| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9831.71 | 281 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6346.16 | 352 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 6301.68 | 237 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2627.47 | 93 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1884.15 | 119 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1874.74 | 39 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1615.71 | 148 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1486.98 | 41 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1483.56 | 103 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1448.55 | 120 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1400.35 | 31 |
| 12 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1285.53 | 104 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1224.4 | 30 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1187.4 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1153.68 | 34 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1129.53 | 34 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1064.46 | 32 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1033.2 | 14 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1033.11 | 25 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1032.28 | 41 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 963.8 | 33 |
| 21 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 940.13 | 51 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 901.71 | 34 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 884.48 | 55 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 880.72 | 23 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 869.83 | 36 |
| 25 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 856.61 | 65 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 849.9 | 24 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 815.83 | 41 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 811.87 | 30 |
| 29 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 810.23 | 49 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 787.66 | 40 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 782.72 | 26 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 782.55 | 41 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 769.48 | 31 |
| 34 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 745.22 | 47 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 744.45 | 50 |
| (35) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 710.78 | 20 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 710.65 | 34 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 696.4 | 28 |
| (37) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 689.58 | 19 |
| 38 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 688.21 | 47 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 680.78 | 23 |
| 40 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 677.4 | 49 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 675.49 | 27 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 671.91 | 41 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 666.7 | 29 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 665.23 | 37 |
| 45 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 655.38 | 20 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 647.81 | 18 |
| 47 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 644.86 | 23 |
| 48 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 641.13 | 95 |
| 49 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 637.52 | 47 |
| 50 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 630.13 | 57 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 627.5 | 52 |
| 52 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 622.75 | 13 |
| (52) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 617.22 | 42 |
| 53 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 617.1 | 78 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 612.46 | 49 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 610 | 37 |
| 56 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 599.26 | 35 |
| (56) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 594.71 | 36 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 591.76 | 11 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 586.86 | 33 |
| (58) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 579.32 | 32 |
| 59 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 572.66 | 29 |
| 60 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 570.79 | 15 |
| 61 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 562.81 | 28 |
| 62 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 558.96 | 32 |
| 63 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 548.5 | 52 |
| 64 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 547.15 | 67 |
| 65 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 546.63 | 40 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 541.1 | 22 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 536.28 | 22 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 535.71 | 22 |
| 69 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 526.11 | 24 |
| 70 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 525.43 | 46 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 517.03 | 21 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 513.01 | 30 |
| 73 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 503.73 | 14 |
| 74 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 499.76 | 27 |
| 75 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 494.64 | 65 |
| 76 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 494.49 | 80 |
| 77 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 494.23 | 39 |
| 78 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 488.97 | 28 |
| 79 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 486.73 | 31 |
| 80 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 485.81 | 47 |
| 81 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 484.25 | 51 |
| 82 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 483.5 | 37 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 470.48 | 27 |
| 84 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 470.35 | 18 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 469.06 | 42 |
| 86 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 467.8 | 22 |
| 87 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 466.54 | 11 |
| 88 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 459.43 | 28 |
| 89 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 459.38 | 27 |
| 90 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | Maastricht, Netherlands | 450.13 | 34 |
| 91 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 449.63 | 28 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 444.23 | 18 |
| 93 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 440.47 | 30 |
| 94 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 432.06 | 12 |
| 95 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 431.43 | 39 |
| 96 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 429.19 | 29 |
| 97 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 427.6 | 16 |
| 98 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 424.25 | 36 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 423.07 | 16 |
| 100 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 422.93 | 45 |
| 101 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 417.93 | 25 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 416.53 | 24 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 415.66 | 26 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 406.75 | 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 | 402.52 | 27 |
| 105 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 402.52 | 27 |
| 106 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 400.19 | 24 |
| 107 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 396.65 | 19 |
| 108 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 396.41 | 19 |
| 109 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 396.21 | 12 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 391.99 | 28 |
| (110) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 391.98 | 29 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 386.83 | 26 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 384.56 | 32 |
| 113 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 382.9 | 40 |
| 114 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 382.72 | 26 |
| 115 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 380.26 | 11 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 378.06 | 34 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 376.08 | 23 |
| 118 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 368.45 | 26 |
| 119 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 365.21 | 13 |
| (119) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 358.28 | 13 |
| (119) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 354.39 | 20 |
| 120 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 352.1 | 25 |
| 121 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 351.65 | 16 |
| 122 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 348.67 | 20 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 348.43 | 21 |
| 124 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 346.75 | 16 |
| (124) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 345.83 | 21 |
| 125 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 341.65 | 26 |
| 126 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 340.66 | 18 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 337.98 | 15 |
| 128 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 336.33 | 60 |
| (128) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 335.48 | 41 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 334.73 | 28 |
| (129) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 332.06 | 17 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 331.83 | 13 |
| 131 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 326.36 | 28 |
| 132 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 325.63 | 28 |
| (132) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 324.56 | 13 |
| 133 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 322.87 | 20 |
| 134 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 321.54 | 26 |
| 135 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 320.92 | 26 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 320.66 | 20 |
| 137 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 320.18 | 11 |
| 138 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 319.91 | 24 |
| 139 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 319.7 | 30 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 318.33 | 21 |
| (140) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 318.1 | 19 |
| (140) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 316.93 | 9 |
| 141 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 314.53 | 41 |
| (141) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 310.54 | 18 |
| 142 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 309.74 | 15 |
| 143 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 309.51 | 35 |
| 144 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 309.23 | 11 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 309.03 | 17 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 308.55 | 18 |
| (146) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 307.63 | 11 |
| 147 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 306.41 | 12 |
| (147) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 305.6 | 7 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 304.41 | 23 |
| 149 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 301.9 | 51 |
| (149) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 300.91 | 13 |
| (149) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 300.59 | 6 |
| 150 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 299.98 | 20 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 296.5 | 28 |
| (151) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 295.73 | 9 |
| 152 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 294.53 | 10 |
| 153 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 293.4 | 6 |
| 154 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 293.11 | 31 |
| 155 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 290.41 | 30 |
| 156 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 290.34 | 40 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 288.18 | 9 |
| 158 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 287.8 | 21 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 285.41 | 18 |
| (159) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 281.36 | 28 |
| 160 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 280.33 | 26 |
| 161 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 279.89 | 24 |
| 162 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 279.83 | 18 |
| 163 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 279.58 | 20 |
| 164 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 279.15 | 27 |
| 165 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 278.79 | 19 |
| 166 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 276.95 | 13 |
| 167 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 275.78 | 17 |
| (167) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 275.61 | 15 |
| 168 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 272.41 | 15 |
| (168) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 271.39 | 40 |
| (168) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 271.03 | 23 |
| 169 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 270.88 | 20 |
| 170 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 269.58 | 15 |
| 171 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 269.36 | 29 |
| 172 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 266.53 | 5 |
| 173 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 265.83 | 17 |
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