| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 897581.63 | 266 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 441561.74 | 311 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 419903.17 | 223 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 165885.61 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 138283.41 | 41 |
| 6 | CESifo | München, Germany | 137481.65 | 80 |
| 7 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 130190.28 | 113 |
| 8 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 123675.64 | 105 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 113187.75 | 143 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 111917.08 | 12 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 106809.99 | 30 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 105047.57 | 24 |
| 13 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 100340.16 | 106 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 100319.47 | 31 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 83972.73 | 27 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 80775.59 | 30 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 80393.11 | 93 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 79579.64 | 32 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 79441.79 | 35 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 74531.16 | 30 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 69440.04 | 28 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 62734.65 | 58 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 62342.33 | 30 |
| (23) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 61099.41 | 16 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 61010.95 | 33 |
| 24 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 57766.71 | 36 |
| 25 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 57060.79 | 13 |
| 26 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 56393.06 | 27 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 56103.12 | 33 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 55609.16 | 43 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 54862.69 | 21 |
| 30 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 54718.52 | 49 |
| (30) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 54686.87 | 30 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 53533.86 | 30 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 53193.13 | 31 |
| 33 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 53094.44 | 21 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 52806.12 | 17 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 51887.42 | 29 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 51643.74 | 45 |
| (36) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 51087.83 | 13 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 50627.12 | 50 |
| 38 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 50509.14 | 57 |
| (38) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 50443.1 | 40 |
| 39 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 50226.89 | 12 |
| (39) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 50175.92 | 26 |
| 40 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 48893.61 | 52 |
| 41 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 47631.91 | 22 |
| 42 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 46604.85 | 30 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 46332.38 | 41 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 46005.49 | 15 |
| 45 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 45372.16 | 46 |
| 46 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44692.96 | 17 |
| 47 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 44615.5 | 6 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 42975.76 | 22 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 42862.65 | 36 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 42801.11 | 26 |
| (50) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 42064.39 | 23 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 41839.5 | 23 |
| 52 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 40800.81 | 15 |
| 53 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 40700.2 | 11 |
| 54 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 40426.09 | 51 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 40379.41 | 31 |
| 56 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39247.08 | 11 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 39164.1 | 28 |
| 58 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39102.33 | 28 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 38557.54 | 23 |
| 60 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 37143.13 | 23 |
| 61 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 36829.8 | 27 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 35954.58 | 13 |
| 63 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 34830.36 | 30 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 34525.61 | 37 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 34506.19 | 18 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 34500.41 | 33 |
| 67 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 34431.84 | 27 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 34312.81 | 31 |
| 69 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 34143.89 | 42 |
| 70 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 34143.46 | 25 |
| (70) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 34022.59 | 11 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 33689.49 | 18 |
| 71 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 33585.38 | 56 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 33313.46 | 26 |
| 73 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 32329.42 | 19 |
| 74 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 31201.81 | 21 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 30980.9 | 22 |
| 76 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 30875.43 | 42 |
| 77 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 30408.33 | 42 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 30241.98 | 37 |
| 79 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 30238.08 | 69 |
| 80 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 30048.16 | 6 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 29756.25 | 24 |
| 82 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29730.36 | 43 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 29695.99 | 14 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 29628.53 | 24 |
| 85 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 29192.73 | 42 |
| 86 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 27177.34 | 28 |
| 87 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 26947.44 | 23 |
| 88 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 26196.88 | 30 |
| (88) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25867.04 | 5 |
| (88) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 25783 | 28 |
| 89 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 25649.21 | 29 |
| 90 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 25540.9 | 59 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 25516.44 | 20 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 25185.13 | 37 |
| (92) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 25020.15 | 16 |
| 93 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 24339.43 | 25 |
| (93) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 24270.41 | 5 |
| (93) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 24138.88 | 11 |
| 94 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 23968.04 | 21 |
| 95 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 23838.91 | 12 |
| 96 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 23807 | 33 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 23766.83 | 19 |
| 98 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 23740.17 | 12 |
| (98) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 23736.91 | 11 |
| 99 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 23607.48 | 17 |
| 100 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 23463.88 | 18 |
| (100) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23344.01 | 4 |
| (100) | Centro de Estudios de Organizaciones y Productividad (CEOP), Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 23288.56 | 2 |
| 101 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23234.36 | 17 |
| 102 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 23196.01 | 76 |
| (102) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 23141.12 | 7 |
| 103 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 23029.4 | 22 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 23027.97 | 11 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 22720.15 | 12 |
| 106 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 22666.33 | 5 |
| 107 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 22661.38 | 8 |
| 108 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 22573.99 | 26 |
| 109 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 22499.33 | 35 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 21910.16 | 9 |
| 111 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 21816.16 | 17 |
| 112 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 21781.31 | 25 |
| 113 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 21734.38 | 37 |
| (113) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 21709.16 | 28 |
| 114 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 21671.13 | 28 |
| 115 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 21590.66 | 57 |
| 116 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 21478.55 | 21 |
| 117 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 21214.06 | 40 |
| 118 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 21089.29 | 23 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 20964.78 | 16 |
| 120 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 20859.78 | 41 |
| 121 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 20855.93 | 11 |
| (121) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 20824.86 | 14 |
| 122 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 20443.41 | 3 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 20435.33 | 26 |
| 124 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 20410.55 | 36 |
| 125 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 20323.37 | 23 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 20202.34 | 34 |
| 127 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 19900.92 | 19 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 19759.66 | 19 |
| 129 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 19599.73 | 37 |
| 130 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 19586.51 | 17 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 19357.41 | 26 |
| 132 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 19286.96 | 28 |
| 133 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 18915.41 | 5 |
| (133) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 18902.58 | 39 |
| 134 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 18794.98 | 34 |
| 135 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 18501.49 | 29 |
| 136 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 18462.75 | 29 |
| 137 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 18138.19 | 26 |
| (137) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 18119.23 | 12 |
| (137) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 18096.41 | 25 |
| 138 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 18096.41 | 25 |
| 139 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 17914.03 | 9 |
| (139) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 17897.75 | 8 |
| 140 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 17843.85 | 28 |
| 141 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 17600.91 | 10 |
| 142 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17465.83 | 26 |
| 143 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 17395.3 | 14 |
| 144 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 17385.34 | 12 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 17294.58 | 12 |
| (145) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 17204.21 | 19 |
| (145) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17199.83 | 13 |
| 146 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 17172.94 | 9 |
| 147 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 17158.46 | 18 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 17147.26 | 17 |
| 149 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 16950.13 | 12 |
| 150 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 16928.75 | 5 |
| (150) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 16854.88 | 20 |
| 151 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 16807.61 | 20 |
| 152 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 16683.4 | 18 |
| (152) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 16627.01 | 16 |
| 153 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16627 | 24 |
| (153) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 16514.85 | 16 |
| 154 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 16470.54 | 15 |
| (154) | Centro de Estudios Economicos Regionales (CEER), Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Cartagena, Colombia | 16436 | 7 |
| 155 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16391.33 | 23 |
| (155) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 16266 | 27 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 16260 | 20 |
| (156) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16132.66 | 3 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 16113.23 | 17 |
| 158 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16096.1 | 14 |
| 159 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 16032.14 | 38 |
| 160 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 15984.63 | 26 |
| 161 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 15943.33 | 10 |
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