| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15831.99 | 186 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4267.36 | 142 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3014.64 | 30 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2402.29 | 24 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1845.89 | 23 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1682.78 | 19 |
| 7 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1643.73 | 17 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1504.38 | 12 |
| 9 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1459.54 | 11 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1344.18 | 63 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1297.16 | 10 |
| (11) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1135.49 | 13 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1120.59 | 25 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1110.12 | 14 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1093.42 | 18 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1082.88 | 16 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1074.94 | 19 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1068.26 | 12 |
| 17 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1026.56 | 7 |
| (17) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1026.56 | 7 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1000.31 | 26 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 956.73 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 954.52 | 19 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 937.77 | 16 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 927.81 | 15 |
| 22 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 881.44 | 139 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 856.63 | 22 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 837.84 | 18 |
| 25 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 836.21 | 85 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 812.64 | 10 |
| (26) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 785.5 | 19 |
| 27 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 761.39 | 11 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 757.74 | 17 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 741.63 | 21 |
| 30 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 735.63 | 8 |
| 31 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 685.89 | 28 |
| 32 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 683.94 | 12 |
| (32) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 666.93 | 4 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 662.77 | 18 |
| 34 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 632.52 | 29 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 610.18 | 13 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 609.43 | 11 |
| 37 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 608.39 | 3 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 565.86 | 22 |
| (38) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 550.71 | 3 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 546.88 | 24 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 538.02 | 16 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 521.58 | 13 |
| (41) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 521.43 | 6 |
| 42 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 520.26 | 17 |
| (42) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 513.26 | 2 |
| 43 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 505.2 | 4 |
| 44 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 502.16 | 9 |
| 45 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 500.41 | 6 |
| 46 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 483.13 | 7 |
| 47 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 479.8 | 9 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 479.19 | 14 |
| 49 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 458.89 | 7 |
| (49) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 457.07 | 13 |
| (49) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 413.13 | 5 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 403.45 | 28 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 392.49 | 22 |
| (51) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 374.15 | 5 |
| (51) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 372.02 | 3 |
| (51) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 362.43 | 11 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 356.66 | 7 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 346.17 | 20 |
| 54 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 339.16 | 2 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 329.93 | 21 |
| 56 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 329.42 | 21 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 329.33 | 21 |
| 57 | CESifo | München, Germany | 316.72 | 33 |
| 58 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 301.23 | 18 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 285.04 | 6 |
| (59) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 281.81 | 5 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 276.92 | 7 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 270.67 | 6 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 267.49 | 7 |
| (62) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 263.25 | 5 |
| (62) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 260.11 | 4 |
| 63 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 252.52 | 52 |
| (63) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 245.52 | 3 |
| (63) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 241.57 | 1 |
| (63) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 238.03 | 12 |
| (63) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 237.13 | 3 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 229.77 | 13 |
| 65 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 227.97 | 9 |
| 66 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 224.16 | 4 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 219.34 | 15 |
| 68 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 218.42 | 7 |
| 69 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 217.48 | 1 |
| 70 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 216.73 | 14 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 213.94 | 12 |
| 72 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 211.92 | 6 |
| 73 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 209.97 | 25 |
| (73) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 206.02 | 2 |
| 74 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 205.39 | 14 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 205.32 | 18 |
| 76 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 202.79 | 24 |
| (76) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 202.36 | 1 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 201.32 | 13 |
| (77) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 201.24 | 15 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 200.61 | 16 |
| 79 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 197.7 | 7 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 197.7 | 7 |
| (79) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 197.4 | 4 |
| 80 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 194.14 | 7 |
| 81 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 192.28 | 7 |
| 82 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 192.02 | 5 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 188.01 | 5 |
| 84 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 186.11 | 3 |
| 85 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 185.82 | 12 |
| (85) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 185.79 | 6 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 184.1 | 26 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 183.6 | 16 |
| 88 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 183.04 | 16 |
| (88) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 181.25 | 3 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 177.72 | 23 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 174.77 | 10 |
| (90) | Global Economics @ Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 173.96 | 1 |
| 91 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 173.17 | 37 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 171.57 | 7 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 171.25 | 14 |
| (92) | 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 | 164.38 | 9 |
| 93 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 163.26 | 9 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 162.99 | 4 |
| 95 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 161.17 | 37 |
| 96 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 160.52 | 9 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 159.73 | 9 |
| (97) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 159.59 | 8 |
| 98 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 156.86 | 7 |
| (98) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 155.38 | 8 |
| 99 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 155.38 | 8 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 154.94 | 9 |
| 101 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 148.02 | 10 |
| 102 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 144.76 | 7 |
| 103 | Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Augsburg | Augsburg, Germany | 143.95 | 10 |
| (103) | Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Augsburg | Augsburg, Germany | 143.95 | 10 |
| (103) | Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 140.35 | 1 |
| 104 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 138.06 | 13 |
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