| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 35688.39 | 174 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 9093.4 | 121 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6372.24 | 25 |
| 4 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5499.47 | 15 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5202.59 | 12 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4973.48 | 10 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4673.9 | 23 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4268.25 | 51 |
| 9 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4071.05 | 11 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4039.71 | 18 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3607.63 | 18 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3530.36 | 25 |
| 13 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3042.43 | 111 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3020.87 | 18 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2841.54 | 13 |
| 16 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2828.19 | 11 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2517.77 | 11 |
| 18 | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2515.19 | 18 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2501.11 | 10 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2490.7 | 14 |
| 21 | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2478.59 | 18 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2160.5 | 17 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2116.98 | 19 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2095.64 | 11 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2082.76 | 10 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2058.87 | 19 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1992.03 | 19 |
| 28 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1953.33 | 3 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1943.52 | 17 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1895.88 | 17 |
| 31 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1846.82 | 9 |
| 32 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1837.44 | 8 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1679.01 | 26 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1674.7 | 20 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1643.92 | 15 |
| 36 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1619.08 | 12 |
| 37 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1594.39 | 2 |
| 38 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1437.17 | 6 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1437.17 | 6 |
| 40 | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1396.56 | 6 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1362.43 | 21 |
| 42 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1292.11 | 17 |
| 43 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1254.44 | 26 |
| 44 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1248.22 | 8 |
| 45 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1245.14 | 24 |
| 46 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1235.33 | 4 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1210.88 | 22 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1190.49 | 14 |
| 49 | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1186 | 13 |
| 50 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1170.32 | 5 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1161.79 | 15 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1131.59 | 19 |
| 53 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1082.37 | 24 |
| 54 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1063.85 | 14 |
| 55 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1042.51 | 13 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 986.61 | 21 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 973.07 | 13 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 960.36 | 13 |
| 59 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 957.18 | 8 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 955.71 | 6 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 939.2 | 9 |
| 62 | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 932.92 | 7 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 926.78 | 8 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 924.24 | 10 |
| 65 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 923.23 | 7 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 923.23 | 7 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 919.27 | 18 |
| 68 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 904.4 | 5 |
| 69 | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 901.51 | 2 |
| 70 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 858.36 | 68 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 844.44 | 16 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 818.03 | 14 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 817.04 | 6 |
| 74 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 801.71 | 6 |
| 75 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 796.47 | 7 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 789.8 | 20 |
| 77 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 780.75 | 22 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 777.19 | 5 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 772.25 | 13 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 769.2 | 15 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 710.65 | 6 |
| 82 | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 700.11 | 13 |
| 83 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 699.58 | 7 |
| 84 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 695.09 | 19 |
| 85 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 692.82 | 8 |
| 86 | College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 691.54 | 16 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 686.48 | 8 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 681.42 | 11 |
| 89 | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 669.55 | 2 |
| 90 | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 653.83 | 2 |
| 91 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 630.3 | 8 |
| 92 | Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique Appliquée (DELTA), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 630.02 | 12 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 622.46 | 13 |
| 94 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 614.84 | 2 |
| 95 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 613.49 | 3 |
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