| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9669.62 | 278 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6303.72 | 349 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 6250.22 | 235 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2473.29 | 87 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1817.45 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1791.73 | 114 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1603.26 | 147 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1507.06 | 42 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1479.47 | 105 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1428.18 | 120 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1406.27 | 34 |
| 12 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1261.03 | 102 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1212.73 | 30 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1176.23 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1145.93 | 34 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1128.36 | 34 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1028.53 | 14 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1026.19 | 40 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1023.28 | 25 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 993.25 | 33 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 921.6 | 32 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 900.79 | 33 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 885.92 | 55 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 880.97 | 22 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 854.41 | 35 |
| 24 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 849.28 | 65 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 847.4 | 24 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 808.76 | 41 |
| 27 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 807.23 | 50 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 797.12 | 30 |
| 29 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 771.74 | 38 |
| 30 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 767.6 | 47 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 763.72 | 39 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 756.98 | 31 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 740.62 | 50 |
| (33) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 707.86 | 19 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 705.82 | 33 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 691.15 | 27 |
| (35) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 687.83 | 19 |
| 36 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 686.68 | 39 |
| 37 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 681.54 | 46 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 673.78 | 23 |
| 39 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 668.99 | 42 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 666.2 | 29 |
| 41 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 665.37 | 48 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 662.31 | 36 |
| 43 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 656.88 | 96 |
| 44 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 645.13 | 53 |
| 45 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 640.19 | 48 |
| 46 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 633.53 | 23 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 628.05 | 23 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 626.21 | 26 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 625.38 | 20 |
| 50 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 621.84 | 13 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 620.81 | 17 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 606.83 | 36 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 606.79 | 49 |
| 54 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 605.35 | 75 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 592.83 | 47 |
| 56 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 591.68 | 34 |
| (56) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 589.39 | 42 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 589.26 | 11 |
| (57) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 588.04 | 35 |
| 58 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 585.55 | 52 |
| 59 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 582.2 | 33 |
| 60 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 567.79 | 15 |
| (60) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 566.21 | 32 |
| 61 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 551.91 | 29 |
| 62 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 543.26 | 40 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 537.77 | 22 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 537.63 | 31 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 533.48 | 66 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 532.78 | 22 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 525.55 | 22 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 522.78 | 22 |
| 69 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 521.26 | 46 |
| 70 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 518.91 | 27 |
| 71 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 515.78 | 23 |
| 72 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 502.69 | 14 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 501.26 | 27 |
| 74 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 480.16 | 37 |
| 75 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 479.23 | 31 |
| 76 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 477.39 | 62 |
| 77 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 474.26 | 25 |
| 78 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 473.84 | 50 |
| 79 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 470.71 | 22 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 468.15 | 27 |
| 81 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 467.93 | 17 |
| 82 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 466.41 | 37 |
| 83 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 465.88 | 11 |
| 84 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 459.27 | 27 |
| 85 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 459.06 | 43 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 458.81 | 41 |
| 87 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 458.26 | 28 |
| 88 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 452.96 | 27 |
| 89 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 445.85 | 75 |
| 90 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 443.01 | 33 |
| 91 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 440.96 | 27 |
| 92 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 434.89 | 30 |
| 93 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 427.4 | 12 |
| 94 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 426.43 | 16 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 424.06 | 17 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 421.15 | 16 |
| 97 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 416.6 | 43 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 411.41 | 26 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 407.53 | 23 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 402.92 | 12 |
| 101 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 402.02 | 28 |
| 102 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 401.19 | 25 |
| (102) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 400.19 | 27 |
| 103 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 400.19 | 27 |
| 104 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 396.1 | 12 |
| 105 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 392.65 | 19 |
| (105) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 390.48 | 29 |
| 106 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 388.54 | 19 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 384.51 | 28 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 382.31 | 32 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 378.5 | 26 |
| 110 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 374.93 | 11 |
| 111 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 373.4 | 37 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 373.06 | 34 |
| 113 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 371.98 | 39 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 371.5 | 22 |
| 115 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 370.31 | 24 |
| 116 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 366.64 | 24 |
| 117 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 363.54 | 13 |
| (117) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 352.81 | 20 |
| (117) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 349.28 | 13 |
| 118 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 348.31 | 14 |
| 119 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 347.17 | 20 |
| 120 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 346.41 | 16 |
| 121 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 345.77 | 25 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 344.35 | 20 |
| 123 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 342.94 | 30 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 340.45 | 26 |
| (124) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 339.91 | 21 |
| 125 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 335.63 | 25 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 335.48 | 15 |
| (126) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 330.23 | 16 |
| (126) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 329.31 | 41 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 328.66 | 12 |
| 128 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 327.33 | 59 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 326.4 | 28 |
| 130 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 323 | 26 |
| 131 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 322.63 | 28 |
| 132 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 321.54 | 26 |
| 133 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 321.36 | 28 |
| 134 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 320.95 | 28 |
| (134) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 317.96 | 18 |
| (134) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 317.14 | 13 |
| (134) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 317.09 | 9 |
| 135 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 311.7 | 41 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 310.83 | 20 |
| 137 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 310.79 | 19 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 307.71 | 18 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 307.17 | 17 |
| 140 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 306.16 | 12 |
| 141 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 306.01 | 10 |
| (141) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 304.8 | 11 |
| 142 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 304 | 24 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 302.41 | 23 |
| 144 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 302.18 | 34 |
| (144) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 300.59 | 6 |
| (144) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 300.28 | 16 |
| 145 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 299.54 | 39 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 298.66 | 20 |
| 147 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 298.24 | 14 |
| 148 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 298.24 | 17 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 294.37 | 28 |
| 150 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 294.06 | 10 |
| 151 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 292.74 | 50 |
| 152 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 292.36 | 6 |
| 153 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 292.03 | 10 |
| 154 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 289.91 | 30 |
| (154) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 289.41 | 12 |
| (154) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 285.84 | 17 |
| 155 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 282.55 | 21 |
| (155) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 281.56 | 8 |
| (155) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 281.18 | 6 |
| 156 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 280.33 | 18 |
| 157 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 278.89 | 24 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 278.83 | 17 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 277.65 | 27 |
| 160 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 277.08 | 20 |
| 161 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 276.79 | 19 |
| 162 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 276.61 | 17 |
| (162) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 275.03 | 27 |
| 163 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 273.69 | 30 |
| 164 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 273.61 | 13 |
| 165 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 273.58 | 17 |
| 166 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 272.83 | 26 |
| (166) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 270.87 | 23 |
| 167 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 270.78 | 20 |
| 168 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 269.41 | 15 |
| 169 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 268.08 | 15 |
| 170 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 267.16 | 8 |
| 171 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 266.21 | 20 |
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