| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 876337.24 | 270 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 442691.39 | 325 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 412416.27 | 226 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 160065.55 | 34 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 142020 | 83 |
| 6 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 135769.53 | 120 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 133316.2 | 42 |
| 8 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 121598.42 | 109 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 111544.5 | 144 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 107671.91 | 31 |
| 11 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 104099.61 | 104 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 103965.75 | 12 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 98660.47 | 23 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 94840.16 | 31 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 91603.36 | 99 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 84398.99 | 27 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 80782.81 | 35 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 78761.43 | 31 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 77239.85 | 31 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 72148.88 | 31 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 67113.26 | 28 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 61125.56 | 30 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 59485.64 | 56 |
| (23) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 59032.99 | 16 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 58801.36 | 33 |
| 24 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 57845.13 | 28 |
| 25 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 56912.11 | 37 |
| (25) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 56195.21 | 33 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 55522.41 | 14 |
| 27 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 54672.1 | 38 |
| 28 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 54232.76 | 49 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 54157.22 | 36 |
| 30 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 52354.23 | 21 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 52000 | 46 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 51935.11 | 21 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 51715.58 | 52 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 51525.47 | 30 |
| 35 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 51334.15 | 19 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 50429.65 | 27 |
| (36) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 50391.08 | 13 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 50113.79 | 30 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 50013.78 | 44 |
| 39 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 49831.75 | 60 |
| (39) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 49820.13 | 27 |
| 40 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 49674.03 | 53 |
| 41 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 48156.08 | 48 |
| 42 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 47628.7 | 12 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 45853.24 | 41 |
| 44 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 44770 | 7 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 44355.93 | 15 |
| 46 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 43917.2 | 17 |
| 47 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 43437.51 | 21 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 43432.06 | 28 |
| (48) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 42492.63 | 23 |
| 49 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 42177.6 | 30 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 41885.5 | 32 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 41540.18 | 22 |
| (51) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 40798.3 | 39 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 40643 | 36 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 40588.83 | 23 |
| 54 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 39212.14 | 52 |
| 55 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 39199.78 | 15 |
| 56 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 39129.19 | 11 |
| 57 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 38128.76 | 29 |
| 58 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38070.66 | 13 |
| 59 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 37309.24 | 30 |
| 60 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 37122.36 | 23 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 36309.2 | 22 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 36160.59 | 34 |
| 63 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 35671.08 | 45 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 35042.15 | 19 |
| 65 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 34599.44 | 37 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 34434.66 | 13 |
| 67 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 34289.94 | 61 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 33704.61 | 33 |
| 69 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 33386.56 | 30 |
| 70 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 33375.41 | 25 |
| 71 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 33082.01 | 20 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 32837.77 | 28 |
| (72) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 32786.75 | 18 |
| (72) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 32644.16 | 11 |
| 73 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 32173.79 | 44 |
| 74 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 32141.86 | 74 |
| 75 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 31908.95 | 28 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 31484.83 | 24 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 30987.09 | 23 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 30584.64 | 37 |
| 79 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 30407.13 | 44 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 29802.41 | 25 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 29796.46 | 22 |
| 82 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29523.49 | 43 |
| 83 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 29011.5 | 6 |
| 84 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 28643.78 | 43 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 28382.35 | 14 |
| 86 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 28013.91 | 92 |
| 87 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 27849.48 | 32 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 27165.82 | 22 |
| 89 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 26753.15 | 24 |
| 90 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 26452.38 | 31 |
| (90) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 25890.64 | 28 |
| 91 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 25850.93 | 25 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 25391.38 | 38 |
| (92) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25148.54 | 5 |
| 93 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 25013.98 | 27 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 24737.58 | 20 |
| 95 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 24703.33 | 59 |
| 96 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 24559.06 | 26 |
| (96) | Centro de Estudios de Organizaciones y Productividad (CEOP), Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 24297.26 | 2 |
| (96) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 24042.81 | 5 |
| 97 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 23808.54 | 23 |
| 98 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 23774.79 | 35 |
| 99 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 23729.58 | 13 |
| 100 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 23638.78 | 20 |
| 101 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 23610.01 | 24 |
| (101) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 23605.44 | 11 |
| (101) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 23501.5 | 16 |
| 102 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 23394.81 | 50 |
| 103 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 23295.09 | 23 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 23227.46 | 24 |
| 105 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22983.71 | 17 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 22970.91 | 11 |
| (105) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 22701.05 | 15 |
| 106 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 22564.98 | 12 |
| 107 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 22556.28 | 18 |
| (107) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22555.26 | 4 |
| 108 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 22519.71 | 5 |
| 109 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 22506.98 | 8 |
| 110 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 22384.48 | 36 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 22338.45 | 11 |
| (111) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 22040.88 | 29 |
| 112 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 22006.88 | 24 |
| 113 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 21923.08 | 25 |
| 114 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 21826.33 | 18 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 21791.81 | 12 |
| 116 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 21736.16 | 37 |
| 117 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 21504.2 | 29 |
| 118 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 21497 | 42 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 21249.61 | 15 |
| 120 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 21014.64 | 25 |
| 121 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 20974.78 | 12 |
| 122 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 20949.45 | 21 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 20852.25 | 9 |
| (123) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 20660.44 | 6 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 20615.41 | 19 |
| 125 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 20493.51 | 38 |
| 126 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 20485.92 | 16 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 20307.34 | 34 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 20211.64 | 20 |
| 129 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 20177.53 | 38 |
| 130 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 20035.28 | 57 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 19649.83 | 27 |
| 132 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 19556.16 | 17 |
| 133 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 19423.25 | 3 |
| (133) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 19338.31 | 23 |
| 134 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 19076.81 | 27 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 18942.25 | 27 |
| (135) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 18763.11 | 39 |
| 136 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 18705.49 | 24 |
| 137 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 18501.83 | 29 |
| 138 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 18491.28 | 10 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 18396.41 | 13 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 18255.33 | 7 |
| 141 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 18253.48 | 34 |
| (141) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 18185.84 | 13 |
| 142 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 18142.75 | 30 |
| (142) | Centro de Estudios Economicos Regionales (CEER), Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Cartagena, Colombia | 18015.66 | 7 |
| 143 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 17888.91 | 5 |
| 144 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 17577.6 | 25 |
| (144) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17551.83 | 20 |
| (144) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 17507.48 | 26 |
| 145 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 17507.48 | 26 |
| (145) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 17436.55 | 8 |
| 146 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17396.99 | 27 |
| 147 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 17299.5 | 10 |
| 148 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 17244.48 | 30 |
| (148) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 17211.94 | 17 |
| 149 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 17187.05 | 21 |
| 150 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 17045.36 | 41 |
| 151 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 16990.93 | 13 |
| (151) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 16941.51 | 19 |
| 152 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 16938.76 | 9 |
| (152) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 16919.66 | 16 |
| 153 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 16875.28 | 20 |
| 154 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 16771.63 | 27 |
| 155 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 16684.29 | 14 |
| (155) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 16652.83 | 14 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 16636.98 | 18 |
| 157 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16502.71 | 25 |
| 158 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 16453.41 | 18 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 16453.08 | 20 |
| (159) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16331.41 | 3 |
| 160 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 16257.96 | 12 |
| 161 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 16200.8 | 5 |
| 162 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16037.91 | 24 |
| (162) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 16035.65 | 26 |
| 163 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 16008.04 | 26 |
| 164 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 16005.4 | 15 |
| (164) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 15775.46 | 16 |
| 165 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 15769.75 | 19 |
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