| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9585.11 | 274 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6133.38 | 340 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 6120.84 | 230 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2382.12 | 84 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1799.67 | 38 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1766.15 | 112 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1571.37 | 145 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1479.31 | 105 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1468.91 | 43 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1433.57 | 123 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1375.94 | 33 |
| 12 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1249.38 | 103 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1231.23 | 30 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1194.73 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1156.44 | 36 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1141.26 | 34 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1035.11 | 27 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1025.03 | 14 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 993.38 | 34 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 971.03 | 37 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 913.7 | 31 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 893.46 | 32 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 872.22 | 22 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 864.56 | 54 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 838.56 | 24 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 837.83 | 35 |
| 25 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 834.28 | 60 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 801.1 | 41 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 797.12 | 32 |
| 28 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 768.98 | 47 |
| 29 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 764.58 | 38 |
| 30 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 762.85 | 48 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 753.65 | 31 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 748.05 | 37 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 736.45 | 51 |
| (33) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 703.61 | 19 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 693.25 | 31 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 688.11 | 26 |
| (35) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 683 | 19 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 661.53 | 22 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 660.03 | 29 |
| 38 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 658.99 | 42 |
| 39 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 654.87 | 48 |
| 40 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 641.44 | 23 |
| 41 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 636.49 | 94 |
| 42 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 625.13 | 46 |
| 43 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 621.21 | 20 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 621.04 | 26 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 620.97 | 23 |
| 46 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 618.5 | 13 |
| 47 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 593.98 | 44 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 589.98 | 15 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 589.93 | 11 |
| (49) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 589.34 | 34 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 586.92 | 46 |
| 51 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 586.55 | 53 |
| (51) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 585.89 | 42 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 582.24 | 34 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 581.7 | 33 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 580.38 | 48 |
| 55 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 558.96 | 15 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 549.21 | 36 |
| 57 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 547.11 | 27 |
| 58 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 545.08 | 30 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 536.6 | 22 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 536.28 | 22 |
| 61 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 536 | 31 |
| 62 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 526.54 | 63 |
| 63 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 519.28 | 24 |
| 64 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 518.91 | 28 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 516.51 | 22 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 512.45 | 22 |
| 67 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 512.34 | 46 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 511.64 | 65 |
| 69 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 508.51 | 38 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 502.18 | 28 |
| 71 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 501.06 | 14 |
| 72 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 499.44 | 31 |
| (72) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 478.06 | 32 |
| 73 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 477.89 | 31 |
| 74 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 469.6 | 25 |
| 75 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 465.71 | 11 |
| 76 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 464.35 | 17 |
| 77 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 464.3 | 28 |
| 78 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 463.25 | 36 |
| 79 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 459.71 | 22 |
| 80 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 457.52 | 27 |
| 81 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 457.16 | 38 |
| 82 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 455.85 | 28 |
| 83 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 450.06 | 60 |
| 84 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 440.36 | 74 |
| 85 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 440.1 | 33 |
| 86 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 437.35 | 26 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 436.73 | 23 |
| 88 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 430.64 | 30 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 429.31 | 40 |
| 90 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 426.9 | 12 |
| 91 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 423.26 | 17 |
| 92 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 419.46 | 25 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 418.82 | 16 |
| 94 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 415.86 | 26 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 406.53 | 23 |
| 96 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 405.43 | 44 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 404.41 | 27 |
| (97) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 397.29 | 27 |
| 98 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 397.29 | 27 |
| 99 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 395.84 | 42 |
| 100 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 395.76 | 12 |
| 101 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 389.4 | 20 |
| 102 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 380.1 | 27 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 378.92 | 11 |
| 104 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 372.68 | 11 |
| (104) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 370.23 | 28 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 370 | 27 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 369.73 | 34 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 369.73 | 27 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 368.25 | 21 |
| 109 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 367.81 | 24 |
| 110 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 365.54 | 13 |
| 111 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 364.48 | 37 |
| 112 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 364.31 | 38 |
| 113 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 359.89 | 23 |
| 114 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 359.88 | 16 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 359.56 | 13 |
| 116 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 355.56 | 30 |
| (116) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 351.31 | 20 |
| 117 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 345.17 | 19 |
| 118 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 344.75 | 15 |
| 119 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 344.27 | 26 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 335.98 | 15 |
| 121 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 335.73 | 42 |
| 122 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 331.68 | 25 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 331.49 | 12 |
| (123) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 330.23 | 16 |
| (123) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 328.81 | 41 |
| (123) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 328.58 | 20 |
| 124 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 327.15 | 11 |
| 125 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 325.5 | 13 |
| 126 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 324.5 | 59 |
| 127 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 321.46 | 28 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 321.18 | 20 |
| (128) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 320.95 | 11 |
| 129 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 320.78 | 28 |
| (129) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 319.43 | 9 |
| 130 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 318.95 | 26 |
| 131 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 317.94 | 27 |
| 132 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 317.8 | 26 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 314.56 | 24 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 314 | 20 |
| (134) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 311.56 | 14 |
| 135 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 310.52 | 19 |
| 136 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 309.62 | 28 |
| 137 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 306.45 | 39 |
| 138 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 306.35 | 10 |
| (138) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 305.88 | 11 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 303.41 | 22 |
| 140 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 302.16 | 23 |
| 141 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 301.18 | 34 |
| 142 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 299.53 | 10 |
| (142) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 298.53 | 16 |
| 143 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 297.24 | 13 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 296.78 | 16 |
| 145 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 296.5 | 17 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 296.33 | 20 |
| 147 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 292.11 | 6 |
| (147) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 291.75 | 6 |
| 148 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 291.58 | 12 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 291.17 | 28 |
| (149) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 288.93 | 17 |
| (149) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 288.41 | 11 |
| 150 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 286.15 | 49 |
| 151 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 282.39 | 21 |
| (151) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 281.89 | 8 |
| 152 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 281.74 | 30 |
| (152) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 279.65 | 5 |
| 153 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 278.33 | 18 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 278.04 | 16 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 277.83 | 17 |
| 156 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 276.29 | 19 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 276.08 | 20 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 275.2 | 26 |
| 159 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 275.14 | 32 |
| (159) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 274.36 | 27 |
| 160 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 274.19 | 30 |
| 161 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 273.84 | 37 |
| 162 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 272.08 | 27 |
| 163 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 270.61 | 13 |
| 164 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 270.49 | 17 |
| 165 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 269.91 | 15 |
| (165) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 269.37 | 24 |
| 166 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 266.34 | 24 |
| 167 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 264.88 | 20 |
| 168 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 264.86 | 5 |
| 169 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 264.46 | 15 |
| 170 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 261.81 | 22 |
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