| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10484.95 | 257 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4577.08 | 211 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2999.18 | 271 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1889.98 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1713.61 | 36 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1336.87 | 96 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1104.74 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1027.92 | 30 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 996.31 | 27 |
| (9) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 858.81 | 31 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 840.79 | 132 |
| 11 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 809.16 | 28 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 798.55 | 69 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 767.52 | 30 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 731.17 | 23 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 690.33 | 26 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 685.42 | 26 |
| 17 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 682.78 | 22 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 628.95 | 16 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 622.7 | 15 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 616.13 | 25 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 609.82 | 32 |
| 22 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 603.28 | 12 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 584.45 | 16 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 577.34 | 37 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 564.8 | 29 |
| 24 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 548.55 | 13 |
| 25 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 539.85 | 43 |
| 26 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 534.54 | 97 |
| 27 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 509.59 | 59 |
| 28 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 506.81 | 33 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 503.15 | 20 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 489.01 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 487.35 | 89 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 481.18 | 30 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 458.34 | 15 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 453.76 | 29 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 447.02 | 22 |
| 35 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 434.36 | 22 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 421.57 | 22 |
| (36) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 398.96 | 12 |
| 37 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 396.19 | 28 |
| 38 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 370.61 | 27 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 370 | 32 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 365.74 | 30 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 363.84 | 36 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 350.38 | 25 |
| 43 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 346.41 | 29 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 346.3 | 45 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 342.44 | 23 |
| 46 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 336.87 | 52 |
| 47 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 333.66 | 20 |
| 48 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 330.57 | 12 |
| 49 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 320.64 | 16 |
| 50 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 320.46 | 15 |
| 51 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 320.04 | 16 |
| (51) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 319.18 | 5 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 317.42 | 36 |
| (52) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 307.7 | 16 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 305.85 | 28 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 296.24 | 21 |
| 55 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 290.44 | 11 |
| 56 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 285.82 | 11 |
| 57 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 283.65 | 24 |
| 58 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 278.17 | 10 |
| (58) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 277.46 | 2 |
| 59 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 275.42 | 16 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 272.69 | 32 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 267.91 | 21 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 264.65 | 24 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 261.63 | 18 |
| (63) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 261.42 | 28 |
| 64 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 259.68 | 53 |
| (64) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 238.6 | 28 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 236.32 | 28 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 234.58 | 28 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 231.31 | 25 |
| 67 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 228.7 | 37 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 228.31 | 15 |
| 69 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 227.52 | 47 |
| (69) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 226.43 | 4 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 226.39 | 7 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 224.17 | 34 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 220.42 | 11 |
| (72) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 219.78 | 18 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 218.3 | 13 |
| 74 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 217.08 | 26 |
| 75 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 215.72 | 3 |
| 76 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 214.43 | 11 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 213.69 | 11 |
| 78 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 213.24 | 49 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 209.43 | 12 |
| 80 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 208.52 | 95 |
| (80) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 206.3 | 2 |
| (80) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 204.5 | 7 |
| 81 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 203.13 | 4 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 202.92 | 14 |
| 83 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 198.28 | 21 |
| (83) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 194.67 | 14 |
| 84 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 193.64 | 9 |
| 85 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 191.83 | 58 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 191.22 | 16 |
| 87 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 189.7 | 40 |
| 88 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 183.36 | 8 |
| 89 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 181.21 | 14 |
| 90 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 181.19 | 3 |
| (90) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 180.23 | 8 |
| (90) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 177.23 | 23 |
| 91 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 177.23 | 23 |
| 92 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 176.69 | 23 |
| (92) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 176.08 | 2 |
| (92) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 175.15 | 9 |
| (92) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 173.78 | 12 |
| (92) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 170.5 | 4 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 170 | 10 |
| (93) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 165.64 | 7 |
| 94 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 164.04 | 6 |
| (94) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 163.38 | 4 |
| 95 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 162.77 | 25 |
| 96 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 160.14 | 36 |
| (96) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 158.65 | 16 |
| 97 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 156.44 | 30 |
| 98 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 155.72 | 16 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 155.66 | 16 |
| 100 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 154.54 | 28 |
| (100) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 153.64 | 9 |
| 101 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 152.28 | 15 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 149.45 | 9 |
| 103 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 148.17 | 11 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 147.55 | 37 |
| 105 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 146.7 | 11 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 146.69 | 10 |
| (105) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 146.13 | 6 |
| (105) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 145.1 | 21 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 144.62 | 14 |
| 107 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 144.07 | 8 |
| 108 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 144.03 | 21 |
| 109 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 143.96 | 8 |
| (109) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 143.96 | 8 |
| 110 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 143.48 | 21 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 142.07 | 13 |
| (111) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 140.99 | 1 |
| (111) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 140.22 | 2 |
| 112 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 138.83 | 33 |
| 113 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 137.96 | 19 |
| 114 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 137.12 | 35 |
| 115 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 135.77 | 16 |
| 116 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 134.9 | 27 |
| 117 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 134.15 | 18 |
| 118 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 134.13 | 7 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 134.01 | 13 |
| 120 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 133.73 | 67 |
| (120) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 132.96 | 65 |
| 121 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 132.43 | 51 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 132.3 | 15 |
| (122) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 131.76 | 4 |
| 123 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 129.72 | 25 |
| (123) | 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 | 127 | 12 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 126.46 | 10 |
| 125 | Institutet för Näringslivsforsking (IUI) | Stockholm, Sweden | 124.27 | 14 |
| 126 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 123.97 | 5 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 123.45 | 16 |
| (127) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 121.95 | 5 |
| 128 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 121.12 | 9 |
| (128) | Department of Economics, London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 119.37 | 7 |
| 129 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 118.7 | 9 |
| 130 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 118.26 | 12 |
| 131 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 117.23 | 45 |
| 132 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 116.06 | 10 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 114.8 | 14 |
| 134 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 114.37 | 17 |
| 135 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 113.8 | 6 |
| 136 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 112.25 | 11 |
| 137 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 110.61 | 9 |
| 138 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 110.37 | 16 |
| 139 | Ente per gli Studi Monetari, Bancari e Finanziari "Luigi Einaudi" | Roma, Italy | 109.96 | 7 |
| 140 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 107.61 | 14 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 107.36 | 31 |
| 142 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 107.28 | 15 |
| 143 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 106.41 | 12 |
| 144 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 105.46 | 16 |
| 145 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 105.06 | 10 |
| 146 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 104.67 | 12 |
| 147 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 104.61 | 40 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 103.92 | 8 |
| 149 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 103.61 | 8 |
| (149) | Department of Economics, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 103.57 | 10 |
| (149) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 103.56 | 7 |
| (149) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 103.44 | 18 |
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