| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9992.58 | 285 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6698.85 | 363 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 6404.1 | 238 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2669.35 | 95 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1888.38 | 124 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1866.1 | 40 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1644.21 | 148 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1508.31 | 104 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1501.48 | 40 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1446.94 | 120 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1404.02 | 31 |
| 12 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1322.23 | 105 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1244.73 | 31 |
| (13) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1209.56 | 28 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1153.18 | 35 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1134.53 | 35 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1053.21 | 32 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1044.61 | 43 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1035.71 | 25 |
| 19 | Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1035.2 | 14 |
| 20 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 1034.71 | 56 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 978.06 | 25 |
| 22 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 969.58 | 34 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 929.1 | 55 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 906.71 | 34 |
| 25 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 886.94 | 63 |
| 26 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 882.96 | 43 |
| (26) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 880.75 | 38 |
| 27 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 873.81 | 49 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 854.15 | 24 |
| 29 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 850.2 | 64 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 824 | 42 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 813.2 | 30 |
| 32 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 785.58 | 47 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 784.47 | 27 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 782.89 | 41 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 770.81 | 32 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 739.12 | 50 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 716.3 | 55 |
| (37) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 713.11 | 20 |
| 38 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 711.82 | 34 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 701.73 | 28 |
| 40 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 696.82 | 50 |
| (40) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 693.58 | 19 |
| 41 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 693.21 | 47 |
| 42 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 691.95 | 62 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 681.78 | 23 |
| 44 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 679.58 | 40 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 676.83 | 28 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 671.4 | 37 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 668.05 | 36 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 667.53 | 28 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 654.88 | 20 |
| 50 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 649.89 | 97 |
| (50) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 648.61 | 23 |
| 51 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 645.94 | 47 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 645.48 | 18 |
| 53 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 626.55 | 78 |
| 54 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 623.25 | 13 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 616.29 | 49 |
| (55) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 601.72 | 41 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 600.76 | 12 |
| (56) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 599.21 | 36 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 593.25 | 36 |
| 58 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 588.56 | 30 |
| 59 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 587.36 | 33 |
| (59) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 583.66 | 32 |
| 60 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 577.46 | 38 |
| 61 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 572.12 | 15 |
| 62 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 561.65 | 28 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 558.96 | 32 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 554.77 | 23 |
| 65 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 554.29 | 53 |
| 66 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 547.73 | 66 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 539.88 | 22 |
| 68 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 534.13 | 46 |
| 69 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 531.15 | 24 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 517.86 | 21 |
| 71 | Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) | Wien, Austria | 517.33 | 25 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 515.63 | 30 |
| 73 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 503.9 | 80 |
| 74 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 503.31 | 47 |
| 75 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 502.34 | 68 |
| 76 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 500.48 | 40 |
| 77 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 499.26 | 27 |
| 78 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 498.83 | 29 |
| 79 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 498.16 | 38 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 496.33 | 21 |
| 81 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 495.56 | 13 |
| 82 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 486.23 | 30 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 478.56 | 42 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 470.89 | 26 |
| 85 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 470.39 | 22 |
| 86 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 469.68 | 18 |
| 87 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 468.19 | 38 |
| 88 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 467.54 | 11 |
| (88) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 464.5 | 28 |
| 89 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 464.5 | 28 |
| 90 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 464.3 | 27 |
| 91 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 464.26 | 28 |
| 92 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 457.55 | 28 |
| 93 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | Maastricht, Netherlands | 456.58 | 36 |
| 94 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 443.35 | 30 |
| 95 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 438.37 | 44 |
| 96 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 437.26 | 40 |
| 97 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 436.6 | 30 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 434.4 | 17 |
| 99 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 431.06 | 12 |
| 100 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 428.93 | 16 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 424.9 | 16 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 419.66 | 26 |
| 103 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 417.68 | 25 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 415.03 | 25 |
| 105 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 409.28 | 27 |
| (105) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 409.15 | 29 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 407.09 | 12 |
| 107 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 405.96 | 13 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 404.08 | 24 |
| 109 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 402.03 | 24 |
| 110 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 400.28 | 17 |
| 111 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 398.41 | 19 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 396.98 | 32 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 393.99 | 28 |
| 114 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 389.39 | 27 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 388.16 | 27 |
| 116 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 387.31 | 40 |
| 117 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 381.26 | 11 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 380.6 | 34 |
| 119 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 374.71 | 13 |
| 120 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 366.15 | 17 |
| 121 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 359.94 | 27 |
| 122 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 357.04 | 31 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 354.64 | 20 |
| (122) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 354.28 | 13 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 350.76 | 21 |
| (123) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 350.5 | 21 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 349.34 | 26 |
| 125 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 348.67 | 20 |
| 126 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 348.5 | 17 |
| (126) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 347.56 | 19 |
| 127 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 342.66 | 18 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 341.65 | 15 |
| 129 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 339.86 | 27 |
| 130 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 337.16 | 60 |
| 131 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 335.55 | 53 |
| (131) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 334.89 | 40 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 331.73 | 28 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 329.83 | 12 |
| 134 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 327.63 | 28 |
| (134) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 324.26 | 9 |
| (134) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 323.56 | 13 |
| 135 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 322.58 | 24 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 322.2 | 20 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine | Irvine, California (USA) | 321.83 | 14 |
| 138 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 321.67 | 26 |
| 139 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 321.01 | 11 |
| 140 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 320.79 | 27 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 320.08 | 22 |
| 142 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 316.36 | 41 |
| 143 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 316.2 | 19 |
| 144 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 316.15 | 7 |
| (144) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 316.01 | 18 |
| 145 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 315.09 | 42 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 314.41 | 18 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 311.36 | 17 |
| 148 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 309.73 | 11 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 308.5 | 24 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 306.92 | 28 |
| (150) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 306.88 | 11 |
| 151 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 306.41 | 12 |
| (151) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 306.35 | 7 |
| 152 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 304.86 | 10 |
| 153 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 303.34 | 35 |
| 154 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 302.79 | 20 |
| (154) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 301.19 | 18 |
| (154) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 300.59 | 6 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 299.98 | 30 |
| 156 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 298.41 | 34 |
| (156) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 298.39 | 9 |
| 157 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 298.11 | 31 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 295.85 | 9 |
| 159 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 289.14 | 21 |
| (159) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 287.03 | 23 |
| 160 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 286.58 | 20 |
| 161 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 285.61 | 18 |
| 162 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 283.83 | 17 |
| 163 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 283.49 | 14 |
| 164 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 282.91 | 18 |
| 165 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 281.26 | 29 |
| 166 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 280.83 | 26 |
| 167 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 280.56 | 24 |
| 168 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 280.29 | 19 |
| 169 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 279.71 | 21 |
| (169) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 277.78 | 15 |
| 170 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 277.45 | 13 |
| 171 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 274.74 | 16 |
| (171) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 274.66 | 12 |
| (171) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 274.19 | 28 |
| 172 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 273.91 | 15 |
| (172) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 272.89 | 40 |
| 173 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 270.83 | 17 |
| 174 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 270.61 | 21 |
| 175 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 269.67 | 25 |
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