| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 257828.51 | 264 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 113260.38 | 218 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 105900.39 | 304 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 49340.19 | 35 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 42237.65 | 108 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 40149.25 | 39 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 37601.12 | 13 |
| 8 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35285.97 | 104 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 34693.1 | 31 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 33943.44 | 31 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 33737.48 | 136 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 31598.78 | 78 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 29780.72 | 24 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24778.01 | 30 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22926.3 | 27 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 21968.82 | 33 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 21914.58 | 31 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21328.41 | 27 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 20746.01 | 93 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19807.5 | 30 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19080.83 | 16 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18795.16 | 17 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 18332.46 | 30 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 18324.88 | 30 |
| (23) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17667.45 | 28 |
| 24 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 17497.82 | 102 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17239.96 | 32 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 16801.67 | 29 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 16345.18 | 12 |
| 27 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15680.89 | 16 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15514.68 | 44 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 15356.15 | 13 |
| 30 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 15085.52 | 58 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 15026.75 | 33 |
| (31) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14474.33 | 39 |
| 32 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13559.63 | 35 |
| 33 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 13422.5 | 6 |
| 34 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 13153.08 | 27 |
| 35 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 13011.73 | 40 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 12997.4 | 20 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 12910.86 | 43 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 12789.85 | 22 |
| 39 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 12582.96 | 49 |
| 40 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12494.24 | 11 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12353.15 | 29 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 12314 | 15 |
| 43 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12085.44 | 46 |
| (43) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11888.48 | 26 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 11797.86 | 50 |
| 45 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11794.41 | 11 |
| 46 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11764.06 | 54 |
| 47 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11727.58 | 15 |
| 48 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 11599.46 | 19 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11551.6 | 23 |
| 50 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 11280.83 | 6 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11252.4 | 12 |
| 52 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11249.96 | 28 |
| 53 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 11249.55 | 50 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11046.81 | 26 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 10949.79 | 50 |
| 56 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 10913.82 | 27 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 10820.13 | 28 |
| 58 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 10561.93 | 54 |
| 59 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 10329.88 | 21 |
| (59) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 10216.53 | 22 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 10195.65 | 22 |
| 61 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10161.08 | 27 |
| (61) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 9964.58 | 13 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9689.78 | 23 |
| 63 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9645 | 29 |
| (63) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9453.78 | 4 |
| (63) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9447.04 | 11 |
| 64 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 9333.88 | 65 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 9246.16 | 18 |
| 65 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 9190.05 | 41 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 9124.06 | 22 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 9109.41 | 24 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9020.36 | 32 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8854.41 | 30 |
| (69) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8660 | 5 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8561.98 | 33 |
| 71 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 8438.66 | 35 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8416.15 | 17 |
| 73 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8377.63 | 43 |
| 74 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 8311.52 | 28 |
| (74) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8106.23 | 27 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 8013.36 | 20 |
| 76 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 7970.23 | 42 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 7958.58 | 21 |
| (77) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7953.07 | 11 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7934.16 | 13 |
| (78) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7921.41 | 5 |
| 79 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7677.2 | 17 |
| 80 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 7652.16 | 5 |
| 81 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 7648.83 | 37 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7488.08 | 24 |
| 83 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 7397.48 | 31 |
| 84 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7287.07 | 24 |
| (84) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6945.28 | 7 |
| (84) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6817.91 | 3 |
| 85 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6769.48 | 25 |
| 86 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 6756.83 | 30 |
| 87 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6745.16 | 3 |
| 88 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 6687.83 | 17 |
| 89 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 6682.86 | 28 |
| 90 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6678.78 | 11 |
| 91 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6673 | 12 |
| 92 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 6667.11 | 33 |
| 93 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 6664.36 | 26 |
| (93) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6655.66 | 11 |
| 94 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 6646.86 | 22 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 6515.66 | 23 |
| 96 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 6437.25 | 5 |
| (96) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 6356.28 | 36 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6341.2 | 36 |
| 98 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 6331.75 | 24 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 6151.83 | 10 |
| 100 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 6144.28 | 37 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 6074.21 | 37 |
| 102 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 6019 | 8 |
| 103 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 6005.79 | 18 |
| (103) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5936.58 | 16 |
| 104 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 5889.22 | 21 |
| 105 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 5863.52 | 59 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5854.49 | 16 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5853.79 | 12 |
| 108 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 5848.74 | 33 |
| 109 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5829.86 | 4 |
| 110 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 5814.4 | 26 |
| 111 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 5794.81 | 23 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 5783.08 | 19 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 5770.75 | 9 |
| 114 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 5731.68 | 59 |
| 115 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 5683.51 | 36 |
| (115) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5570.8 | 3 |
| (115) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 5570.11 | 12 |
| 116 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 5569.65 | 16 |
| 117 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 5562.69 | 25 |
| 118 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 5517.24 | 74 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5341.49 | 19 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5309.28 | 11 |
| 121 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 5305.79 | 18 |
| 122 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5241.5 | 26 |
| 123 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5210.24 | 11 |
| 124 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 5202.44 | 35 |
| 125 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 5192.06 | 36 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 5159.51 | 27 |
| 127 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 5154.91 | 25 |
| (127) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5092.36 | 14 |
| 128 | International Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 5046.28 | 8 |
| 129 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 5020.01 | 38 |
| 130 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4996.88 | 9 |
| (130) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4993.66 | 8 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 4961.33 | 26 |
| 132 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 4928.49 | 29 |
| (132) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4836.76 | 4 |
| 133 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4775.5 | 16 |
| (133) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4774.5 | 1 |
| 134 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 4720.13 | 26 |
| (134) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4716.66 | 13 |
| 135 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 4601.51 | 15 |
| 136 | Bank for International Settlements | Basel, Switzerland | 4582 | 9 |
| 137 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 4578.2 | 21 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4566.61 | 8 |
| 138 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 4539.43 | 28 |
| 139 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4538.39 | 34 |
| 140 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4537.5 | 24 |
| 141 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 4496.94 | 50 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4470.71 | 17 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 4444.33 | 12 |
| 144 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4419.76 | 34 |
| 145 | Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 4393.33 | 15 |
| 146 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 4345.38 | 36 |
| 147 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 4334.53 | 25 |
| (147) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4255.33 | 4 |
| (147) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4248.14 | 19 |
| (147) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4227.08 | 8 |
| (147) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4220.26 | 18 |
| 148 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 4210.26 | 25 |
| 149 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4191.04 | 14 |
| 150 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4175 | 14 |
| (150) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 4156.5 | 16 |
| (150) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 4143.18 | 25 |
| 151 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 4130.3 | 37 |
| 152 | Waikato Management School, University of Waikato | Hamilton, New Zealand | 4121.78 | 18 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 4117.68 | 17 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 4097.66 | 10 |
| 155 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 4093.78 | 18 |
| 156 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 4082.75 | 25 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 4052.66 | 15 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 4044.8 | 26 |
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