| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8855.49 | 264 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 5491.37 | 218 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 5381.96 | 304 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2039.68 | 78 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1671.23 | 104 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1375.48 | 136 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1345.25 | 39 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1340.4 | 35 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1269.76 | 108 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1196.49 | 93 |
| 11 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1155.81 | 29 |
| (11) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1121.65 | 26 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1106 | 36 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1085.22 | 31 |
| 14 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1076.38 | 102 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 969.16 | 27 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 967.95 | 13 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 907.41 | 30 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 880.26 | 58 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 868.06 | 30 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 796.33 | 32 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 794.39 | 23 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 794.23 | 27 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 789.25 | 20 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 782.98 | 37 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 770.62 | 33 |
| 25 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 748.45 | 31 |
| 26 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 729.36 | 54 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 728.41 | 30 |
| 28 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 713.96 | 35 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 698.48 | 30 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 695.7 | 50 |
| (30) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 689.99 | 16 |
| 31 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 678.09 | 50 |
| 32 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 658.92 | 46 |
| (32) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 656.41 | 18 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 643.79 | 22 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 636.89 | 33 |
| 35 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 630.67 | 31 |
| 36 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 629.72 | 49 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 628.38 | 26 |
| (37) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 626.55 | 39 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 613.55 | 44 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 601.03 | 35 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 600.97 | 29 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 597.69 | 24 |
| 42 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 577.7 | 13 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 574.13 | 22 |
| 44 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 568.93 | 40 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 561.15 | 15 |
| (45) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 558.33 | 22 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 545.84 | 43 |
| 47 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 541.43 | 36 |
| 48 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 541.23 | 50 |
| 49 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 523.17 | 12 |
| (49) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 521.03 | 28 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 517.11 | 23 |
| 51 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 512.58 | 28 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 510.05 | 30 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 498.94 | 21 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 496.23 | 32 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 495.33 | 19 |
| 56 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 492.34 | 15 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 480.75 | 22 |
| 58 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 477.43 | 17 |
| 59 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 473.07 | 24 |
| 60 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 472.64 | 41 |
| 61 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 464.68 | 33 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 457.75 | 33 |
| 63 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 453.81 | 34 |
| 64 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 451.71 | 28 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 450.88 | 27 |
| 66 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 448.27 | 54 |
| 67 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 447.4 | 25 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 438.43 | 17 |
| 69 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 435.46 | 28 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 434.49 | 24 |
| 71 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 429.48 | 33 |
| 72 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 429.36 | 74 |
| 73 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 423.06 | 35 |
| 74 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 422.52 | 59 |
| (74) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 421.68 | 25 |
| 75 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 421.38 | 27 |
| 76 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 421.18 | 23 |
| 77 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 418.99 | 11 |
| 78 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 413.48 | 29 |
| 79 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 409.18 | 25 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 407.23 | 8 |
| 81 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 401.52 | 43 |
| 82 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 396.89 | 25 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 396.31 | 37 |
| 84 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 388.91 | 29 |
| 85 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 361.81 | 18 |
| 86 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 361.61 | 42 |
| 87 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 360.44 | 11 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 357.99 | 12 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 357.16 | 26 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 355.92 | 11 |
| 91 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 353.16 | 65 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 352.66 | 34 |
| 93 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 349.95 | 36 |
| (93) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 349.6 | 24 |
| 94 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 349.6 | 24 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 349.4 | 13 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 341.98 | 26 |
| 97 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 340.96 | 38 |
| 98 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 337.14 | 21 |
| 99 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 334.95 | 23 |
| 100 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 334.36 | 11 |
| 101 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 332.51 | 16 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 332.08 | 24 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 327.36 | 16 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 326.72 | 20 |
| 105 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 326.68 | 15 |
| 106 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 324.69 | 27 |
| 107 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 324.39 | 36 |
| (107) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 324.31 | 16 |
| 108 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 324 | 59 |
| (108) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 321.45 | 27 |
| 109 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 316.34 | 11 |
| 110 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 315.6 | 26 |
| 111 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 315.23 | 28 |
| 112 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 313.37 | 22 |
| (112) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 311.83 | 19 |
| 113 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 309.58 | 24 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 309.26 | 17 |
| 115 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 307.4 | 26 |
| 116 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 303.16 | 17 |
| (116) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 302.61 | 11 |
| 117 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 299.13 | 24 |
| 118 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 298.61 | 15 |
| 119 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 297.11 | 28 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 294.06 | 25 |
| 121 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 292.28 | 27 |
| 122 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 287.81 | 30 |
| (122) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 287.63 | 11 |
| 123 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 283 | 22 |
| 124 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 282.34 | 34 |
| 125 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 281.81 | 9 |
| 126 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 281.5 | 17 |
| (126) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 281.01 | 8 |
| 127 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 280.91 | 29 |
| 128 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 280.86 | 11 |
| 129 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 280 | 12 |
| (129) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 278.55 | 7 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 278.47 | 25 |
| 131 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 278.45 | 12 |
| 132 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 278.25 | 12 |
| (132) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 277.41 | 11 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 276.41 | 10 |
| (133) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 273.06 | 5 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 270.08 | 20 |
| 135 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 268.03 | 21 |
| 136 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 267.53 | 36 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 265.93 | 16 |
| 138 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 264.78 | 16 |
| 139 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 263.31 | 32 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 262.83 | 15 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 261 | 14 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 260.33 | 19 |
| 143 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 258.53 | 28 |
| (143) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 257.69 | 14 |
| 144 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 257.28 | 4 |
| 145 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 257.24 | 25 |
| 146 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 256.66 | 17 |
| (146) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 255.53 | 14 |
| (146) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 255.53 | 27 |
| (146) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 254.53 | 17 |
| 147 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 253.03 | 5 |
| 148 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 252.53 | 11 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 250.33 | 15 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 249.91 | 27 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 249.75 | 17 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 248.66 | 19 |
| 153 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 248.64 | 21 |
| 154 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 248.14 | 9 |
| (154) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 247.83 | 8 |
| 155 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 245.34 | 18 |
| 156 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 239.32 | 41 |
| 157 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 238.88 | 37 |
| 158 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 237 | 16 |
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