Institution Rankings

Top 10 International Economic Institutions

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)
London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London, United Kingdom
Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)
Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Department of Economics, New York University, New York City, New York (USA)
Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

Top 10 Economic Institutions in the US

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge
Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge
Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton
Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Department of Economics, New York University, New York City
Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago
World Bank Group, Washington
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago

Top 10 Economic Institutions in Europe

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London, United Kingdom
CESifo, München, Germany
Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom
Department of Economics, University College London, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Top 10 International Economic Departments

Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)
London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London, United Kingdom
Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)
Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Department of Economics, New York University, New York City, New York (USA)
Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)
Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

Based on REPEC data (http://edirc.repec.org/) as of May 2008. Institutions are ranked according to the average rank score which is determined by taking a harmonic mean of the ranks in 32 different methods, except the best and the worst rank. For details see http://ideas.repec.org/t/rankcodes.html