| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 255611.09 | 263 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 112316.1 | 215 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 103084.43 | 289 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 49897.53 | 35 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 40593.18 | 100 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 40049.58 | 39 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 37660.49 | 13 |
| 8 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35305.66 | 100 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 34705.43 | 136 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 32753.55 | 31 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 32640.54 | 29 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 29932.83 | 24 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 28748.19 | 74 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24408.98 | 29 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22503.53 | 26 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22233.09 | 31 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 21775.95 | 32 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21267.15 | 27 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 19763.59 | 91 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19534 | 30 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19001.33 | 16 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18590.95 | 17 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 18583.01 | 31 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 18472.96 | 29 |
| (23) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17837.44 | 27 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17309.88 | 32 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 17042.57 | 29 |
| 25 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 16628.34 | 101 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 16299.39 | 12 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15601.84 | 43 |
| 28 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15581.38 | 17 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 15512.63 | 12 |
| 30 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 15033.82 | 59 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 14888.84 | 32 |
| (31) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14637.41 | 39 |
| 32 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13668.38 | 35 |
| 33 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 13450.33 | 6 |
| 34 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 13185.74 | 38 |
| 35 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 13130.93 | 27 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13007.84 | 20 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 12800.51 | 42 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 12752.84 | 22 |
| 39 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 12457.88 | 48 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12411.36 | 29 |
| 41 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12327.74 | 11 |
| 42 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12076.93 | 46 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 11992.76 | 14 |
| (43) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11933.53 | 26 |
| 44 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 11922.98 | 19 |
| 45 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 11845.58 | 49 |
| 46 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11779.1 | 15 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11735.21 | 23 |
| 48 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11719.94 | 54 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11688.66 | 11 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11504.26 | 12 |
| 51 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 11468.39 | 50 |
| 52 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11312.56 | 28 |
| 53 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 11160.66 | 6 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11131.9 | 26 |
| 55 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 11062.97 | 24 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 10865.29 | 49 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 10780.25 | 28 |
| 58 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 10491.98 | 53 |
| 59 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 10342.13 | 21 |
| (59) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 10278.41 | 22 |
| 60 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10203.43 | 26 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 10128.76 | 22 |
| (61) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 9984.66 | 13 |
| 62 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 9632.08 | 66 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9587.16 | 23 |
| 64 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9445.91 | 29 |
| (64) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9436.43 | 4 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 9343.74 | 18 |
| (64) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9147.96 | 10 |
| 65 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 9051.41 | 41 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 9041.75 | 24 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8974.3 | 32 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8811.58 | 30 |
| (68) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8789.46 | 5 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8752.85 | 22 |
| 70 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8412.51 | 40 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8363.73 | 17 |
| (71) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8237.84 | 27 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8234.43 | 33 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 8201.45 | 20 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 8122.72 | 20 |
| 75 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 8114.6 | 28 |
| (75) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 8017.3 | 9 |
| 76 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 7993.89 | 32 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7896.43 | 13 |
| 78 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 7882.53 | 41 |
| 79 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 7767.41 | 5 |
| (79) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7727.08 | 5 |
| 80 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7653.2 | 17 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7570.58 | 24 |
| 82 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 7342.61 | 36 |
| 83 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7230.83 | 24 |
| 84 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7077.25 | 3 |
| (84) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7014.3 | 7 |
| 85 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 6822.75 | 16 |
| 86 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6782.75 | 11 |
| (86) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 6745.56 | 37 |
| 87 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 6730.16 | 5 |
| 88 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 6687.86 | 28 |
| 89 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6571.99 | 25 |
| 90 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 6562.64 | 31 |
| 91 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6552.41 | 12 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6534.41 | 11 |
| 92 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 6519.22 | 25 |
| 93 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 6476.21 | 22 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6424.37 | 37 |
| (94) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6422.75 | 3 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 6373.58 | 23 |
| 96 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 6274.46 | 28 |
| 97 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 6118.43 | 37 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 6062.51 | 37 |
| (98) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6061.53 | 16 |
| 99 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 6049.41 | 23 |
| 100 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 5982.54 | 17 |
| 101 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 5941 | 10 |
| 102 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 5939.48 | 9 |
| 103 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 5926.11 | 22 |
| 104 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 5904.78 | 26 |
| 105 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5889.28 | 4 |
| 106 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 5856.85 | 34 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5802.43 | 16 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5794.01 | 12 |
| 109 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 5787.42 | 59 |
| 110 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 5770.04 | 30 |
| 111 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 5756.57 | 26 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 5726.41 | 9 |
| (112) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5687.9 | 3 |
| 113 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 5610.65 | 58 |
| 114 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5472.66 | 27 |
| (114) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 5392.46 | 12 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 5362.08 | 18 |
| 116 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 5326.31 | 18 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5303.69 | 11 |
| 118 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 5298.38 | 22 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5296.16 | 19 |
| 120 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5249.42 | 11 |
| 121 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 5220.61 | 35 |
| 122 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 5169 | 65 |
| (122) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5017.69 | 14 |
| 123 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 5002.08 | 25 |
| 124 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 4995.88 | 35 |
| (124) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4980.61 | 4 |
| 125 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 4974.65 | 32 |
| 126 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4970.17 | 8 |
| (126) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4967.41 | 7 |
| 127 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 4897.3 | 22 |
| 128 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 4889.26 | 39 |
| 129 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 4847.66 | 29 |
| 130 | International Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 4824.13 | 7 |
| (130) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4816 | 1 |
| 131 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4801.61 | 24 |
| 132 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 4793.74 | 26 |
| 133 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4792.59 | 16 |
| (133) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4757.25 | 12 |
| 134 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 4691.48 | 15 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 4674.83 | 21 |
| 136 | Bank for International Settlements | Basel, Switzerland | 4646 | 9 |
| (136) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4639.08 | 8 |
| 137 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 4597.5 | 25 |
| 138 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 4592.36 | 15 |
| 139 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 4504.09 | 46 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 4481.58 | 13 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4447.83 | 16 |
| 142 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 4437.63 | 28 |
| 143 | Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 4419.66 | 15 |
| 144 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 4347.76 | 24 |
| (144) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4317.83 | 4 |
| 145 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 4289.63 | 35 |
| 146 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4232.31 | 14 |
| (146) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4231.63 | 19 |
| (146) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 4224.74 | 16 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 4215.59 | 16 |
| (147) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4209.18 | 17 |
| 148 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 4202.03 | 33 |
| 149 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 4094.75 | 17 |
| 150 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4092.5 | 14 |
| 151 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 4060.41 | 25 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 4040.25 | 15 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 4037.8 | 26 |
| 154 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4034.95 | 32 |
| 155 | Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Économiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 4021.31 | 31 |
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