| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 72634.62 | 263 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 43045.1 | 215 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 35554.86 | 289 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 14820.28 | 74 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13805.13 | 100 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12047.08 | 39 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11684.21 | 35 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10671.16 | 91 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8938.28 | 136 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8321.86 | 100 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8158.5 | 30 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8088.16 | 26 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7948.53 | 31 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7867.83 | 29 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7328.08 | 29 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7103.75 | 27 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6993.91 | 29 |
| (17) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6812.25 | 26 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6707.31 | 59 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 6625.87 | 49 |
| 20 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6611.33 | 12 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6566.73 | 29 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6446.51 | 32 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 6433.16 | 30 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6430.89 | 24 |
| (23) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6203.91 | 16 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6197.83 | 20 |
| 25 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6118.66 | 54 |
| 26 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 5928.24 | 101 |
| 27 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5741.43 | 31 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5729.01 | 26 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 5649.41 | 36 |
| (29) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5506.24 | 39 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5489.75 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 5301.73 | 32 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 5054.16 | 49 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4996.95 | 32 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4868.75 | 23 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4846.89 | 35 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4793.48 | 29 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 4745.23 | 32 |
| 38 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 4741.43 | 48 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4709.26 | 31 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4676.58 | 15 |
| 41 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4654.33 | 13 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4420 | 38 |
| 43 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4416.46 | 46 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4360.65 | 22 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4250.13 | 22 |
| 45 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 4241.31 | 24 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4183.1 | 32 |
| 47 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 4119.11 | 31 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4107.45 | 43 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 4059.15 | 20 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 4003.66 | 19 |
| 51 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3866.43 | 17 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3807 | 14 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3804.93 | 22 |
| 54 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3770.76 | 26 |
| 55 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 3682.33 | 25 |
| (55) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3653.38 | 27 |
| 56 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3641.86 | 25 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3626.11 | 17 |
| 58 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3619.96 | 28 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3565.21 | 23 |
| 60 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3554.08 | 11 |
| 61 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 3527.8 | 59 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3501.91 | 10 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3481.34 | 37 |
| 64 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3402.81 | 32 |
| 65 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3399.36 | 28 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3338.26 | 24 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3317.08 | 24 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 3305.75 | 35 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 3236.09 | 42 |
| 70 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3195 | 17 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3118.19 | 33 |
| 72 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3113.81 | 29 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3106.44 | 24 |
| 74 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 3091.83 | 29 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3037.14 | 12 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3007.16 | 13 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 3006.75 | 21 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2966.66 | 16 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2961.08 | 15 |
| (79) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2925.49 | 18 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 2916.91 | 26 |
| 81 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2883.11 | 53 |
| 82 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2852.08 | 11 |
| 83 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2850.74 | 21 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2838.75 | 24 |
| 85 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2837.21 | 28 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2827.91 | 9 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 2817.28 | 34 |
| 88 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2808.83 | 50 |
| (88) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2793.99 | 25 |
| 89 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2793.99 | 25 |
| 90 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2778.08 | 23 |
| 91 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2768.75 | 14 |
| 92 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2738.58 | 35 |
| 93 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2719.51 | 17 |
| 94 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2711.25 | 21 |
| (94) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2708.41 | 17 |
| (94) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 2703.41 | 24 |
| (94) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2672.28 | 16 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2661.66 | 20 |
| 96 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2656.5 | 17 |
| (96) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2587.86 | 12 |
| 97 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2575.06 | 28 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 2551.66 | 18 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2551.05 | 11 |
| 100 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2533.46 | 11 |
| 101 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2514.16 | 12 |
| (101) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2505.58 | 12 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2496.41 | 37 |
| (102) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2487.44 | 10 |
| 103 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2484.91 | 32 |
| 104 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2475.66 | 12 |
| (104) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2470.66 | 11 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2463.16 | 11 |
| 106 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2449.43 | 24 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2425.16 | 26 |
| 108 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2419.33 | 18 |
| 109 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 2392.2 | 41 |
| 110 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2367.24 | 41 |
| 111 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2346.91 | 15 |
| 112 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2343.99 | 28 |
| 113 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 2294 | 26 |
| 114 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2285.25 | 65 |
| 115 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 2281.06 | 34 |
| 116 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2275.55 | 9 |
| 117 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 2260.26 | 22 |
| 118 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2252.75 | 22 |
| (118) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2239.41 | 27 |
| 119 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2230.99 | 8 |
| (119) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2226.83 | 7 |
| (119) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2223.6 | 7 |
| (119) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2206.79 | 8 |
| 120 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2204.14 | 35 |
| 121 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2173.66 | 12 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 2159.33 | 19 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 2156.8 | 23 |
| 124 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2152.33 | 9 |
| 125 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2144.36 | 14 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2143.29 | 40 |
| (126) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2142.65 | 16 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2135.58 | 18 |
| (127) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2104.94 | 9 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2088.36 | 16 |
| (128) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2075.01 | 13 |
| 129 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 2045.96 | 15 |
| 130 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 2008.86 | 5 |
| 131 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2005.83 | 10 |
| (131) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1987.66 | 18 |
| 132 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 1974.95 | 33 |
| 133 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 1963.54 | 26 |
| 134 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1953.4 | 16 |
| 135 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1931.06 | 25 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 1930.83 | 14 |
| 137 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 1921.19 | 26 |
| 138 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1899.52 | 4 |
| (138) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1899.52 | 4 |
| 139 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 1892 | 19 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 1889.91 | 21 |
| 141 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1883.03 | 22 |
| 142 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1857.91 | 3 |
| 143 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1844.96 | 9 |
| 144 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1830.5 | 14 |
| 145 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1813.69 | 11 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1809.33 | 15 |
| 147 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1797.84 | 9 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1774.58 | 16 |
| (148) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1768.1 | 14 |
| (148) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1759.24 | 12 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1756.16 | 11 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 1755.75 | 18 |
| 151 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1750.78 | 14 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1749.76 | 17 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 1745.42 | 11 |
| (153) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1736 | 8 |
| (153) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1727.66 | 8 |
| 154 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 1709.66 | 16 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1699.06 | 15 |
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