| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8617.27 | 260 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 5236.82 | 213 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4997.68 | 285 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1841.26 | 73 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1662.06 | 98 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1458.49 | 137 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1349.58 | 39 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1198.64 | 33 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1171.2 | 97 |
| 10 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1148.81 | 29 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1133.41 | 90 |
| (11) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1114.98 | 26 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1097.05 | 37 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1040.09 | 31 |
| 14 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 986.8 | 101 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 967.99 | 26 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 950.95 | 12 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 908.16 | 30 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 885.31 | 60 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 854.56 | 30 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 808.58 | 32 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 786.42 | 20 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 780.06 | 23 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 776.12 | 33 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 774.31 | 26 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 773.48 | 36 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 723.58 | 30 |
| 26 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 716.7 | 53 |
| 27 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 705.63 | 35 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 692.06 | 29 |
| (28) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 675.58 | 16 |
| 29 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 667.6 | 29 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 664.38 | 22 |
| 31 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 656.84 | 47 |
| 32 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 650.31 | 47 |
| (32) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 641.91 | 18 |
| 33 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 640.05 | 49 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 632.22 | 31 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 619.04 | 26 |
| (35) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 618.14 | 37 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 614.8 | 30 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 609.35 | 43 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 602.87 | 47 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 592.6 | 24 |
| 40 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 583.5 | 28 |
| 41 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 574.87 | 13 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 568.38 | 39 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 546.3 | 22 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 544.16 | 22 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 542.81 | 14 |
| 45 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 534.53 | 51 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 523.01 | 41 |
| (46) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 512.8 | 27 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 512.54 | 30 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 507.45 | 23 |
| 49 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 504.75 | 28 |
| 50 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 500.95 | 11 |
| 51 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 498.93 | 33 |
| 52 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 484.76 | 15 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 480.27 | 20 |
| 54 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 474.93 | 17 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 470.81 | 30 |
| 56 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 465.54 | 23 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 461.21 | 22 |
| 58 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 457.11 | 40 |
| 59 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 455.4 | 25 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 454.33 | 18 |
| 61 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 446.88 | 24 |
| 62 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 441.21 | 28 |
| 63 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 439.01 | 30 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 433.26 | 16 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 432.41 | 33 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 428 | 23 |
| 67 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 426.9 | 53 |
| 68 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 423.23 | 34 |
| 69 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 420.96 | 27 |
| 70 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 420.13 | 27 |
| 71 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 414.66 | 11 |
| 72 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 410.61 | 59 |
| 73 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 408.74 | 23 |
| 74 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 407.89 | 8 |
| 75 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 407.56 | 70 |
| 76 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 405.31 | 32 |
| 77 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 400.06 | 29 |
| (77) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 397.71 | 29 |
| 78 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 396.85 | 25 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 394.31 | 36 |
| 80 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 393.33 | 25 |
| 81 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 389.86 | 29 |
| 82 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 389.75 | 29 |
| 83 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 387.71 | 40 |
| 84 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 385.61 | 25 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 382.68 | 23 |
| (84) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 379.61 | 67 |
| 85 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 370.06 | 66 |
| 86 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 362.03 | 11 |
| 87 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 359.1 | 11 |
| 88 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 356.56 | 18 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 351.15 | 12 |
| 90 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 349.57 | 22 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 347.06 | 13 |
| 92 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 345.11 | 36 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 344.78 | 11 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 343.81 | 26 |
| 95 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 338.44 | 41 |
| (95) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 333.36 | 25 |
| 96 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 333.36 | 25 |
| 97 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 333.13 | 17 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 330.58 | 24 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 327.97 | 21 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 325.54 | 33 |
| 101 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 324.68 | 15 |
| (101) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 322.31 | 16 |
| 102 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 321.51 | 11 |
| 103 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 319.3 | 37 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 318.7 | 16 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 318.09 | 16 |
| 106 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 313.94 | 26 |
| 107 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 313.73 | 35 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 311.69 | 28 |
| 109 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 310.1 | 24 |
| 110 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 308.37 | 21 |
| 111 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 307.24 | 26 |
| (111) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 306.91 | 19 |
| 112 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 306.58 | 24 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 305.66 | 21 |
| 114 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 302.49 | 17 |
| 115 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 293.28 | 28 |
| 116 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 291.8 | 54 |
| 117 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 290.91 | 14 |
| (117) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 287.28 | 10 |
| 118 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 286.78 | 27 |
| (118) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 285.63 | 9 |
| (118) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 284.18 | 8 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 281.4 | 23 |
| 120 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 279.91 | 22 |
| 121 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 279.46 | 23 |
| 122 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 278.33 | 17 |
| 123 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 278.11 | 12 |
| 124 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 277.95 | 20 |
| 125 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 277.5 | 12 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 275.86 | 11 |
| (126) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 275.3 | 7 |
| (126) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 275.06 | 5 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 273.74 | 10 |
| 128 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 272.98 | 9 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 268.16 | 19 |
| 130 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 267.75 | 12 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 266.93 | 15 |
| (131) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 266.91 | 11 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 261.74 | 14 |
| 133 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 261.23 | 33 |
| 134 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 259.08 | 28 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 258.66 | 14 |
| 136 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 257.28 | 4 |
| 137 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 253.95 | 28 |
| 138 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 252.15 | 31 |
| (138) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 251.86 | 14 |
| 139 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 249.2 | 5 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 246.41 | 26 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 243.33 | 15 |
| (141) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 243.16 | 38 |
| 142 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 242.55 | 8 |
| (142) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 242.24 | 7 |
| 143 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 242.23 | 20 |
| 144 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 242.14 | 31 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 239.75 | 17 |
| 146 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 239.19 | 27 |
| 147 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 237.33 | 15 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 237.24 | 17 |
| 149 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 236.33 | 15 |
| 150 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 235.32 | 40 |
| 151 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 233.96 | 32 |
| (151) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 233.7 | 11 |
| 152 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 233.01 | 22 |
| 153 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 232.53 | 21 |
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