| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13166 | 285 |
| 2 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 10121 | 363 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 9071 | 238 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3652 | 95 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2621 | 124 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2449 | 148 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2397 | 40 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2331 | 120 |
| 9 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2160 | 105 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2042 | 104 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1867 | 40 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1861 | 35 |
| 13 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1716 | 49 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1710 | 31 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1566 | 35 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1552 | 31 |
| 17 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 1550 | 56 |
| (17) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1498 | 28 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1472 | 43 |
| 19 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 1404 | 63 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1352 | 32 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1347 | 34 |
| 22 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1343 | 47 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1326 | 55 |
| 24 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1298 | 64 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1238 | 25 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1223 | 25 |
| 27 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1213 | 43 |
| (27) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1199 | 38 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1190 | 14 |
| 29 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1189 | 62 |
| 30 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1169 | 34 |
| 31 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1111 | 36 |
| 32 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 1100 | 47 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1081 | 37 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1072 | 28 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1071 | 42 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1070 | 24 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1066 | 41 |
| 38 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1052 | 50 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1052 | 30 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1050 | 50 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1035 | 27 |
| 42 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1034 | 53 |
| 43 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 1018 | 47 |
| 44 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1008 | 78 |
| 45 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 993 | 97 |
| 46 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 988 | 40 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 978 | 32 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 971 | 55 |
| 48 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 971 | 38 |
| (49) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 955 | 36 |
| (49) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 950 | 23 |
| 50 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 947 | 34 |
| 51 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 937 | 46 |
| (51) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 925 | 32 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 909 | 23 |
| 53 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 903 | 11 |
| 54 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 897 | 80 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 896 | 28 |
| (55) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 880 | 20 |
| 56 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 862 | 30 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 855 | 19 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 843 | 20 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 839 | 18 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 835 | 28 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 833 | 49 |
| 60 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 833 | 27 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 830 | 36 |
| (62) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 827 | 41 |
| 63 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 818 | 38 |
| (63) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 815 | 28 |
| 63 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 815 | 28 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 804 | 66 |
| 66 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 786 | 33 |
| 67 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 776 | 38 |
| 68 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 775 | 68 |
| 69 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 769 | 29 |
| 69 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 769 | 28 |
| 71 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 752 | 47 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 750 | 12 |
| 73 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 746 | 40 |
| 74 | Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO) | Wien, Austria | 745 | 25 |
| 75 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 742 | 32 |
| 76 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 721 | 15 |
| 77 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 717 | 22 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 714 | 21 |
| 79 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | Maastricht, Netherlands | 711 | 36 |
| 79 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 711 | 30 |
| 81 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 707 | 13 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 706 | 30 |
| 83 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 700 | 30 |
| 83 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 700 | 28 |
| 85 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 697 | 30 |
| 86 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 695 | 24 |
| 87 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 693 | 23 |
| 88 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 689 | 40 |
| 89 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 685 | 27 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 671 | 42 |
| 91 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 670 | 27 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 658 | 21 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 650 | 22 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 640 | 26 |
| 94 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 640 | 18 |
| (95) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 638 | 29 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 635 | 34 |
| 97 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 632 | 16 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 628 | 26 |
| 98 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 628 | 28 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 627 | 17 |
| 101 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 624 | 13 |
| 102 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 622 | 12 |
| 103 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 598 | 13 |
| 103 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 598 | 44 |
| 105 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 591 | 17 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 589 | 24 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 588 | 16 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 581 | 25 |
| 109 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 580 | 31 |
| 110 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 566 | 53 |
| 111 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 560 | 40 |
| 111 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 560 | 25 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 552 | 28 |
| (113) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 552 | 21 |
| 114 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 548 | 32 |
| 115 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 546 | 26 |
| 116 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 545 | 27 |
| 117 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 538 | 24 |
| 118 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 533 | 27 |
| 119 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 531 | 27 |
| 120 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 529 | 17 |
| (120) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 529 | 18 |
| 121 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 528 | 11 |
| (121) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 526 | 40 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 523 | 12 |
| (122) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 518 | 23 |
| 123 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 517 | 19 |
| 124 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 514 | 42 |
| 125 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 510 | 17 |
| (125) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 509 | 40 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 505 | 15 |
| 126 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 505 | 26 |
| 128 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 501 | 27 |
| 128 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 501 | 60 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 500 | 27 |
| 131 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 495 | 41 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 485 | 28 |
| 133 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 483 | 20 |
| (133) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 481 | 13 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 480 | 20 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 476 | 22 |
| 136 | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 475 | 27 |
| (136) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 473 | 20 |
| 137 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 468 | 18 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 463 | 24 |
| 139 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 462 | 12 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 458 | 18 |
| 141 | Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 456 | 20 |
| 142 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 454 | 31 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 453 | 28 |
| (143) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 453 | 19 |
| (143) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 453 | 11 |
| 144 | Facultat d'Económiques, Universitat de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 452 | 35 |
| 145 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 450 | 20 |
| 146 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 447 | 35 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 446 | 21 |
| 148 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 444 | 16 |
| 149 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 441 | 19 |
| 149 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 441 | 21 |
| (150) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 439 | 28 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 439 | 9 |
| (150) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 439 | 18 |
| (151) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 432 | 13 |
| 151 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 432 | 24 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 431 | 12 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 430 | 30 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 430 | 17 |
| 156 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 424 | 34 |
| 157 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 423 | 27 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine | Irvine, California (USA) | 423 | 14 |
| 159 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 422 | 18 |
| 160 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 421 | 26 |
| 161 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 418 | 17 |
| 162 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 412 | 13 |
| 163 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 411 | 30 |
| 164 | Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University | Ramat-Gan, Israel | 410 | 11 |
| 164 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 410 | 15 |
| 166 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 409 | 29 |
| 167 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 407 | 17 |
| (167) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 404 | 22 |
| 168 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 402 | 13 |
| 169 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 401 | 17 |
| 170 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise | Cergy-Pontoise, France | 400 | 31 |
| (170) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 399 | 28 |
| 171 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 397 | 21 |
| 172 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 396 | 11 |
| 173 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 395 | 25 |
| 174 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 392 | 44 |
| 175 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 391 | 17 |
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