| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 151391.37 | 186 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 51048.82 | 142 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 32601.13 | 30 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21655.65 | 24 |
| 5 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 21509.47 | 19 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 19840.66 | 63 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 19384.54 | 21 |
| 8 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 18306.4 | 139 |
| 9 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 18092.63 | 12 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18015.77 | 11 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17650.14 | 12 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14921.41 | 25 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14796.39 | 23 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14150.88 | 18 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13469.83 | 12 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12333.22 | 19 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12085.23 | 14 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11725.62 | 26 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11441.47 | 19 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 11124.27 | 10 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10242.98 | 15 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10055.35 | 16 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 9485.89 | 17 |
| 21 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 9476.98 | 18 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 9297.6 | 21 |
| 23 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8860.49 | 6 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 8829.84 | 16 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 8697.97 | 17 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8562.05 | 19 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 8511.72 | 28 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8459.72 | 22 |
| 29 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8093.59 | 11 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8017.55 | 20 |
| 31 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7870.86 | 14 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7732.61 | 17 |
| 33 | CESifo | München, Germany | 7711.23 | 33 |
| 34 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7637.89 | 11 |
| 35 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7487.27 | 28 |
| 36 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7020.47 | 3 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 7001.96 | 26 |
| 38 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 6901.44 | 7 |
| (38) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 6901.44 | 7 |
| 39 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6874.6 | 7 |
| 40 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6557.22 | 85 |
| 41 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6185.58 | 24 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6060.97 | 9 |
| 43 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 5851.95 | 6 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5812.09 | 18 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5709.75 | 13 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5670.47 | 16 |
| (46) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5655.02 | 13 |
| 47 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 5540.92 | 25 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 5499.56 | 16 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5349.33 | 18 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5266.24 | 22 |
| (50) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 5220.43 | 15 |
| 51 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5206.51 | 4 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5202.13 | 10 |
| (52) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5122.61 | 5 |
| 53 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4993.01 | 38 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4916.56 | 23 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4903.47 | 21 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4789.11 | 15 |
| 57 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4705.12 | 24 |
| 58 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 4675.72 | 7 |
| 59 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4564.56 | 7 |
| (59) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4564.56 | 7 |
| 60 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4507.52 | 9 |
| 61 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 4439.57 | 9 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 4387.32 | 9 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4307.98 | 18 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4208.13 | 26 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 4183.86 | 7 |
| (65) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4152.7 | 13 |
| 66 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 4149.43 | 22 |
| 67 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4056.72 | 5 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 3977.45 | 16 |
| (68) | 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 | 3821.06 | 9 |
| (68) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3794.08 | 3 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3773.79 | 8 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 3601.22 | 14 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 3469.26 | 12 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3454.34 | 6 |
| 73 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3451.6 | 6 |
| 74 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3360.29 | 37 |
| 75 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3316.58 | 37 |
| 76 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3299.58 | 52 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3219.64 | 13 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3194.09 | 12 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3156.92 | 14 |
| 80 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3153.97 | 29 |
| (80) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3120.16 | 2 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 3077.38 | 6 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 3072.13 | 17 |
| 83 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3053.38 | 8 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3027.25 | 9 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 3020.9 | 6 |
| 86 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2895.21 | 9 |
| 87 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2883.59 | 13 |
| (87) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2870.11 | 3 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2848.53 | 13 |
| (88) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2785.67 | 5 |
| 89 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 2775.17 | 4 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2752.68 | 20 |
| 91 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2741.26 | 2 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2732.09 | 7 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2714.51 | 9 |
| 94 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2700.65 | 14 |
| 95 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 2692.65 | 13 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2667.92 | 11 |
| 96 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 2633.37 | 16 |
| (96) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2610.41 | 21 |
| (96) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2558.02 | 3 |
| 97 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2548.85 | 7 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2547.07 | 7 |
| (98) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2541.58 | 3 |
| 99 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 2506.29 | 9 |
| (99) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2481.77 | 8 |
| 100 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2481.77 | 8 |
| 101 | Center for Economic Design, Bogazici University | Istanbul, Turkey | 2448.29 | 2 |
| (101) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2435.97 | 1 |
| 102 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2427.81 | 15 |
| (102) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2399.13 | 7 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | | 2393.09 | 15 |
| 104 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2343.9 | 7 |
| (104) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2339.07 | 12 |
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