| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6514.34 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2621.11 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1816.76 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1106.54 | 31 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1082.25 | 36 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 790.66 | 27 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 732.8 | 29 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 723.96 | 95 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 636.05 | 31 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 593.05 | 12 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 490.24 | 132 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 486.27 | 66 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 457.21 | 26 |
| 14 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 453.02 | 27 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 451.99 | 20 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 436.27 | 26 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 431.69 | 29 |
| 18 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 431.05 | 20 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 423.48 | 24 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 421.32 | 30 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 409.01 | 29 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 388.94 | 16 |
| 21 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 373.55 | 13 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 349.13 | 36 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 340.53 | 33 |
| 23 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 337.59 | 95 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 325.61 | 27 |
| 25 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 316.05 | 60 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 308.78 | 16 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 307.53 | 22 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 295.41 | 25 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 293.49 | 15 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 291.94 | 15 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 286.25 | 31 |
| 32 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 285.9 | 33 |
| 33 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 283.41 | 41 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 278.69 | 30 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 276.27 | 36 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 274.44 | 22 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 273.66 | 88 |
| (37) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 266.31 | 22 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 253.49 | 15 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 239.87 | 22 |
| 40 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 234.84 | 4 |
| 41 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 231.69 | 29 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 228.21 | 23 |
| 43 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 223.85 | 19 |
| 44 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 220.95 | 16 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 220.14 | 24 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 218.97 | 29 |
| 47 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 213.28 | 27 |
| (47) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 210.09 | 12 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 201.61 | 35 |
| 49 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 199.36 | 15 |
| 50 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 198.8 | 28 |
| (50) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 197.21 | 18 |
| 51 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 189.6 | 11 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 186.47 | 30 |
| 53 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 182.93 | 11 |
| 54 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 175.74 | 11 |
| 55 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 175.36 | 10 |
| 56 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 175.16 | 9 |
| (56) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 174.31 | 1 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 173.89 | 21 |
| 58 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 173.16 | 52 |
| 59 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 170.12 | 11 |
| 60 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 169.24 | 16 |
| 61 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 165.36 | 18 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 163.32 | 15 |
| (62) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 163.28 | 9 |
| (62) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 163.23 | 7 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 162.6 | 42 |
| (63) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 162.49 | 16 |
| (63) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 160.63 | 2 |
| (63) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 160.01 | 4 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 159.34 | 28 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 158.26 | 21 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 157.36 | 18 |
| 67 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 157.18 | 6 |
| 68 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 152.43 | 24 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 152.02 | 21 |
| 70 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 148.07 | 25 |
| 71 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 143.78 | 36 |
| (71) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 143.09 | 26 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 142.47 | 32 |
| (72) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 138.85 | 2 |
| (72) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 138.84 | 28 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 136.52 | 28 |
| 74 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 136.22 | 8 |
| (74) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 136.22 | 7 |
| (74) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 133.84 | 25 |
| 75 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 133.11 | 36 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 131.56 | 12 |
| (76) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 129.96 | 10 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 129.95 | 50 |
| 78 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 127.52 | 54 |
| 79 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 125.73 | 46 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 124.61 | 16 |
| 81 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 124.06 | 3 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 122.17 | 8 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 121.83 | 23 |
| (83) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 118.44 | 4 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 116.75 | 13 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 112.73 | 9 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 112.2 | 23 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 111.27 | 32 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 110.96 | 12 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 110.82 | 9 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 109.45 | 16 |
| 91 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 108.13 | 7 |
| (91) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 107.49 | 4 |
| 92 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 105.37 | 8 |
| (92) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 104.36 | 5 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 104.12 | 11 |
| (93) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 101.47 | 23 |
| 94 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 101.47 | 23 |
| 95 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 100.28 | 8 |
| 96 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 97.86 | 96 |
| 97 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 95.93 | 8 |
| 98 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 95.9 | 14 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 95.8 | 14 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 94.56 | 10 |
| (100) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 94.31 | 14 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 94.24 | 37 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 92.71 | 17 |
| 103 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 91.56 | 21 |
| (103) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 91.47 | 8 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 91.33 | 15 |
| (104) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 91.23 | 12 |
| 105 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 90.99 | 11 |
| 106 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 90.66 | 12 |
| 107 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 89.97 | 3 |
| 108 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 89.39 | 15 |
| (108) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 89.17 | 4 |
| 109 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 88.82 | 25 |
| 110 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 88.79 | 56 |
| 111 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 88.03 | 21 |
| 112 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 87.26 | 10 |
| (112) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 87.25 | 9 |
| 113 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 85.4 | 16 |
| (113) | 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 | 85.16 | 13 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 84.24 | 14 |
| 115 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 84.16 | 18 |
| 116 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 81.96 | 13 |
| 117 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 81.7 | 24 |
| 118 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 81.66 | 11 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 80.35 | 15 |
| 120 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 78.81 | 12 |
| 121 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 78.63 | 10 |
| (121) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 78.35 | 4 |
| 122 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 76.38 | 11 |
| (122) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 76.33 | 5 |
| (122) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 76.28 | 7 |
| 123 | School of Economics, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 75.96 | 7 |
| 124 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 75.34 | 6 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 74.99 | 17 |
| 126 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 74.9 | 10 |
| 127 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 74.76 | 35 |
| 128 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 74.27 | 36 |
| (128) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 74.17 | 9 |
| (128) | Department of Economics, London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 74.11 | 7 |
| 129 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 73.57 | 16 |
| (129) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 73.27 | 1 |
| 130 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 73.04 | 9 |
| 131 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 72.09 | 10 |
| 132 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 71.78 | 5 |
| 133 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 70.71 | 49 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 69.32 | 12 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 69.17 | 13 |
| (135) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 68.25 | 16 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 68.03 | 13 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 67.99 | 12 |
| (137) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 67.87 | 8 |
| 138 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 67.48 | 28 |
| 139 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 67.47 | 15 |
| (139) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 66.58 | 5 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 66.07 | 15 |
| 141 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 65.76 | 8 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 65.45 | 17 |
| 143 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 65.28 | 15 |
| (143) | Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 65.24 | 3 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 65.23 | 3 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 64.9 | 14 |
| 146 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 64.69 | 25 |
| 147 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 63.44 | 8 |
| (147) | Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 63.25 | 2 |
| (147) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 63.01 | 20 |
| (147) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 62.4 | 6 |
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