| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 104072.89 | 268 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 44874.19 | 224 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 34298.19 | 321 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19328.74 | 34 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 15949.1 | 40 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11787.84 | 108 |
| 7 | CESifo | München, Germany | 10712.75 | 81 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10498.04 | 27 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9899.08 | 30 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9691.14 | 31 |
| 11 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8758.11 | 32 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8532.64 | 31 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8526.18 | 144 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8370.84 | 31 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7420.86 | 28 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7232.02 | 13 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7192.5 | 24 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 6865.18 | 98 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6628.66 | 30 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6326.79 | 16 |
| 20 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 6269 | 21 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6249.58 | 35 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6233.56 | 33 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6178.01 | 21 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6091.03 | 58 |
| 24 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6032.85 | 118 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5997.85 | 27 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5876.64 | 15 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5547.61 | 22 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 5517.54 | 52 |
| 29 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5279.01 | 12 |
| (29) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5150.97 | 39 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5038.45 | 19 |
| 31 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5014.98 | 36 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4986.4 | 29 |
| (32) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4986.26 | 23 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4969.19 | 14 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4653.84 | 35 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4521.34 | 23 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4485.26 | 30 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4462.85 | 51 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4354.21 | 43 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4282.01 | 28 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4223.16 | 34 |
| 41 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4110.31 | 24 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4109.13 | 30 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 4079.72 | 31 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3995.41 | 26 |
| 45 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3972.65 | 15 |
| (45) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3944.54 | 11 |
| 46 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3902.63 | 58 |
| 47 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3809.61 | 17 |
| 48 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3702.56 | 30 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3579.66 | 23 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3336.13 | 23 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3300.2 | 22 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 3288.97 | 37 |
| 53 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3252.85 | 12 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3247.73 | 33 |
| 55 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3236.59 | 12 |
| 56 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 3228.03 | 37 |
| 57 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3082.24 | 17 |
| (57) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3048.26 | 26 |
| 58 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3048.26 | 26 |
| 59 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3022.48 | 9 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2976.89 | 41 |
| 61 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2951.74 | 11 |
| 62 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2924.53 | 46 |
| (62) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2794.72 | 18 |
| (62) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2790.11 | 16 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2774.97 | 20 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2762.88 | 19 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2721.9 | 24 |
| 66 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2718.97 | 17 |
| 67 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2703.05 | 106 |
| 68 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2689.18 | 28 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2688.53 | 17 |
| 70 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2680.81 | 12 |
| (70) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2675.96 | 33 |
| (70) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2652.08 | 5 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2638.23 | 13 |
| 72 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2617.67 | 12 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2616.32 | 29 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2610.26 | 29 |
| (74) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2564.68 | 26 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2523.18 | 24 |
| 76 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2502.55 | 23 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2489.24 | 15 |
| 78 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2482.84 | 59 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2473.65 | 11 |
| 80 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2473.33 | 23 |
| 81 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 2439.86 | 49 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2302.85 | 9 |
| 82 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2296.8 | 12 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2296.31 | 11 |
| (82) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2273.74 | 28 |
| 83 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2199.21 | 43 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2183.77 | 16 |
| (84) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2171.45 | 11 |
| (84) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2171.04 | 6 |
| 85 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2170.16 | 3 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2166.83 | 8 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2124.7 | 36 |
| (87) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2114.66 | 4 |
| (87) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2113.76 | 14 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2069.86 | 37 |
| 89 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 2052.62 | 59 |
| 90 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 2034.45 | 29 |
| 91 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2032.74 | 28 |
| 92 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2031.94 | 9 |
| (92) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2030.95 | 8 |
| 93 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2008.72 | 19 |
| 94 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1996.63 | 10 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1956.04 | 11 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1955.98 | 12 |
| 97 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1951.64 | 23 |
| 98 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1925.57 | 13 |
| 99 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1925.36 | 84 |
| (99) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1913.15 | 9 |
| 100 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1907.64 | 17 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1899.34 | 19 |
| (101) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1894.41 | 9 |
| 102 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1891.77 | 5 |
| 103 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1886.02 | 26 |
| 104 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1817.18 | 10 |
| 105 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1799.66 | 25 |
| 106 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1793.65 | 5 |
| 107 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1786.64 | 23 |
| 108 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1762.14 | 35 |
| 109 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1759.47 | 10 |
| 110 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1731.73 | 6 |
| 111 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1689.94 | 12 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1684.87 | 18 |
| 113 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1658.73 | 51 |
| 114 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1651.03 | 28 |
| 115 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1646.08 | 36 |
| (115) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1621.77 | 16 |
| 116 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1615.27 | 25 |
| (116) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1614.91 | 14 |
| 117 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 1610.24 | 12 |
| 118 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1609.71 | 24 |
| 119 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1562.4 | 7 |
| 120 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1560.49 | 8 |
| 121 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1552.92 | 43 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 1552.25 | 26 |
| 123 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 1545.83 | 31 |
| (123) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1535.72 | 2 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1535.15 | 34 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1525.35 | 19 |
| 126 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 1523.86 | 26 |
| 127 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1508.41 | 14 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1506.02 | 9 |
| (128) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1496.63 | 13 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1488.99 | 15 |
| (129) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1487.21 | 20 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 1487.04 | 14 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 1482.99 | 14 |
| (131) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1468.65 | 4 |
| 132 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1455.75 | 21 |
| 133 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1454.85 | 7 |
| (133) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1446.98 | 2 |
| 134 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1445.23 | 33 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 1444.06 | 12 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1443.92 | 10 |
| 137 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1405.27 | 37 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1398.86 | 26 |
| 139 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1388.56 | 14 |
| (139) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1358.3 | 2 |
| (139) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1346.94 | 25 |
| (139) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1346.52 | 4 |
| (139) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1342.1 | 6 |
| (139) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1329.92 | 4 |
| (139) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1321.61 | 5 |
| 140 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1311 | 19 |
| (140) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1309.39 | 9 |
| 141 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1299.46 | 13 |
| 142 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1292.47 | 14 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1289.21 | 17 |
| 144 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1273.52 | 11 |
| (144) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1267.74 | 2 |
| 145 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1265.21 | 25 |
| 146 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 1232.3 | 15 |
| (146) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1231.37 | 5 |
| 147 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1230.2 | 70 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 1228.17 | 20 |
| 149 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1222.75 | 13 |
| 150 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 1220.22 | 37 |
| 151 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 1213.02 | 44 |
| (151) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1209.24 | 2 |
| 152 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1205.13 | 12 |
| 153 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1199.13 | 12 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 1197.87 | 14 |
| 155 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1197.48 | 9 |
| 156 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 1196.05 | 30 |
| 157 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1188.69 | 9 |
| (157) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1188.69 | 9 |
| 158 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1173.23 | 15 |
| 159 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 1169.65 | 15 |
| 160 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 1161 | 8 |
| 161 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 1154.29 | 17 |
| 162 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 1146.75 | 44 |
| 163 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 1144.42 | 6 |
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