| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 69636.22 | 258 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 41339.43 | 212 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 33613.36 | 275 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13793.46 | 98 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 13550.11 | 70 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11451.25 | 36 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10549 | 90 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9914.13 | 32 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8658.36 | 133 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8531.94 | 98 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8007.33 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7804.28 | 30 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7789.66 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7662.58 | 30 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6987.08 | 25 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6871.91 | 29 |
| (16) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6696.91 | 26 |
| 17 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6575.98 | 60 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6535.18 | 32 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 6375.83 | 29 |
| 19 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6325.41 | 12 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6313.05 | 24 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6227.75 | 27 |
| (21) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6174.91 | 16 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6161.65 | 29 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6156.66 | 21 |
| 24 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6026 | 53 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 5974.25 | 47 |
| 26 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 5683.8 | 99 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 5634.41 | 36 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5605.85 | 26 |
| (28) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5570.41 | 38 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5261.5 | 22 |
| 30 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5163.75 | 29 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5000.11 | 31 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4994.99 | 33 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4891.31 | 29 |
| 34 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4809.39 | 35 |
| 35 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4774.66 | 45 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4690.91 | 22 |
| 37 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 4687.77 | 49 |
| 38 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4614.5 | 13 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4602.76 | 30 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4496.49 | 15 |
| 41 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4430.83 | 38 |
| 42 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 4389.64 | 21 |
| 43 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4327.43 | 47 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4238.31 | 22 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4222.13 | 22 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4078.26 | 30 |
| 46 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 3950.74 | 29 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3936.48 | 40 |
| 48 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3806.76 | 17 |
| 49 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3787.93 | 28 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3747 | 15 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 3715.83 | 18 |
| 52 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 3676.66 | 25 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3615.98 | 19 |
| 54 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3587.79 | 28 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3576.78 | 16 |
| (55) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3537.71 | 28 |
| 56 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3512.58 | 11 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3493.38 | 23 |
| 58 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3492.2 | 25 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3484.91 | 10 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3422.43 | 21 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3409.09 | 37 |
| 62 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 3370.88 | 57 |
| 63 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3330.36 | 27 |
| 64 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3290.81 | 32 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3271.93 | 23 |
| 66 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 3206.41 | 32 |
| 67 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3195 | 17 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 3142.09 | 38 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3052.44 | 23 |
| 70 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 3028.58 | 29 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2970.83 | 23 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2968.16 | 14 |
| 73 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2965.75 | 24 |
| 74 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2957.31 | 29 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2927.86 | 32 |
| 76 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2905.75 | 36 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2890.83 | 16 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2862.16 | 14 |
| (78) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2859.66 | 18 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2785.91 | 22 |
| 80 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2768.75 | 14 |
| 81 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2749.71 | 27 |
| 82 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2711.25 | 21 |
| 83 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2709.2 | 51 |
| 84 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2694.75 | 50 |
| (84) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2671.28 | 16 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 2668.25 | 20 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 2652.41 | 23 |
| 86 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2641.01 | 16 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2631.99 | 21 |
| 88 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2564.5 | 17 |
| 89 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2557.4 | 28 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 2550.63 | 31 |
| 91 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2514.16 | 12 |
| 92 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2508.79 | 11 |
| (92) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2505.58 | 12 |
| 93 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2475.66 | 70 |
| (93) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2442.44 | 11 |
| 94 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2424.41 | 30 |
| (94) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2419.5 | 10 |
| (94) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2406.99 | 24 |
| 95 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2406.99 | 24 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2403.66 | 26 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2398.41 | 35 |
| 98 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2393.66 | 8 |
| (98) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2389.5 | 7 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2381.41 | 11 |
| 100 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2376.77 | 24 |
| 101 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2373.66 | 28 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2339.31 | 11 |
| 103 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 2330.2 | 39 |
| 104 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2329.91 | 7 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2310.16 | 11 |
| (105) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2292.91 | 67 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2290.96 | 9 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 2285.91 | 16 |
| 107 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2283.83 | 10 |
| 108 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2237.83 | 18 |
| 109 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2233.58 | 22 |
| 110 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2203.48 | 36 |
| 111 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 2192 | 25 |
| 112 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2188.71 | 9 |
| 113 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2173.16 | 11 |
| 114 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 2168.16 | 22 |
| (114) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2167 | 28 |
| 115 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 2166.06 | 34 |
| 116 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2143.86 | 13 |
| (116) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2117.52 | 7 |
| 117 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2117.33 | 9 |
| (117) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2115.31 | 16 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 2077.76 | 12 |
| 119 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2068.18 | 40 |
| (119) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2050.94 | 9 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2037.58 | 18 |
| 121 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 2008.86 | 5 |
| 122 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2000.5 | 9 |
| 123 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1991.73 | 14 |
| (123) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1987.66 | 18 |
| 124 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 1985.3 | 15 |
| 125 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1973.49 | 16 |
| 126 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1963.75 | 42 |
| 127 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1942.9 | 16 |
| 128 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 1937.04 | 24 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 1924.83 | 14 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 1890.33 | 17 |
| 131 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1884.83 | 11 |
| (131) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1879.83 | 10 |
| 132 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1878.06 | 24 |
| 133 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 1850 | 19 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1844.08 | 15 |
| 135 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1830.5 | 14 |
| 136 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1830.02 | 4 |
| (136) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1830.02 | 4 |
| 137 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 1826.74 | 16 |
| 138 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1824.46 | 9 |
| 139 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1815.25 | 3 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1793.49 | 15 |
| 141 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 1775.16 | 25 |
| 142 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1774.18 | 9 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 1751.49 | 17 |
| (143) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1735.93 | 14 |
| (143) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1735.5 | 7 |
| (143) | 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 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 1728.5 | 18 |
| (144) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1722.16 | 11 |
| (144) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1719.83 | 12 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1695.41 | 16 |
| 146 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 1693.66 | 15 |
| (146) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1688.33 | 5 |
| 147 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1683.99 | 4 |
| 148 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1683.71 | 15 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1681.09 | 17 |
| 150 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1672.19 | 13 |
| 151 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1669.53 | 20 |
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