| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 87710.33 | 258 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 36684.67 | 212 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 27704.71 | 275 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14156.84 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13183.54 | 36 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10290.44 | 98 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9081.86 | 27 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8744.52 | 30 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8487.2 | 31 |
| 10 | CESifo | München, Germany | 7747.85 | 70 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7565.85 | 133 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7204.25 | 30 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6696.34 | 29 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6447.98 | 25 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6385.43 | 27 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6366.35 | 24 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6225.55 | 12 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5634.79 | 29 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5595.24 | 16 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5546.15 | 31 |
| 20 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5499.3 | 22 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5491.81 | 32 |
| 21 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5415.47 | 60 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5298.53 | 26 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5280.94 | 21 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5097.55 | 90 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4997.28 | 15 |
| 26 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4971.67 | 98 |
| (26) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4899.8 | 38 |
| 27 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4774.31 | 13 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4646.83 | 29 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4521.79 | 45 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4436.07 | 14 |
| 31 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4328.84 | 35 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4325.78 | 16 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4325.43 | 21 |
| (33) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4145.99 | 22 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4083.81 | 40 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4053.25 | 30 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4039.13 | 33 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3969.34 | 22 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3764.87 | 28 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3496.64 | 22 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 3415.43 | 29 |
| 41 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3366.68 | 15 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3351.49 | 27 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3348.11 | 25 |
| (43) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3301.35 | 11 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3253.88 | 47 |
| 45 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3237.29 | 17 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3182.4 | 30 |
| 47 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3065.1 | 53 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3063.64 | 23 |
| 49 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2889.91 | 29 |
| 50 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2889.79 | 11 |
| 51 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2884.89 | 36 |
| 52 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2789.84 | 12 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2780.77 | 22 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2777.24 | 19 |
| 55 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2720.34 | 17 |
| 56 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2601.97 | 38 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2575.37 | 32 |
| 58 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2539.93 | 9 |
| (58) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2502.47 | 16 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2494.84 | 21 |
| 60 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2486.46 | 28 |
| 61 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2396.56 | 16 |
| (61) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2390.83 | 24 |
| 62 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2390.83 | 24 |
| (62) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2385.89 | 18 |
| (62) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2352.06 | 5 |
| 63 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2337.6 | 23 |
| 64 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2325.41 | 47 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2304.4 | 24 |
| (65) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2303.68 | 28 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2285.49 | 18 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2273.92 | 15 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2271.31 | 23 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2237.83 | 29 |
| (69) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2204.7 | 28 |
| (69) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2198.51 | 26 |
| 70 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2173.55 | 21 |
| 71 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2128.47 | 11 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2096.01 | 13 |
| 73 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 2081.31 | 49 |
| 74 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2070.43 | 11 |
| 75 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2055.12 | 10 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2031.74 | 11 |
| (76) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1995.65 | 7 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1986.73 | 11 |
| 78 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1985.97 | 51 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1936.73 | 14 |
| 80 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1935.21 | 3 |
| (80) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1906.81 | 4 |
| 81 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1880.27 | 11 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1879.79 | 10 |
| (81) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1857.31 | 9 |
| 82 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1835.81 | 99 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1833.59 | 37 |
| 84 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1829.55 | 27 |
| (84) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1813.78 | 14 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1804.54 | 16 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1778.57 | 35 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1763.33 | 9 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1741.14 | 12 |
| 88 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1739.32 | 29 |
| 89 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1735.99 | 42 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1713.41 | 22 |
| 91 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1676.28 | 57 |
| 92 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1671.29 | 9 |
| 93 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1662.21 | 8 |
| (93) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1661.35 | 7 |
| 94 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1652.79 | 17 |
| 95 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1629.96 | 7 |
| (95) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1627.77 | 5 |
| 96 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1588.33 | 3 |
| 97 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1572.71 | 18 |
| 98 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1571.78 | 9 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1570.93 | 10 |
| 100 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1566.65 | 10 |
| (100) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1559 | 7 |
| 101 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1549.04 | 6 |
| 102 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1548.83 | 4 |
| (102) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1534.77 | 8 |
| 103 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1520.87 | 25 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1500.8 | 16 |
| 105 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1464.89 | 36 |
| 106 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1423.26 | 14 |
| 107 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1417.33 | 28 |
| 108 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1416.1 | 11 |
| (108) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1409.75 | 2 |
| 109 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1397.06 | 25 |
| 110 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1392.65 | 50 |
| (110) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1390.86 | 16 |
| 111 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1390.06 | 11 |
| 112 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1375.05 | 8 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1360.07 | 16 |
| 114 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1353.63 | 36 |
| (114) | 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 | 1344.91 | 12 |
| 115 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1320.63 | 7 |
| (115) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1320.24 | 12 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1299.07 | 11 |
| 117 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1287.71 | 30 |
| 118 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1284.47 | 22 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1279.2 | 18 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 1273.74 | 14 |
| (120) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1272.69 | 2 |
| 121 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1262.39 | 70 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 1229.4 | 14 |
| 123 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1228.73 | 34 |
| (123) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1222.4 | 2 |
| (123) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1212.1 | 67 |
| (123) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1210.13 | 4 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 1209.63 | 10 |
| 125 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1208.33 | 40 |
| 126 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1181.84 | 20 |
| 127 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1167.07 | 17 |
| 128 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1166.28 | 15 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1166.06 | 31 |
| (129) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1136.68 | 4 |
| 130 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1122.39 | 16 |
| 131 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1120.57 | 10 |
| (131) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1111.44 | 6 |
| (131) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1107.74 | 5 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1097.84 | 8 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1094.12 | 13 |
| (133) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1090.34 | 5 |
| 134 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1083.03 | 10 |
| 135 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1077.14 | 13 |
| (135) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1068.54 | 2 |
| (135) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1066.36 | 21 |
| 136 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 1053.85 | 10 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 1053.13 | 12 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1049.73 | 17 |
| 139 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1045.07 | 16 |
| 140 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1043.3 | 6 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1041.45 | 20 |
| 142 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1040.25 | 24 |
| 143 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 1035.04 | 29 |
| 144 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1031.08 | 8 |
| (144) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1021.43 | 1 |
| 145 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1013.13 | 12 |
| 146 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1013.04 | 63 |
| 147 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 993.63 | 11 |
| 148 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 989.18 | 13 |
| 149 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 988.36 | 16 |
| 150 | Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 981.2 | 4 |
| 151 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 976.59 | 5 |
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