| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11998 | 268 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 8780 | 321 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8156 | 224 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3111 | 81 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2414 | 108 |
| 6 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2246 | 118 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2231 | 144 |
| 8 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2010 | 106 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1846 | 36 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1833 | 34 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1831 | 98 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1796 | 40 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1481 | 29 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1426 | 26 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1327 | 30 |
| 15 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1318 | 58 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1232 | 31 |
| 17 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1210 | 58 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1174 | 31 |
| 19 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1162 | 46 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1158 | 27 |
| 21 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1156 | 52 |
| 22 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1149 | 13 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1138 | 31 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1114 | 33 |
| 24 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1075 | 32 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1056 | 21 |
| 26 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1037 | 51 |
| 27 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1034 | 12 |
| 28 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1030 | 28 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1028 | 37 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1023 | 51 |
| 31 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1020 | 23 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1018 | 35 |
| 33 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1010 | 36 |
| 34 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 996 | 49 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 980 | 27 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 935 | 30 |
| (36) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 924 | 23 |
| 37 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 909 | 44 |
| (37) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 907 | 33 |
| 37 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 907 | 43 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 903 | 21 |
| 39 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 903 | 31 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 893 | 35 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 877 | 34 |
| 43 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 867 | 44 |
| 44 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 864 | 84 |
| 45 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 851 | 41 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 846 | 24 |
| (46) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 846 | 16 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 826 | 22 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 820 | 37 |
| (48) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 816 | 18 |
| 49 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 812 | 43 |
| (49) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 812 | 39 |
| 50 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 785 | 59 |
| 51 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 781 | 35 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 768 | 46 |
| 53 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 763 | 30 |
| 54 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 759 | 25 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 757 | 43 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 744 | 15 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 739 | 29 |
| 58 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 720 | 33 |
| 59 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 717 | 70 |
| 60 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 708 | 17 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 704 | 23 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 699 | 23 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 697 | 30 |
| (63) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 690 | 29 |
| 64 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 683 | 28 |
| 65 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 680 | 15 |
| 66 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 678 | 25 |
| 67 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 673 | 31 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 672 | 29 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 672 | 33 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 671 | 19 |
| 70 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 671 | 37 |
| (71) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 664 | 26 |
| 71 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 664 | 26 |
| 73 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 661 | 59 |
| 74 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 660 | 23 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 659 | 22 |
| 76 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 655 | 30 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 645 | 24 |
| 78 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 643 | 29 |
| 78 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 643 | 12 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 639 | 23 |
| 81 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 636 | 26 |
| 82 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 616 | 28 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 610 | 34 |
| 84 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 586 | 26 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 581 | 24 |
| 86 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 574 | 44 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 572 | 37 |
| 88 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 569 | 12 |
| 89 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 564 | 23 |
| 90 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 562 | 37 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 562 | 19 |
| 92 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 561 | 14 |
| 93 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 553 | 19 |
| 94 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 552 | 28 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 552 | 8 |
| 96 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 547 | 25 |
| 97 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 542 | 25 |
| 98 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 534 | 26 |
| (98) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 531 | 28 |
| 99 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 528 | 26 |
| 100 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 518 | 12 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 517 | 13 |
| 102 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 508 | 43 |
| 103 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 505 | 25 |
| (103) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 504 | 19 |
| 104 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 503 | 36 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 499 | 24 |
| 106 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 496 | 11 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 492 | 14 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 486 | 26 |
| (108) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 484 | 23 |
| 109 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 477 | 21 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 477 | 20 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 473 | 11 |
| 112 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 472 | 24 |
| 113 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 469 | 58 |
| 114 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 466 | 17 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 465 | 11 |
| 116 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 462 | 39 |
| 117 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 458 | 29 |
| (117) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 449 | 20 |
| (117) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 441 | 17 |
| (117) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 441 | 39 |
| (117) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 441 | 11 |
| 117 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 441 | 28 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 439 | 19 |
| 120 | Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 438 | 18 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 435 | 26 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 434 | 24 |
| 123 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 433 | 12 |
| 124 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 432 | 37 |
| 125 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 430 | 33 |
| 126 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 427 | 41 |
| 127 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 424 | 15 |
| (127) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 422 | 11 |
| 127 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 422 | 34 |
| 129 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 421 | 9 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 415 | 20 |
| (130) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 415 | 16 |
| 131 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 414 | 26 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 410 | 20 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 406 | 26 |
| 134 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 405 | 31 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 403 | 27 |
| 135 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 403 | 17 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 400 | 17 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 399 | 16 |
| 139 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 398 | 18 |
| 139 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 398 | 28 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 397 | 17 |
| 142 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 396 | 17 |
| 143 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 395 | 12 |
| (143) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 394 | 25 |
| (143) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 393 | 11 |
| 144 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 389 | 13 |
| (144) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 388 | 22 |
| 145 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 385 | 30 |
| 146 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 384 | 13 |
| 146 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 384 | 23 |
| 146 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 384 | 15 |
| 149 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 383 | 12 |
| 150 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 382 | 17 |
| 151 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 380 | 17 |
| 152 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 378 | 12 |
| (152) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 378 | 27 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 376 | 15 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 375 | 16 |
| 154 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 375 | 5 |
| 154 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 375 | 16 |
| 157 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 374 | 29 |
| 158 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 370 | 16 |
| (158) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 370 | 20 |
| 159 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 368 | 25 |
| 160 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 366 | 11 |
| 160 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 366 | 14 |
| 162 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 364 | 21 |
| (162) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 363 | 14 |
| (162) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 362 | 15 |
| (162) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 361 | 9 |
| 162 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 361 | 12 |
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