| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6243.56 | 263 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2235.27 | 215 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1568.4 | 35 |
| 4 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1444.72 | 289 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 937.95 | 39 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 607.55 | 31 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 603.84 | 26 |
| 8 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 509.66 | 59 |
| 9 | CESifo | München, Germany | 445.17 | 74 |
| 10 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 433.64 | 100 |
| 11 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 426.02 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 416.89 | 32 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 405.51 | 29 |
| 14 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 405.26 | 22 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 394.39 | 24 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 389.46 | 136 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 381.94 | 29 |
| 18 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 379.09 | 49 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 378.54 | 13 |
| 20 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 371.53 | 13 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 370.79 | 30 |
| (21) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 358.06 | 22 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 350.63 | 29 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 340.28 | 14 |
| 24 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 325.36 | 15 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 324.23 | 27 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 323.86 | 24 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 304.34 | 91 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 298.68 | 22 |
| (28) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 289.85 | 16 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 270.93 | 12 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 261.64 | 29 |
| 31 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 260.47 | 54 |
| 32 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 256.99 | 100 |
| 33 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 255.69 | 25 |
| (33) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 248.17 | 32 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 245.9 | 30 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 243.12 | 24 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 240.47 | 26 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 233.33 | 49 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 232.22 | 17 |
| 39 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 226.98 | 11 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 221.86 | 36 |
| 41 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 219.2 | 6 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 218.22 | 20 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 203.23 | 32 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 201.7 | 22 |
| 45 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 198.37 | 29 |
| (45) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 195.52 | 39 |
| 46 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 194.44 | 20 |
| 47 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 192.05 | 17 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 176.55 | 43 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 175.79 | 10 |
| 50 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 175.52 | 23 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 173.99 | 23 |
| 52 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 173.67 | 12 |
| 53 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 173.2 | 35 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 170.31 | 9 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 169.48 | 10 |
| 56 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 165.88 | 9 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 164.18 | 32 |
| (57) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 161.08 | 2 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 159.34 | 31 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 154.05 | 18 |
| 59 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 153.74 | 11 |
| 60 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 153.63 | 21 |
| (60) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 151.2 | 10 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 150.17 | 17 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 149.42 | 33 |
| (61) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 147.84 | 8 |
| (61) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 147.46 | 7 |
| 62 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 145.65 | 2 |
| 63 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 145.27 | 22 |
| (63) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 141.66 | 2 |
| 64 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 140.68 | 9 |
| 65 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 140.37 | 17 |
| (65) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 140.04 | 25 |
| 66 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 140.04 | 25 |
| (66) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 139.98 | 2 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 139.7 | 11 |
| 68 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 139.04 | 26 |
| 69 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 136.47 | 28 |
| 70 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 134.06 | 28 |
| 71 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 133.57 | 46 |
| 72 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 132.5 | 12 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 128.87 | 14 |
| (73) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 128.51 | 27 |
| (73) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 125.02 | 6 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 123.26 | 37 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 122.07 | 37 |
| 76 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 122 | 29 |
| 77 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 120.09 | 41 |
| 78 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 118.01 | 17 |
| 79 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 117.9 | 101 |
| 80 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 116.07 | 11 |
| 81 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 115.86 | 59 |
| 82 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 115.45 | 17 |
| 83 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 114.46 | 53 |
| (83) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 113.39 | 27 |
| 84 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 112.63 | 15 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 112.55 | 22 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 112.37 | 10 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 111.43 | 16 |
| 88 | Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 109.86 | 4 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 109.59 | 9 |
| (89) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 109.59 | 9 |
| (89) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 108.85 | 16 |
| 90 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 107.32 | 18 |
| (90) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 106.96 | 8 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 103.77 | 9 |
| 92 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 103.21 | 32 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 102.34 | 12 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 100.93 | 23 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 99.54 | 14 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 98.31 | 15 |
| 97 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 97.39 | 48 |
| 98 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 93.78 | 17 |
| 99 | Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (SCCIE), University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 92.74 | 2 |
| 100 | Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Napoli - "Federico II" | Napoli, Italy | 92.59 | 3 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 91.35 | 18 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 91.33 | 21 |
| 103 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 90.94 | 11 |
| 104 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 89.28 | 11 |
| (104) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 86.84 | 8 |
| 105 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 86.34 | 14 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 85.89 | 19 |
| (106) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 85.57 | 1 |
| 107 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 85.23 | 15 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 84.8 | 28 |
| (108) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 82.25 | 12 |
| (108) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 81.51 | 14 |
| 109 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 79.7 | 24 |
| 110 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 79.18 | 39 |
| (110) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 78.93 | 8 |
| 111 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 78.7 | 18 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 78.59 | 29 |
| (112) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 77.7 | 26 |
| (112) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 76.95 | 5 |
| (112) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 76.93 | 16 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 76.68 | 20 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 76.09 | 18 |
| (114) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 75.16 | 3 |
| 115 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 74.68 | 8 |
| (115) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 74.66 | 7 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 74.64 | 14 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 74.26 | 24 |
| (117) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 74.12 | 2 |
| 118 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 72.71 | 11 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 72.65 | 12 |
| 120 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 71.36 | 16 |
| 121 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 71.09 | 28 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 70.38 | 16 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 70.05 | 16 |
| 124 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 69.81 | 32 |
| 125 | Economics Department, Oberlin College | Oberlin, Ohio (USA) | 69.62 | 2 |
| (125) | Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 69.45 | 3 |
| 126 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 69.14 | 28 |
| 127 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 68.16 | 35 |
| (127) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 67.81 | 16 |
| 128 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 67.56 | 12 |
| (128) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 67.54 | 11 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 66.95 | 12 |
| 130 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 65.89 | 38 |
| 131 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 65.4 | 22 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 64.71 | 15 |
| 133 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 64.08 | 26 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 64.07 | 14 |
| 135 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 63.95 | 50 |
| 136 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 63.43 | 24 |
| 137 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 63.31 | 28 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Oregon | Eugene, Oregon (USA) | 63.22 | 8 |
| (138) | Industry Studies Program (ISP), Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 62.52 | 2 |
| 139 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 61.98 | 3 |
| 140 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 61.54 | 14 |
| 141 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 61.41 | 11 |
| (141) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 60.67 | 4 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 59.91 | 11 |
| 143 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 59.78 | 8 |
| (143) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 59.75 | 7 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 59.72 | 26 |
| 145 | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 59.71 | 2 |
| (145) | Schumpeter Institute, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 59.3 | 3 |
| 146 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 59.13 | 34 |
| (146) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 58.86 | 24 |
| 147 | Deutsche Bundesbank | Frankfurt, Germany | 58.5 | 9 |
| (147) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 58.3 | 7 |
| 148 | Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 57.92 | 8 |
| (148) | Center for the Study of Energy Markets (CSEM), University of California Energy Institute (UCEI), University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 57.67 | 2 |
| 149 | University of California Energy Institute (UCEI), University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 57.67 | 2 |
| 150 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 57.52 | 13 |
| 151 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 56.88 | 35 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 56.86 | 18 |
| 153 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 56.49 | 19 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 56.47 | 9 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 55.62 | 14 |
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