| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 79392.91 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 32853.63 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 24948.7 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12269.02 | 31 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12119.77 | 36 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9358.19 | 95 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8208.99 | 27 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8088.34 | 29 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7707.91 | 31 |
| 10 | CESifo | München, Germany | 7084.33 | 66 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6693 | 132 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6149.65 | 29 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6097.57 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6012.65 | 24 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5936.5 | 26 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5905 | 26 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5666.99 | 12 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5160.16 | 29 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5087.63 | 16 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5015.63 | 30 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5014.22 | 33 |
| 20 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4980.3 | 20 |
| 21 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4977.05 | 60 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4864.39 | 25 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4778.92 | 20 |
| 24 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4690.51 | 13 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4664.65 | 16 |
| 26 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4542.45 | 95 |
| (26) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4390.88 | 36 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4319.23 | 15 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4269.85 | 88 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4201.63 | 27 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4150.9 | 41 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4047.64 | 22 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4046.58 | 15 |
| 33 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3889.26 | 33 |
| (33) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3870.84 | 22 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3720.65 | 30 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3661.66 | 31 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3612.69 | 22 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3548.74 | 36 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3430.98 | 27 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3222.45 | 22 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 3138.05 | 29 |
| 41 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3132.81 | 15 |
| (41) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3120.04 | 12 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3074.96 | 28 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3020.66 | 24 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2987.33 | 30 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2854.5 | 23 |
| 46 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2850.23 | 52 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2671.29 | 11 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2641.51 | 35 |
| 49 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2587.77 | 29 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2576.24 | 21 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2575.45 | 19 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2568.13 | 42 |
| 53 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2563.63 | 11 |
| 54 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2463.4 | 16 |
| 55 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2422.22 | 10 |
| 56 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2402.85 | 36 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2325.4 | 21 |
| 58 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2319.85 | 28 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2300.54 | 32 |
| 60 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2263.8 | 16 |
| (60) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2224.05 | 18 |
| (60) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2208.92 | 16 |
| 61 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2203.12 | 46 |
| 62 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2201.38 | 15 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2133.42 | 24 |
| (63) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2094.85 | 4 |
| 64 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2073.34 | 21 |
| 65 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 2064.01 | 50 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2061.49 | 15 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2035.49 | 28 |
| (67) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2035.17 | 23 |
| 68 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2035.17 | 23 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2031.86 | 18 |
| 70 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2015.16 | 18 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1999.94 | 25 |
| 71 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1966.96 | 11 |
| (71) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1941.57 | 28 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1939.96 | 13 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1933.9 | 23 |
| (73) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1925.23 | 26 |
| (73) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1868.59 | 7 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1862.5 | 12 |
| 75 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1813.25 | 11 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1804.59 | 11 |
| (76) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1786.91 | 4 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1784.65 | 14 |
| 78 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1774.51 | 3 |
| 79 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1766.55 | 9 |
| 80 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1711.11 | 54 |
| 81 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1709.59 | 25 |
| 82 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1704.99 | 96 |
| (82) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1694.82 | 10 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1691.63 | 37 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1691.3 | 16 |
| (84) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1655.92 | 14 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1635.08 | 12 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1630.61 | 32 |
| 87 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1566.15 | 10 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1565.69 | 9 |
| 88 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1539.41 | 8 |
| (88) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1538.66 | 7 |
| (88) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1530.07 | 9 |
| 89 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1529.3 | 23 |
| 90 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1498.2 | 8 |
| 91 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1496.23 | 3 |
| 92 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1491.14 | 8 |
| 93 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1471.92 | 56 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1469.41 | 9 |
| 95 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1444.2 | 6 |
| 96 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1442.66 | 10 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1442.49 | 9 |
| 98 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1438.75 | 4 |
| (98) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1434 | 7 |
| 99 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1433.33 | 24 |
| 100 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1428.49 | 18 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1411.91 | 16 |
| 102 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1396.16 | 36 |
| 103 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1385.61 | 17 |
| (103) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1377.94 | 8 |
| 104 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1373.82 | 36 |
| 105 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1334.05 | 49 |
| (105) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1322.55 | 2 |
| 106 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1299.73 | 14 |
| 107 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1296.07 | 11 |
| 108 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1279.58 | 25 |
| 109 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1273.87 | 25 |
| 110 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1260.86 | 11 |
| 111 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1249.09 | 7 |
| 112 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1248.07 | 35 |
| (112) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1220.71 | 4 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1210.45 | 10 |
| (113) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1203.65 | 12 |
| (113) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1199.94 | 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 | 1199.87 | 13 |
| 114 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1187.23 | 30 |
| (114) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1186.22 | 2 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1184.67 | 15 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1176 | 17 |
| 117 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1153.39 | 21 |
| 118 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1138.79 | 6 |
| 119 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1128.01 | 25 |
| 120 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1127.34 | 8 |
| 121 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1122.13 | 40 |
| (121) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1121.33 | 2 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 1120.86 | 14 |
| 123 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1091.65 | 21 |
| (123) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1087.79 | 4 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1069.65 | 29 |
| (124) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1064.23 | 4 |
| 125 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1063.4 | 16 |
| 126 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1059.78 | 9 |
| 127 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1059.71 | 15 |
| (127) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1037.36 | 5 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1020.94 | 8 |
| (128) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1016.95 | 5 |
| (128) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1007.19 | 6 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1006.68 | 13 |
| (129) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1000.73 | 2 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 990.52 | 12 |
| 131 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 986.2 | 63 |
| 132 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 982.54 | 10 |
| 133 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 977.11 | 5 |
| (133) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 976.45 | 61 |
| 134 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 968.31 | 10 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 956.18 | 12 |
| 136 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 953.05 | 16 |
| (136) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 952.86 | 1 |
| (136) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 947.49 | 20 |
| 137 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 941.77 | 11 |
| 138 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 940.93 | 13 |
| 139 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 936.55 | 8 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 927.99 | 17 |
| 141 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 926.95 | 23 |
| 142 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 925.55 | 62 |
| 143 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 923.42 | 12 |
| 144 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 914.7 | 28 |
| 145 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 910.46 | 13 |
| 146 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 899 | 11 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 898.48 | 17 |
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