| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 213625.69 | 180 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 69110.87 | 123 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 40416.5 | 27 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 33997.51 | 23 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 30807.05 | 55 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 29943.12 | 18 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 25573.49 | 11 |
| 8 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 25426.66 | 11 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 25271.2 | 18 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 22820.84 | 10 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 22342.69 | 25 |
| 12 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 20582.22 | 117 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 20348.06 | 19 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 17775.71 | 18 |
| 15 | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17302.18 | 19 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 17060.31 | 14 |
| 17 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16862.13 | 10 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16583.23 | 12 |
| 19 | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 16506.38 | 18 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 16068.53 | 11 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14686.69 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 14525.88 | 19 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 13853.79 | 17 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 13289.05 | 17 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 13262.26 | 19 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 13161.81 | 17 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 12871.2 | 19 |
| 28 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 12571.78 | 12 |
| 29 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12403.91 | 10 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 12235.49 | 21 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 11781.28 | 26 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 11726.94 | 21 |
| 33 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11313.06 | 11 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 11280.15 | 15 |
| 35 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11269.1 | 4 |
| 36 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 10822.05 | 7 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 10822.05 | 7 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10511.81 | 19 |
| 39 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10371.07 | 77 |
| 40 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10080.65 | 2 |
| 41 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9712.76 | 10 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 9657.12 | 22 |
| 43 | CESifo | München, Germany | 8979.04 | 27 |
| 44 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 8859.76 | 21 |
| 45 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8611.02 | 8 |
| 46 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8566.4 | 24 |
| 47 | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 8234.32 | 13 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7979.58 | 15 |
| 49 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7909.3 | 9 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7858.32 | 20 |
| 51 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7843.86 | 25 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 7825.99 | 22 |
| 53 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 7640.59 | 7 |
| 54 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7632.18 | 14 |
| 55 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 7590.69 | 8 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 7467.46 | 15 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 7350.88 | 13 |
| 58 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7346.9 | 12 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 7214.93 | 8 |
| 60 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7136.84 | 4 |
| 61 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 7127.83 | 5 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7057.09 | 18 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6958.14 | 10 |
| 64 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 6869.7 | 21 |
| 65 | 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 | 6787.41 | 7 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6772.66 | 15 |
| 67 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6645.2 | 7 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6645.2 | 7 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 6609.77 | 16 |
| 70 | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6521.19 | 6 |
| 71 | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6379.3 | 2 |
| 72 | College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 5791.6 | 16 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 5773.36 | 7 |
| 74 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 5650.47 | 22 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5636.72 | 14 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 5634.2 | 6 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 5578.7 | 15 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 5520.59 | 14 |
| 79 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 5490.35 | 5 |
| 80 | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5292.26 | 8 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5290.72 | 9 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 5235.82 | 9 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 5163.2 | 13 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4988.49 | 6 |
| 85 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4931.11 | 7 |
| 86 | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4909.62 | 5 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4905.24 | 23 |
| 88 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4867.38 | 7 |
| 89 | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4804.65 | 13 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 4779.39 | 12 |
| 91 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4616.93 | 35 |
| 92 | Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique Appliquée (DELTA), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4584.84 | 12 |
| 93 | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4584.39 | 8 |
| 94 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4584.39 | 8 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 4507.91 | 8 |
| 96 | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4462.75 | 2 |
| 97 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 4329.51 | 6 |
| 98 | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4299.89 | 2 |
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