| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 37309.49 | 180 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 10303.09 | 123 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6971.01 | 27 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5834.89 | 23 |
| 5 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5199.37 | 18 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5165.05 | 10 |
| 7 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5011.49 | 11 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4871.96 | 18 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4809.28 | 55 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4788.82 | 11 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3717.49 | 25 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3500.58 | 19 |
| 13 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3344.47 | 117 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3242.65 | 18 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3096.47 | 12 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3067.55 | 14 |
| 17 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3040.24 | 10 |
| 18 | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2925.36 | 18 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2867.53 | 11 |
| 20 | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2587.21 | 19 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2515.65 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2448.44 | 17 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2243.69 | 19 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2233.48 | 19 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2201.99 | 17 |
| 26 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2195.6 | 11 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2189.77 | 17 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2144.28 | 19 |
| 29 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2118.45 | 12 |
| 30 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2060.04 | 10 |
| 31 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2042.64 | 4 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2030.58 | 26 |
| 33 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1988.02 | 10 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1907.19 | 21 |
| 35 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1900.19 | 7 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1900.19 | 7 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1828.47 | 15 |
| 38 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1674.28 | 8 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1664.27 | 21 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1653.1 | 22 |
| 41 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1634.84 | 2 |
| 42 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1519.5 | 19 |
| 43 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1519.14 | 27 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1412.69 | 15 |
| 45 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1400.92 | 77 |
| 46 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1398.66 | 24 |
| 47 | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1379.02 | 13 |
| 48 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1357.24 | 9 |
| 49 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1304.62 | 5 |
| 50 | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1300.57 | 6 |
| 51 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1282.42 | 4 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1251.57 | 13 |
| 53 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1233.79 | 7 |
| 54 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1215.65 | 25 |
| 55 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1210.04 | 12 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1192.77 | 15 |
| 57 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1187.23 | 14 |
| 58 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1183.79 | 21 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1177.76 | 20 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1137.53 | 8 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1116.86 | 10 |
| 62 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1108.85 | 7 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1108.85 | 7 |
| 64 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1081.35 | 8 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1046.49 | 22 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1034 | 18 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1029.61 | 16 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1014.04 | 9 |
| 69 | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 990.51 | 2 |
| 70 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 966.25 | 5 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 957.26 | 15 |
| 72 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 946.41 | 21 |
| 73 | College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 937.26 | 16 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 929.69 | 6 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 922.26 | 6 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 919.16 | 15 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 895.88 | 12 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 895.59 | 23 |
| 79 | 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 | 891.72 | 7 |
| 80 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 861.02 | 8 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 858.42 | 9 |
| 82 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 856.83 | 6 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 851.44 | 13 |
| 84 | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 849.56 | 2 |
| 85 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 838.7 | 7 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 836.38 | 14 |
| 87 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 802.53 | 22 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 798.69 | 7 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 783.85 | 14 |
| 90 | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 776.76 | 13 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 765.38 | 6 |
| 92 | Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique Appliquée (DELTA), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 749.27 | 12 |
| 93 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 741.77 | 7 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 717.47 | 8 |
| 95 | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 679.66 | 5 |
| 96 | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 679.65 | 2 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 672.34 | 7 |
| 98 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 672.1 | 2 |
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