| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3542.04 | 290 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 1273.06 | 242 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 963.3 | 373 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 768.95 | 43 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 411.65 | 41 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 349.22 | 32 |
| 7 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 325.4 | 34 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 322.36 | 27 |
| 9 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 316.75 | 126 |
| 10 | CESifo | München, Germany | 299.33 | 96 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 265.61 | 37 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 253.09 | 35 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 243.79 | 33 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 235.51 | 151 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 213.65 | 27 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 212.64 | 35 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 202.13 | 15 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 194.08 | 21 |
| 18 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 192.03 | 46 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 190.02 | 19 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 179.16 | 42 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 179.08 | 113 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 173.46 | 18 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 168.11 | 25 |
| 24 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 165.82 | 127 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 159.35 | 20 |
| 26 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 159.19 | 20 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 158.88 | 33 |
| (27) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 152.73 | 38 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 150.98 | 58 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 149.18 | 30 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 148.53 | 29 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 145.42 | 23 |
| 32 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 141.99 | 66 |
| 33 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 136.56 | 13 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 132.58 | 30 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 131.61 | 28 |
| 36 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 131.06 | 38 |
| 37 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 129.02 | 55 |
| (37) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 127.14 | 42 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 126.11 | 30 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 123.07 | 48 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 122.51 | 32 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 120 | 37 |
| (41) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 118.23 | 13 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 117.53 | 24 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 114.22 | 22 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 112.9 | 29 |
| 44 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 110.89 | 32 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 108.62 | 37 |
| 46 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 107.96 | 13 |
| 47 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 103.3 | 12 |
| 48 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 100.71 | 15 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 100.58 | 24 |
| 50 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 100.32 | 25 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 99.42 | 52 |
| (51) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 97.4 | 21 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 96.78 | 30 |
| 53 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 95.41 | 67 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 94.62 | 20 |
| 55 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 92.78 | 17 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 91.89 | 29 |
| 57 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 90.46 | 14 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 88.54 | 22 |
| 59 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 88.42 | 52 |
| 60 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 88.29 | 65 |
| 61 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 87.27 | 20 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 85.34 | 24 |
| 63 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 84.26 | 83 |
| 64 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 84.06 | 14 |
| 65 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 83.72 | 11 |
| (65) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 81.3 | 7 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 80.73 | 16 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 79.94 | 23 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 78.55 | 16 |
| 69 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 77.99 | 43 |
| 70 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 77.88 | 12 |
| (70) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 77.08 | 35 |
| 71 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 76.52 | 12 |
| 72 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 76.02 | 77 |
| 73 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 76 | 43 |
| 74 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 75.82 | 13 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 74.96 | 11 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 74.81 | 42 |
| (76) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 72.21 | 29 |
| 77 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 72.21 | 29 |
| (77) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 72.1 | 29 |
| (77) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 71.46 | 10 |
| 78 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 70.48 | 105 |
| (78) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 67.62 | 19 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 66.31 | 26 |
| (79) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 65.83 | 19 |
| 80 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 65.83 | 7 |
| 81 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 64.93 | 24 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 64.27 | 17 |
| (82) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 62.23 | 13 |
| 83 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 62.12 | 71 |
| 84 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 61.9 | 20 |
| (84) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 61.82 | 6 |
| (84) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 61.09 | 3 |
| 85 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 60.44 | 32 |
| (85) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 60.25 | 10 |
| 86 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 59.98 | 3 |
| 87 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 59.76 | 40 |
| 88 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 59.3 | 11 |
| (88) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 58.6 | 9 |
| 89 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 58.52 | 34 |
| 90 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 57.76 | 9 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 57.72 | 13 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine | Irvine, California (USA) | 57.17 | 16 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 55.34 | 20 |
| 94 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 54.89 | 27 |
| 95 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 54.53 | 7 |
| 96 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 54.27 | 23 |
| 97 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 53.39 | 11 |
| 98 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 52.65 | 21 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 52.13 | 24 |
| 100 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 52.03 | 8 |
| (100) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 51.62 | 2 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 51.53 | 11 |
| 102 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 51.39 | 14 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 51.17 | 30 |
| (103) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 51 | 2 |
| 104 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 50.86 | 18 |
| (104) | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 50.78 | 24 |
| (104) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 50.35 | 27 |
| (104) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 50.3 | 12 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 50.29 | 23 |
| (105) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 49.84 | 9 |
| 106 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 49.56 | 32 |
| 107 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 49.51 | 53 |
| 108 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 49.21 | 6 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 48.45 | 18 |
| 110 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 48.29 | 17 |
| (110) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 47.98 | 7 |
| 111 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 47.9 | 10 |
| 112 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 47.76 | 51 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 47.05 | 17 |
| 114 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 46.87 | 38 |
| 115 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 46.66 | 27 |
| (115) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 46.45 | 4 |
| 116 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | Maastricht, Netherlands | 46.24 | 36 |
| (116) | Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 46.21 | 1 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 45.76 | 11 |
| 118 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 44.65 | 25 |
| (118) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 43.41 | 2 |
| 119 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 42.83 | 15 |
| 120 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 42.58 | 16 |
| 121 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 42.56 | 9 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 42.36 | 35 |
| 123 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 42.31 | 31 |
| 124 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 42 | 103 |
| 125 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 41.97 | 8 |
| 126 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 41.83 | 28 |
| 127 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 41.78 | 28 |
| (127) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 41.65 | 5 |
| (127) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 41.55 | 13 |
| (127) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 41.37 | 13 |
| 128 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 40 | 14 |
| (128) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 39.54 | 4 |
| 129 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 39.49 | 43 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 39.36 | 26 |
| (130) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 38.48 | 29 |
| 131 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 38.18 | 19 |
| (131) | ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 37.85 | 7 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 37.73 | 10 |
| 133 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 37.26 | 9 |
| 134 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 37.19 | 13 |
| 135 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 37.18 | 10 |
| 136 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 36.93 | 46 |
| 137 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 36.88 | 27 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 36.84 | 20 |
| 138 | Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36.34 | 9 |
| (138) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 36.03 | 2 |
| (138) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35.64 | 18 |
| (138) | Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 35.58 | 1 |
| 139 | Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 35.34 | 6 |
| (139) | Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 35.33 | 7 |
| (139) | Department of Economics, London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35.17 | 8 |
| (139) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 34.92 | 6 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 34.81 | 27 |
| (140) | Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 34.77 | 2 |
| 141 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 34.67 | 14 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 34.56 | 11 |
| 143 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 34.01 | 9 |
| 144 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 33.99 | 45 |
| 145 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 33.8 | 20 |
| 146 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 33.33 | 11 |
| (146) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 33.33 | 11 |
| (146) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 33.18 | 3 |
| (146) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 33.08 | 5 |
| (146) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 33.01 | 3 |
| 147 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 32.88 | 36 |
| 148 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 32.77 | 17 |
| 149 | Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 32.63 | 3 |
| (149) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 32.61 | 2 |
| 150 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 32.6 | 65 |
| 151 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 32.14 | 27 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 32.09 | 19 |
| (152) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 31.33 | 10 |
| (152) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 31.21 | 24 |
| 153 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 31.18 | 32 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 31.12 | 14 |
| 155 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 31.03 | 32 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 30.89 | 34 |
| 157 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 30.71 | 21 |
| 158 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 30.68 | 43 |
| 159 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) | | 30.67 | 30 |
| 160 | School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University | Beijing, China | 30.6 | 6 |
| 161 | Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 30.42 | 6 |
| 162 | Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) | Waterloo, Canada | 30.38 | 2 |
| (162) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 30.06 | 3 |
| 163 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 29.74 | 47 |
| 164 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 29.03 | 6 |
| 165 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 28.85 | 42 |
| 166 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 28.7 | 21 |
| 167 | Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University | Tokyo, Japan | 28.56 | 9 |
| (167) | Centre for the Study of International Economic Relations (CSIER), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 28.48 | 1 |
| (167) | Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 28.48 | 1 |
| 168 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 28.16 | 17 |
| 169 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 27.98 | 33 |
| 170 | Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) | Tokyo, Japan | 27.78 | 7 |
| (170) | Department of Finance, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 27.76 | 1 |
| (170) | Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 27.76 | 1 |
| 171 | Department of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 27.62 | 3 |
| 172 | Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 27.4 | 10 |
| 173 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 27.37 | 15 |
| 174 | Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF) | Roma, Italy | 27.35 | 7 |
| 175 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 27.32 | 9 |
| 176 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 27.29 | 16 |
| 177 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 27.1 | 8 |
| 178 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 26.59 | 18 |
| 179 | Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 26.57 | 13 |
| 180 | School of Public Affairs, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 26.53 | 3 |
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