| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9404.39 | 270 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 5879.59 | 325 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 5851.82 | 226 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2377.59 | 83 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1731.9 | 109 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1532.36 | 144 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1480.36 | 42 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1449.8 | 34 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1417.19 | 99 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1401.51 | 120 |
| 11 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1232.38 | 104 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1208.9 | 30 |
| (12) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1172.9 | 27 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1163.67 | 31 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1145.83 | 36 |
| 15 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1014.78 | 14 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 999.16 | 27 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 952.01 | 31 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 883.9 | 31 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 877.31 | 56 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 865.58 | 32 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 824.4 | 23 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 819.41 | 21 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 818.91 | 33 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 816.18 | 28 |
| 24 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 806.28 | 60 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 801.29 | 35 |
| 26 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 798.12 | 31 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 794.51 | 37 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 759.92 | 53 |
| 29 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 748.91 | 37 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 743.64 | 30 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 726.95 | 52 |
| 32 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 722.72 | 48 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 696.03 | 28 |
| (33) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 695.28 | 16 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 685.75 | 31 |
| 35 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 677.12 | 49 |
| (35) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 670.5 | 18 |
| 36 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 662.38 | 21 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 653.64 | 36 |
| 38 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 626.33 | 41 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 616.11 | 37 |
| (39) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 615.74 | 23 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 607.47 | 23 |
| 41 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 607.16 | 92 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 589.81 | 44 |
| 43 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 582.46 | 45 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 578.9 | 15 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 577.88 | 44 |
| (45) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 577.72 | 39 |
| 46 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 572.04 | 12 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 572.01 | 46 |
| (47) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 563.78 | 33 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 563.29 | 34 |
| 49 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 562.34 | 52 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 559.63 | 22 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 556.8 | 27 |
| 52 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 552.75 | 29 |
| 53 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 534.63 | 12 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 534 | 20 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 532.27 | 22 |
| 56 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 528.96 | 15 |
| 57 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 519.96 | 30 |
| 58 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 519.74 | 30 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 519.45 | 23 |
| 60 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 510.7 | 24 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 499.6 | 24 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 497.1 | 19 |
| 63 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 495.43 | 44 |
| 64 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 492.92 | 61 |
| 65 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 490.93 | 36 |
| 66 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 486.35 | 18 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 481.39 | 33 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 473.41 | 22 |
| 69 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 470.32 | 30 |
| 70 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 465.88 | 25 |
| 71 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 460.65 | 37 |
| 72 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 454.81 | 30 |
| (72) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 454.4 | 29 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 453.13 | 28 |
| 74 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 451.38 | 23 |
| 75 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 449.83 | 35 |
| 76 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 437.47 | 59 |
| 77 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 436.1 | 32 |
| 78 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 435.76 | 26 |
| 79 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 429.28 | 74 |
| 80 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 427.35 | 27 |
| 81 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 426.19 | 13 |
| 82 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 425.64 | 50 |
| 83 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 424.37 | 43 |
| 84 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 423.64 | 30 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 422.31 | 24 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 416.14 | 38 |
| 87 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 413.06 | 8 |
| 88 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 412.96 | 25 |
| 89 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 412.58 | 28 |
| 90 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 394.35 | 12 |
| 91 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 386.65 | 20 |
| (91) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 385.3 | 26 |
| 91 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 385.3 | 26 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 377.59 | 11 |
| 94 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 376.51 | 43 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 374.15 | 13 |
| 96 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 373.19 | 24 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 366.75 | 22 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 364.28 | 34 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 364 | 27 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 363.89 | 27 |
| 101 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 359.93 | 11 |
| 102 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 359.4 | 38 |
| 103 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 356.61 | 38 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 354.65 | 14 |
| (104) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 353.53 | 28 |
| 105 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 352.3 | 23 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 351.25 | 25 |
| 107 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 349.19 | 24 |
| 108 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 346.93 | 12 |
| 109 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 346.76 | 17 |
| 110 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 344.17 | 19 |
| 111 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 341.12 | 26 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 336.73 | 29 |
| (112) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 335.69 | 20 |
| 113 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 333.75 | 13 |
| 114 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 333.29 | 15 |
| 115 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 332.31 | 12 |
| 116 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 327.94 | 25 |
| 117 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 327.87 | 16 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 327.64 | 15 |
| 119 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 325.45 | 25 |
| 120 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 325.4 | 41 |
| (120) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 325.31 | 16 |
| 121 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 324 | 25 |
| 122 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 319.95 | 27 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 318.58 | 11 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 318.36 | 22 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 318.35 | 18 |
| (125) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 317.5 | 19 |
| 126 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 315.93 | 28 |
| (126) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 315.45 | 11 |
| 127 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 313.91 | 57 |
| 128 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 312.77 | 26 |
| (128) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 311.59 | 9 |
| 129 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 310.06 | 9 |
| (129) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 307.73 | 15 |
| 130 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 306.97 | 25 |
| 131 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 305.36 | 11 |
| 132 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 301.51 | 10 |
| 133 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 300.91 | 12 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 299.9 | 24 |
| (134) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 298.8 | 11 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 295.33 | 19 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 295.16 | 20 |
| 137 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 293.51 | 34 |
| 138 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 293.41 | 13 |
| 139 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 293.25 | 17 |
| 140 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 293 | 24 |
| (140) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 289.59 | 6 |
| (140) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 289.14 | 26 |
| 141 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 286.59 | 38 |
| (141) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 284.58 | 11 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 284.58 | 20 |
| 143 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 284.58 | 12 |
| 144 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 281.98 | 31 |
| 145 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 278.66 | 27 |
| (145) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 278.06 | 8 |
| (145) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 277.81 | 5 |
| 146 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 277.36 | 5 |
| 147 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 276.45 | 37 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 275.34 | 27 |
| 149 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 275.06 | 32 |
| 150 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 274.53 | 17 |
| (150) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 273.78 | 23 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 273.41 | 15 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 273.29 | 16 |
| 153 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 271.7 | 14 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 270.5 | 17 |
| (154) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 270.01 | 17 |
| 155 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 269.33 | 18 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 268.91 | 27 |
| 157 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 268.69 | 30 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 268.58 | 15 |
| 159 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 267.57 | 44 |
| (159) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 266.69 | 27 |
| 160 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 265.91 | 29 |
| 161 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 264 | 16 |
| 162 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 263.8 | 21 |
| 163 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 262.41 | 19 |
| 164 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 261.66 | 25 |
| 165 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 260.58 | 20 |
| (165) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 259.53 | 15 |
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