| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 77989.99 | 274 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 48561.29 | 230 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 43227.93 | 340 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 18986.26 | 84 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15339.3 | 38 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14597.46 | 112 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 13823.16 | 105 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13400.91 | 43 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 10352.86 | 33 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10264.31 | 123 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10134.84 | 34 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9760.94 | 145 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8890.59 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8758.61 | 34 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8545.75 | 37 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8528.41 | 31 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8076.05 | 32 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 7558.24 | 30 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 7385.23 | 31 |
| (19) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 7374.41 | 27 |
| 20 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7176.24 | 14 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 7094.37 | 51 |
| 22 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7035.33 | 60 |
| 23 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 6879.05 | 103 |
| 24 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6815.93 | 31 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6812.8 | 23 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6784.34 | 22 |
| (26) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6763.26 | 35 |
| 27 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6608.63 | 54 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6510.45 | 37 |
| (28) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6470.05 | 19 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6268.45 | 26 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 6074.6 | 22 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 5942.31 | 41 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5541.71 | 29 |
| 33 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5504.35 | 48 |
| 34 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5496.5 | 20 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 5452.64 | 32 |
| 36 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 5374.11 | 46 |
| 37 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 5346.89 | 42 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5326.31 | 38 |
| (38) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5088.08 | 42 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 5049.55 | 22 |
| 40 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 5036.15 | 23 |
| 41 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 5029.23 | 48 |
| 42 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 5009.59 | 31 |
| 43 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5009.49 | 13 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4967.8 | 34 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4915.58 | 22 |
| 46 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 4875.98 | 33 |
| 47 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 4850.53 | 24 |
| 48 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4842.31 | 15 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4841.84 | 26 |
| 50 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4769.76 | 17 |
| 51 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 4662.94 | 27 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 4594.15 | 22 |
| 53 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4509.57 | 47 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 4373.94 | 11 |
| 55 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4368.85 | 14 |
| 56 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4327.63 | 30 |
| (56) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4185.08 | 34 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4160.98 | 16 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 4137.29 | 23 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4091.83 | 15 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4070.28 | 22 |
| 61 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4052.28 | 28 |
| 62 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 4022 | 25 |
| 63 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 3956.98 | 44 |
| 64 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3954.15 | 31 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3924.45 | 28 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3891.26 | 36 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3866.83 | 36 |
| 68 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3857.08 | 38 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3856.88 | 24 |
| 70 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3850.68 | 26 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 3850 | 27 |
| 72 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 3846.41 | 94 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3821.41 | 27 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3802.93 | 46 |
| 75 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3716.48 | 31 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3709.91 | 12 |
| 77 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3655.25 | 19 |
| 78 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3642.91 | 24 |
| 79 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 3625.13 | 60 |
| 80 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 3498.5 | 30 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3488.6 | 24 |
| 82 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 3477.7 | 27 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3476.58 | 20 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 3469.18 | 48 |
| 84 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 3395.76 | 63 |
| 85 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 3372.14 | 38 |
| 86 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3361.05 | 12 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 3304.98 | 32 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 3257.66 | 27 |
| 88 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 3198.86 | 53 |
| 89 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3174.45 | 28 |
| 90 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 3171.25 | 37 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3163.49 | 19 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 3156.58 | 20 |
| 92 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 3124.88 | 26 |
| 93 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3103.34 | 22 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 3088.36 | 34 |
| 95 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3077.61 | 13 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 3076.41 | 23 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 3066.08 | 16 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3053 | 13 |
| 99 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3050.41 | 11 |
| 100 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 3048.66 | 26 |
| (100) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2994.36 | 16 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2986.41 | 21 |
| (101) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2943.68 | 27 |
| 102 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2943.68 | 27 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2923.53 | 20 |
| 104 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2893.21 | 28 |
| 105 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2848.05 | 10 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2789.99 | 27 |
| 107 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2784.9 | 30 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2779.75 | 40 |
| 109 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2778.68 | 17 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2774.05 | 11 |
| 111 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2747.24 | 44 |
| 112 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2738.86 | 15 |
| (112) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2724.03 | 16 |
| 113 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2706.5 | 13 |
| (113) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2698.11 | 11 |
| (113) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2689.83 | 14 |
| 114 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2689.83 | 15 |
| 115 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2689.25 | 20 |
| (115) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2679.41 | 8 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 2674.83 | 26 |
| 117 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2657 | 10 |
| 118 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2650 | 11 |
| 119 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 2649.5 | 9 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 2644.77 | 28 |
| 121 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2638.43 | 25 |
| 122 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 2634.86 | 46 |
| 123 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2631.83 | 10 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2625.54 | 9 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2596.66 | 11 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2557.58 | 26 |
| (124) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2515.31 | 19 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2495.83 | 7 |
| 126 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 2495.81 | 12 |
| 127 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 2478.94 | 27 |
| 128 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 2471.93 | 36 |
| 129 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 2450.84 | 65 |
| 130 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2438.16 | 17 |
| 131 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 2414.86 | 23 |
| 132 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2409.25 | 23 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 2408.08 | 22 |
| 134 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 2406.66 | 19 |
| 135 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 2401.85 | 39 |
| 136 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2361.44 | 38 |
| 137 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 2356.13 | 33 |
| (137) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2337.66 | 28 |
| 138 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2327.24 | 14 |
| 139 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 2314.95 | 42 |
| 140 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 2304 | 25 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2303.25 | 19 |
| 142 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2277.33 | 12 |
| 143 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 2276.03 | 16 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 2269 | 16 |
| (144) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2231.59 | 6 |
| 145 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2199.41 | 6 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2191.36 | 20 |
| (146) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2190.95 | 11 |
| (146) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2160.41 | 21 |
| 147 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 2153.66 | 28 |
| 148 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2134.87 | 12 |
| 149 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 2127.58 | 18 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2111.6 | 17 |
| 151 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 2106.03 | 13 |
| 152 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 2101.03 | 5 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 2098.16 | 15 |
| 154 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2096.94 | 4 |
| (154) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2096.94 | 4 |
| (154) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2093.93 | 14 |
| 155 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2084.9 | 7 |
| 156 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 2081.11 | 49 |
| 157 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2067.9 | 17 |
| 158 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2055.93 | 28 |
| 159 | James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 2055 | 9 |
| 160 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 2053 | 21 |
| 161 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 2049.7 | 26 |
| 162 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 2046.49 | 17 |
| (162) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2045.09 | 12 |
| 163 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 2041.83 | 42 |
| 164 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 2041.33 | 20 |
| 165 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 2029.36 | 10 |
| 166 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 2028.91 | 13 |
| 167 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 2021.56 | 27 |
| 168 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 2019.11 | 18 |
| 169 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 1984.95 | 15 |
| 170 | Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University | Ramat-Gan, Israel | 1981.41 | 9 |
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