| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5620.39 | 180 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2652.04 | 123 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1317.01 | 117 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1047.76 | 55 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 811.58 | 27 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 715.76 | 18 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 698.04 | 77 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 676.49 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 643.61 | 23 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 619.73 | 11 |
| 11 | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 618.86 | 18 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 519.41 | 14 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 509.14 | 26 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 505.48 | 18 |
| 15 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 505 | 10 |
| 16 | CESifo | München, Germany | 499.16 | 27 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 487.83 | 19 |
| 18 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 459.21 | 48 |
| 19 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 449.5 | 10 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 421.26 | 19 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 416.25 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 411.74 | 12 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 410.85 | 11 |
| 24 | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 409.3 | 19 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 406.84 | 18 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 396.83 | 21 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 382.81 | 17 |
| 28 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 346.81 | 24 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 340.79 | 11 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 339.74 | 13 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 338.53 | 19 |
| 32 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 336.78 | 35 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 333.73 | 17 |
| 34 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 301.66 | 12 |
| 35 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 298.14 | 25 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 292.26 | 19 |
| 37 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 292.23 | 15 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 291.89 | 19 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 276.11 | 23 |
| 40 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 274.16 | 4 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 264.96 | 27 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 262.86 | 17 |
| 43 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 261.39 | 21 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 260.53 | 21 |
| 45 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 258.08 | 14 |
| 46 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 257.19 | 18 |
| 47 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 256.2 | 21 |
| 48 | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 252.06 | 12 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 249.41 | 22 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 247.51 | 13 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 247.45 | 9 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 239.91 | 22 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 236.76 | 15 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 236.45 | 6 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 233.91 | 10 |
| 56 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 230.66 | 8 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 227.25 | 11 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 226.66 | 20 |
| 59 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 222.25 | 7 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 222.25 | 7 |
| 61 | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 219 | 7 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 218.83 | 22 |
| 63 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 218.41 | 4 |
| 64 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 215.41 | 9 |
| 65 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 213.66 | 10 |
| 66 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 211.51 | 28 |
| 67 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 208.65 | 40 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 207.08 | 15 |
| 69 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 206.56 | 32 |
| 70 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 204.95 | 11 |
| 71 | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 203.91 | 3 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 201.61 | 15 |
| 73 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 201.08 | 28 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 200.5 | 12 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 198.36 | 15 |
| 76 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 197.19 | 28 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 196.91 | 15 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 196.86 | 9 |
| 79 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 194.4 | 12 |
| 80 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 189.2 | 7 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 185.16 | 13 |
| 82 | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 177.64 | 17 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 177.16 | 6 |
| 84 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 176.78 | 8 |
| 85 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 176.38 | 21 |
| 86 | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 175.16 | 2 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 174.16 | 9 |
| 88 | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 173.33 | 13 |
| 89 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 168.5 | 16 |
| 90 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 168.25 | 33 |
| 91 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 167.66 | 14 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 167.56 | 7 |
| 93 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 167.03 | 10 |
| 94 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 165.75 | 10 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 164 | 5 |
| 96 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 163.58 | 14 |
| 97 | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 162.94 | 2 |
| 98 | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 162.94 | 13 |
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