| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 251731.88 | 260 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 108838.26 | 213 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 101473.67 | 285 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44744.96 | 33 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 40301.86 | 97 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 39567.83 | 39 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 37087.08 | 13 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 36353.33 | 137 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35194.76 | 98 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 32501.26 | 31 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 31751.66 | 28 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 29645.66 | 24 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 28447.18 | 73 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24603.96 | 30 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22250.84 | 26 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 21766.26 | 33 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21340.01 | 26 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 20490.73 | 29 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 19444.52 | 90 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19233.25 | 30 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19070.25 | 16 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 18870.55 | 29 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 18419.86 | 30 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18214 | 17 |
| (23) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17604.08 | 27 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17484.58 | 32 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 17268.01 | 30 |
| 25 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 16104.04 | 101 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 16011.58 | 12 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15645.13 | 43 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 15540.76 | 12 |
| 29 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15363.28 | 17 |
| 30 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 14846.66 | 60 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 14750.21 | 31 |
| (31) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14424.25 | 37 |
| 32 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13583.84 | 35 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 13438.74 | 22 |
| 34 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 13317.83 | 6 |
| 35 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 13176.13 | 39 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13115.05 | 20 |
| 37 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 12923.38 | 27 |
| 38 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12921.24 | 11 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 12618.44 | 41 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12468.63 | 29 |
| 41 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 12286.19 | 49 |
| 42 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12099.35 | 47 |
| 43 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 12043.09 | 19 |
| (43) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11974.29 | 26 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 11703.34 | 47 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 11693.81 | 14 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11682.08 | 23 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11654.08 | 11 |
| 48 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 11637.33 | 51 |
| 49 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11633.68 | 53 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11601.38 | 12 |
| 51 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11596.82 | 15 |
| 52 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11348.28 | 28 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10886.43 | 26 |
| 54 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 10860.21 | 24 |
| 55 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10808.99 | 6 |
| 56 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 10699.7 | 27 |
| 57 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 10449.18 | 53 |
| 58 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 10273.86 | 21 |
| (58) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 10211.78 | 22 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 10036.33 | 47 |
| 60 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10025.18 | 27 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 9988.43 | 22 |
| (61) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9918.51 | 29 |
| (61) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 9915.08 | 13 |
| 62 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 9678.54 | 66 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9566.91 | 23 |
| 64 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9425.15 | 29 |
| (64) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9330.01 | 4 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 9310 | 18 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 8981.83 | 24 |
| (65) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 8909.21 | 10 |
| 66 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 8901.83 | 40 |
| (66) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8871.16 | 5 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8775.88 | 30 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8699.49 | 30 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8585.98 | 22 |
| 70 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8538.48 | 40 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8328.73 | 16 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8293.24 | 33 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 8227.59 | 20 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 8171.33 | 21 |
| 75 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 7975.09 | 28 |
| (75) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7952.96 | 9 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7747.56 | 13 |
| 77 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 7691.38 | 41 |
| (77) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7640.58 | 5 |
| 78 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 7602.74 | 5 |
| 79 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7554.63 | 17 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7481.41 | 23 |
| 81 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 7264.89 | 31 |
| 82 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7159.2 | 23 |
| 83 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7110.5 | 3 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 7051.56 | 36 |
| (84) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6964.63 | 7 |
| (84) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 6907.53 | 38 |
| 85 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6721.81 | 11 |
| 86 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 6641.83 | 4 |
| 87 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 6570.95 | 28 |
| 88 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6459.15 | 25 |
| 89 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 6458.65 | 30 |
| 90 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 6449.24 | 15 |
| 91 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 6438.54 | 24 |
| (91) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6369.83 | 3 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6358.88 | 37 |
| 93 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 6345.51 | 21 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 6330.41 | 23 |
| 95 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 6328.64 | 28 |
| 96 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6221.58 | 12 |
| (96) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6204.25 | 11 |
| 97 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 6052.91 | 37 |
| (97) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6026.54 | 16 |
| 98 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6025.49 | 4 |
| 99 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 6020.68 | 23 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 6008.73 | 36 |
| 101 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 6005.81 | 8 |
| 102 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 5926.73 | 25 |
| 103 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 5890.78 | 70 |
| 104 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 5885.71 | 17 |
| 105 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 5880.51 | 22 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 5845.83 | 25 |
| 107 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 5845.48 | 26 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 5809.33 | 10 |
| 109 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 5795.24 | 34 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5743.76 | 16 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5739.15 | 12 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 5709.83 | 9 |
| 113 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 5678.97 | 59 |
| (113) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5620.18 | 3 |
| 114 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 5353.81 | 18 |
| 115 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5328.66 | 26 |
| (115) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 5320.01 | 12 |
| (115) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 5244.66 | 67 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 5234.08 | 17 |
| 117 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 5230.9 | 54 |
| 118 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5218.94 | 11 |
| 119 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 5166.78 | 20 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5128.44 | 11 |
| 121 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 5077.53 | 25 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5071.16 | 18 |
| (122) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5053.61 | 4 |
| 123 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 5017.92 | 8 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 5014.66 | 7 |
| (123) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4949.33 | 1 |
| (123) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4945.91 | 14 |
| 124 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 4938.13 | 26 |
| 125 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 4925.31 | 33 |
| 126 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 4916.79 | 35 |
| 127 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 4907.55 | 32 |
| 128 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 4892.21 | 22 |
| 129 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 4859.31 | 14 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 4784.41 | 21 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 4743.41 | 13 |
| 132 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4743.35 | 24 |
| 133 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4729.32 | 16 |
| 134 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 4724.75 | 28 |
| (134) | 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 | 4723.75 | 12 |
| 135 | International Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 4723.1 | 7 |
| 136 | Bank for International Settlements | Basel, Switzerland | 4670.49 | 9 |
| 137 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 4643.05 | 37 |
| 138 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 4604.83 | 15 |
| (138) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4596.48 | 8 |
| 139 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 4517.73 | 47 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4432.8 | 16 |
| 141 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 4424.54 | 28 |
| 142 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 4387.09 | 24 |
| 143 | Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 4370 | 15 |
| 144 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 4322.88 | 36 |
| (144) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4274.49 | 4 |
| 145 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 4255.95 | 24 |
| (145) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 4234.94 | 16 |
| 146 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4178.54 | 14 |
| (146) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4165.81 | 19 |
| 147 | Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa | Lisboa, Portugal | 4140.19 | 45 |
| (147) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4132.81 | 17 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 4120.43 | 16 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 4101.58 | 15 |
| 150 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 4087.55 | 32 |
| 151 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 4073.16 | 17 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 4064.06 | 26 |
| 153 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 4034.38 | 40 |
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