| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9130.29 | 268 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 5816.95 | 321 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 5735.37 | 224 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2230.21 | 81 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1717.4 | 108 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1500.11 | 144 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1437.28 | 40 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1413.32 | 34 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1373.59 | 118 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1353.61 | 98 |
| 11 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1234.03 | 106 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1189.4 | 29 |
| (12) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1153.9 | 26 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1129.08 | 36 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1079.42 | 30 |
| 15 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1003.95 | 13 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 978.58 | 27 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 945.31 | 31 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 900.07 | 58 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 877.31 | 31 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 847.5 | 21 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 818.98 | 23 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 815 | 33 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 810.73 | 28 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 807.24 | 31 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 796.2 | 35 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 788.68 | 37 |
| 26 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 786.7 | 58 |
| 27 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 784.29 | 32 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 752.84 | 52 |
| 29 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 746.5 | 36 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 736.64 | 30 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 721.12 | 51 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 699.96 | 21 |
| 33 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 693 | 46 |
| (33) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 689.83 | 16 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 683.42 | 31 |
| (34) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 665.75 | 18 |
| 35 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 657.23 | 49 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 646.47 | 35 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 642.03 | 27 |
| (37) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 622.49 | 23 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 614.61 | 37 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 606.71 | 22 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 605.85 | 24 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 596.3 | 29 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 587.68 | 41 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 583.15 | 44 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 576.48 | 15 |
| (44) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 575.97 | 39 |
| 45 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 574.13 | 43 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 571.55 | 43 |
| 47 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 571.37 | 12 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 562.26 | 46 |
| (48) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 561.36 | 33 |
| 49 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 560.05 | 84 |
| 50 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 556.01 | 51 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 553.2 | 34 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 530.44 | 22 |
| 53 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 528.54 | 12 |
| 54 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 527.96 | 15 |
| 55 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 519.79 | 30 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 518.61 | 23 |
| 57 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 506 | 28 |
| 58 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 504.89 | 23 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 499.83 | 19 |
| 60 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 490.34 | 59 |
| 61 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 489.68 | 44 |
| 62 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 481.84 | 17 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 479.41 | 23 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 477.23 | 33 |
| 65 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 470.25 | 28 |
| 66 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 469.51 | 35 |
| 67 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 466.74 | 30 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 466.26 | 19 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 461.73 | 24 |
| 70 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 461.23 | 25 |
| 71 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 458.48 | 37 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 452.55 | 29 |
| 73 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 450.81 | 30 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 448.23 | 29 |
| 74 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 446.18 | 23 |
| 75 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 436.93 | 33 |
| 76 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 432.95 | 31 |
| 77 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 431.44 | 59 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 428.15 | 24 |
| 79 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 425.43 | 26 |
| 80 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 422.12 | 43 |
| 81 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 420.66 | 12 |
| 82 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 415.6 | 26 |
| 83 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 412.58 | 28 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 411.81 | 8 |
| 85 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 405.75 | 29 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 402.48 | 37 |
| 87 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 402.26 | 25 |
| 88 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 395.08 | 70 |
| 89 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 394.01 | 12 |
| 90 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 386.81 | 19 |
| (90) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 383.3 | 26 |
| 91 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 383.3 | 26 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 375.65 | 13 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 373.42 | 11 |
| 94 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 372.53 | 11 |
| 95 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 370.41 | 44 |
| 96 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 370.14 | 43 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 361.66 | 34 |
| 98 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 356.26 | 12 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 353.75 | 11 |
| 100 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 352.86 | 36 |
| 101 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 350.05 | 21 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 349.73 | 14 |
| 103 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 348.61 | 24 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 348.56 | 26 |
| 105 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 348.07 | 23 |
| 106 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 346.56 | 37 |
| 107 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 343.68 | 17 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 340.83 | 24 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 336.33 | 26 |
| (109) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 335.11 | 20 |
| 110 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 334.73 | 29 |
| (110) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 334.28 | 28 |
| 111 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 332.78 | 26 |
| 112 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 332.63 | 15 |
| 113 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 332.25 | 14 |
| 114 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 332.04 | 25 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 329.25 | 20 |
| (115) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 325.81 | 16 |
| 116 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 324.44 | 25 |
| 117 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 323.91 | 25 |
| 118 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 322.3 | 26 |
| (118) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 320.93 | 9 |
| (118) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 316.16 | 19 |
| 119 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 315.25 | 58 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 314.19 | 11 |
| (120) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 313.45 | 11 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 312.18 | 17 |
| 122 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 310.43 | 27 |
| 123 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 308.98 | 9 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 308.11 | 28 |
| 125 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 307.24 | 17 |
| 126 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 303.45 | 12 |
| (126) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 298.8 | 11 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 297.4 | 24 |
| 128 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 294.53 | 39 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 294.16 | 19 |
| 130 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 291.74 | 17 |
| 131 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 288.66 | 23 |
| (131) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 287.59 | 6 |
| 132 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 287.18 | 34 |
| 133 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 285.08 | 12 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 284.86 | 20 |
| (134) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 284.25 | 11 |
| 135 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 281.58 | 12 |
| 136 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 277.31 | 33 |
| (136) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 277.15 | 5 |
| 137 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 275.78 | 37 |
| 138 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 275.7 | 9 |
| 139 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 275.48 | 30 |
| (139) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 275.39 | 8 |
| (139) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 274.73 | 14 |
| 140 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 273.61 | 17 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 271.83 | 20 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 270.96 | 16 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 270.41 | 14 |
| 144 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 270.16 | 26 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 269.34 | 26 |
| (145) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 268.72 | 23 |
| 146 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 268.36 | 13 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 268.08 | 27 |
| 148 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 266.86 | 5 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 266.83 | 17 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 265.58 | 15 |
| 151 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 264.69 | 28 |
| 152 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 264.08 | 29 |
| (152) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 261.93 | 17 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 261.83 | 16 |
| 154 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 261.8 | 21 |
| 155 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 260.66 | 18 |
| (155) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 260.36 | 27 |
| (155) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 257.53 | 14 |
| 156 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 256.03 | 5 |
| 157 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 255.89 | 21 |
| 158 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 254.68 | 18 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 252.41 | 19 |
| 160 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 250.49 | 41 |
| 161 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 247.58 | 16 |
| 162 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 246.66 | 23 |
| 163 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 244.78 | 23 |
| (163) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 243.66 | 9 |
| (163) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 242.41 | 22 |
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