| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2335 | 260 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 1315 | 213 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1047 | 285 |
| 4 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 418 | 137 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 355 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 353 | 98 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 318 | 33 |
| 8 | CESifo | München, Germany | 297 | 73 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 259 | 97 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 236 | 30 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 236 | 31 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 228 | 28 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 225 | 90 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 214 | 43 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 201 | 24 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 190 | 26 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 178 | 29 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 175 | 32 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 173 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 172 | 30 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 168 | 60 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 167 | 29 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 159 | 31 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 158 | 37 |
| 23 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 155 | 53 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 154 | 30 |
| 25 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 151 | 53 |
| 26 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 149 | 35 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 144 | 26 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 142 | 30 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 142 | 22 |
| (28) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 142 | 16 |
| (29) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 140 | 29 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 139 | 47 |
| 31 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 136 | 27 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 134 | 47 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 132 | 22 |
| 33 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 132 | 13 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 128 | 33 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 128 | 30 |
| 35 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 128 | 101 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 128 | 33 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 125 | 23 |
| 39 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 125 | 47 |
| 39 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 125 | 66 |
| 42 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 123 | 29 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 121 | 22 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 121 | 16 |
| 45 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 119 | 49 |
| 46 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 117 | 15 |
| 46 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 117 | 28 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 117 | 14 |
| 49 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 114 | 17 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 113 | 30 |
| (50) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 112 | 22 |
| 51 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 111 | 25 |
| 52 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 107 | 27 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 106 | 23 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 104 | 13 |
| 54 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 104 | 36 |
| 54 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 104 | 12 |
| 57 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 103 | 23 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 102 | 24 |
| (58) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 97 | 27 |
| 58 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 97 | 12 |
| 60 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 95 | 70 |
| 60 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 95 | 36 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 95 | 29 |
| 60 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 95 | 20 |
| 64 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 94 | 17 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 93 | 18 |
| 65 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 91 | 59 |
| (65) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 91 | 26 |
| 65 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 91 | 41 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 90 | 23 |
| (67) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 90 | 38 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 89 | 21 |
| 68 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 89 | 17 |
| (69) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 88 | 67 |
| (69) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 88 | 16 |
| (69) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 87 | 10 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 85 | 20 |
| 71 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 84 | 39 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 83 | 37 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 81 | 24 |
| 74 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 80 | 14 |
| 75 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 79 | 25 |
| 76 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 78 | 40 |
| (76) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 77 | 25 |
| 76 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 77 | 47 |
| 76 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 77 | 25 |
| 76 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 77 | 11 |
| (79) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 76 | 12 |
| 79 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 76 | 28 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 76 | 14 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 70 | 36 |
| (82) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 70 | 14 |
| (82) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 69 | 7 |
| 83 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 68 | 51 |
| 83 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 68 | 37 |
| 83 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 68 | 29 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 68 | 22 |
| 87 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 67 | 9 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 66 | 18 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 65 | 26 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 65 | 12 |
| 89 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 65 | 20 |
| 92 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 64 | 33 |
| (92) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 64 | 8 |
| 93 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 62 | 40 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 62 | 33 |
| 93 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 62 | 18 |
| 93 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 62 | 34 |
| 97 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 60 | 25 |
| 97 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 60 | 29 |
| 99 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 59 | 35 |
| 99 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 59 | 12 |
| 99 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 59 | 32 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 59 | 11 |
| 103 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 58 | 28 |
| (103) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 58 | 16 |
| (103) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 58 | 11 |
| (103) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 57 | 9 |
| 104 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 56 | 28 |
| 105 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 55 | 11 |
| 105 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 55 | 11 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 54 | 16 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 53 | 28 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 53 | 17 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 53 | 21 |
| (110) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 52 | 8 |
| 110 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 52 | 10 |
| 110 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 52 | 24 |
| 110 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 52 | 25 |
| 110 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 52 | 23 |
| 115 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 51 | 17 |
| 116 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 50 | 16 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 50 | 14 |
| 116 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 50 | 24 |
| 119 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 49 | 17 |
| (119) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 49 | 4 |
| 119 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 49 | 18 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 49 | 18 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 49 | 15 |
| 119 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 49 | 11 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 49 | 12 |
| 125 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 48 | 9 |
| 125 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 48 | 8 |
| 125 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 48 | 15 |
| 125 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 48 | 20 |
| 125 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 48 | 11 |
| 125 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 48 | 6 |
| 131 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 47 | 24 |
| 131 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 47 | 11 |
| (131) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 47 | 23 |
| 131 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 47 | 17 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 46 | 16 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 46 | 16 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 46 | 23 |
| 134 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 46 | 32 |
| 134 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 46 | 22 |
| (134) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 46 | 6 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 46 | 17 |
| 134 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 46 | 37 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 46 | 9 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 46 | 14 |
| (134) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 46 | 5 |
| 134 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 46 | 17 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 45 | 12 |
| 144 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 45 | 9 |
| 144 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 45 | 40 |
| 144 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 45 | 14 |
| (144) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 45 | 9 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 44 | 41 |
| 148 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 44 | 23 |
| 148 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 44 | 8 |
| 148 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 44 | 33 |
| (151) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 43 | 8 |
| (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 | 43 | 12 |
| 152 | Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) | Praha, Czech Republic | 42 | 26 |
| 152 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 42 | 11 |
| 152 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 42 | 11 |
| (152) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 42 | 21 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 42 | 11 |
| (152) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 42 | 19 |
| (152) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 42 | 12 |
| 152 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 42 | 11 |
| 152 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 42 | 21 |
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