| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 873261.55 | 260 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 412768.14 | 285 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 397264.75 | 213 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 146442.76 | 33 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 134163.33 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 122340.44 | 98 |
| 7 | CESifo | München, Germany | 120709.13 | 73 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 120446.32 | 97 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 117354.43 | 137 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 110620.91 | 13 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 105968.37 | 24 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 103972.23 | 31 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 92088.16 | 28 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 81789.05 | 26 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 80406.71 | 30 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 77396.06 | 33 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 73189.37 | 90 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 71390.24 | 30 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 71208.52 | 29 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 68086.71 | 26 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 62943.28 | 29 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 61728.65 | 60 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 60783.83 | 32 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 60290.5 | 16 |
| 23 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 58885.67 | 101 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 56604.42 | 43 |
| 25 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 56126.74 | 35 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 56113.45 | 12 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 55230.55 | 31 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 54830.25 | 30 |
| 29 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 53780.29 | 21 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 53561.55 | 30 |
| 31 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 53314.2 | 27 |
| (31) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 51996.39 | 27 |
| (31) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 51884.74 | 13 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 51494.9 | 17 |
| 33 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 51124.98 | 49 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 50929.11 | 29 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 50894.53 | 20 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 50055.43 | 41 |
| (36) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 49664.47 | 37 |
| 37 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 49483.36 | 12 |
| (37) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 49099.78 | 26 |
| 38 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 47938.35 | 47 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 46564.06 | 22 |
| 40 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 46127.22 | 31 |
| 41 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 45951.11 | 53 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 45720.74 | 39 |
| 43 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 44990.02 | 47 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 44474.58 | 47 |
| 45 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 43332 | 6 |
| 46 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 43177.24 | 17 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 43051.26 | 14 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 42462.82 | 37 |
| (48) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 41726.8 | 22 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 41603.86 | 26 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 41416.29 | 23 |
| 51 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 41067.45 | 51 |
| 52 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 39828.38 | 11 |
| 53 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 39593.75 | 15 |
| 54 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39463.36 | 28 |
| 55 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38441.41 | 11 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 38436.56 | 22 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 37736.76 | 22 |
| 58 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 37460.01 | 27 |
| 59 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 36696.75 | 28 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 36529.5 | 30 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 35772.3 | 12 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 35461.99 | 23 |
| 63 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 34356.81 | 24 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 34000.23 | 16 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 33981.96 | 27 |
| 66 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 33538.84 | 25 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 33405.08 | 18 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 33036.88 | 30 |
| 68 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 32855.81 | 29 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 32693.6 | 33 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 32268.34 | 20 |
| 71 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 32214.01 | 53 |
| 72 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 32054.19 | 19 |
| (72) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 31852.98 | 10 |
| (72) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 31749.67 | 29 |
| 73 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 30466.21 | 36 |
| 74 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 29857.76 | 40 |
| 75 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 29782.23 | 66 |
| 76 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29610.17 | 40 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 29603.08 | 23 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 29529.83 | 24 |
| 79 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 28607.85 | 30 |
| 80 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 28540.33 | 6 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 28200.43 | 13 |
| 82 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 28188.16 | 41 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 27912.08 | 23 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 27082.76 | 21 |
| 85 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 26479.73 | 23 |
| (85) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25872.65 | 5 |
| 86 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 25706.9 | 33 |
| (86) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 25444.71 | 16 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 24626.23 | 36 |
| 88 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 24309.76 | 59 |
| 89 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 24270.71 | 24 |
| (89) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 24141.99 | 5 |
| (89) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 23737.89 | 9 |
| 90 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 23727.36 | 17 |
| 91 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 23607.03 | 22 |
| 92 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 23599.94 | 18 |
| 93 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 23556.98 | 28 |
| 94 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 23245.16 | 12 |
| 95 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 23237.51 | 34 |
| 96 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 23216.88 | 25 |
| (96) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 23117 | 11 |
| (96) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23102.96 | 4 |
| 97 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 22967.91 | 70 |
| (97) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 22845.64 | 7 |
| 98 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 22751.78 | 22 |
| 99 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22624.46 | 17 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 22576.91 | 12 |
| 101 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 22327.19 | 26 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 22276.98 | 11 |
| 103 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 22255.91 | 5 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 21949.08 | 18 |
| 105 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 21922.2 | 8 |
| 106 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 21812.58 | 3 |
| 107 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 21736.58 | 15 |
| 108 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 21631.11 | 21 |
| 109 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 21572.66 | 25 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 21560.08 | 9 |
| (110) | Centro de Estudios de Organizaciones y Productividad (CEOP), Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 21515.61 | 2 |
| 111 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 21420.04 | 11 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 21075.41 | 28 |
| (112) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 21017.8 | 67 |
| (112) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 20864.94 | 14 |
| 113 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 20566.41 | 25 |
| 114 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 20348.98 | 37 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 20345.63 | 16 |
| (115) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 20230.74 | 38 |
| 116 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 20070.52 | 11 |
| 117 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 20010.91 | 36 |
| 118 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 19566.86 | 17 |
| 119 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 19510.49 | 32 |
| 120 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 19496.33 | 4 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 19403.76 | 26 |
| 122 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 19288.03 | 29 |
| 123 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 19255.01 | 23 |
| 124 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 19060.65 | 54 |
| (124) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 18977.23 | 23 |
| 125 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 18857.91 | 28 |
| 126 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 18850.16 | 37 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 18575.88 | 33 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 18309.66 | 21 |
| 129 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 18153.16 | 28 |
| 130 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 18114.75 | 29 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 18047.33 | 17 |
| 132 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 17677.63 | 35 |
| 133 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 17623.95 | 20 |
| 134 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 17585.34 | 8 |
| (134) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 17575.41 | 7 |
| 135 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 17507.2 | 26 |
| 136 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 17375.53 | 14 |
| 137 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 17332.13 | 15 |
| 138 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 17267.58 | 4 |
| 139 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17207.33 | 26 |
| (139) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 17016.36 | 12 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 17008.16 | 11 |
| 141 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 16962.53 | 17 |
| 142 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 16815.3 | 47 |
| 143 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 16758.96 | 11 |
| 144 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 16740.16 | 10 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 16662.98 | 16 |
| (145) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 16496.03 | 16 |
| 146 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16469.46 | 24 |
| (146) | 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 | 16425.41 | 12 |
| (146) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 16405.38 | 19 |
| 147 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16219.33 | 14 |
| 148 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 16170.83 | 9 |
| 149 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 16169.18 | 15 |
| 150 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16070.74 | 22 |
| 151 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 16032.01 | 9 |
| (151) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 15991.59 | 25 |
| 152 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 15991.59 | 25 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 15949.31 | 17 |
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