| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 878418.64 | 263 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 416126.64 | 289 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 402748.46 | 215 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 162141.13 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 133668.5 | 39 |
| 6 | CESifo | München, Germany | 120733.93 | 74 |
| 7 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 120657.75 | 100 |
| 8 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 120574.22 | 100 |
| 9 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 111372.04 | 13 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 110989.33 | 136 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 105490.81 | 24 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 103606.36 | 31 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 93805.57 | 29 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 81527.58 | 26 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 78658.05 | 29 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 77212.34 | 31 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 76480.64 | 32 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 73617.34 | 91 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 71547.49 | 30 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 67508.46 | 27 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 61761.9 | 29 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 61249.29 | 59 |
| 23 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 60500.82 | 101 |
| (23) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 59676.91 | 16 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 59272.89 | 32 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 55852.33 | 43 |
| 25 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 55603.81 | 35 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 55316.58 | 12 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 54919.63 | 32 |
| 28 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 54072.2 | 27 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 53334.49 | 31 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 53275.38 | 29 |
| 31 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 53184.18 | 21 |
| (31) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 52354.95 | 27 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 51912.52 | 17 |
| (32) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 51262.58 | 13 |
| 33 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 50707.2 | 48 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 50478.53 | 42 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 50253.64 | 29 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 49996.16 | 20 |
| 37 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 49601.75 | 12 |
| (37) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 49258.25 | 39 |
| (37) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 48510.97 | 26 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 47853.49 | 49 |
| 39 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 47705.26 | 49 |
| 40 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 45499.83 | 38 |
| 41 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 45476.24 | 54 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 44816.46 | 22 |
| 43 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 44096.62 | 46 |
| 44 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 43582 | 6 |
| 45 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 43379.86 | 17 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 43365.01 | 14 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 42093.39 | 26 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 41984.32 | 37 |
| (48) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 41333.19 | 22 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 40890.29 | 23 |
| 50 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 40359.93 | 50 |
| 51 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 40013.47 | 15 |
| 52 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38942.66 | 28 |
| 53 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 38647.66 | 11 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 38261.18 | 22 |
| 55 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38203.49 | 11 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 37901.81 | 22 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 37317.36 | 28 |
| 58 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 36688.5 | 28 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 36621.16 | 30 |
| 60 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 35420.33 | 23 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 35348.47 | 12 |
| 62 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 34747.3 | 26 |
| 63 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 34575.63 | 30 |
| 64 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 34561.54 | 24 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 33797.21 | 26 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 33741.61 | 32 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 33614.53 | 17 |
| (67) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 33027.25 | 18 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 32533.74 | 33 |
| 69 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 32444.8 | 29 |
| (69) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 32027.71 | 10 |
| 70 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 32015.85 | 53 |
| 71 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 31863.53 | 19 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 31680.93 | 20 |
| 73 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 31122.98 | 36 |
| 74 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 29989.01 | 41 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 29527.49 | 24 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 29369.08 | 24 |
| 77 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 29347.49 | 66 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 29210.16 | 23 |
| 79 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 29090 | 6 |
| 80 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 28983.45 | 40 |
| 81 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 28710.51 | 31 |
| 82 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 28642.33 | 41 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 28299.76 | 13 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 27252.8 | 32 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 26698.13 | 20 |
| 86 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 26282.45 | 24 |
| 87 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 26118.98 | 35 |
| (87) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25719.79 | 5 |
| (87) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 25664.81 | 27 |
| (87) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 25028.06 | 16 |
| 88 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 24608.47 | 59 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 24573.08 | 37 |
| (89) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 24181.25 | 5 |
| 90 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 23905.27 | 25 |
| 91 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 23721.57 | 22 |
| (91) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 23630.79 | 9 |
| 92 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 23606.58 | 12 |
| (92) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 23497.08 | 11 |
| 93 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 23335.85 | 17 |
| 94 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 23247.83 | 34 |
| 95 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 23222.41 | 18 |
| 96 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 23166.94 | 25 |
| (96) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23160.11 | 4 |
| 97 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 22993.7 | 28 |
| (97) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 22780.54 | 7 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 22689.66 | 19 |
| 99 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 22610.58 | 16 |
| 100 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22577.91 | 17 |
| 101 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 22545.56 | 22 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 22454.1 | 12 |
| 103 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 22357.69 | 5 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 22347.03 | 11 |
| 105 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 22009.74 | 26 |
| 106 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 21922.8 | 22 |
| (106) | Centro de Estudios de Organizaciones y Productividad (CEOP), Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 21890.7 | 2 |
| 107 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 21631.71 | 9 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 21358.41 | 9 |
| 109 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 21257.71 | 11 |
| 110 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 21243.58 | 3 |
| 111 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 21194.79 | 28 |
| 112 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 21087.64 | 25 |
| 113 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 20783.93 | 65 |
| (113) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 20647.86 | 14 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 20219.46 | 16 |
| 115 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 20083.83 | 58 |
| 116 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 19847.88 | 11 |
| 117 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 19723.05 | 35 |
| 118 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 19561.23 | 37 |
| 119 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 19546.63 | 17 |
| 120 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 19526.83 | 5 |
| 121 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 19471.88 | 39 |
| 122 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 19456.61 | 32 |
| (122) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 19449.88 | 37 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 19257.89 | 24 |
| 123 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 19215.08 | 32 |
| 124 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 19018.91 | 29 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 18973.93 | 34 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 18971.46 | 26 |
| 127 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 18944.18 | 23 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 18269.16 | 18 |
| 129 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 18100.01 | 28 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 18016.83 | 21 |
| 131 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 18004.59 | 22 |
| 132 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 17866.7 | 35 |
| 133 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 17797.08 | 29 |
| 134 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 17750.34 | 28 |
| 135 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17594.83 | 27 |
| 136 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 17364.2 | 15 |
| (136) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 17236.21 | 12 |
| 137 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 17198.96 | 8 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 17188.41 | 7 |
| 138 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 17113.57 | 26 |
| 139 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 16966.99 | 10 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 16824.51 | 16 |
| 141 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 16801.31 | 4 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 16777.16 | 12 |
| 143 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16710.92 | 24 |
| 144 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 16690.23 | 11 |
| 145 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 16663.46 | 15 |
| 146 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 16649.98 | 17 |
| 147 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 16600.81 | 46 |
| (147) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 16545.58 | 25 |
| 148 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 16545.58 | 25 |
| (148) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 16524.76 | 19 |
| (148) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 16437.03 | 16 |
| (148) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 16260.08 | 12 |
| 149 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16119.68 | 14 |
| 150 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 15997.11 | 9 |
| 151 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 15940.13 | 15 |
| 152 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15864.16 | 22 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 15781.16 | 19 |
| 154 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 15692.8 | 30 |
| 155 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 15684.99 | 9 |
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