| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 258197.17 | 266 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 114661.81 | 223 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 106620.43 | 311 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 50384.57 | 35 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 42679.59 | 113 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 41063.75 | 41 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 37568.54 | 12 |
| 8 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35511.77 | 105 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 34847.36 | 31 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 34374.49 | 143 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 33551.16 | 30 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 33496.73 | 80 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 29790.59 | 24 |
| 14 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 27697.4 | 106 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24958.66 | 30 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22701.43 | 27 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22324.13 | 32 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 22276.11 | 35 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21417.94 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 20903.57 | 93 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19946.25 | 30 |
| (21) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19101.83 | 16 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18777.81 | 17 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 18377.88 | 30 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 18038.4 | 31 |
| (24) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17946.41 | 30 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17432.85 | 33 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 16954.62 | 30 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 16529.76 | 12 |
| 27 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16000.85 | 17 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 15482.11 | 13 |
| 29 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 15325.97 | 58 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15303.19 | 43 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 15013.65 | 33 |
| (31) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14474.41 | 40 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13807.91 | 21 |
| 33 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13767.46 | 36 |
| 34 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 13692.94 | 22 |
| 35 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 13469.33 | 6 |
| 36 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 13416.38 | 41 |
| 37 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 13393.66 | 27 |
| 38 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 13319.31 | 57 |
| 39 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13231.33 | 11 |
| 40 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 13053.76 | 49 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 12914.8 | 45 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12502.05 | 29 |
| 43 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12281.48 | 46 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 12280.81 | 15 |
| (44) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12033.88 | 26 |
| 45 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 11974.63 | 52 |
| 46 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11893.51 | 15 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11822.75 | 11 |
| 48 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 11637.56 | 19 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11536.23 | 23 |
| 50 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 11441.49 | 6 |
| 51 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11329.84 | 28 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11265.99 | 13 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11255.84 | 26 |
| 54 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 11120.26 | 51 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 11030.95 | 50 |
| 56 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 10950.25 | 28 |
| 57 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 10716.01 | 56 |
| 58 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 10558.29 | 26 |
| 59 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 10439.58 | 21 |
| (59) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 10300.96 | 23 |
| 60 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10113.46 | 27 |
| 61 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10086.75 | 30 |
| (61) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 10074.83 | 13 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9931.7 | 23 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 9735.68 | 23 |
| 64 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 9699.46 | 69 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 9574.91 | 31 |
| (65) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9540.76 | 4 |
| (65) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9417.74 | 11 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 9368.5 | 22 |
| 67 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 9217.16 | 42 |
| (67) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 9197.08 | 18 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 9139.75 | 24 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8974.44 | 31 |
| 70 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 8773.58 | 37 |
| (70) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8586.82 | 5 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8567.71 | 33 |
| 72 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8399.23 | 43 |
| 73 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 8372.86 | 27 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8368.03 | 18 |
| 75 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 8201.9 | 29 |
| (75) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8193.68 | 28 |
| 76 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 7973.23 | 42 |
| (76) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7971.45 | 11 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 7948.72 | 21 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7883.39 | 14 |
| 79 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7788.6 | 17 |
| 80 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 7772.66 | 30 |
| (80) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7685.41 | 5 |
| 81 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 7678.5 | 37 |
| 82 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 7669.66 | 5 |
| 83 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 7577.95 | 42 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 7449.9 | 20 |
| 85 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7432.87 | 23 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7414.53 | 24 |
| 87 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 7329.83 | 30 |
| 88 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 7154.37 | 28 |
| (88) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7075.39 | 7 |
| (88) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6912 | 3 |
| 89 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6821.18 | 25 |
| 90 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6733.83 | 3 |
| 91 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 6729.15 | 22 |
| 92 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6725.83 | 12 |
| (92) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6709.83 | 11 |
| 93 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 6701 | 17 |
| 94 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 6639.14 | 28 |
| 95 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6634.48 | 11 |
| 96 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 6529.21 | 40 |
| 97 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 6455.25 | 5 |
| (97) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 6425.61 | 39 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6411.18 | 36 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 6407.83 | 22 |
| 100 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 6153.24 | 10 |
| 101 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 6147.81 | 42 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 6111.91 | 37 |
| 103 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 6068.33 | 8 |
| 104 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 5978.79 | 19 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5961.63 | 12 |
| 106 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 5947.79 | 21 |
| 107 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 5932.61 | 23 |
| 108 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 5910.51 | 33 |
| 109 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 5907.06 | 59 |
| (109) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5899.48 | 16 |
| 110 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5870.19 | 12 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5868.49 | 16 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 5840.83 | 9 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 5784.08 | 19 |
| 114 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 5756.15 | 26 |
| 115 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 5742.08 | 57 |
| 116 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 5730.58 | 76 |
| 117 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5714.03 | 5 |
| (117) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 5661.98 | 12 |
| 118 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 5614.49 | 17 |
| 119 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 5484.03 | 25 |
| (119) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5470.88 | 3 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5395.39 | 11 |
| 121 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 5359.69 | 37 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5350 | 19 |
| 123 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 5236.11 | 37 |
| 124 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5235.24 | 26 |
| 125 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 5233.81 | 18 |
| (125) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5204.83 | 14 |
| 126 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 5189.05 | 41 |
| 127 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 5174.04 | 9 |
| (127) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 5170.44 | 8 |
| 128 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 5119.28 | 25 |
| 129 | International Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 5114.98 | 8 |
| 130 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 5035.86 | 26 |
| 131 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 4892 | 29 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 4880.91 | 26 |
| (132) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4836.5 | 13 |
| 133 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 4824.38 | 27 |
| (133) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4811.18 | 4 |
| 134 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4724.97 | 17 |
| (134) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4693.75 | 2 |
| 135 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 4594.61 | 28 |
| 136 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4576.96 | 35 |
| 137 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 4560.05 | 21 |
| 138 | Bank for International Settlements | Basel, Switzerland | 4550.16 | 9 |
| 139 | Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional (Cedeplar), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | 4543.61 | 18 |
| (139) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4516.16 | 19 |
| (139) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4509.98 | 8 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 4497.74 | 13 |
| 141 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4490.46 | 34 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4476.51 | 17 |
| (142) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 4472 | 20 |
| 143 | Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 4403.66 | 15 |
| 144 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 4392.13 | 36 |
| 145 | Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Économiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 4371.35 | 36 |
| 146 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 4365.29 | 14 |
| 147 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 4364.91 | 26 |
| 148 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4357.13 | 24 |
| (148) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4334.16 | 4 |
| (148) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4296.31 | 19 |
| (148) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4278.65 | 8 |
| 149 | Centro Richerche Nord Sud (CRENoS), Università degli Studi di Cagliari | Cagliari, Italy | 4250.99 | 29 |
| 150 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 4232 | 38 |
| 151 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 4215.66 | 25 |
| (151) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 4210.98 | 28 |
| 152 | Center for Global Development (CGD) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4210.35 | 4 |
| 153 | Waikato Management School, University of Waikato | Hamilton, New Zealand | 4206.2 | 18 |
| 154 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 4199.16 | 37 |
| 155 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 4197.33 | 50 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 4174.16 | 11 |
| 157 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 4172.33 | 25 |
| 158 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4146.88 | 14 |
| 159 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 4138.21 | 23 |
| 160 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 4136.9 | 20 |
| (160) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 4125.16 | 16 |
| 161 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4115 | 14 |
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