| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 881938.6 | 268 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 443292.21 | 321 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 414568.29 | 224 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 161677.39 | 34 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 136627.23 | 81 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 134774.91 | 40 |
| 7 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 134717.5 | 118 |
| 8 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 122855.03 | 108 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 112474.87 | 144 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 108183.37 | 12 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 104903.31 | 30 |
| 12 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 102015.91 | 106 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 101990.94 | 24 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 97923.93 | 31 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 89288.45 | 98 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 83522.18 | 27 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 80247.78 | 35 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 79608.81 | 31 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 77676.79 | 32 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 74019.23 | 31 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 68510.81 | 28 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 62593.54 | 30 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 62334.45 | 58 |
| (23) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 60273.83 | 16 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 59998.08 | 33 |
| 24 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 58112.59 | 36 |
| 25 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 57345.01 | 27 |
| (25) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 56336.27 | 33 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 56251.09 | 13 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 55290.25 | 35 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 54045.57 | 21 |
| 29 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 53751.99 | 49 |
| 30 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 52857.1 | 21 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 51691.48 | 46 |
| 32 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 51683.9 | 29 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 51631.55 | 29 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 51462.7 | 51 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 51238.8 | 30 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 51034.99 | 17 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 51024.48 | 43 |
| 38 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 50927.41 | 52 |
| (38) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 50853.5 | 13 |
| (38) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 49980.06 | 26 |
| 39 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 49781.23 | 58 |
| 40 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 48663.49 | 12 |
| 41 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 46410.93 | 21 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 45237.2 | 15 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 45206.18 | 41 |
| 44 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 45119.66 | 6 |
| 45 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 44606.97 | 46 |
| 46 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44348.03 | 17 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 43979.63 | 23 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 42240.28 | 22 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 42081.75 | 27 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 41658.3 | 36 |
| (49) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 41554.21 | 39 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 41504.2 | 23 |
| 51 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 40732.18 | 11 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 40477.75 | 31 |
| 53 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 39958.14 | 15 |
| 54 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 39917.58 | 51 |
| 55 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 39263.46 | 31 |
| 56 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38768.16 | 12 |
| 57 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38586.43 | 28 |
| 58 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 37991.86 | 30 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 37737.23 | 23 |
| 60 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 36993.39 | 23 |
| 61 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 36779.58 | 28 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 36307.58 | 34 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 35178.6 | 13 |
| 64 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 35041.16 | 43 |
| 65 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 34605.33 | 37 |
| 66 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 34361.42 | 59 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 34222.73 | 33 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 34096.81 | 19 |
| 69 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 33966.56 | 30 |
| 70 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 33928.91 | 25 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 33465.41 | 18 |
| 71 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 33417.93 | 29 |
| (71) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 33222.78 | 11 |
| 72 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 32539.31 | 28 |
| 73 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 32346.39 | 19 |
| 74 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 31792.03 | 44 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 31248.73 | 23 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 30753.67 | 22 |
| 77 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 30740.88 | 44 |
| 78 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 30587.63 | 70 |
| 79 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 30254.15 | 37 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 29686.6 | 24 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 29627.83 | 24 |
| 82 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29512.8 | 43 |
| 83 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 29200.81 | 43 |
| 84 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 29036.99 | 6 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 28554.45 | 14 |
| 86 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 27933.08 | 31 |
| 87 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 26795.1 | 23 |
| 88 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 26724.8 | 84 |
| 89 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 26295.4 | 26 |
| 90 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 26234.76 | 30 |
| (90) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 25537.28 | 28 |
| (90) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25495.36 | 5 |
| 91 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 25127.79 | 26 |
| 92 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 25115.75 | 59 |
| 93 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 25096.93 | 26 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 25057.81 | 37 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 24974.11 | 20 |
| (95) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 24409.85 | 16 |
| (95) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 24296.41 | 5 |
| 96 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 24247.06 | 19 |
| (96) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 24087.18 | 11 |
| (96) | Centro de Estudios de Organizaciones y Productividad (CEOP), Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 24062.26 | 2 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 23836.7 | 24 |
| 98 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 23749.1 | 21 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 23726.75 | 19 |
| 100 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 23614.26 | 33 |
| 101 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 23559.75 | 12 |
| (101) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 23459.75 | 11 |
| 102 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 23405.83 | 23 |
| 103 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 23113.91 | 17 |
| 104 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23079.41 | 17 |
| 105 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 23046.94 | 12 |
| 106 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 22946.63 | 5 |
| (106) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22886.94 | 4 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 22661.45 | 11 |
| 108 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 22608.36 | 8 |
| 109 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 22445.73 | 26 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 22372.51 | 12 |
| 111 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 22276.33 | 35 |
| (111) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 22176.46 | 29 |
| 112 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 21866.68 | 37 |
| 113 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 21721.21 | 25 |
| 114 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 21662.08 | 18 |
| 115 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 21611.11 | 12 |
| 116 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 21495.65 | 29 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 21373.99 | 9 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 21250.33 | 19 |
| 119 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 21122.93 | 44 |
| (119) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21120.82 | 6 |
| 120 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 21104.98 | 21 |
| 121 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 20961.75 | 23 |
| 122 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 20807.46 | 40 |
| 123 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 20475.01 | 58 |
| (123) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 20430.46 | 14 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 20397.56 | 34 |
| 125 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 20304.91 | 36 |
| 126 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 20001.43 | 37 |
| 127 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 19794.91 | 3 |
| 128 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 19741.03 | 19 |
| 129 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 19569.91 | 17 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 19252.33 | 26 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 19085.81 | 26 |
| 132 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 18947.11 | 28 |
| (132) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 18932.66 | 39 |
| 133 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 18824.18 | 24 |
| 134 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 18722.25 | 29 |
| 135 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 18650.5 | 34 |
| (135) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 18581.93 | 23 |
| 136 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 18333.5 | 5 |
| (136) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 18020.41 | 12 |
| 137 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 18003.58 | 29 |
| 138 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 17874.93 | 25 |
| (138) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 17727.83 | 26 |
| 139 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 17727.83 | 26 |
| 140 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 17705.31 | 9 |
| (140) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 17687.26 | 8 |
| (140) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17684.51 | 20 |
| 141 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 17530.86 | 28 |
| 142 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17525.91 | 26 |
| 143 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 17519.08 | 10 |
| 144 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 17355.66 | 14 |
| 145 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 17212.48 | 21 |
| (145) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 17181.81 | 17 |
| 146 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 17088.23 | 9 |
| (146) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 17062.09 | 19 |
| (146) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 16976.66 | 14 |
| 147 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 16934.09 | 12 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 16929.33 | 12 |
| 149 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 16875.28 | 18 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 16829.86 | 17 |
| (150) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 16779.39 | 16 |
| 151 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 16677.08 | 12 |
| 152 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 16597.06 | 18 |
| 153 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16585.36 | 25 |
| 154 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 16518.53 | 39 |
| 155 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 16442.34 | 5 |
| 156 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 16297.36 | 15 |
| (156) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 16273.14 | 16 |
| 157 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16261.75 | 23 |
| (157) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16200.16 | 3 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 16146.83 | 20 |
| (158) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 16077.41 | 27 |
| 159 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 16014.78 | 26 |
| 160 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 15998.87 | 25 |
| 161 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 15986.11 | 26 |
| 162 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 15910.33 | 15 |
| 163 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 15901.27 | 17 |
| (163) | International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD), World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15782.51 | 20 |
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