| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 58772.33 | 186 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 19549.35 | 142 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12577.85 | 30 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8885.21 | 24 |
| 5 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7526.92 | 19 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7517.22 | 12 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7244.24 | 21 |
| 8 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6734.6 | 11 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6700.18 | 63 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6529.83 | 12 |
| 11 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6414.84 | 139 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5484.18 | 25 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5201.29 | 23 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5077.47 | 18 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4935.4 | 19 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4734.33 | 12 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4668.93 | 10 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4574.17 | 16 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4441.8 | 14 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4315.67 | 17 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4140.66 | 26 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4104.79 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3979.78 | 22 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3972.85 | 21 |
| 23 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3936.87 | 16 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3720.43 | 19 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3452.25 | 17 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3438.06 | 18 |
| (26) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3378.87 | 19 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3205.69 | 17 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3196.95 | 28 |
| 29 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3127.09 | 11 |
| 30 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3035.76 | 3 |
| 31 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2998.29 | 14 |
| 32 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2993.24 | 28 |
| 33 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2945.99 | 6 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2935.39 | 24 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2906.1 | 26 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2873.98 | 18 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2725.4 | 22 |
| 38 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2697.51 | 85 |
| (38) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2676.85 | 13 |
| 39 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2668.51 | 11 |
| 40 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2614.68 | 33 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2597.13 | 20 |
| 42 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2564.76 | 7 |
| (42) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2564.76 | 7 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2511.21 | 13 |
| 44 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2473.23 | 6 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2306.73 | 18 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2250.21 | 25 |
| 47 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2241.65 | 7 |
| 48 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2186.44 | 7 |
| (48) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2186.44 | 7 |
| 49 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2169.95 | 9 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2152.26 | 16 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2119.94 | 15 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2117.76 | 16 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2114.42 | 7 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2112.06 | 10 |
| (54) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2097.24 | 15 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2077.77 | 21 |
| 56 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2076.62 | 4 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2035.09 | 23 |
| 58 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1952.72 | 7 |
| 59 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1940.74 | 9 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1897.47 | 7 |
| 61 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1854 | 38 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1815.95 | 13 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1792.37 | 18 |
| (63) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1783.79 | 13 |
| 64 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1722.61 | 9 |
| 65 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1668.75 | 24 |
| 66 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1658.14 | 22 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1600.47 | 9 |
| (67) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1586.3 | 5 |
| (67) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1566.51 | 3 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1561.88 | 14 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1495.51 | 16 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1489.94 | 26 |
| (70) | 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 | 1450.25 | 9 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1429.46 | 12 |
| (71) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1420.43 | 5 |
| 72 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1416.86 | 5 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1387.35 | 8 |
| 74 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1385.85 | 37 |
| (74) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1375.93 | 6 |
| 75 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1346.59 | 37 |
| (75) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1321.15 | 12 |
| 76 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1321.15 | 12 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1294.19 | 6 |
| 78 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1287.97 | 8 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1281.85 | 13 |
| 80 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1278.88 | 9 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1261.72 | 12 |
| (81) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1252.91 | 21 |
| 82 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1251.13 | 52 |
| (82) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1242.99 | 8 |
| 83 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1242.99 | 8 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1233.23 | 17 |
| 85 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1216.98 | 29 |
| 86 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1214.47 | 6 |
| (86) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1203.82 | 5 |
| 87 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1202.31 | 6 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1201.18 | 14 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1194.03 | 7 |
| (89) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1167.48 | 12 |
| (89) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1166.19 | 3 |
| (89) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1163.91 | 2 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1162.49 | 13 |
| 91 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1126.49 | 4 |
| (91) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1122.6 | 5 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 1120.24 | 20 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1081.49 | 10 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1051.16 | 11 |
| (94) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1040.04 | 1 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1021.48 | 7 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1005.48 | 9 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 997.08 | 6 |
| 98 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 991.04 | 9 |
| 99 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 990.51 | 7 |
| 100 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 982.35 | 9 |
| 101 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 976.16 | 13 |
| 102 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 975.64 | 15 |
| (102) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 974.31 | 3 |
| (102) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 972.6 | 4 |
| 103 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 969.46 | 9 |
| (103) | Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 968.29 | 3 |
| 104 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 966.32 | 13 |
| (104) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 959.1 | 1 |
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