| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 78995.04 | 278 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 50306.38 | 235 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 44368.46 | 349 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 19686.85 | 87 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15466.01 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 15011.13 | 114 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 13984 | 105 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13374.21 | 42 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 10580.2 | 34 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10335.01 | 120 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10200.18 | 34 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10081.11 | 147 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8920.25 | 40 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8820.76 | 25 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8779.82 | 33 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8740.64 | 33 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8203.05 | 33 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 7494.75 | 30 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 7404.23 | 31 |
| (19) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 7310.91 | 27 |
| 20 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7181.16 | 65 |
| 21 | Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7176.24 | 14 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 7114.37 | 50 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6981.3 | 23 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6980.59 | 35 |
| 24 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 6952.82 | 102 |
| 25 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6883.09 | 32 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6811.34 | 22 |
| 27 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6697.13 | 55 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6640.95 | 39 |
| (28) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6548.05 | 19 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6304.31 | 27 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 6223.35 | 23 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 6058.81 | 41 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6010.5 | 36 |
| 33 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 5675.28 | 39 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5627.38 | 29 |
| 35 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5602.18 | 47 |
| 36 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5549.33 | 20 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 5467.48 | 30 |
| 38 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 5448.48 | 42 |
| 39 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 5443.62 | 48 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5418.65 | 38 |
| (40) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5163.41 | 42 |
| 41 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 5137.57 | 48 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 5117.85 | 34 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5095.41 | 22 |
| 44 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5061.66 | 13 |
| 45 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 5059.65 | 23 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 5049.55 | 22 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 5023.09 | 31 |
| 48 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4963.31 | 15 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4916.34 | 26 |
| 50 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 4884.98 | 33 |
| 51 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 4819.53 | 23 |
| 52 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4810.82 | 50 |
| 53 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4781.51 | 17 |
| 54 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 4678.26 | 46 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 4614.81 | 22 |
| 56 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 4553.58 | 53 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 4496.13 | 27 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4479.41 | 17 |
| 59 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4401.22 | 14 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 4373.94 | 11 |
| 61 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4340.04 | 29 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4160.98 | 16 |
| (62) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 4126.93 | 35 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 4124.95 | 36 |
| 64 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 4118.83 | 27 |
| 65 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4112.44 | 28 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4080.55 | 22 |
| (66) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4045.53 | 32 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 4011.91 | 26 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3972.28 | 27 |
| 69 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 3921.76 | 75 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3917.38 | 24 |
| 71 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 3901.16 | 96 |
| 72 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3896.83 | 37 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3881.93 | 34 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 3864.5 | 26 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3847.18 | 47 |
| 76 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 3829.38 | 62 |
| 77 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3816.98 | 31 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3802.58 | 17 |
| 79 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3758.01 | 25 |
| 80 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3715.25 | 20 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3709.91 | 12 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 3686.18 | 49 |
| 83 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3676.66 | 24 |
| 84 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 3659.81 | 40 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3600.1 | 28 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 3574.75 | 18 |
| 87 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 3516.83 | 30 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3492.83 | 20 |
| 88 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 3482.7 | 27 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 3411.49 | 28 |
| 90 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3361.05 | 12 |
| 91 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3276.34 | 22 |
| 92 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 3240.91 | 37 |
| 93 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 3221.53 | 52 |
| (93) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3205.99 | 19 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 3173.41 | 20 |
| 95 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3131.28 | 27 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 3125.41 | 23 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 3117.53 | 34 |
| 98 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3088.41 | 11 |
| (98) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3077.7 | 13 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 3068.75 | 41 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3048.91 | 22 |
| 101 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 3045.66 | 25 |
| 102 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3019.44 | 13 |
| (102) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2998.11 | 16 |
| 103 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2989.89 | 32 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2982.39 | 12 |
| (104) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2967.51 | 27 |
| 105 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2967.51 | 27 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2931.69 | 20 |
| 107 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2928.71 | 27 |
| 108 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2899.49 | 43 |
| 109 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2848.05 | 10 |
| 110 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2819.74 | 26 |
| 111 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2814.51 | 17 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2801.33 | 26 |
| (112) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2796.66 | 14 |
| 113 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2796.66 | 15 |
| 114 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2748.36 | 16 |
| (114) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2724.03 | 16 |
| 115 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 2715.95 | 50 |
| 116 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2713.75 | 19 |
| 117 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2707 | 14 |
| 118 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2698.97 | 25 |
| 119 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2687.5 | 10 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 2687.33 | 27 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 2682.57 | 28 |
| (121) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2679.41 | 8 |
| 122 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 2650.16 | 9 |
| 123 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 2634.86 | 46 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2618.75 | 8 |
| 125 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 2612.44 | 28 |
| (125) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2597.16 | 12 |
| (125) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2567.81 | 19 |
| (125) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2567.38 | 9 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2536.66 | 10 |
| (126) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2533 | 29 |
| 127 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 2528.48 | 12 |
| 128 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 2524.01 | 66 |
| 129 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2514.83 | 10 |
| 130 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 2509.93 | 37 |
| 131 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 2501.15 | 19 |
| 132 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 2501.01 | 30 |
| 133 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 2438.86 | 24 |
| 134 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2437.66 | 16 |
| 135 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 2435.85 | 41 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 2425.91 | 23 |
| 137 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 2416.33 | 43 |
| 138 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 2413.66 | 19 |
| 139 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 2412.66 | 19 |
| 140 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2410.91 | 24 |
| 141 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 2402.96 | 33 |
| 142 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2401.99 | 15 |
| 143 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2376.78 | 39 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 2376.16 | 17 |
| (144) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2352.59 | 6 |
| 145 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 2324.5 | 25 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2316.69 | 20 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2251.41 | 18 |
| 148 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2251 | 12 |
| 149 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 2249.58 | 28 |
| 150 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 2231.4 | 14 |
| (150) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2200.95 | 11 |
| 151 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2199.41 | 6 |
| 152 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 2174.86 | 20 |
| (152) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2157.41 | 20 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University | Ramat-Gan, Israel | 2155.75 | 10 |
| 154 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 2150.6 | 26 |
| 155 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2134.87 | 12 |
| 156 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 2129.53 | 5 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2127.26 | 17 |
| 158 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 2126.53 | 13 |
| 159 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 2126.03 | 50 |
| (159) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2119.84 | 13 |
| 160 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 2114.66 | 15 |
| 161 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2107.44 | 4 |
| (161) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2107.44 | 4 |
| (161) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2106.35 | 13 |
| 162 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2088.4 | 17 |
| 163 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2084.9 | 7 |
| 164 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2080.43 | 28 |
| 165 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 2068.99 | 17 |
| 166 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 2060 | 21 |
| 167 | James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 2055 | 9 |
| 168 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 2052.91 | 14 |
| 169 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 2052.81 | 26 |
| 170 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 2043.83 | 20 |
| 171 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 2042.86 | 10 |
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