| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10790.42 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4671.31 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3122.29 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1817.28 | 31 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1674.03 | 36 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1202.45 | 27 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1197.89 | 95 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1104.58 | 29 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1100.42 | 31 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 915.53 | 132 |
| 11 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 826.45 | 12 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 788.96 | 26 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 784.3 | 66 |
| 14 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 753.39 | 27 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 707.34 | 24 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 706.5 | 26 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 704.06 | 29 |
| 18 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 689.03 | 20 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 670.42 | 20 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 664.62 | 30 |
| 20 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 661.75 | 95 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 630.29 | 29 |
| (21) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 615.62 | 16 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 605.21 | 36 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 582.91 | 33 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 569.62 | 25 |
| 24 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 547.49 | 60 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 545.38 | 16 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 534.81 | 22 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 515.21 | 15 |
| 28 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 498.25 | 13 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 496.72 | 41 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 488.66 | 33 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 483.76 | 27 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 475.11 | 30 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 469.27 | 15 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 468.28 | 22 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 463.39 | 36 |
| (35) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 460.01 | 22 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 441.1 | 31 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 434.96 | 88 |
| 38 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 429.07 | 29 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 415.66 | 22 |
| 40 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 402.38 | 24 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 401.04 | 28 |
| 42 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 389.61 | 27 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 388.99 | 23 |
| 44 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 382.78 | 15 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 374.46 | 29 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 359.9 | 30 |
| 47 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 350.85 | 19 |
| 48 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 349.58 | 15 |
| (48) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 348.08 | 12 |
| (48) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 327.89 | 18 |
| 49 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 322.06 | 10 |
| 50 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 321.94 | 52 |
| 51 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 317.74 | 16 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 315.56 | 35 |
| 53 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 311.08 | 16 |
| 54 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 310.79 | 21 |
| 55 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 302.97 | 11 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 295.64 | 21 |
| 57 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 293.71 | 4 |
| 58 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 291.1 | 24 |
| 59 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 290.13 | 11 |
| (59) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 286.82 | 28 |
| 60 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 284.43 | 11 |
| (60) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 281.01 | 26 |
| (60) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 273.95 | 16 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 272.51 | 42 |
| 62 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 269.19 | 54 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 267.18 | 21 |
| (63) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 261.4 | 10 |
| 64 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 261.2 | 46 |
| 65 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 257.31 | 9 |
| (65) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 252.38 | 7 |
| 66 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 246.06 | 18 |
| 67 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 241.86 | 28 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 241.74 | 18 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 239.26 | 36 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 238.15 | 12 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 236.83 | 32 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 236.11 | 23 |
| (72) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 235.7 | 4 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 235.16 | 15 |
| 74 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 230.12 | 50 |
| (74) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 229.62 | 23 |
| 75 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 229.62 | 23 |
| 76 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 227.07 | 25 |
| (76) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 226.83 | 2 |
| 77 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 226.05 | 36 |
| (77) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 218.91 | 2 |
| 78 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 218.31 | 11 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 215.28 | 28 |
| 80 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 214.04 | 6 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 213.65 | 13 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 211.7 | 32 |
| (82) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 211.22 | 4 |
| (82) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 210.41 | 25 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 206.54 | 9 |
| (83) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 202.88 | 1 |
| 84 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 201.66 | 3 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 200.19 | 16 |
| 86 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 199.11 | 8 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 199.1 | 7 |
| 87 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 195.75 | 23 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 192.87 | 9 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 191.63 | 16 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 185.2 | 11 |
| 90 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 184.01 | 56 |
| 91 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 182.8 | 7 |
| (91) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 181.19 | 8 |
| 92 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 179.42 | 96 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 178.87 | 12 |
| 94 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 175.45 | 12 |
| (94) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 174.13 | 4 |
| 95 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 173.55 | 8 |
| 96 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 171.69 | 8 |
| 97 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 171.1 | 14 |
| (97) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 170.88 | 14 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 169.05 | 14 |
| 99 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 168.34 | 8 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 168.21 | 9 |
| (100) | 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 | 167.92 | 13 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 167.43 | 37 |
| 102 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 165.54 | 3 |
| 103 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 163.65 | 11 |
| (103) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 162.33 | 12 |
| 104 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 160.36 | 18 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 160.32 | 10 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 160.07 | 8 |
| (106) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 159.3 | 5 |
| 107 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 158.36 | 24 |
| 108 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 157.46 | 10 |
| (108) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 157.44 | 9 |
| 109 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 156.65 | 15 |
| 110 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 156.55 | 21 |
| 111 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 156.3 | 16 |
| 112 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 155.35 | 21 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 154.71 | 15 |
| 114 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 152.47 | 25 |
| 115 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 152.33 | 49 |
| 116 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 148.2 | 35 |
| (116) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 147.87 | 5 |
| (116) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 147.36 | 4 |
| (116) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 146.48 | 7 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 143.73 | 14 |
| (117) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 142.57 | 6 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 142.38 | 17 |
| 119 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 139.14 | 6 |
| 120 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 138.52 | 16 |
| (120) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 138.44 | 4 |
| 121 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 131.94 | 10 |
| 122 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 131.47 | 13 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 130.83 | 15 |
| 124 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 129.52 | 36 |
| 125 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 126.99 | 30 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 126.8 | 11 |
| (126) | Department of Economics, London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 126.72 | 7 |
| 127 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 125.8 | 5 |
| 128 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 124.61 | 25 |
| 129 | School of Economics, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 124.32 | 7 |
| 130 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 124.25 | 15 |
| 131 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 123.84 | 10 |
| (131) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 123.3 | 16 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 123.18 | 17 |
| 133 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 121.49 | 40 |
| (133) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 121.26 | 20 |
| 134 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 121.19 | 8 |
| (134) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 120.75 | 9 |
| 135 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 120.51 | 28 |
| 136 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 119.37 | 25 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 119.03 | 14 |
| 138 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 118.44 | 9 |
| 139 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 118.19 | 12 |
| (139) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 116.4 | 2 |
| 140 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 116.13 | 10 |
| 141 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 115.2 | 63 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 115.13 | 17 |
| (142) | Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 114.78 | 3 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 114.63 | 12 |
| 144 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 114.6 | 11 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 114.54 | 13 |
| (145) | Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 114.47 | 2 |
| (145) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 113.85 | 61 |
| 146 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 113.14 | 11 |
| 147 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 111.49 | 17 |
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