| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 885465.6 | 258 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 407415.69 | 275 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 396545.63 | 212 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 144690.04 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 128470.08 | 36 |
| 6 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 125268.75 | 98 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 122461 | 98 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 110716.7 | 133 |
| 9 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 109844.54 | 13 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 106417.23 | 24 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 102828.31 | 70 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 102638.61 | 30 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 88819.9 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 80903.45 | 31 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 80500.01 | 27 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 76437.31 | 33 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 72613.07 | 90 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 71225.44 | 29 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 70616.16 | 30 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 68365.53 | 25 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 62570.78 | 29 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 61741.8 | 60 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 60783.55 | 32 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 60479.5 | 16 |
| 23 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 57327.59 | 99 |
| 24 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 56971.13 | 35 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 55967.26 | 40 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 55636.1 | 31 |
| 27 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 55516.22 | 12 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 54939.06 | 29 |
| 29 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 54420.56 | 21 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 53172.39 | 30 |
| 31 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 53029.18 | 27 |
| 32 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 53003.01 | 17 |
| (32) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 52556 | 13 |
| (32) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 52148.35 | 28 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 51149.72 | 21 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 50880.67 | 17 |
| (34) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 50393.46 | 38 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 50119.48 | 29 |
| 36 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 49823.02 | 49 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 49747.66 | 38 |
| 38 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 49361.31 | 12 |
| 39 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 48315.38 | 45 |
| (39) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 48256.81 | 26 |
| 40 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 47591.56 | 22 |
| 41 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 46365.95 | 53 |
| 42 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 45377.27 | 47 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 45352.67 | 38 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 44960.48 | 15 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 44153.08 | 47 |
| 46 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 42952.13 | 28 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 42821.24 | 37 |
| 48 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 42718 | 6 |
| (48) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 42344.63 | 22 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 41996.73 | 26 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 41662.84 | 23 |
| 51 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 41274.34 | 50 |
| 52 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39999.88 | 28 |
| 53 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 39139.19 | 15 |
| 54 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38654.41 | 11 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 38279.33 | 22 |
| 56 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 37556.35 | 24 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 37083.11 | 27 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 36829.36 | 21 |
| (58) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36630.56 | 5 |
| 59 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 36318.89 | 27 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 35952.16 | 29 |
| 61 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 34873.88 | 28 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 34159.93 | 16 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 34092.79 | 11 |
| 64 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 34023.93 | 23 |
| (64) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 33778.4 | 11 |
| 65 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 33651.01 | 25 |
| (65) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 33625.33 | 18 |
| 66 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 33339.21 | 29 |
| 67 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 33171.06 | 51 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 33130.98 | 30 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 32518.21 | 19 |
| 70 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 32228.08 | 10 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 32170.69 | 32 |
| 72 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 32003.35 | 18 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 30071.65 | 14 |
| 74 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29846.33 | 40 |
| 75 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 29691.41 | 36 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 29604.08 | 22 |
| 77 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 29322.03 | 39 |
| 78 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 29135.01 | 63 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 28440.91 | 23 |
| 80 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 28251.5 | 6 |
| 81 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 28106.46 | 29 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 27388.44 | 21 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 26973.56 | 22 |
| 84 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 26814.74 | 42 |
| (84) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 26550.77 | 28 |
| 85 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 26336.18 | 21 |
| (85) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25889.33 | 5 |
| (85) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 25873.41 | 16 |
| 86 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 25378.91 | 32 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 24223.91 | 35 |
| 88 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 23851.86 | 17 |
| (88) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 23785.76 | 9 |
| 89 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 23721.58 | 57 |
| 90 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 23602.58 | 25 |
| 91 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 23511.58 | 22 |
| 92 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 23470.56 | 29 |
| (92) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 23422.91 | 5 |
| 93 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 23409.96 | 18 |
| 94 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 23325.24 | 24 |
| 95 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 23182.28 | 70 |
| 96 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 23036.9 | 34 |
| 97 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 23027.75 | 11 |
| (97) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 22888.75 | 10 |
| 98 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 22803.93 | 22 |
| 99 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22617.71 | 16 |
| 100 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 22507.83 | 20 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 22432.74 | 11 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 22421.43 | 12 |
| 103 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 22413.33 | 3 |
| 104 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 22390.54 | 24 |
| 105 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 22312.83 | 5 |
| (105) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 22276.84 | 7 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 21969.58 | 18 |
| 107 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 21686.95 | 25 |
| 108 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 21404.43 | 11 |
| (108) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 21219.6 | 67 |
| (108) | Centro de Estudios de Organizaciones y Productividad (CEOP), Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 21153.6 | 2 |
| (108) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21113.86 | 14 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 21109.26 | 28 |
| 110 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 20902.83 | 13 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 20426.76 | 16 |
| 112 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 20173.24 | 11 |
| (112) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 20172.56 | 38 |
| 113 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 20048.25 | 3 |
| 114 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 20002.68 | 37 |
| 115 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 19866.31 | 36 |
| 116 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 19596.8 | 7 |
| 117 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 19557.86 | 32 |
| 118 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 19532.57 | 17 |
| 119 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 19361.58 | 23 |
| 120 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 19335.31 | 30 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 19263.66 | 8 |
| 122 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 18990.83 | 28 |
| 123 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 18954.91 | 38 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 18859.08 | 23 |
| 124 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 18780.75 | 36 |
| 125 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 18701.45 | 52 |
| (125) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 18081.08 | 12 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 18068.56 | 31 |
| 127 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 18037.34 | 28 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 17922.91 | 20 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 17803.24 | 16 |
| 130 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 17775.84 | 8 |
| (130) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 17767.58 | 7 |
| 131 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 17766.5 | 29 |
| 132 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 17626.73 | 20 |
| 133 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 17329.13 | 4 |
| 134 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17169.5 | 26 |
| 135 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 17026.71 | 25 |
| 136 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 17003.06 | 12 |
| 137 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 16823.75 | 15 |
| 138 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 16789.56 | 11 |
| 139 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 16760.21 | 46 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 16750.33 | 10 |
| (140) | 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 | 16562.5 | 12 |
| (140) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 16520.44 | 16 |
| 141 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 16378.66 | 9 |
| (141) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 16341.56 | 19 |
| 142 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16310.41 | 22 |
| 143 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 16264.95 | 27 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 16244.22 | 17 |
| 145 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 16124.9 | 9 |
| 146 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 16086.58 | 10 |
| 147 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16018.56 | 24 |
| 148 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 16006.21 | 15 |
| 149 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 15907.75 | 16 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 15804.33 | 15 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 15768.83 | 13 |
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