| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9601.24 | 273 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6133.79 | 338 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 5996.02 | 227 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2359.7 | 83 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1829.17 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1753.65 | 111 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1550.17 | 145 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1548.44 | 42 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1458.11 | 102 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1420.57 | 121 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1372.8 | 33 |
| 12 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1253.61 | 104 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1229.06 | 30 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1193.06 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1145.58 | 36 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1093.56 | 34 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1037.78 | 28 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1017.11 | 14 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 966.79 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 958.08 | 36 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 884.97 | 55 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 836.39 | 21 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 834.65 | 24 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 832 | 34 |
| 23 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 823.53 | 60 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 822.84 | 29 |
| 25 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 805.07 | 31 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 800.79 | 33 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 799.51 | 38 |
| 28 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 752.91 | 37 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 750.9 | 30 |
| 30 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 746.86 | 46 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 730.29 | 51 |
| 32 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 727.88 | 48 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 716.63 | 21 |
| 34 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 707.03 | 49 |
| (34) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 699.94 | 17 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 696.45 | 28 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 689.59 | 31 |
| (36) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 679.16 | 19 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 654.8 | 30 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 654.72 | 36 |
| 39 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 631.16 | 41 |
| 40 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 630.66 | 94 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 623.41 | 24 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 622.41 | 23 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 619.03 | 21 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 617.47 | 23 |
| 44 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 613.53 | 36 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 613.21 | 25 |
| 46 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 594.31 | 44 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 591.98 | 15 |
| (47) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 587.89 | 41 |
| 48 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 586.71 | 45 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 584.83 | 46 |
| 50 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 582.97 | 53 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 578.34 | 47 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 574.82 | 35 |
| (52) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 572.26 | 33 |
| 53 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 572.24 | 12 |
| 54 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 558.25 | 29 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 555.56 | 9 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 546.43 | 27 |
| 57 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 538.08 | 30 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 537.6 | 22 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 534.61 | 23 |
| 60 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 533.46 | 15 |
| 61 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 532.16 | 30 |
| 62 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 517.79 | 63 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 517.78 | 22 |
| 64 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 516.11 | 24 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 513.9 | 35 |
| 66 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 502.65 | 64 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 500.43 | 19 |
| 68 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 499.84 | 45 |
| 69 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 499.1 | 38 |
| 70 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 495.48 | 14 |
| 71 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 475.19 | 30 |
| (71) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 473.31 | 31 |
| 72 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 467.31 | 39 |
| 73 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 467.18 | 25 |
| 74 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 463.46 | 28 |
| 75 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 462.21 | 11 |
| 76 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 458.98 | 30 |
| 77 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 456.54 | 23 |
| 78 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 453.66 | 35 |
| 79 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 440.76 | 27 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 439.73 | 24 |
| 81 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 438.72 | 59 |
| 82 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 436.93 | 33 |
| 83 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 435.94 | 74 |
| 84 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 434.85 | 27 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 424.73 | 39 |
| 86 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 424.22 | 30 |
| 87 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 418.26 | 17 |
| 88 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 416.96 | 25 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 415.65 | 15 |
| 90 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 414.66 | 28 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 407.03 | 23 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 400.91 | 27 |
| 93 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 395.51 | 12 |
| (93) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 393.71 | 27 |
| 94 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 393.71 | 27 |
| 95 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 386.9 | 20 |
| 96 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 383.93 | 11 |
| 97 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 382.52 | 25 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 379.09 | 11 |
| 99 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 378.76 | 43 |
| 100 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 377.9 | 29 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 367.92 | 21 |
| 102 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 367.85 | 39 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 367.83 | 27 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 367.31 | 34 |
| 105 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 366.79 | 13 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 365.98 | 27 |
| 107 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 362.73 | 10 |
| 108 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 361.4 | 38 |
| 109 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 359.97 | 23 |
| 110 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 358.65 | 38 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 358.56 | 13 |
| 112 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 356.73 | 12 |
| (112) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 353.4 | 28 |
| 113 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 351.78 | 24 |
| 114 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 348.68 | 16 |
| 115 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 345.67 | 19 |
| 116 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 344.73 | 29 |
| 117 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 342.41 | 15 |
| 118 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 341.44 | 26 |
| (118) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 338.28 | 20 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 335.98 | 15 |
| 120 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 334.63 | 15 |
| 121 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 334.52 | 26 |
| 122 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 333.06 | 42 |
| 123 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 330.11 | 25 |
| (123) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 326.48 | 16 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 326.2 | 26 |
| (124) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 322.95 | 11 |
| (124) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 322.48 | 40 |
| (124) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 321.16 | 19 |
| (124) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 320.93 | 9 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 320.24 | 11 |
| 126 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 319.46 | 28 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 319.35 | 19 |
| 128 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 316.16 | 59 |
| 129 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 315.86 | 11 |
| 130 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 311.47 | 25 |
| 131 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 308.69 | 26 |
| (131) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 306.56 | 14 |
| (131) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 305.88 | 11 |
| 132 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 304.44 | 18 |
| 133 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 304.28 | 38 |
| 134 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 302.5 | 12 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 302.4 | 24 |
| 136 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 301.35 | 10 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 300.33 | 19 |
| 138 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 299.83 | 24 |
| 139 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 296.16 | 17 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 295 | 20 |
| 141 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 294.18 | 34 |
| 142 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 293.67 | 37 |
| 143 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 293.41 | 13 |
| (143) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 291.75 | 6 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 291.08 | 21 |
| 145 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 290.45 | 6 |
| 146 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 286.89 | 27 |
| (146) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 284.58 | 11 |
| 147 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 284.58 | 12 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 283.34 | 28 |
| 149 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 281.3 | 21 |
| (149) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 281.28 | 24 |
| (149) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 279.65 | 5 |
| 150 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 278.49 | 30 |
| (150) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 277.89 | 8 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 275.95 | 15 |
| 152 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 275.65 | 47 |
| (152) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 275.18 | 17 |
| 153 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 274.33 | 18 |
| 154 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 273.73 | 32 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 273.5 | 17 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 273.29 | 16 |
| 157 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 272.03 | 30 |
| 158 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 271.94 | 30 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 271.58 | 27 |
| 160 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 270.86 | 13 |
| 161 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 270.24 | 17 |
| 162 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 269.08 | 15 |
| (162) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 266.36 | 27 |
| 163 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 264.36 | 5 |
| 164 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 262.41 | 19 |
| 165 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 262.13 | 15 |
| 166 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 262 | 25 |
| 167 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 261.88 | 20 |
| (167) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 261.53 | 15 |
| 168 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 261.34 | 24 |
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