| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 141907.98 | 180 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 41338.26 | 123 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 26431.84 | 27 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21702.69 | 23 |
| 5 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 20750.46 | 18 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 19939.28 | 55 |
| 7 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 19064.38 | 11 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 18672.21 | 18 |
| 9 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18299.62 | 10 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17247.11 | 11 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14417.29 | 25 |
| 12 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 14063.26 | 117 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13538.37 | 19 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12448.44 | 18 |
| 15 | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11980.58 | 18 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11908.32 | 14 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11895.71 | 12 |
| 18 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11790.85 | 10 |
| 19 | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10842.61 | 19 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10460.4 | 11 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9585.96 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 9451.32 | 17 |
| 23 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 8651.95 | 17 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 8593.12 | 19 |
| 25 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 8360.85 | 12 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8261.06 | 19 |
| 27 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8164.01 | 11 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8134.41 | 19 |
| 29 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8070.63 | 4 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7861.65 | 17 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 7857.62 | 21 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7850.9 | 10 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 7802.15 | 26 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 7614.1 | 21 |
| 35 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7554.95 | 10 |
| 36 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 7396.45 | 7 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 7396.45 | 7 |
| 38 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6622.85 | 8 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6622.68 | 15 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 6096.4 | 22 |
| 41 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6086.44 | 2 |
| 42 | CESifo | München, Germany | 6015.52 | 27 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5670.56 | 19 |
| 44 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5543.41 | 77 |
| 45 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5266.65 | 24 |
| 46 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5101.9 | 9 |
| 47 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5089.75 | 4 |
| 48 | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5041.48 | 6 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 5023.97 | 15 |
| 50 | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4950.29 | 13 |
| 51 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4778.56 | 21 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4748.27 | 15 |
| 53 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4721.79 | 25 |
| 54 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4708.96 | 5 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 4678 | 13 |
| 56 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4618.31 | 14 |
| 57 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 4586.26 | 7 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4571.14 | 22 |
| 59 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4512.16 | 12 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4338.77 | 20 |
| 61 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 4164.66 | 8 |
| 62 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4163.35 | 21 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 4127.42 | 8 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4104.44 | 10 |
| 65 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4009.53 | 7 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4009.53 | 7 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4008.96 | 18 |
| 68 | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3872.79 | 2 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3846.26 | 16 |
| 70 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 3768.51 | 5 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 3764.19 | 15 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3698.76 | 6 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3661.52 | 9 |
| 74 | 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 | 3624.38 | 7 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3442.85 | 6 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 3413.62 | 12 |
| 77 | College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 3360.07 | 16 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3340.8 | 23 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3317.9 | 15 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 3250.75 | 9 |
| 81 | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3199.47 | 2 |
| 82 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3177.27 | 7 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 3151.69 | 14 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3113.25 | 14 |
| 85 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3080.05 | 22 |
| 86 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3073.76 | 6 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 3057.1 | 13 |
| 88 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3051.65 | 8 |
| 89 | Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique Appliquée (DELTA), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2990.75 | 12 |
| 90 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2983.18 | 7 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 2907.16 | 6 |
| 92 | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2867.57 | 13 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2858.28 | 7 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2801.13 | 8 |
| 95 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2662.49 | 6 |
| 96 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 2637.84 | 16 |
| 97 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 2556.63 | 8 |
| 98 | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2533.55 | 2 |
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