| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7048.98 | 258 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2492.06 | 212 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1821.82 | 275 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1193.87 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1072.49 | 36 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 922.89 | 27 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 707.37 | 30 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 618.38 | 31 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 595.88 | 98 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 586.48 | 30 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 534.04 | 25 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 529.62 | 70 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 493.98 | 29 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 493.39 | 24 |
| 15 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 485.46 | 12 |
| 16 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 482.43 | 13 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 477.1 | 16 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 453.81 | 133 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 443.3 | 27 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 409.23 | 15 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 395.95 | 29 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 390.13 | 14 |
| 22 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 374.22 | 22 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 364.89 | 31 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 364.62 | 29 |
| 25 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 343.11 | 35 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 335.99 | 21 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 323.77 | 21 |
| (27) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 316.75 | 32 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 304.22 | 16 |
| (28) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 298.87 | 38 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 284.03 | 22 |
| 30 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 279.95 | 98 |
| 31 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 276.83 | 60 |
| 32 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 274.51 | 40 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 267.19 | 30 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 263.12 | 26 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 257.32 | 15 |
| 36 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 254.94 | 22 |
| 37 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 253.12 | 12 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 250.87 | 90 |
| 39 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 246.82 | 17 |
| (39) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 240.46 | 11 |
| 40 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 235.74 | 11 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 234.97 | 45 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 234.42 | 23 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 223.72 | 33 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 221.73 | 22 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 221.52 | 25 |
| 45 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 218.99 | 11 |
| 46 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 213.93 | 17 |
| 47 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 210.02 | 29 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 209.94 | 47 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 207.85 | 29 |
| 50 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 200.21 | 19 |
| (50) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 199.03 | 16 |
| 51 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 195.8 | 11 |
| 52 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 189.86 | 28 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 186.79 | 15 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 184.29 | 18 |
| (54) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 177.45 | 9 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 175.68 | 32 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 174.98 | 22 |
| 57 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 174.94 | 27 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 173.81 | 18 |
| 58 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 169.85 | 53 |
| 59 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 169.51 | 24 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 168.04 | 9 |
| 61 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 167.88 | 36 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 166.5 | 23 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 166.16 | 13 |
| (63) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 163.61 | 5 |
| 64 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 162.51 | 16 |
| (64) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 162.51 | 7 |
| 65 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 161.4 | 3 |
| 66 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 156.77 | 10 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 150.95 | 21 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 148.7 | 30 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 148.63 | 11 |
| 70 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 148.49 | 27 |
| 71 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 141.97 | 28 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 136.64 | 11 |
| 73 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 135.63 | 4 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 135.15 | 10 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 133.91 | 12 |
| 76 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 133.04 | 38 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 132.18 | 16 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 127.32 | 16 |
| 79 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 126.51 | 6 |
| (79) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 125.16 | 28 |
| 80 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 124.1 | 49 |
| (80) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 123.62 | 2 |
| (80) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 121.71 | 7 |
| (80) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 121.27 | 2 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 120.43 | 7 |
| 82 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 119.53 | 47 |
| 83 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 118.03 | 23 |
| (83) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 114.83 | 5 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 113.5 | 29 |
| 85 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 113.42 | 3 |
| (85) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 112.84 | 26 |
| 86 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 110.82 | 11 |
| 87 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 110.17 | 11 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 110.17 | 10 |
| 88 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 107.17 | 42 |
| 89 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 105.95 | 9 |
| (89) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 105.68 | 4 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 105.36 | 22 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 104.99 | 14 |
| 92 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 103.93 | 51 |
| 93 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 103.29 | 10 |
| (93) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 102.65 | 5 |
| (93) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 101.26 | 2 |
| (93) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 100.94 | 24 |
| 94 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 100.94 | 24 |
| (94) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 100.47 | 28 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 100.11 | 37 |
| (95) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 99.98 | 16 |
| 96 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 99.97 | 28 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 99.62 | 8 |
| 98 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 99.21 | 16 |
| 99 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 98.28 | 36 |
| 100 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 96.83 | 12 |
| (100) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 96.05 | 8 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 95.25 | 14 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 93.81 | 16 |
| 103 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 92.73 | 99 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 92.4 | 35 |
| 105 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 92.37 | 9 |
| 106 | Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 92.19 | 4 |
| 107 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 91.97 | 20 |
| (107) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 91.35 | 11 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 90.73 | 10 |
| (108) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 90.65 | 2 |
| (108) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 90.31 | 1 |
| 109 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 89.12 | 7 |
| 110 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 88.5 | 14 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 88.28 | 11 |
| (111) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 86.48 | 14 |
| (111) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 85.04 | 12 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 84.74 | 13 |
| 113 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 84.72 | 6 |
| 114 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 84.7 | 25 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 84.29 | 14 |
| (115) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 82.95 | 9 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 82.17 | 11 |
| 117 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 81.44 | 17 |
| (117) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 81.11 | 4 |
| 118 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 80.4 | 15 |
| 119 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 80.34 | 21 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 78.54 | 17 |
| (120) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 78.14 | 5 |
| 121 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 77.14 | 15 |
| 122 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 75.51 | 16 |
| 123 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 75.37 | 9 |
| 124 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 74.65 | 11 |
| 125 | Institutet för Näringslivsforsking (IUI) | Stockholm, Sweden | 74.32 | 14 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 74.12 | 13 |
| 127 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 73.02 | 8 |
| 128 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 72.51 | 57 |
| (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 | 72.13 | 12 |
| 129 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 71.72 | 15 |
| 130 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 71.51 | 12 |
| (130) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 71.32 | 5 |
| 131 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 69.81 | 18 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 69.68 | 10 |
| 133 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 69.65 | 11 |
| 134 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 69.27 | 10 |
| 135 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 68.93 | 6 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Haifa | Haifa, Israel | 68.84 | 10 |
| 137 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 68.78 | 22 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 68.07 | 7 |
| 138 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 67.7 | 29 |
| 139 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 67.32 | 29 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 67.19 | 31 |
| (140) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 67.03 | 2 |
| 141 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 66.85 | 10 |
| (141) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 65.91 | 8 |
| (141) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 65.67 | 4 |
| 142 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 65.64 | 36 |
| 143 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 65.49 | 23 |
| 144 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 65.38 | 2 |
| 145 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 64.94 | 46 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 64.73 | 18 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 64.35 | 20 |
| 148 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 63.9 | 17 |
| 149 | ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. | München, Germany | 63.28 | 8 |
| 150 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 63.11 | 28 |
| 151 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 62.77 | 12 |
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