| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11635 | 264 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 8081 | 304 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 7802 | 218 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2823 | 78 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2330 | 104 |
| 6 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2080 | 108 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2065 | 136 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1813 | 36 |
| 9 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1784 | 102 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1749 | 35 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1676 | 39 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1620 | 93 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1446 | 29 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1394 | 26 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1343 | 31 |
| 15 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1283 | 58 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1173 | 30 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1165 | 30 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1153 | 27 |
| 19 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1127 | 54 |
| 20 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1108 | 46 |
| 21 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1106 | 13 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1082 | 32 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1053 | 30 |
| 23 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1040 | 50 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1027 | 37 |
| 24 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1027 | 12 |
| 26 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1022 | 31 |
| 27 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1010 | 27 |
| 28 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1009 | 50 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 993 | 23 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 986 | 50 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 981 | 33 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 965 | 20 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 957 | 26 |
| 34 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 951 | 49 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 949 | 35 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 888 | 30 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 881 | 33 |
| (37) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 861 | 39 |
| (37) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 849 | 16 |
| 38 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 847 | 41 |
| 39 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 843 | 36 |
| 40 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 840 | 22 |
| 41 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 836 | 31 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 833 | 24 |
| (42) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 831 | 28 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 827 | 22 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 823 | 40 |
| (43) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 805 | 18 |
| 44 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 798 | 35 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 794 | 44 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 788 | 22 |
| 47 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 786 | 43 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 785 | 32 |
| 49 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 762 | 34 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 752 | 29 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 745 | 43 |
| 52 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 739 | 25 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 724 | 15 |
| 54 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 722 | 54 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 710 | 28 |
| 55 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 710 | 33 |
| 57 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 703 | 33 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 702 | 23 |
| 59 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 699 | 17 |
| 60 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 680 | 30 |
| 61 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 670 | 25 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 664 | 19 |
| 63 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 663 | 27 |
| 64 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 659 | 28 |
| 65 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 654 | 13 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 654 | 23 |
| 67 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 649 | 74 |
| 67 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 649 | 65 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 649 | 33 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 647 | 22 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 646 | 25 |
| 71 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 645 | 59 |
| 72 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 637 | 15 |
| 73 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 627 | 35 |
| 74 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 624 | 21 |
| 75 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 618 | 29 |
| 76 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 617 | 28 |
| 77 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 613 | 24 |
| (77) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 604 | 24 |
| 77 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 604 | 24 |
| 79 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 602 | 29 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 602 | 24 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 599 | 34 |
| 82 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 567 | 27 |
| 83 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 562 | 25 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 561 | 37 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 547 | 8 |
| 86 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 543 | 27 |
| 87 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 541 | 23 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 532 | 17 |
| 89 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 526 | 24 |
| 90 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 524 | 38 |
| 91 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 522 | 36 |
| 92 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 520 | 26 |
| 92 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 520 | 18 |
| 94 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 515 | 11 |
| 95 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 508 | 15 |
| (95) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 507 | 27 |
| 95 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 507 | 11 |
| 97 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 499 | 36 |
| (97) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 495 | 19 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 492 | 12 |
| 98 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 492 | 42 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 486 | 13 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 486 | 24 |
| 102 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 480 | 26 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 478 | 26 |
| 104 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 474 | 22 |
| 105 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 473 | 59 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 472 | 20 |
| 107 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 460 | 21 |
| 108 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 458 | 24 |
| 109 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 457 | 11 |
| 110 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 455 | 16 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 455 | 26 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 445 | 16 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 439 | 11 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 433 | 25 |
| 115 | Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 429 | 18 |
| 115 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 429 | 28 |
| (116) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 426 | 11 |
| 117 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 424 | 28 |
| 118 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 422 | 36 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 418 | 12 |
| 120 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 416 | 32 |
| 120 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 416 | 34 |
| 122 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 415 | 15 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 412 | 20 |
| (123) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 411 | 36 |
| (123) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 411 | 16 |
| (123) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 410 | 11 |
| 123 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 410 | 41 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 409 | 25 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 398 | 19 |
| 126 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 398 | 25 |
| 128 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 397 | 30 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 395 | 17 |
| 130 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 393 | 29 |
| 131 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 392 | 9 |
| 131 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 392 | 28 |
| 133 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 391 | 17 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 389 | 16 |
| 135 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 388 | 18 |
| 136 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 385 | 12 |
| 137 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 384 | 17 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 383 | 11 |
| 138 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 381 | 21 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 380 | 27 |
| 139 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 380 | 15 |
| 141 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 377 | 17 |
| 142 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 376 | 22 |
| 143 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 374 | 5 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 374 | 17 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 373 | 15 |
| (145) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 372 | 27 |
| 146 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 371 | 11 |
| 147 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 370 | 16 |
| 148 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 369 | 37 |
| 149 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 366 | 24 |
| (149) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 359 | 24 |
| 149 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 359 | 16 |
| (150) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 358 | 17 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 357 | 15 |
| 152 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 356 | 31 |
| 153 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 354 | 12 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 354 | 10 |
| (153) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 354 | 19 |
| 155 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 353 | 21 |
| 156 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 352 | 12 |
| (156) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 351 | 15 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 350 | 14 |
| (157) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 348 | 14 |
| (157) | Maastricht research school of Economics of TEchnology and ORganizations (METEOR), Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 345 | 16 |
| (157) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 344 | 7 |
| (157) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 342 | 14 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 341 | 19 |
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