| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 67719.89 | 257 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 40121.76 | 211 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 32516.78 | 271 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13323.46 | 96 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 13254.95 | 69 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11290.25 | 36 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10421.33 | 89 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9854.3 | 32 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8368.78 | 132 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8360.63 | 97 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7799.83 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7609.75 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7575.28 | 30 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7218.66 | 27 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6779.25 | 28 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6677.83 | 26 |
| (16) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6604.25 | 25 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6366.01 | 31 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 6267.83 | 28 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6173.98 | 29 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6166.41 | 26 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6114.65 | 59 |
| 21 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6003 | 52 |
| 22 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6001.25 | 12 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5976.89 | 23 |
| (23) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5888.41 | 16 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5815.5 | 20 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 5772.91 | 45 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 5630.41 | 36 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5508.51 | 25 |
| 28 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 5482.47 | 95 |
| (28) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5328.41 | 37 |
| 29 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5113.41 | 28 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5037.83 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4800.81 | 29 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4796.99 | 32 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4681.61 | 32 |
| 34 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 4643.77 | 49 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4639.23 | 33 |
| 36 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4633 | 43 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4575.75 | 21 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4573.76 | 30 |
| 39 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4514 | 13 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4486.49 | 15 |
| 41 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4352.33 | 37 |
| 42 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4272.1 | 47 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4210.31 | 22 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4166.13 | 22 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4011.6 | 30 |
| 45 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 4002.15 | 19 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3874.66 | 16 |
| 47 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3740.43 | 28 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 3650.33 | 18 |
| 49 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 3635.74 | 27 |
| 50 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3552.98 | 20 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3544.28 | 36 |
| 52 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 3513.16 | 25 |
| 53 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3512.58 | 11 |
| 54 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3511.29 | 28 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3510.78 | 15 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3475.71 | 23 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3458.35 | 22 |
| 58 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3449.2 | 25 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3422.91 | 9 |
| (59) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3383.13 | 28 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3319.84 | 37 |
| 61 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3273.31 | 32 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3266.33 | 15 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3263.43 | 23 |
| 64 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3262.53 | 27 |
| 65 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3255.6 | 16 |
| 66 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3183 | 16 |
| 67 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 3174.83 | 33 |
| 68 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 3105.22 | 58 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 3062.09 | 37 |
| 70 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2975.11 | 21 |
| 71 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 2947.08 | 28 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2933.91 | 24 |
| 73 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2918.98 | 29 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2899.83 | 24 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2892.19 | 32 |
| 76 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2855.25 | 36 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2843.33 | 16 |
| (77) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2841.99 | 18 |
| 78 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2758.25 | 14 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2755.91 | 14 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2683.91 | 22 |
| 81 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2655.16 | 51 |
| 82 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2655.04 | 26 |
| 83 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2629.55 | 16 |
| 84 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2625.75 | 22 |
| (84) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2606.28 | 16 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2584.49 | 21 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 2582.5 | 23 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 2575.25 | 20 |
| 87 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2572.63 | 53 |
| (87) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2570.11 | 12 |
| 88 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2569.5 | 17 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 2511.13 | 31 |
| (89) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2495.08 | 12 |
| 90 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2467.16 | 12 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2417.33 | 11 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2405 | 10 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2398.41 | 34 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2392.66 | 24 |
| 94 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2390.91 | 30 |
| 95 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2369.73 | 28 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2356.91 | 11 |
| 97 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2336.77 | 24 |
| 98 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 2316.11 | 39 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2295.48 | 11 |
| 100 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2257.25 | 7 |
| 101 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2253.16 | 9 |
| 102 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2229.21 | 10 |
| 103 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2226.46 | 11 |
| 104 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2225.66 | 8 |
| 105 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2225.33 | 18 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2221.5 | 7 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2210.91 | 23 |
| 107 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 2200.25 | 25 |
| 108 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2195.98 | 35 |
| 109 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2178.33 | 67 |
| 110 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2169.41 | 27 |
| (110) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2161.49 | 23 |
| 111 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2161.49 | 23 |
| 112 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 2135.66 | 21 |
| (112) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2127.83 | 28 |
| (112) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2117.52 | 7 |
| (112) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2096.08 | 65 |
| (112) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2069.81 | 16 |
| 113 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2065.91 | 11 |
| 114 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2053.83 | 8 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 2053.59 | 12 |
| 116 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2026.76 | 40 |
| 117 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 2020.81 | 33 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 2008.91 | 15 |
| (118) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2008.63 | 9 |
| (118) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1999.61 | 9 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1992.25 | 16 |
| 120 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1976.5 | 9 |
| 121 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 1956.36 | 5 |
| 122 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1954.66 | 16 |
| 123 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 1937.63 | 15 |
| 124 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1935.39 | 14 |
| 125 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 1933.04 | 25 |
| 126 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1931.9 | 16 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 1926.5 | 14 |
| (127) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1907.16 | 19 |
| 128 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1881.2 | 12 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 1876.16 | 16 |
| 130 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1859.56 | 24 |
| 131 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 1843 | 18 |
| 132 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1821.25 | 40 |
| 133 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1818.66 | 13 |
| 134 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1814.02 | 4 |
| (134) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1814.02 | 4 |
| 135 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1774.18 | 9 |
| (135) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1771.83 | 8 |
| 136 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 1757.66 | 25 |
| 137 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1745.58 | 3 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1732.99 | 14 |
| (138) | 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 | 1729.74 | 12 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1724.08 | 15 |
| 140 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1722.46 | 9 |
| (140) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1715.43 | 14 |
| 141 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1714.33 | 11 |
| (141) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1709.33 | 10 |
| (141) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1703.33 | 11 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 1692.5 | 18 |
| 143 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1683.99 | 4 |
| (143) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1683.83 | 12 |
| 144 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 1681.66 | 15 |
| 145 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1666.5 | 6 |
| 146 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1665.05 | 15 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1663.91 | 16 |
| (147) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1659 | 7 |
| 148 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 1655.74 | 17 |
| 149 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1636.86 | 13 |
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