| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17737.02 | 185 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 6167.31 | 139 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3215.29 | 29 |
| 4 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2289.15 | 18 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2242.89 | 62 |
| 6 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2201.36 | 132 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2084.56 | 23 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1872.65 | 25 |
| 9 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1787.69 | 12 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1661.96 | 18 |
| (10) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1605.83 | 12 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1599.68 | 20 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1560.13 | 21 |
| 13 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1544.7 | 11 |
| (13) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1434.35 | 19 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1296.39 | 12 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1253.77 | 11 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1253.11 | 16 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1250.06 | 19 |
| 18 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1181.19 | 83 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1154.26 | 13 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1145.18 | 22 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1085.57 | 25 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1082.89 | 18 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1025.08 | 17 |
| 23 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1021.36 | 16 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 974.52 | 19 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 973.04 | 17 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 971.67 | 28 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 936.76 | 27 |
| 28 | CESifo | München, Germany | 919.47 | 33 |
| 29 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 858.76 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 812.33 | 21 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 811.35 | 14 |
| 32 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 803.66 | 5 |
| 33 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 779.77 | 11 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 747.9 | 26 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 725.87 | 18 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 700.93 | 22 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 693.18 | 14 |
| (37) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 690.93 | 14 |
| 38 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 677.69 | 13 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 657.4 | 20 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 640.3 | 10 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 628.9 | 25 |
| (41) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 626.59 | 3 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 625.63 | 9 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 601.28 | 15 |
| 44 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 599.72 | 12 |
| 45 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 599.69 | 7 |
| (45) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 599.69 | 7 |
| 46 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 596.23 | 7 |
| 47 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 595.66 | 10 |
| (47) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 583.9 | 15 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 581.26 | 16 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 568.51 | 21 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 560.42 | 22 |
| (50) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 549.01 | 3 |
| 51 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 530.57 | 12 |
| 52 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 529.88 | 3 |
| (52) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 516.84 | 13 |
| 53 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 507.84 | 7 |
| 54 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 505.81 | 18 |
| 55 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 497.68 | 4 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 497.47 | 17 |
| 57 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 492.74 | 51 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 491.42 | 14 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 487.68 | 25 |
| 60 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 485.01 | 7 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 485.01 | 7 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 475.77 | 17 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 474.93 | 10 |
| 63 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 459.22 | 8 |
| 64 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 453.95 | 6 |
| 65 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 453.15 | 22 |
| (65) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 429.86 | 11 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 424.81 | 12 |
| 67 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 420.81 | 8 |
| (67) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 412.82 | 20 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 412.42 | 6 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 406.05 | 7 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 405.16 | 9 |
| 71 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 402.17 | 14 |
| (71) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 393.74 | 3 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 389.5 | 23 |
| (72) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 383.02 | 5 |
| (72) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 375.92 | 7 |
| 73 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 366.02 | 37 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 362.2 | 9 |
| 75 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 357.39 | 15 |
| (75) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 356.88 | 3 |
| 76 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 353.26 | 4 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | | 349.59 | 14 |
| (77) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 347.22 | 5 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 346.97 | 8 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 343.26 | 14 |
| (79) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 342.41 | 2 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 340.19 | 7 |
| (79) | Global Economics @ Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 340.17 | 1 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 336.62 | 6 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 333.44 | 13 |
| 82 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 331.09 | 5 |
| 83 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 327.18 | 8 |
| 84 | Business School, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 324.81 | 8 |
| 85 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 319.88 | 8 |
| 86 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 317.89 | 29 |
| (86) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 316.94 | 7 |
| 87 | Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique Appliquée (DELTA), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 314.49 | 15 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 311.09 | 14 |
| (88) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 307.67 | 12 |
| (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 | 294.18 | 9 |
| 89 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 294.15 | 37 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 287.7 | 13 |
| (90) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 281.03 | 1 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 280.18 | 6 |
| (91) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 272.62 | 4 |
| 92 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 269.78 | 13 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 267.17 | 17 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 260.5 | 8 |
| (94) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 256.63 | 4 |
| 95 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 249.61 | 9 |
| 96 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 249.21 | 6 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 248.81 | 7 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 248.22 | 11 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 247.77 | 15 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 246.7 | 7 |
| 101 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 244.49 | 15 |
| 102 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 239.47 | 15 |
| 103 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 238.08 | 10 |
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