| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12766 | 278 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 9511 | 349 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8854 | 235 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3415 | 87 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2518 | 114 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2389 | 147 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2341 | 39 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2319 | 120 |
| 9 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2059 | 102 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2000 | 105 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1896 | 42 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1853 | 34 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1718 | 34 |
| 14 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1603 | 50 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1553 | 34 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1518 | 30 |
| (16) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1461 | 27 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1450 | 40 |
| 18 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1299 | 47 |
| 18 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1299 | 65 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1281 | 33 |
| 21 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1277 | 55 |
| 22 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1270 | 32 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1216 | 25 |
| 24 | Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1185 | 14 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1170 | 35 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1164 | 33 |
| 26 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1145 | 53 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1114 | 22 |
| 28 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 1086 | 46 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1079 | 36 |
| 30 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1078 | 52 |
| 31 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1060 | 24 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1059 | 27 |
| 33 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 1052 | 39 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1050 | 50 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1048 | 41 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1042 | 39 |
| 36 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1042 | 38 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1026 | 30 |
| 39 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1010 | 48 |
| 40 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1003 | 96 |
| 41 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 995 | 48 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 989 | 34 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 976 | 42 |
| 44 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 962 | 75 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 961 | 31 |
| (45) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 942 | 35 |
| 46 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 939 | 33 |
| 47 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 928 | 23 |
| 48 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 917 | 46 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 905 | 23 |
| 50 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 901 | 11 |
| 51 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 899 | 40 |
| (51) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 896 | 32 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 875 | 23 |
| (52) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 875 | 19 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 855 | 36 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 847 | 19 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 839 | 29 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 835 | 26 |
| (55) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 827 | 42 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 822 | 49 |
| 57 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 816 | 50 |
| 58 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 806 | 29 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 806 | 17 |
| 60 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 804 | 75 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 801 | 20 |
| 62 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 795 | 37 |
| 63 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 794 | 66 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 786 | 47 |
| 64 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 786 | 25 |
| 66 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 776 | 33 |
| 67 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 743 | 27 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 738 | 11 |
| 69 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 733 | 62 |
| 70 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 722 | 22 |
| 71 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 721 | 31 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 715 | 22 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 714 | 22 |
| 74 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 713 | 15 |
| (74) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 705 | 27 |
| 74 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 705 | 27 |
| 76 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 703 | 13 |
| 77 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 699 | 27 |
| 77 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 699 | 30 |
| 79 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 693 | 31 |
| 80 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 689 | 33 |
| 80 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 689 | 37 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 689 | 27 |
| 83 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 687 | 43 |
| 84 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 671 | 27 |
| 84 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 671 | 23 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 666 | 22 |
| 87 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 644 | 28 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 643 | 41 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 636 | 27 |
| 89 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 636 | 17 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 633 | 22 |
| 92 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 632 | 14 |
| 93 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 630 | 27 |
| 93 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 630 | 16 |
| 95 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 623 | 28 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 623 | 34 |
| 97 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 619 | 12 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 613 | 26 |
| (98) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 612 | 29 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 607 | 17 |
| 100 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 603 | 37 |
| 101 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 586 | 16 |
| 102 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 583 | 30 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 580 | 16 |
| 104 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 575 | 12 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 574 | 23 |
| 106 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 567 | 43 |
| 107 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 565 | 25 |
| 108 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 560 | 19 |
| 109 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 546 | 26 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 545 | 22 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 540 | 28 |
| (111) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 537 | 21 |
| 112 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 535 | 25 |
| 113 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 534 | 39 |
| 114 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 527 | 32 |
| (114) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 523 | 41 |
| 115 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 520 | 11 |
| 116 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 518 | 25 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 517 | 12 |
| 118 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 510 | 28 |
| 119 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 507 | 19 |
| 120 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 506 | 28 |
| 121 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 503 | 24 |
| 122 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 502 | 26 |
| 123 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 500 | 39 |
| 123 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 500 | 24 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 497 | 15 |
| 126 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 493 | 26 |
| (126) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 492 | 23 |
| 127 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 491 | 50 |
| 128 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 489 | 41 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 488 | 26 |
| 130 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 485 | 59 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 478 | 28 |
| (131) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 476 | 13 |
| (131) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 473 | 17 |
| (131) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 471 | 20 |
| (131) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 468 | 18 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 462 | 20 |
| (132) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 461 | 39 |
| 132 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 461 | 12 |
| 134 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 455 | 14 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 452 | 23 |
| (135) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 450 | 11 |
| 136 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 448 | 20 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 447 | 18 |
| 138 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 444 | 34 |
| 139 | Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 442 | 19 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 442 | 20 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 439 | 20 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 439 | 28 |
| 143 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 435 | 15 |
| 144 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 432 | 20 |
| (144) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 431 | 28 |
| 145 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 428 | 19 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 428 | 12 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 427 | 17 |
| 148 | Facultat d'Económiques, Universitat de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 426 | 35 |
| (148) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 425 | 13 |
| (148) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 421 | 16 |
| 149 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 417 | 20 |
| 149 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 417 | 31 |
| 151 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 415 | 18 |
| 151 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 415 | 14 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 415 | 17 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 413 | 26 |
| 154 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 413 | 30 |
| 156 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 411 | 17 |
| 157 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 410 | 30 |
| 158 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 407 | 27 |
| 159 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 405 | 24 |
| 160 | Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University | Ramat-Gan, Israel | 401 | 10 |
| 160 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 401 | 8 |
| 162 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 400 | 13 |
| (162) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 399 | 27 |
| (162) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 399 | 12 |
| 163 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 398 | 29 |
| 164 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 397 | 13 |
| 165 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 395 | 27 |
| 165 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 395 | 17 |
| 165 | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 395 | 22 |
| 168 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 394 | 45 |
| 169 | Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII) | Paris, France | 389 | 26 |
| 169 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 389 | 5 |
| 171 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 387 | 24 |
| 171 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 387 | 15 |
| 171 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 387 | 21 |
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