| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6376.83 | 257 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2586.6 | 211 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1720.67 | 271 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1141.77 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1113.44 | 36 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 818.3 | 96 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 697.51 | 30 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 666.13 | 27 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 651.2 | 31 |
| (9) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 536.62 | 31 |
| 10 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 494.92 | 28 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 491.74 | 30 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 490.47 | 69 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 458.94 | 132 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 446.54 | 23 |
| 15 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 431.15 | 12 |
| 16 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 430.67 | 22 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 426.51 | 26 |
| 18 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 417.81 | 13 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 399.92 | 26 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 376.67 | 16 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 359.97 | 32 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 354.43 | 16 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 354.21 | 29 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 347.92 | 37 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 344.6 | 15 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 330.21 | 20 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 323.49 | 25 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 315.2 | 89 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 312.22 | 43 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 309.74 | 29 |
| 29 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 307.06 | 33 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 288.74 | 22 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 279.02 | 30 |
| 31 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 278.57 | 59 |
| 32 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 275.91 | 97 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 275.63 | 15 |
| 34 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 266.7 | 22 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 265 | 22 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 246.27 | 22 |
| (36) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 242.73 | 12 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 229.8 | 32 |
| 38 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 229.45 | 16 |
| 39 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 219.26 | 12 |
| 40 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 216.82 | 20 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 216.59 | 36 |
| (41) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 216.21 | 5 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 215.53 | 45 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 212.12 | 28 |
| 44 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 204.73 | 15 |
| 45 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 202.41 | 36 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 198.32 | 11 |
| (46) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 198.11 | 2 |
| 47 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 194.91 | 16 |
| (47) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 191.02 | 16 |
| 48 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 189.76 | 25 |
| 49 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 189.02 | 29 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 188.25 | 23 |
| 51 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 182.35 | 27 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 180.28 | 28 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 176.11 | 30 |
| 54 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 169.73 | 52 |
| 55 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 168.73 | 11 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 165.28 | 32 |
| 57 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 162.75 | 11 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 162.38 | 18 |
| 59 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 162.24 | 4 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 160.7 | 21 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 159.43 | 21 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 158.53 | 24 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 157.23 | 10 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 157.22 | 28 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 155.56 | 25 |
| 65 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 153.96 | 16 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 150.63 | 15 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 150.29 | 24 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 147.49 | 11 |
| 69 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 145.72 | 28 |
| (69) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 144.7 | 9 |
| 70 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 143.84 | 26 |
| (70) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 142.94 | 4 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 134.76 | 28 |
| 71 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 134.54 | 9 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 133.71 | 7 |
| 73 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 132.71 | 37 |
| 74 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 132.06 | 3 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 128.76 | 16 |
| (75) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 127.23 | 7 |
| (75) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 126.15 | 18 |
| 76 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 124.98 | 53 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 122.59 | 49 |
| (77) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 121.89 | 28 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 121.43 | 34 |
| (78) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 121.2 | 1 |
| 79 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 117.07 | 6 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 114.45 | 11 |
| 81 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 114.42 | 8 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 114.23 | 12 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 113.41 | 13 |
| 84 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 113.01 | 47 |
| 85 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 112.53 | 95 |
| (85) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 109.39 | 2 |
| (85) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 109.2 | 2 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 108.82 | 14 |
| 87 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 108.53 | 40 |
| (87) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 107.24 | 14 |
| 88 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 106.79 | 23 |
| 89 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 104.81 | 14 |
| (89) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 104.47 | 4 |
| 90 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 102.74 | 21 |
| (90) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 100.8 | 12 |
| 91 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 100.12 | 3 |
| (91) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 97.68 | 4 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 97.46 | 9 |
| 93 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 97.37 | 58 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 96.1 | 10 |
| 95 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 94.01 | 30 |
| 96 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 93.77 | 19 |
| (96) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 93.18 | 2 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 93.16 | 13 |
| (97) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 90 | 16 |
| (97) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 89.21 | 8 |
| 98 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 89.16 | 11 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 88.02 | 8 |
| (99) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 88.02 | 8 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 87.8 | 14 |
| 101 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 85.07 | 8 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 84.66 | 13 |
| 103 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 84.52 | 21 |
| 104 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 84.17 | 21 |
| (104) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 83.6 | 7 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 82.48 | 37 |
| 106 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 81.99 | 16 |
| 107 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 81.81 | 25 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 81.54 | 16 |
| 109 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 81.29 | 36 |
| 110 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 81.12 | 28 |
| 111 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 81.02 | 15 |
| 112 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 80.47 | 11 |
| (112) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 80.47 | 10 |
| (112) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 79.92 | 23 |
| 113 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 79.92 | 23 |
| 114 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 79.37 | 9 |
| (114) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 78.49 | 9 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 78.32 | 10 |
| 116 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 77.07 | 6 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 76.83 | 8 |
| 118 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 76.83 | 7 |
| 119 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 75.82 | 27 |
| 120 | Institutet för Näringslivsforsking (IUI) | Stockholm, Sweden | 75.32 | 14 |
| 121 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 74.98 | 33 |
| 122 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 74.2 | 9 |
| 123 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 74.09 | 16 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 73.67 | 15 |
| 125 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 73.3 | 35 |
| 126 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 73.05 | 12 |
| 127 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 72.26 | 16 |
| 128 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 72.16 | 25 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 71.9 | 20 |
| (129) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 71.66 | 4 |
| (129) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 71.55 | 21 |
| (129) | 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 | 71.34 | 12 |
| 130 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 71.3 | 12 |
| 131 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 71.18 | 18 |
| 132 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 70.12 | 10 |
| 133 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 69.8 | 5 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 67.75 | 14 |
| 135 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 67.71 | 67 |
| 136 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 67.52 | 8 |
| (136) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 67.51 | 7 |
| (136) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 67.4 | 65 |
| (136) | Department of Economics, London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 66.51 | 7 |
| 137 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 66.32 | 45 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 66.1 | 16 |
| 139 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 65.52 | 17 |
| (139) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 65.11 | 11 |
| 140 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 64.08 | 11 |
| (140) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 63.99 | 5 |
| (140) | Department of Economics, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 63.23 | 10 |
| 141 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 63.14 | 10 |
| 142 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 63.08 | 11 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 62.57 | 31 |
| 144 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 62.39 | 9 |
| 145 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 62.38 | 51 |
| (145) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 61.94 | 6 |
| 146 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 61.14 | 16 |
| (146) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 60.88 | 5 |
| (146) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 60.66 | 5 |
| 147 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 60.11 | 8 |
| 148 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 59.29 | 12 |
| 149 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 59.24 | 14 |
| (149) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 58.7 | 18 |
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