| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 256462.57 | 258 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 108931.31 | 212 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 100330.04 | 275 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44277.66 | 32 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 41909.5 | 98 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 38543.49 | 36 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 36933.66 | 13 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35520.87 | 98 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 34336.28 | 133 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 31954.68 | 30 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 30530.3 | 27 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 29753.24 | 24 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24603.16 | 31 |
| 14 | CESifo | München, Germany | 23980.89 | 70 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 21986.13 | 27 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 21831.03 | 33 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21150.55 | 25 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 20473.7 | 29 |
| 19 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 20142.45 | 17 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 19352.31 | 90 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18843.08 | 16 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 18698.86 | 29 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18541.33 | 30 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 18071.45 | 30 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18009.64 | 17 |
| (24) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17779.06 | 28 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17673.88 | 32 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 17334.5 | 29 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 15955.98 | 12 |
| 27 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 15936.9 | 99 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15685.78 | 40 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 15558.6 | 12 |
| (29) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15458.11 | 5 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 14888.16 | 31 |
| 31 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 14726.04 | 60 |
| (31) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14719 | 38 |
| 32 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13881.06 | 35 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 13776.59 | 22 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13243.55 | 21 |
| 35 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 13142 | 6 |
| 36 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 13133.25 | 38 |
| 37 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 12968.01 | 27 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 12557.13 | 38 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12392.75 | 29 |
| 40 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12153.21 | 47 |
| 41 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 12047.2 | 18 |
| 42 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 12023.99 | 49 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 11978.03 | 15 |
| 44 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 11901.45 | 50 |
| (44) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11887.08 | 26 |
| 45 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 11845.37 | 45 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11802.49 | 23 |
| 47 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11694.36 | 53 |
| 48 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11522.58 | 11 |
| 49 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11515.05 | 28 |
| 50 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11420.39 | 15 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11341.48 | 11 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11016.29 | 26 |
| 53 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 10832.33 | 23 |
| 54 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 10804.93 | 51 |
| 55 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10749.16 | 10 |
| 56 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10658 | 6 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 10549.21 | 27 |
| 58 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 10523.53 | 21 |
| (58) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 10389.55 | 22 |
| 59 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10335.36 | 28 |
| (59) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 10170.5 | 13 |
| 60 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 10090.03 | 24 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 9993.16 | 47 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 9887.89 | 22 |
| 63 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 9687.98 | 63 |
| 64 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9558.08 | 29 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 9399.83 | 18 |
| (64) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9173.46 | 11 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8902.49 | 30 |
| 66 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 8854.33 | 39 |
| (66) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8807.56 | 5 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 8762.74 | 23 |
| 68 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8616.16 | 40 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8510.74 | 29 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8385.18 | 16 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 8320.03 | 19 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8293.98 | 32 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8277.48 | 21 |
| (73) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8256.25 | 28 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 8202.21 | 21 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 8128.94 | 14 |
| (75) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 8053 | 9 |
| 76 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 8030.74 | 27 |
| 77 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 7701.58 | 5 |
| 78 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7505.38 | 16 |
| (78) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7425.83 | 5 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7423.33 | 22 |
| 80 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 7410.75 | 42 |
| 81 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7222 | 3 |
| 82 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7074.54 | 21 |
| (82) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 7007.98 | 38 |
| 83 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 6917.56 | 20 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 6899.13 | 36 |
| (84) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6809.32 | 7 |
| 85 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 6763.83 | 3 |
| 86 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6674.6 | 11 |
| 87 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 6622.99 | 28 |
| 88 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6559.61 | 25 |
| 89 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 6518.19 | 28 |
| (89) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6443.66 | 3 |
| 90 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 6349.68 | 29 |
| 91 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 6341.61 | 24 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6335.65 | 37 |
| 93 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 6304.98 | 29 |
| 94 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 6270.49 | 13 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 6177.49 | 22 |
| 96 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6132.16 | 11 |
| (96) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6132.03 | 16 |
| (96) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6114.83 | 10 |
| 97 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6108.65 | 4 |
| 98 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 6078.64 | 23 |
| 99 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 6033.36 | 37 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 6023.08 | 35 |
| 101 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 5990.05 | 70 |
| 102 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 5986.35 | 22 |
| 103 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 5958.88 | 25 |
| (103) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 5939.65 | 12 |
| 104 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 5870.57 | 17 |
| 105 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 5826.98 | 24 |
| 106 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 5811.96 | 34 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5753.33 | 16 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5670.91 | 12 |
| (108) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5624.61 | 3 |
| 109 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 5594.08 | 10 |
| 110 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 5551.2 | 57 |
| 111 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 5466.68 | 7 |
| 112 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 5360.01 | 36 |
| 113 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5336.49 | 26 |
| 114 | International Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 5330.56 | 7 |
| (114) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 5326 | 67 |
| 115 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 5287.16 | 18 |
| 116 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 5201.75 | 20 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5185.21 | 11 |
| 118 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5174.7 | 11 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 5146.75 | 16 |
| 120 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 5146.08 | 25 |
| (120) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5122.8 | 4 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 5107.83 | 8 |
| 122 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 5106.65 | 8 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 5103.91 | 7 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5098.91 | 18 |
| (123) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5049.5 | 1 |
| 124 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 5022.56 | 52 |
| (124) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5003.91 | 14 |
| 125 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 4946.91 | 16 |
| 126 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 4941.11 | 22 |
| 127 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 4829.46 | 32 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 4818.66 | 20 |
| (128) | 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 | 4798.16 | 12 |
| 129 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 4791.4 | 32 |
| 130 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 4757.81 | 12 |
| 131 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 4746.41 | 28 |
| 132 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4729.14 | 16 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 4726.25 | 13 |
| 134 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 4722.11 | 38 |
| 135 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 4712.05 | 25 |
| (135) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4670.1 | 9 |
| 136 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4607.52 | 24 |
| 137 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 4527.66 | 46 |
| 138 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 4524.94 | 15 |
| 139 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 4491.1 | 25 |
| 140 | Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (Cedeplar), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | 4395.99 | 17 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4386.93 | 16 |
| 142 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 4376.39 | 28 |
| 143 | Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 4346.08 | 15 |
| (143) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 4296.54 | 16 |
| 144 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 4262.63 | 36 |
| 145 | Bank for International Settlements | Basel, Switzerland | 4220.33 | 8 |
| (145) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4215.5 | 4 |
| (145) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4170.04 | 19 |
| 146 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 4146.86 | 23 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 4132.58 | 15 |
| (147) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4051.66 | 4 |
| 148 | Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands | Den Haag, Netherlands | 4048.56 | 21 |
| 149 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4032.41 | 14 |
| (149) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4016.88 | 17 |
| 150 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4014.58 | 22 |
| 151 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4001.33 | 30 |
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