| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12397 | 270 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 8858 | 325 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8273 | 226 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3287 | 83 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2434 | 109 |
| 6 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2286 | 120 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2278 | 144 |
| 8 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2011 | 104 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1923 | 99 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1891 | 34 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1869 | 36 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1843 | 42 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1514 | 30 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1458 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1421 | 31 |
| 15 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1278 | 56 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1241 | 31 |
| 17 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1232 | 60 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1211 | 32 |
| 19 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1209 | 48 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1195 | 27 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1185 | 31 |
| 22 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1165 | 14 |
| 23 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1150 | 53 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1117 | 33 |
| 24 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1099 | 31 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1063 | 28 |
| 26 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1045 | 52 |
| 27 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1041 | 12 |
| 28 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1039 | 28 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1034 | 37 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1032 | 52 |
| 31 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1029 | 23 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1024 | 35 |
| 33 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1022 | 49 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1015 | 21 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1007 | 37 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 940 | 30 |
| 37 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 933 | 92 |
| 38 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 919 | 44 |
| 38 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 919 | 45 |
| (39) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 909 | 33 |
| 40 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 907 | 31 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 902 | 36 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 901 | 23 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 897 | 41 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 892 | 34 |
| 44 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 876 | 44 |
| 45 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 866 | 21 |
| (45) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 855 | 16 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 848 | 23 |
| (46) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 823 | 18 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 822 | 37 |
| 47 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 822 | 36 |
| 49 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 813 | 43 |
| (49) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 810 | 39 |
| 50 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 784 | 61 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 783 | 46 |
| 52 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 775 | 74 |
| 53 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 768 | 30 |
| 54 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 766 | 30 |
| 55 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 764 | 25 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 757 | 44 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 746 | 15 |
| 58 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 744 | 35 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 743 | 22 |
| 60 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 714 | 18 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 710 | 20 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 706 | 23 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 705 | 23 |
| 64 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 701 | 25 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 699 | 29 |
| 65 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 697 | 30 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 696 | 27 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 681 | 24 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 681 | 33 |
| 69 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 680 | 15 |
| 70 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 678 | 30 |
| 70 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 678 | 29 |
| 72 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 676 | 37 |
| 73 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 674 | 32 |
| (73) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 672 | 26 |
| 73 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 672 | 26 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 672 | 28 |
| 76 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 668 | 59 |
| 77 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 662 | 24 |
| 78 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 660 | 30 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 658 | 22 |
| 80 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 652 | 27 |
| 81 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 645 | 12 |
| 82 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 644 | 50 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 634 | 22 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 615 | 34 |
| 85 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 604 | 24 |
| 86 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 597 | 26 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 596 | 19 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 586 | 38 |
| 89 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 582 | 38 |
| 90 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 569 | 12 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 562 | 24 |
| 92 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 561 | 13 |
| (92) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 558 | 28 |
| 93 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 553 | 8 |
| 93 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 553 | 20 |
| 95 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 551 | 28 |
| 96 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 549 | 25 |
| 97 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 547 | 25 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 536 | 22 |
| 99 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 528 | 13 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 521 | 25 |
| 101 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 518 | 25 |
| 102 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 515 | 26 |
| 103 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 513 | 43 |
| 104 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 512 | 25 |
| 105 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 511 | 38 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 511 | 27 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 510 | 13 |
| (107) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 506 | 19 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 500 | 14 |
| 108 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 500 | 41 |
| 110 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 499 | 11 |
| (110) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 491 | 23 |
| 111 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 489 | 26 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 486 | 15 |
| 113 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 480 | 23 |
| 114 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 474 | 24 |
| 115 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 473 | 17 |
| 116 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 470 | 38 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 470 | 27 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 469 | 11 |
| 119 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 468 | 57 |
| 120 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 460 | 16 |
| 120 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 460 | 29 |
| 122 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 458 | 44 |
| 122 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 458 | 27 |
| (123) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 452 | 17 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 451 | 20 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 451 | 22 |
| (124) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 448 | 39 |
| (124) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 446 | 26 |
| 125 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 443 | 19 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 441 | 20 |
| (126) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 441 | 11 |
| 127 | Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 440 | 18 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 438 | 24 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 437 | 19 |
| 129 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 437 | 12 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 435 | 20 |
| 132 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 434 | 37 |
| 133 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 430 | 32 |
| 133 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 430 | 34 |
| 135 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 426 | 27 |
| 136 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 425 | 9 |
| 137 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 424 | 15 |
| (137) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 424 | 11 |
| 138 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 421 | 12 |
| (138) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 418 | 15 |
| (138) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 414 | 16 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 413 | 27 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 410 | 18 |
| 141 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 409 | 20 |
| 142 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 408 | 13 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 408 | 11 |
| 144 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 407 | 17 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 406 | 17 |
| (145) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 405 | 26 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 404 | 27 |
| 146 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 404 | 30 |
| 146 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 404 | 17 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 402 | 16 |
| 150 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 399 | 17 |
| 151 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 397 | 31 |
| 152 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 396 | 14 |
| (152) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 392 | 11 |
| 153 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 389 | 24 |
| 154 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 387 | 15 |
| (154) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 386 | 27 |
| 155 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 383 | 13 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 382 | 7 |
| 157 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 381 | 29 |
| 157 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 381 | 16 |
| 159 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 380 | 5 |
| 159 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 380 | 17 |
| 159 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 380 | 12 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 380 | 15 |
| 163 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 379 | 16 |
| 163 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 379 | 14 |
| 163 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 379 | 25 |
| (163) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 379 | 21 |
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