| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2432 | 266 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 1408 | 223 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1128 | 311 |
| 4 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 422 | 143 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 385 | 41 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 373 | 35 |
| 7 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 356 | 105 |
| 8 | CESifo | München, Germany | 334 | 80 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 284 | 113 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 250 | 93 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 250 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 242 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 238 | 30 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 219 | 43 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 202 | 24 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 194 | 27 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 190 | 32 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 183 | 30 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 178 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 175 | 30 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 172 | 33 |
| 21 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 168 | 56 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 167 | 58 |
| 23 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 164 | 57 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 162 | 40 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 161 | 33 |
| 25 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 158 | 36 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 156 | 30 |
| 27 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 149 | 106 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 149 | 26 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 149 | 50 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 144 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 143 | 22 |
| (31) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 143 | 16 |
| 32 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 142 | 30 |
| 33 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 141 | 28 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 141 | 31 |
| 35 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 139 | 52 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 138 | 31 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 134 | 33 |
| 38 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 132 | 12 |
| 39 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 131 | 46 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 129 | 15 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 128 | 23 |
| 41 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 128 | 69 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 125 | 15 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 124 | 23 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 124 | 28 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 124 | 35 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 124 | 31 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 123 | 18 |
| 49 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 121 | 25 |
| 50 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 120 | 49 |
| 51 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 119 | 17 |
| (51) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 115 | 28 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 114 | 37 |
| (52) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 114 | 23 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 110 | 14 |
| 53 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 110 | 27 |
| 55 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 109 | 12 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 108 | 24 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 106 | 24 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 105 | 37 |
| 59 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 102 | 21 |
| 59 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 102 | 23 |
| (60) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 101 | 30 |
| 61 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 99 | 13 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 98 | 29 |
| (62) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 98 | 11 |
| 63 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 97 | 36 |
| 64 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 96 | 76 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 95 | 18 |
| 64 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 95 | 59 |
| 64 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 95 | 17 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 94 | 26 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 92 | 21 |
| 67 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 92 | 42 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 91 | 22 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 91 | 20 |
| (70) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 89 | 39 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 89 | 16 |
| 70 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 89 | 17 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 88 | 36 |
| 73 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 87 | 41 |
| (73) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 86 | 25 |
| 73 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 86 | 25 |
| 75 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 85 | 43 |
| 76 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 82 | 25 |
| 76 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 82 | 27 |
| 78 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 81 | 26 |
| (78) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 79 | 13 |
| 78 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 79 | 14 |
| 78 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 79 | 23 |
| 78 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 79 | 11 |
| 82 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 78 | 26 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 78 | 14 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 77 | 37 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 75 | 19 |
| 85 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 75 | 42 |
| 87 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 73 | 50 |
| (87) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 73 | 14 |
| (87) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 73 | 7 |
| 88 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 72 | 51 |
| 89 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 71 | 40 |
| 89 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 71 | 29 |
| 89 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 71 | 23 |
| 89 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 71 | 35 |
| (89) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 71 | 8 |
| 93 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 69 | 9 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 68 | 13 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 67 | 34 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 66 | 26 |
| 96 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 66 | 29 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 66 | 26 |
| 96 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 66 | 33 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 65 | 11 |
| 101 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 63 | 42 |
| 101 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 63 | 18 |
| 103 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 62 | 12 |
| 104 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 61 | 28 |
| (104) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 61 | 11 |
| 105 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 60 | 37 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 60 | 19 |
| (105) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 60 | 11 |
| (105) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 60 | 16 |
| 107 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 58 | 37 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 58 | 17 |
| 109 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 57 | 11 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 57 | 28 |
| (109) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 57 | 28 |
| 109 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 57 | 38 |
| 112 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 56 | 30 |
| 112 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 56 | 25 |
| 114 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 55 | 12 |
| 114 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 55 | 25 |
| 116 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 54 | 10 |
| (116) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 53 | 8 |
| 116 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 53 | 24 |
| 116 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 53 | 19 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 53 | 12 |
| 116 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 53 | 42 |
| 121 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 52 | 37 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 52 | 16 |
| 121 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 52 | 23 |
| 124 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 51 | 17 |
| 124 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 51 | 12 |
| 124 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 51 | 22 |
| 124 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 51 | 12 |
| (127) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 50 | 4 |
| 127 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 50 | 10 |
| 127 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 50 | 14 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 50 | 15 |
| 131 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 49 | 18 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 49 | 16 |
| 131 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 49 | 18 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 49 | 45 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 49 | 18 |
| 131 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 49 | 23 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 49 | 24 |
| 131 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 49 | 11 |
| 131 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 49 | 11 |
| 131 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 49 | 15 |
| 131 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 49 | 6 |
| 142 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 48 | 8 |
| (142) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 48 | 6 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 48 | 17 |
| 142 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 48 | 41 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 48 | 9 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 48 | 14 |
| (142) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 48 | 5 |
| 147 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 47 | 25 |
| 148 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 46 | 10 |
| (148) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 46 | 19 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 46 | 17 |
| 148 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 46 | 21 |
| 148 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 46 | 9 |
| (148) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 46 | 13 |
| 148 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 46 | 28 |
| 148 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 46 | 8 |
| 148 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 46 | 17 |
| (148) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 46 | 9 |
| 148 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 46 | 34 |
| (155) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 45 | 26 |
| (155) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 45 | 8 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 45 | 12 |
| 155 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 45 | 17 |
| 155 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 45 | 5 |
| (158) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 44 | 18 |
| 158 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 44 | 13 |
| (158) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 44 | 13 |
| 160 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 43 | 27 |
| 160 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 43 | 8 |
| 160 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 43 | 8 |
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