| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18296 | 268 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 13290 | 224 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 12875 | 321 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4583 | 81 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3363 | 108 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3046 | 144 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2880 | 36 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2876 | 118 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2844 | 34 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2758 | 40 |
| 11 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2607 | 106 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2391 | 98 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2057 | 30 |
| 14 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1867 | 12 |
| 15 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1839 | 58 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1809 | 31 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1802 | 29 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1744 | 27 |
| (18) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1739 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1703 | 31 |
| 20 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1674 | 52 |
| 21 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1663 | 13 |
| 22 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1661 | 58 |
| 23 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1616 | 46 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1570 | 33 |
| 24 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1545 | 32 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1523 | 21 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1522 | 31 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1516 | 27 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1440 | 35 |
| 29 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1434 | 36 |
| 30 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1418 | 28 |
| 31 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1410 | 23 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1404 | 21 |
| (32) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1391 | 23 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1384 | 30 |
| 34 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1378 | 49 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1375 | 51 |
| 36 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1363 | 51 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1354 | 34 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1332 | 37 |
| (38) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1313 | 39 |
| 39 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1289 | 31 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1286 | 35 |
| 41 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1232 | 84 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1230 | 22 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1205 | 41 |
| (43) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1172 | 16 |
| 44 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1167 | 30 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1156 | 24 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1146 | 43 |
| (46) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1141 | 33 |
| 47 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1138 | 30 |
| 48 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1134 | 43 |
| 49 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1127 | 59 |
| 50 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1122 | 17 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1121 | 15 |
| 52 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1117 | 25 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1111 | 18 |
| 53 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 1110 | 44 |
| 54 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1101 | 23 |
| 55 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1084 | 35 |
| 56 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 1069 | 44 |
| 57 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1053 | 33 |
| 58 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1044 | 29 |
| 59 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1035 | 30 |
| 60 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 1024 | 43 |
| 61 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1018 | 28 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 994 | 29 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 982 | 23 |
| 64 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 980 | 28 |
| 65 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 957 | 37 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 957 | 24 |
| 67 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 952 | 15 |
| (67) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 944 | 26 |
| 67 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 944 | 26 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 941 | 19 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 939 | 33 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 938 | 23 |
| 71 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 938 | 19 |
| 73 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 935 | 31 |
| 74 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 918 | 59 |
| 75 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 915 | 29 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 907 | 19 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 900 | 46 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 894 | 22 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 884 | 34 |
| 80 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 876 | 26 |
| 81 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 874 | 23 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 870 | 37 |
| 83 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 853 | 23 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 840 | 29 |
| 84 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 830 | 25 |
| 85 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 818 | 12 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 817 | 14 |
| 86 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 817 | 12 |
| 88 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 814 | 26 |
| 89 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 810 | 70 |
| 90 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 794 | 36 |
| 91 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 784 | 43 |
| 92 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 776 | 44 |
| 93 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 767 | 37 |
| (93) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 766 | 19 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 746 | 8 |
| (94) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 744 | 28 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 740 | 24 |
| 95 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 740 | 37 |
| (96) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 739 | 11 |
| 97 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 735 | 28 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 716 | 11 |
| 99 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 711 | 26 |
| 100 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 702 | 14 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 700 | 13 |
| 102 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 699 | 21 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 684 | 26 |
| 104 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 682 | 29 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 677 | 24 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 673 | 20 |
| 107 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 672 | 25 |
| 108 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 667 | 11 |
| (108) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 665 | 16 |
| 109 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 660 | 12 |
| (109) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 658 | 11 |
| 110 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 654 | 9 |
| 111 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 653 | 25 |
| 112 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 647 | 17 |
| 113 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 639 | 26 |
| 114 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 631 | 23 |
| 115 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 628 | 17 |
| 116 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 624 | 18 |
| (116) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 620 | 23 |
| 117 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 619 | 25 |
| 118 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 615 | 34 |
| 119 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 613 | 26 |
| 119 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 613 | 39 |
| 121 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 609 | 33 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 608 | 11 |
| 123 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 602 | 37 |
| 124 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 598 | 15 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 598 | 28 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 597 | 20 |
| 126 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 597 | 17 |
| (127) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 593 | 14 |
| 128 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 592 | 31 |
| 129 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 590 | 58 |
| 130 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 578 | 12 |
| (130) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 573 | 17 |
| 131 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 569 | 17 |
| 132 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 565 | 12 |
| 133 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 560 | 28 |
| 134 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 559 | 15 |
| 135 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 557 | 16 |
| (135) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 553 | 25 |
| 136 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 551 | 5 |
| 137 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 547 | 12 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 545 | 19 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 545 | 17 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 545 | 17 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 543 | 15 |
| (141) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 542 | 15 |
| (141) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 541 | 27 |
| 141 | Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 541 | 3 |
| 143 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 538 | 41 |
| (143) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 535 | 6 |
| (143) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 527 | 22 |
| 143 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 527 | 12 |
| 145 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 525 | 30 |
| 146 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 524 | 18 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 523 | 26 |
| 148 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 520 | 16 |
| 149 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 519 | 12 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 517 | 24 |
| (150) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 517 | 11 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 512 | 20 |
| (151) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 510 | 5 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 509 | 14 |
| 153 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 507 | 24 |
| (153) | Maastricht research school of Economics of TEchnology and ORganizations (METEOR), Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 505 | 16 |
| 154 | Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 504 | 18 |
| 155 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 502 | 15 |
| 156 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 496 | 23 |
| 157 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 495 | 21 |
| (157) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 493 | 9 |
| 157 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 493 | 25 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 492 | 16 |
| 159 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 492 | 15 |
| 161 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 490 | 14 |
| (161) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 489 | 39 |
| 162 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 487 | 11 |
| 163 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 484 | 29 |
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