| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 63387 | 186 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 34822 | 142 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 14382 | 139 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12356 | 63 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11700 | 30 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8838 | 24 |
| 7 | CESifo | München, Germany | 7262 | 33 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 7112 | 20 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7047 | 19 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6869 | 25 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6670 | 18 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6629 | 85 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6494 | 21 |
| (13) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6441 | 19 |
| (13) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6314 | 12 |
| (13) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5886 | 26 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 5608 | 28 |
| 15 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5500 | 12 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5463 | 12 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5044 | 16 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4960 | 14 |
| 19 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4867 | 11 |
| 20 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4814 | 18 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4756 | 19 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4628 | 23 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4365 | 21 |
| 24 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4303 | 37 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4260 | 23 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4254 | 10 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4227 | 22 |
| 28 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4209 | 16 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4082 | 16 |
| 30 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3980 | 28 |
| 31 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3963 | 52 |
| 32 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3934 | 37 |
| 33 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 3923 | 14 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3915 | 26 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3901 | 17 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3757 | 17 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3715 | 19 |
| 38 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3679 | 24 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3594 | 11 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3523 | 24 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3515 | 21 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3412 | 15 |
| 43 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3402 | 38 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3400 | 18 |
| 44 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3400 | 6 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3399 | 18 |
| 47 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3366 | 25 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3273 | 8 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3246 | 22 |
| 50 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3188 | 17 |
| 51 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3173 | 11 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3141 | 20 |
| 53 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3083 | 18 |
| 54 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3035 | 9 |
| 55 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2960 | 13 |
| 56 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2956 | 7 |
| (56) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2956 | 7 |
| (56) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2938 | 15 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2914 | 6 |
| 58 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2870 | 22 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2800 | 10 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 2787 | 30 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2761 | 26 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2737 | 16 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2659 | 14 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2580 | 12 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2547 | 15 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2528 | 7 |
| 67 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2514 | 9 |
| 68 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2502 | 3 |
| 69 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2494 | 7 |
| 70 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2488 | 7 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2488 | 7 |
| 71 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2439 | 9 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2433 | 15 |
| 73 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2415 | 29 |
| (73) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2397 | 13 |
| 74 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2385 | 6 |
| 75 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2376 | 11 |
| 76 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2343 | 7 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of Strathclyde | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 2308 | 5 |
| 78 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 2298 | 17 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2262 | 13 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2232 | 9 |
| 81 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2227 | 9 |
| (81) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2208 | 11 |
| (81) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2207 | 21 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2164 | 12 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2160 | 16 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2149 | 9 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2133 | 13 |
| (85) | 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 | 2131 | 9 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2130 | 17 |
| 87 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 2116 | 9 |
| (87) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2052 | 5 |
| 88 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 2032 | 12 |
| 89 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2025 | 29 |
| (89) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2019 | 12 |
| 90 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2018 | 16 |
| 91 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2003 | 4 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2001 | 9 |
| 93 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1994 | 15 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1980 | 7 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1939 | 7 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1931 | 16 |
| 97 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 1930 | 17 |
| 98 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 1927 | 16 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 1924 | 13 |
| 100 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1900 | 5 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1890 | 7 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1865 | 14 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 1851 | 7 |
| 104 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1849 | 8 |
| (104) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1849 | 7 |
| 104 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 1849 | 13 |
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