| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17649 | 264 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 12682 | 218 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 11819 | 304 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4154 | 78 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3235 | 104 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2834 | 136 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2822 | 36 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2713 | 35 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2648 | 108 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2553 | 39 |
| 11 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2287 | 102 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2103 | 93 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2048 | 31 |
| 14 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1826 | 12 |
| 15 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1791 | 58 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1788 | 30 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1746 | 29 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1702 | 27 |
| (18) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1687 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1625 | 30 |
| 20 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1591 | 13 |
| 21 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1525 | 50 |
| 22 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1524 | 46 |
| 23 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1518 | 54 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1516 | 32 |
| 24 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1474 | 31 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1472 | 26 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1412 | 30 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1396 | 33 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1390 | 20 |
| 29 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1387 | 27 |
| (29) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1387 | 39 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1362 | 23 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1362 | 35 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1325 | 50 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1320 | 37 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1320 | 30 |
| 35 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1317 | 50 |
| 36 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1286 | 49 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1270 | 33 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1268 | 22 |
| (38) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1266 | 22 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1242 | 44 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1197 | 32 |
| 41 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1196 | 31 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1176 | 22 |
| (42) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1170 | 16 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1150 | 40 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1139 | 24 |
| 45 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1115 | 17 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1095 | 15 |
| (46) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1094 | 18 |
| 47 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1081 | 25 |
| 48 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1071 | 28 |
| 49 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1069 | 43 |
| 50 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1051 | 34 |
| (50) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1050 | 28 |
| 51 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1041 | 27 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1039 | 29 |
| 53 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 1035 | 41 |
| 54 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1028 | 33 |
| 55 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1026 | 54 |
| 55 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 1026 | 36 |
| 55 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1026 | 23 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1014 | 30 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1008 | 29 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 975 | 23 |
| 61 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 974 | 28 |
| 62 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 961 | 28 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 931 | 22 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 929 | 35 |
| 65 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 920 | 74 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 907 | 24 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 899 | 19 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 898 | 33 |
| 69 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 891 | 59 |
| 70 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 890 | 18 |
| 71 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 887 | 15 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 877 | 17 |
| 73 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 875 | 29 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 872 | 34 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 871 | 43 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 856 | 21 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 855 | 37 |
| (77) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 849 | 24 |
| 77 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 849 | 24 |
| 79 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 843 | 25 |
| 80 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 834 | 13 |
| 81 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 831 | 23 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 817 | 13 |
| 83 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 816 | 25 |
| 84 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 802 | 33 |
| 85 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 792 | 24 |
| 86 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 781 | 36 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 781 | 25 |
| 87 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 754 | 27 |
| (87) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 751 | 19 |
| 87 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 751 | 11 |
| 89 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 749 | 42 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 738 | 8 |
| 91 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 731 | 65 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 722 | 24 |
| (92) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 718 | 11 |
| (92) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 711 | 27 |
| 93 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 710 | 35 |
| 94 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 700 | 38 |
| 95 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 694 | 36 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 687 | 11 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 677 | 20 |
| 98 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 676 | 21 |
| 98 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 676 | 27 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 673 | 26 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 667 | 12 |
| (101) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 658 | 16 |
| 102 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 657 | 11 |
| 103 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 645 | 15 |
| (103) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 640 | 11 |
| 103 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 640 | 28 |
| 105 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 629 | 16 |
| 106 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 627 | 24 |
| 107 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 626 | 24 |
| 108 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 623 | 26 |
| 109 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 622 | 26 |
| 110 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 613 | 22 |
| 111 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 611 | 9 |
| 112 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 609 | 17 |
| 113 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 601 | 34 |
| 114 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 600 | 59 |
| 115 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 597 | 18 |
| 116 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 587 | 32 |
| 116 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 587 | 11 |
| 118 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 583 | 25 |
| 119 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 578 | 15 |
| 119 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 578 | 22 |
| 121 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 570 | 17 |
| 121 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 570 | 36 |
| 123 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 568 | 28 |
| 124 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 567 | 30 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 565 | 26 |
| (125) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 554 | 14 |
| 126 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 548 | 28 |
| 127 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 546 | 12 |
| 128 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 542 | 16 |
| 129 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 540 | 5 |
| 130 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 538 | 14 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 536 | 17 |
| 132 | Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 534 | 3 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 533 | 15 |
| 134 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 531 | 16 |
| (134) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 529 | 7 |
| (134) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 528 | 27 |
| 135 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 527 | 31 |
| (135) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 523 | 15 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 517 | 16 |
| 136 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 517 | 37 |
| 138 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 515 | 41 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 510 | 25 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 509 | 17 |
| 140 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 509 | 18 |
| 142 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 508 | 12 |
| 143 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 507 | 12 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 507 | 20 |
| 145 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 506 | 29 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 506 | 25 |
| (145) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 506 | 11 |
| 147 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 501 | 11 |
| (147) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 501 | 5 |
| (147) | Maastricht research school of Economics of TEchnology and ORganizations (METEOR), Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 500 | 16 |
| (147) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 494 | 24 |
| 148 | Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 493 | 18 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 492 | 19 |
| 150 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 491 | 24 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 489 | 14 |
| 152 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 486 | 11 |
| 153 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 484 | 15 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 481 | 16 |
| 155 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 478 | 15 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 473 | 10 |
| 157 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 471 | 22 |
| 158 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 468 | 17 |
| (158) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 467 | 16 |
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