| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11262 | 260 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 7437 | 285 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 7414 | 213 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2554 | 73 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2318 | 98 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2184 | 137 |
| 7 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1908 | 97 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1805 | 37 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1676 | 39 |
| 10 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1606 | 101 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1543 | 90 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1530 | 33 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1434 | 29 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1383 | 26 |
| 14 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1287 | 60 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1281 | 31 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1183 | 30 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1155 | 26 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1138 | 30 |
| 19 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1104 | 53 |
| 20 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1099 | 12 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1096 | 32 |
| 21 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1093 | 47 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1045 | 30 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1012 | 36 |
| 24 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1006 | 47 |
| 25 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 994 | 51 |
| 26 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 988 | 26 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 988 | 33 |
| 28 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 976 | 11 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 975 | 23 |
| 30 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 966 | 49 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 960 | 20 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 947 | 26 |
| 33 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 938 | 35 |
| 34 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 904 | 29 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 877 | 29 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 874 | 31 |
| 37 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 862 | 22 |
| (37) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 850 | 37 |
| (37) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 832 | 16 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 828 | 24 |
| 39 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 820 | 39 |
| 40 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 819 | 40 |
| (40) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 814 | 27 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 814 | 47 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 803 | 22 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 788 | 43 |
| (42) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 787 | 18 |
| 43 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 777 | 28 |
| 44 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 774 | 33 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 768 | 30 |
| 46 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 758 | 40 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 747 | 22 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 743 | 30 |
| 49 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 739 | 25 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 717 | 41 |
| 51 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 699 | 17 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 697 | 14 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 693 | 23 |
| 54 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 692 | 34 |
| 55 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 690 | 30 |
| 56 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 684 | 27 |
| 57 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 679 | 53 |
| 58 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 677 | 66 |
| 58 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 677 | 30 |
| 60 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 655 | 24 |
| 61 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 649 | 13 |
| 62 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 644 | 28 |
| 63 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 639 | 29 |
| 64 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 635 | 23 |
| 65 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 632 | 25 |
| (65) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 630 | 29 |
| 66 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 628 | 70 |
| 66 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 628 | 59 |
| 68 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 622 | 15 |
| 69 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 620 | 29 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 619 | 22 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 618 | 18 |
| 72 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 609 | 28 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 608 | 33 |
| 74 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 605 | 32 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 601 | 20 |
| 75 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 601 | 23 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 593 | 23 |
| 78 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 587 | 29 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 582 | 23 |
| (78) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 573 | 25 |
| 78 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 573 | 25 |
| (78) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 573 | 67 |
| 80 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 564 | 27 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 563 | 8 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 558 | 36 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 558 | 33 |
| 84 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 547 | 25 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 527 | 16 |
| 86 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 521 | 24 |
| 87 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 518 | 18 |
| 88 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 513 | 26 |
| 88 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 513 | 26 |
| 90 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 511 | 11 |
| 91 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 505 | 35 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 501 | 11 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 498 | 12 |
| 94 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 493 | 14 |
| 94 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 493 | 37 |
| 96 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 492 | 36 |
| 96 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 492 | 11 |
| 98 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 489 | 24 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 487 | 26 |
| (99) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 486 | 19 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 483 | 13 |
| 100 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 483 | 25 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 483 | 24 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 473 | 21 |
| 103 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 473 | 41 |
| 105 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 465 | 21 |
| 106 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 463 | 22 |
| (106) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 458 | 38 |
| 107 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 456 | 17 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 433 | 16 |
| 109 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 430 | 20 |
| 110 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 424 | 23 |
| 110 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 424 | 54 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 424 | 11 |
| 113 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 423 | 28 |
| (113) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 423 | 9 |
| 114 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 419 | 28 |
| 115 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 415 | 12 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 414 | 23 |
| 117 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 411 | 15 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 409 | 19 |
| (118) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 408 | 16 |
| 119 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 407 | 33 |
| 120 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 406 | 40 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 402 | 16 |
| 122 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 392 | 17 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 390 | 15 |
| 124 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 387 | 31 |
| 125 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 386 | 9 |
| (125) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 386 | 10 |
| 126 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 381 | 17 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 379 | 21 |
| 128 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 376 | 17 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 375 | 26 |
| 130 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 374 | 22 |
| 131 | Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 372 | 18 |
| 131 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 372 | 12 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 370 | 14 |
| (133) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 370 | 11 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 367 | 12 |
| 135 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 366 | 5 |
| 136 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 365 | 32 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 362 | 17 |
| 138 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 360 | 28 |
| 138 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 360 | 27 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 358 | 17 |
| 141 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 356 | 28 |
| 141 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 356 | 15 |
| 143 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 350 | 12 |
| 143 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 350 | 20 |
| 143 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 350 | 33 |
| 146 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 349 | 21 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 349 | 10 |
| (147) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 348 | 15 |
| (147) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 347 | 18 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 346 | 15 |
| (148) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 346 | 14 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 346 | 14 |
| 150 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 344 | 31 |
| (150) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 342 | 21 |
| 151 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 338 | 11 |
| (151) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 338 | 7 |
| 152 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 337 | 4 |
| (152) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 337 | 4 |
| (152) | Maastricht research school of Economics of TEchnology and ORganizations (METEOR), Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 337 | 16 |
| (152) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 335 | 14 |
| 153 | School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 332 | 15 |
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