| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 70715.9 | 260 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 42114.68 | 213 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 34722.11 | 285 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 14611.78 | 73 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14007.46 | 98 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12023.58 | 39 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10623.16 | 90 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10224.23 | 33 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9344.61 | 137 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8258.36 | 97 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8119.5 | 30 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8087.16 | 26 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8007.33 | 30 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7914.94 | 31 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7077.75 | 26 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7077.75 | 28 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6971.75 | 29 |
| (17) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6796.75 | 26 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6672.34 | 32 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6667.81 | 60 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6566.73 | 29 |
| 20 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6420.5 | 12 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 6414.99 | 30 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6334.22 | 24 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6193.91 | 16 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6176.5 | 20 |
| 24 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6118.66 | 53 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 6029.04 | 47 |
| 26 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 5784.47 | 101 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 5626.41 | 36 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5612.85 | 26 |
| (28) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5484.24 | 37 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5454 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 5320.23 | 33 |
| 31 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5187.75 | 29 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4991.45 | 31 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4926.98 | 30 |
| 34 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4914.5 | 47 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4868.75 | 23 |
| 36 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4834.89 | 35 |
| 37 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 4715.43 | 49 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4657.26 | 30 |
| 39 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4635.66 | 13 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4568.99 | 15 |
| 41 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4498.5 | 39 |
| 42 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4413.26 | 47 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4243.13 | 22 |
| (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 and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 4230.31 | 23 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4094.98 | 43 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4078.26 | 30 |
| 47 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 3968.11 | 30 |
| 48 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3893.65 | 20 |
| 49 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3862.76 | 17 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3797.93 | 22 |
| 51 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3781.26 | 27 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3776.5 | 14 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 3729.16 | 18 |
| 54 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 3635.33 | 25 |
| 55 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3606.46 | 28 |
| (55) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3598.38 | 27 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3576.78 | 16 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3536.55 | 23 |
| 58 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3535.2 | 25 |
| 59 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3526.08 | 11 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3484.91 | 10 |
| 61 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 3480.47 | 59 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3439.59 | 37 |
| 63 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3371.36 | 27 |
| 64 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3362.81 | 32 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3312.43 | 23 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3311.41 | 24 |
| 67 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 3267.08 | 33 |
| 68 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3195 | 17 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 3184.59 | 41 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3098.19 | 33 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3090.14 | 12 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3089.94 | 24 |
| 73 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3066.48 | 29 |
| 74 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 3062.33 | 29 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2990.16 | 13 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 2985.75 | 21 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2951.75 | 15 |
| (77) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2896.83 | 18 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 2892.58 | 26 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2890.83 | 16 |
| 80 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 2864.49 | 25 |
| 81 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2844.11 | 53 |
| 82 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2825 | 11 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2817.91 | 23 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2813.08 | 8 |
| 85 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2803.08 | 51 |
| 86 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2769.71 | 28 |
| 87 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2768.75 | 14 |
| 88 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2711.25 | 21 |
| 89 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2709.91 | 23 |
| (89) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2694.91 | 29 |
| 90 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2689.08 | 35 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 2674.41 | 23 |
| (90) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2666.28 | 16 |
| 91 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2661.51 | 17 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2638.99 | 21 |
| 93 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2619.5 | 17 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 2609.88 | 33 |
| 95 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2563.63 | 11 |
| 96 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2557.4 | 28 |
| (96) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2533.49 | 25 |
| 97 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2533.49 | 25 |
| 98 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2514.16 | 12 |
| 99 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2513.33 | 70 |
| (99) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2505.58 | 12 |
| 100 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2483.91 | 29 |
| 101 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2476.41 | 20 |
| 102 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2463.16 | 11 |
| (102) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2456.94 | 10 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2445.75 | 11 |
| (103) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2436.86 | 11 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2427.41 | 36 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2403.66 | 26 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 2400.25 | 17 |
| 107 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2395.43 | 24 |
| 108 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 2369.45 | 40 |
| 109 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2355.83 | 18 |
| 110 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2343.99 | 28 |
| (110) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2323.91 | 67 |
| 111 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 2294 | 25 |
| 112 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2291.83 | 12 |
| (112) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2286.83 | 11 |
| 113 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 2258.4 | 34 |
| 114 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 2257.26 | 22 |
| 115 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2241.25 | 22 |
| (115) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2236.96 | 8 |
| 116 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2230.99 | 8 |
| (116) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2226.83 | 7 |
| 117 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2203.48 | 36 |
| (117) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2201.74 | 14 |
| (117) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2190.02 | 7 |
| 118 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2187.71 | 9 |
| 119 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2175.75 | 41 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2173.66 | 12 |
| 121 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2152.33 | 9 |
| 122 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2144.36 | 14 |
| (122) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2142.65 | 16 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 2139.33 | 19 |
| 124 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2130.34 | 40 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2128.58 | 18 |
| (125) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2088.44 | 9 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2088.36 | 16 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 2077.76 | 12 |
| 128 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 2028.96 | 15 |
| 129 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 2008.86 | 5 |
| 130 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2000.5 | 9 |
| 131 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1991.73 | 14 |
| (131) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1987.66 | 18 |
| 132 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 1963.54 | 26 |
| 133 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1953.4 | 16 |
| 134 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 1946.45 | 32 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 1924.83 | 14 |
| 136 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1896.56 | 24 |
| 137 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1896.02 | 4 |
| (137) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1896.02 | 4 |
| 138 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 1878.69 | 26 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 1876.91 | 21 |
| 140 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 1850 | 19 |
| 141 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1832.96 | 9 |
| 142 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1830.5 | 14 |
| 143 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1830.35 | 11 |
| 144 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1815.25 | 3 |
| 145 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1803.2 | 20 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1794.49 | 15 |
| 147 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1792.18 | 9 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1756.16 | 11 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 1755.75 | 18 |
| (149) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1754.6 | 14 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1747.91 | 16 |
| 151 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1747.78 | 14 |
| (151) | 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 | 1738.24 | 12 |
| (151) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1736 | 8 |
| (151) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1727.66 | 8 |
| (151) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1719.83 | 12 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1699.06 | 14 |
| 153 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 1695.66 | 15 |
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