| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 74317.89 | 266 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 45395.8 | 223 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 39050.06 | 311 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 17033.53 | 80 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14137.05 | 105 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13205.08 | 41 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11963.13 | 35 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 11483.33 | 93 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9259.94 | 143 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9100.48 | 113 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8368.91 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8259.75 | 30 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8233.41 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8124.56 | 30 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8115.66 | 30 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7508.66 | 28 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 7292.99 | 31 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 7186.91 | 29 |
| (18) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 7004.58 | 26 |
| 19 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6958.5 | 13 |
| 20 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 6770.84 | 106 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 6738.04 | 50 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6725.93 | 21 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6692.05 | 58 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6679.23 | 30 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6603.09 | 33 |
| 25 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6522.5 | 57 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6434.89 | 24 |
| (26) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6355.16 | 16 |
| 27 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5990.51 | 32 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5875.95 | 26 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 5820.58 | 37 |
| (29) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5613.83 | 40 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5539.25 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 5475.56 | 35 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 5158.75 | 52 |
| 33 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5103.73 | 36 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5053.11 | 33 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 5014.23 | 37 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4964.1 | 31 |
| 37 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 4941.53 | 42 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4909.31 | 15 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4875.98 | 30 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4873.41 | 22 |
| 41 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 4856.93 | 49 |
| 42 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4754.46 | 46 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4689.41 | 41 |
| 44 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4652.66 | 12 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4590.01 | 22 |
| 46 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 4550.48 | 23 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4432.81 | 23 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4424.3 | 23 |
| 48 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 4277.15 | 21 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4203.43 | 31 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4121.11 | 43 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 4023.99 | 19 |
| 52 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3989.18 | 17 |
| 53 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3899.76 | 27 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3885.5 | 15 |
| 55 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 3851.65 | 42 |
| (55) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3802.16 | 30 |
| 56 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 3791.33 | 25 |
| 57 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3773.69 | 25 |
| 58 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3753.65 | 37 |
| 59 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3728.96 | 28 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3688.46 | 23 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3642.11 | 18 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3612.84 | 36 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 3612.83 | 26 |
| 64 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 3588.3 | 59 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3586.96 | 33 |
| 66 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3577.98 | 30 |
| 67 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3575.58 | 11 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3514.91 | 10 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3472.98 | 13 |
| 70 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3466.53 | 28 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3387.83 | 24 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3374.6 | 24 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 3345.76 | 45 |
| 74 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3231.5 | 17 |
| 75 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 3212 | 29 |
| (75) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 3162.15 | 28 |
| 76 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3115.78 | 23 |
| 77 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 3048.61 | 56 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 3026.16 | 16 |
| 79 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3009.94 | 26 |
| (79) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3009.24 | 18 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3007.16 | 14 |
| 81 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2996.86 | 35 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2983.08 | 16 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 2975.74 | 26 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2937.41 | 8 |
| 85 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2921.16 | 51 |
| 86 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2911.49 | 22 |
| 87 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2908.08 | 37 |
| 88 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2900.58 | 11 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 2898.03 | 34 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2869.75 | 24 |
| 91 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 2864.62 | 23 |
| (91) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2835.26 | 25 |
| 92 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2835.26 | 25 |
| 93 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2818.54 | 27 |
| 94 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2773.5 | 23 |
| (94) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2769.16 | 18 |
| 95 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2729.01 | 17 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2719.83 | 27 |
| 97 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2719.16 | 12 |
| (97) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2705.86 | 14 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2703.05 | 11 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2699.58 | 20 |
| (99) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2672.28 | 16 |
| 100 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2665.56 | 28 |
| 101 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2656.5 | 17 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 2630.16 | 19 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2626.49 | 11 |
| 104 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2606.66 | 10 |
| 105 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2588.08 | 9 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2583.91 | 8 |
| (105) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2579.08 | 13 |
| 106 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2579.08 | 14 |
| 107 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2569.33 | 76 |
| 108 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2563.96 | 11 |
| (108) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2558.94 | 11 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2548.75 | 37 |
| 110 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2519.88 | 9 |
| 111 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 2481.94 | 42 |
| 112 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2475.66 | 12 |
| 113 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2471.93 | 24 |
| (113) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2470.66 | 11 |
| (113) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2449 | 7 |
| 114 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2433.94 | 42 |
| 115 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2432.49 | 28 |
| 116 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2430.33 | 18 |
| 117 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2424.36 | 14 |
| 118 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2416.49 | 15 |
| 119 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2358.29 | 43 |
| 120 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 2334.23 | 33 |
| 121 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2323.25 | 23 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 2313.35 | 25 |
| 123 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2288.14 | 36 |
| 124 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 2249.05 | 23 |
| 125 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 2240.45 | 21 |
| (125) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2237.29 | 8 |
| 126 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 2231.5 | 25 |
| (126) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2222.15 | 16 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 2221.08 | 22 |
| (127) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2203.25 | 28 |
| 128 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2203.16 | 12 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2180.08 | 18 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 2178.83 | 20 |
| (130) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2164.61 | 11 |
| (130) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2158.59 | 13 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2120.36 | 17 |
| 132 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2104.62 | 12 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 2099.5 | 14 |
| 134 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 2082.03 | 15 |
| 135 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 2067.01 | 37 |
| 136 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 2060.85 | 26 |
| 137 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 2055.86 | 5 |
| (137) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2049.91 | 20 |
| 138 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2035.83 | 10 |
| 139 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 2033.06 | 29 |
| 140 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 2018.46 | 10 |
| 141 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 2000.37 | 26 |
| 142 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1992.07 | 17 |
| 143 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1980.98 | 10 |
| 144 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 1973.41 | 15 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1969.93 | 17 |
| 146 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1942.39 | 28 |
| 147 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 1940 | 21 |
| 148 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1926.31 | 26 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 1923.08 | 19 |
| 150 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1907.52 | 4 |
| (150) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1907.52 | 4 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1899.99 | 16 |
| 152 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1857.91 | 3 |
| (152) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1854.1 | 14 |
| 153 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1849.66 | 15 |
| 154 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 1847.95 | 12 |
| (154) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1838.49 | 8 |
| (154) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1828.33 | 13 |
| 155 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 1799.66 | 16 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1798.83 | 17 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 1796.92 | 12 |
| 158 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1789.58 | 5 |
| 159 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1770.45 | 14 |
| (159) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1745.5 | 8 |
| 160 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1733.71 | 16 |
| 161 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1715.56 | 15 |
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