| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12661 | 274 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 9260 | 340 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8740 | 230 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3286 | 84 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2493 | 112 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2354 | 145 |
| 7 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2335 | 123 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2310 | 38 |
| 9 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2035 | 103 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2012 | 105 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1887 | 36 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1844 | 43 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1671 | 33 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1544 | 34 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1535 | 30 |
| 16 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1526 | 47 |
| (16) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1478 | 27 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1386 | 37 |
| 18 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1289 | 48 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1286 | 34 |
| 20 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1270 | 60 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1257 | 31 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1250 | 54 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1240 | 27 |
| 24 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1179 | 14 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1156 | 32 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1149 | 35 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1093 | 22 |
| 27 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1082 | 53 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1051 | 26 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1050 | 24 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1047 | 51 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1043 | 41 |
| 32 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1030 | 38 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1024 | 37 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1023 | 32 |
| 35 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1000 | 48 |
| 36 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 972 | 94 |
| 37 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 968 | 46 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 960 | 31 |
| 39 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 954 | 42 |
| (39) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 952 | 34 |
| 40 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 943 | 23 |
| 41 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 934 | 44 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 928 | 34 |
| 43 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 919 | 31 |
| 44 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 900 | 46 |
| 45 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 898 | 11 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 891 | 22 |
| (46) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 871 | 19 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 862 | 23 |
| 48 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 854 | 38 |
| 49 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 851 | 27 |
| 50 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 843 | 63 |
| (50) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 841 | 19 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 831 | 26 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 829 | 29 |
| (52) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 828 | 42 |
| 53 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 825 | 31 |
| 54 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 805 | 30 |
| 55 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 796 | 74 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 795 | 48 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 791 | 20 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 780 | 36 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 777 | 46 |
| 60 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 775 | 33 |
| 61 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 773 | 25 |
| 62 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 771 | 65 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 761 | 15 |
| 64 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 760 | 36 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 751 | 32 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 743 | 11 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 720 | 22 |
| 67 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 719 | 31 |
| 68 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 715 | 15 |
| 68 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 715 | 25 |
| 70 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 707 | 22 |
| 71 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 706 | 26 |
| 72 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 703 | 60 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 702 | 22 |
| 74 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 701 | 31 |
| (74) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 700 | 27 |
| 74 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 700 | 27 |
| 76 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 698 | 13 |
| 77 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 696 | 27 |
| 78 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 693 | 30 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 691 | 28 |
| 80 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 687 | 28 |
| 81 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 681 | 33 |
| 82 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 675 | 24 |
| 83 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 670 | 38 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 664 | 22 |
| 85 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 660 | 42 |
| 86 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 637 | 28 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 632 | 22 |
| 88 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 628 | 17 |
| 88 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 628 | 14 |
| 90 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 623 | 17 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 622 | 34 |
| 92 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 620 | 12 |
| 93 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 619 | 28 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 606 | 27 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 605 | 40 |
| 96 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 603 | 27 |
| 97 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 593 | 37 |
| (97) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 588 | 28 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 584 | 23 |
| 99 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 583 | 15 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 577 | 16 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 574 | 23 |
| 101 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 574 | 12 |
| 103 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 558 | 26 |
| 103 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 558 | 25 |
| 103 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 558 | 20 |
| 106 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 548 | 44 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 538 | 21 |
| 108 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 535 | 26 |
| 109 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 524 | 38 |
| 109 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 524 | 42 |
| (110) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 521 | 41 |
| 111 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 520 | 11 |
| (111) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 519 | 20 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 518 | 27 |
| 112 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 518 | 26 |
| 114 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 509 | 28 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 506 | 13 |
| 116 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 501 | 27 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 498 | 15 |
| 118 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 496 | 24 |
| 119 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 490 | 23 |
| (119) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 488 | 24 |
| 120 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 487 | 28 |
| 121 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 485 | 30 |
| 122 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 484 | 59 |
| 122 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 484 | 49 |
| 124 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 480 | 39 |
| (124) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 478 | 17 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 475 | 27 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 472 | 11 |
| (126) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 469 | 20 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 468 | 20 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 464 | 24 |
| 129 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 461 | 26 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 460 | 22 |
| 131 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 459 | 16 |
| (131) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 457 | 39 |
| 132 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 454 | 37 |
| (132) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 452 | 11 |
| 133 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 446 | 19 |
| 134 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 445 | 12 |
| 135 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 442 | 34 |
| 136 | Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 441 | 18 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 437 | 20 |
| (137) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 435 | 26 |
| (137) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 435 | 11 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 435 | 28 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 434 | 12 |
| 140 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 433 | 32 |
| 141 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 430 | 19 |
| (141) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 426 | 14 |
| 142 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 425 | 15 |
| 143 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 422 | 11 |
| 144 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 421 | 13 |
| (144) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 421 | 16 |
| 145 | Facultat d'Económiques, Universitat de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 420 | 35 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 420 | 16 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 418 | 17 |
| 148 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 417 | 20 |
| 149 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 415 | 30 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 414 | 20 |
| 151 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 413 | 13 |
| 152 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 412 | 18 |
| 152 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 412 | 26 |
| 154 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 411 | 18 |
| 155 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 410 | 17 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 409 | 27 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 408 | 16 |
| 158 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 404 | 23 |
| 159 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 402 | 13 |
| 160 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 400 | 30 |
| (160) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 398 | 27 |
| 160 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 398 | 24 |
| (161) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 397 | 11 |
| 162 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 392 | 13 |
| 163 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 391 | 16 |
| 164 | Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII) | Paris, France | 390 | 26 |
| 165 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 388 | 29 |
| 165 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 388 | 26 |
| 165 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 388 | 21 |
| 168 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 387 | 5 |
| 169 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 385 | 45 |
| (169) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 385 | 21 |
| 170 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 384 | 15 |
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