122 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1891.9 | 16 |
| (122) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1881.66 | 19 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 1881.49 | 15 |
| 124 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1881.2 | 12 |
| 125 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 1872.2 | 25 |
| 126 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1868.06 | 24 |
| 127 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 1844 | 17 |
| 128 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1821.25 | 36 |
| 129 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1818.66 | 13 |
| 130 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1810.02 | 4 |
| (130) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1810.02 | 4 |
| 131 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 1794.4 | 14 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1776.49 | 15 |
| 133 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1775.81 | 31 |
| (133) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1771.83 | 8 |
| 134 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1745.33 | 3 |
| (134) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1737.6 | 14 |
| 135 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 1736.33 | 25 |
| 136 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1733.66 | 13 |
| 137 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 1731.41 | 17 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1724.08 | 15 |
| 139 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1717.46 | 9 |
| 140 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1714.33 | 10 |
| (140) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1709.33 | 9 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1694.91 | 16 |
| 142 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1683.99 | 4 |
| (142) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1672.33 | 12 |
| 143 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1666.5 | 6 |
| 144 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1665.05 | 15 |
| (144) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1659 | 7 |
| 145 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1643.84 | 8 |
| 146 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1635.86 | 13 |
| 147 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 1593.83 | 15 |
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