| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19215 | 273 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 13724 | 227 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 13593 | 338 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4886 | 83 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3668 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3443 | 111 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3145 | 145 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2967 | 121 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2946 | 42 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2930 | 36 |
| 11 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2650 | 104 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2609 | 102 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2512 | 33 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2225 | 34 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1878 | 30 |
| 16 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1858 | 46 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1858 | 28 |
| (17) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1814 | 27 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1808 | 55 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1806 | 36 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1740 | 31 |
| 21 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1727 | 60 |
| 22 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1716 | 48 |
| 23 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1692 | 14 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1668 | 28 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1609 | 34 |
| 25 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1591 | 31 |
| 26 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1578 | 11 |
| 27 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1478 | 49 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1466 | 21 |
| 29 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1454 | 37 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1452 | 33 |
| 31 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1445 | 24 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1444 | 29 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1437 | 21 |
| 34 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1408 | 24 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1407 | 23 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 1407 | 30 |
| 36 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1403 | 53 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1401 | 51 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1394 | 35 |
| 39 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1367 | 94 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1346 | 38 |
| (40) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1330 | 41 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1316 | 36 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1300 | 31 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1294 | 41 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1215 | 25 |
| 45 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1195 | 63 |
| (45) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1195 | 17 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1181 | 46 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1179 | 30 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1179 | 23 |
| 49 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1170 | 30 |
| 50 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1161 | 38 |
| (50) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1159 | 33 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1149 | 15 |
| (51) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1139 | 19 |
| 52 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 1136 | 44 |
| 53 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1128 | 25 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1126 | 30 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1118 | 30 |
| 56 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1117 | 23 |
| 57 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1103 | 35 |
| 58 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 1097 | 45 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1093 | 21 |
| 60 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1086 | 29 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1069 | 27 |
| 62 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1059 | 28 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1057 | 30 |
| 64 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 1049 | 45 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 1040 | 64 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1011 | 23 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1006 | 19 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1006 | 35 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 989 | 22 |
| (69) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 978 | 27 |
| 69 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 978 | 27 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 971 | 9 |
| 72 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 964 | 30 |
| 73 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 961 | 15 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 954 | 36 |
| 74 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 954 | 25 |
| 76 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 948 | 17 |
| 77 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 946 | 33 |
| 78 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 941 | 59 |
| 79 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 940 | 20 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 923 | 47 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 907 | 22 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 900 | 39 |
| 83 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 899 | 27 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 898 | 34 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 894 | 31 |
| 85 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 888 | 74 |
| 86 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 885 | 24 |
| 87 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 869 | 25 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 865 | 23 |
| 89 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 861 | 27 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 859 | 13 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 849 | 27 |
| 92 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 822 | 12 |
| 93 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 820 | 12 |
| 94 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 818 | 39 |
| 95 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 814 | 38 |
| 96 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 799 | 43 |
| 97 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 796 | 29 |
| 98 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 785 | 38 |
| 98 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 785 | 39 |
| (99) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 780 | 19 |
| (99) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 779 | 28 |
| 99 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 779 | 14 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 778 | 15 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 768 | 21 |
| 103 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 758 | 10 |
| 104 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 753 | 37 |
| (104) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 749 | 11 |
| 105 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 740 | 28 |
| 106 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 738 | 18 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 731 | 11 |
| 108 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 726 | 15 |
| 109 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 721 | 26 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 712 | 27 |
| 111 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 709 | 23 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 707 | 29 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 706 | 24 |
| 114 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 703 | 11 |
| (114) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 698 | 40 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 695 | 15 |
| 116 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 694 | 26 |
| (116) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 678 | 14 |
| (116) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 675 | 11 |
| 117 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 672 | 42 |
| (117) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 668 | 16 |
| 117 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 668 | 26 |
| 119 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 665 | 25 |
| 120 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 663 | 24 |
| 121 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 660 | 16 |
| 121 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 660 | 38 |
| 123 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 655 | 27 |
| (123) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 646 | 24 |
| 124 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 644 | 18 |
| 125 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 639 | 20 |
| 126 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 638 | 26 |
| 127 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 631 | 34 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 630 | 7 |
| 129 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 628 | 25 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 624 | 11 |
| 131 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 622 | 12 |
| 132 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 614 | 13 |
| (132) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 612 | 17 |
| 133 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 608 | 24 |
| 134 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 604 | 32 |
| 135 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 602 | 15 |
| 135 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 602 | 17 |
| 137 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 600 | 59 |
| 138 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 589 | 47 |
| 139 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 583 | 18 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 577 | 27 |
| (140) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 574 | 26 |
| 140 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 574 | 30 |
| 140 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 574 | 12 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 572 | 19 |
| 144 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 570 | 5 |
| 145 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 567 | 16 |
| 145 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 567 | 15 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 565 | 17 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 561 | 19 |
| 148 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 561 | 19 |
| 150 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 559 | 19 |
| 151 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 557 | 19 |
| (151) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 557 | 27 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 554 | 15 |
| (152) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 552 | 15 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 543 | 21 |
| (153) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 541 | 6 |
| 154 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 539 | 13 |
| (154) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 537 | 17 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 525 | 24 |
| 156 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 524 | 8 |
| 156 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 524 | 16 |
| 156 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 524 | 10 |
| 156 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 524 | 25 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 524 | 15 |
| (160) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 523 | 11 |
| 161 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 522 | 25 |
| 162 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 519 | 24 |
| 163 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 517 | 30 |
| 164 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 515 | 20 |
| (164) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 515 | 5 |
| 165 | Facultat d'Económiques, Universitat de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 510 | 35 |
| (165) | Maastricht research school of Economics of TEchnology and ORganizations (METEOR), Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 510 | 16 |
| 166 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 509 | 30 |
| 166 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 509 | 28 |
| 168 | Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 508 | 18 |
| 168 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 508 | 21 |
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