| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8914.94 | 185 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2918.22 | 137 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1439.67 | 28 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1054.45 | 60 |
| 5 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1019.6 | 18 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 966.79 | 23 |
| 7 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 906.35 | 129 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 870.45 | 20 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 836.75 | 25 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 709.44 | 16 |
| 11 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 704.34 | 11 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 702.67 | 18 |
| 13 | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 653.35 | 19 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 639.07 | 12 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 615 | 20 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 609.14 | 12 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 606.88 | 11 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 584.3 | 16 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 580.54 | 12 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 570.66 | 20 |
| 21 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 558.84 | 83 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 552.96 | 11 |
| 23 | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 527.16 | 23 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 524.66 | 18 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 519.97 | 16 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 500.45 | 16 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 498.37 | 19 |
| 28 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 483.84 | 26 |
| 29 | CESifo | München, Germany | 416.89 | 30 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 412.54 | 17 |
| 31 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 411.1 | 20 |
| 32 | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 399.08 | 14 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 398.34 | 28 |
| 34 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 395.07 | 5 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 385.96 | 21 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 372.62 | 13 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 357.5 | 21 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 354.2 | 25 |
| 39 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 339.77 | 10 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 337.33 | 19 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 316.71 | 15 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 295.51 | 21 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 292.66 | 14 |
| 44 | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 284.08 | 13 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 280.79 | 13 |
| 46 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 277.57 | 12 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 275.24 | 15 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 271.43 | 10 |
| 49 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 271.22 | 9 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 270.73 | 20 |
| 51 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 266.35 | 7 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 266.35 | 7 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 259.91 | 22 |
| 54 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 258.91 | 12 |
| 55 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 258.78 | 3 |
| 56 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 256.18 | 7 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 253.86 | 10 |
| 58 | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 250.63 | 2 |
| 59 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 250.13 | 13 |
| 60 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 247.92 | 24 |
| 61 | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 242.27 | 3 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 242.1 | 7 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 242.02 | 17 |
| 64 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 234.6 | 10 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 233.49 | 18 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 231.53 | 17 |
| 67 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 231.16 | 8 |
| 68 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 224.91 | 14 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 221.35 | 7 |
| 70 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 219.97 | 4 |
| 71 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 213.02 | 7 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 213.02 | 7 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 212.48 | 25 |
| 74 | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 207.84 | 3 |
| 75 | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 206.19 | 20 |
| 76 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 204.16 | 8 |
| 77 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 200.47 | 21 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 199.47 | 10 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 195.38 | 6 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 194.85 | 12 |
| 81 | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 194.8 | 7 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 193.19 | 14 |
| 83 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 192.45 | 6 |
| 84 | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 191.16 | 2 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 190.22 | 8 |
| 86 | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 189.17 | 7 |
| 87 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 180.87 | 51 |
| 88 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 180.55 | 5 |
| 89 | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 179.02 | 1 |
| 90 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 178.26 | 4 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 176.52 | 23 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 173.37 | 7 |
| 93 | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 172.11 | 5 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | | 163.69 | 14 |
| 95 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 163.65 | 29 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 159.56 | 13 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 159.03 | 10 |
| 98 | 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 | 158.37 | 9 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 156.47 | 14 |
| 100 | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 156.28 | 5 |
| 101 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 154.19 | 9 |
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