| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 24084.7 | 185 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 6350.62 | 139 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5255.83 | 29 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3460.35 | 23 |
| 5 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3103.5 | 11 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2749.56 | 20 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2689.11 | 12 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2653.52 | 62 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2572.29 | 18 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2212.11 | 25 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2066.41 | 18 |
| (11) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2004.58 | 12 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1798.66 | 13 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1764.91 | 18 |
| (13) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1751.75 | 19 |
| (13) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1690.69 | 25 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1669.68 | 17 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1628.39 | 19 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1595.93 | 19 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1565.74 | 12 |
| 18 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1553.16 | 11 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1548.63 | 26 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1544.85 | 10 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1524.16 | 11 |
| 22 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1522.3 | 132 |
| 23 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1509.53 | 16 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1488.91 | 21 |
| (24) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1275.91 | 14 |
| 25 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1205.26 | 83 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1191.58 | 16 |
| 27 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1159.16 | 7 |
| (27) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1159.16 | 7 |
| 28 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1136.5 | 4 |
| 29 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1105.5 | 14 |
| (29) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1091.33 | 4 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1008.06 | 22 |
| 31 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1003.75 | 5 |
| 32 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 988.58 | 3 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 987.08 | 17 |
| (33) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 935.75 | 3 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 916.33 | 22 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 893.24 | 10 |
| 36 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 867.03 | 27 |
| 37 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 863.74 | 7 |
| 38 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 825.83 | 8 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 808.61 | 16 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 800.33 | 9 |
| 41 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 799.83 | 8 |
| 42 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 772.63 | 18 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 757.21 | 12 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 726.66 | 28 |
| 45 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 723.25 | 7 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 704.75 | 17 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 695.16 | 20 |
| 48 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 693.91 | 29 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 656.16 | 22 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 624.23 | 10 |
| (50) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 615.91 | 13 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 613.5 | 22 |
| (51) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 584.75 | 5 |
| (51) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 577.5 | 3 |
| (51) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 573.83 | 5 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 571.68 | 21 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 569.99 | 14 |
| 54 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 550.33 | 13 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 548.58 | 21 |
| (55) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 545 | 2 |
| 56 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 543.74 | 7 |
| 57 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 539.05 | 18 |
| (57) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 529.21 | 5 |
| 58 | CESifo | München, Germany | 513.25 | 33 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 502.49 | 7 |
| 59 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 500.66 | 7 |
| (59) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 500.66 | 7 |
| (59) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 498.58 | 4 |
| 60 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 489 | 2 |
| (60) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 485.83 | 3 |
| 61 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 477.61 | 13 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 474.66 | 6 |
| (62) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 461.66 | 7 |
| 63 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 459.49 | 15 |
| 64 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 458.96 | 51 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 453.5 | 6 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 437.83 | 7 |
| 67 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 425.5 | 14 |
| (67) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 425.5 | 3 |
| 68 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 407.83 | 6 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 394.25 | 22 |
| 70 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 393.75 | 8 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 386.58 | 20 |
| (70) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 383.16 | 1 |
| 71 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 378.49 | 7 |
| 72 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 377.16 | 4 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 371.17 | 15 |
| 74 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 369.16 | 25 |
| (74) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 362.08 | 15 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 361.21 | 13 |
| 76 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 356.86 | 37 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 351.66 | 7 |
| (77) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 347.83 | 11 |
| (77) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 347.58 | 2 |
| 78 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 346.35 | 37 |
| (78) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 339.84 | 12 |
| (78) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 339 | 5 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 319.83 | 25 |
| (79) | Global Economics @ Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 311.5 | 1 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 308.06 | 23 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 307.66 | 9 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 305.16 | 7 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 300.33 | 17 |
| 83 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 298.66 | 10 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 297.83 | 14 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 297.08 | 15 |
| (85) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 289 | 1 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 284.58 | 12 |
| 87 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 282.71 | 1 |
| 88 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 273 | 4 |
| (88) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 272.49 | 3 |
| (88) | 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 | 267.99 | 9 |
| (88) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 262.16 | 4 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 260.41 | 14 |
| 90 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 258.16 | 8 |
| 91 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 256.91 | 6 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 254.83 | 6 |
| 93 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 251.49 | 12 |
| (93) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 250.99 | 6 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 249.66 | 13 |
| 95 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 248.33 | 5 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 242.66 | 4 |
| 97 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 235.07 | 11 |
| 98 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 231.83 | 36 |
| 99 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 224.13 | 44 |
| 100 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 223.24 | 9 |
| 101 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | | 218.74 | 14 |
| 102 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 208.83 | 5 |
| (102) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 208.66 | 8 |
| 103 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 208.66 | 8 |
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