| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 41795.83 | 188 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 22046.31 | 143 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 9366.97 | 141 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8281.33 | 64 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8143 | 30 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5554.75 | 24 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4987.58 | 19 |
| 8 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4843.5 | 34 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 4652.91 | 20 |
| (9) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4543.16 | 19 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4539.33 | 25 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4511.33 | 22 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4480.08 | 19 |
| (12) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4271.08 | 12 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4062.16 | 12 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3920 | 11 |
| (14) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3854.75 | 26 |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3854.58 | 85 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3664.83 | 11 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3630.24 | 27 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3602.41 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3534 | 21 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 3232.16 | 16 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3203.85 | 23 |
| 22 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3105.16 | 18 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2761.11 | 10 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2737.91 | 19 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2684.33 | 26 |
| 26 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2628.45 | 28 |
| 27 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2604.36 | 54 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2592.91 | 25 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2587.41 | 21 |
| 30 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2543.23 | 15 |
| 31 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2523.16 | 14 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2493.9 | 17 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2465.01 | 22 |
| 34 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2441.5 | 6 |
| 35 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2439.06 | 25 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 2426.16 | 9 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2420.5 | 11 |
| 38 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2333.49 | 24 |
| 39 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2327.41 | 15 |
| 40 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2318.01 | 39 |
| 41 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2314.56 | 37 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2259.66 | 16 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2235.5 | 17 |
| 44 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2221.86 | 38 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2138.16 | 23 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2083.39 | 25 |
| 47 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2046.99 | 9 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2039.5 | 19 |
| 49 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2007.08 | 17 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1991.83 | 18 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1971.13 | 15 |
| 52 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1939.66 | 8 |
| (52) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1939.66 | 8 |
| 53 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1924.16 | 21 |
| 54 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1910.03 | 14 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1905.83 | 27 |
| 56 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1897.66 | 11 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 1890.5 | 29 |
| 58 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1880.74 | 19 |
| (58) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1873.33 | 15 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1851.48 | 10 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1838.16 | 12 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1833.83 | 10 |
| 62 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1824.75 | 11 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1800.85 | 22 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1799.91 | 6 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1759.66 | 16 |
| 66 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1723.74 | 7 |
| 67 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1721.41 | 23 |
| 68 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1675 | 7 |
| 69 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1609.91 | 30 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1588 | 15 |
| 71 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 1568.33 | 18 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1566.33 | 9 |
| (72) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1556 | 11 |
| 73 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1531.33 | 3 |
| 74 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1525.16 | 15 |
| 75 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1507.16 | 6 |
| 76 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1469.49 | 9 |
| (76) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1468.91 | 13 |
| 77 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1464.76 | 7 |
| 78 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1458.33 | 7 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1458.33 | 7 |
| 79 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1427.24 | 9 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1404.16 | 9 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1402 | 7 |
| (81) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1365.26 | 14 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1332.16 | 7 |
| 83 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1314.33 | 4 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 1311 | 13 |
| 85 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1308.16 | 8 |
| 86 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1291.83 | 12 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1286.74 | 16 |
| 88 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1278.66 | 5 |
| (88) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1276.16 | 8 |
| 89 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 1249.25 | 16 |
| 90 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 1242.66 | 13 |
| 91 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1242.25 | 9 |
| (91) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1239 | 12 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1238.89 | 13 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1238.66 | 16 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1234.5 | 18 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1229.33 | 15 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1223.21 | 13 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1211.68 | 9 |
| (97) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1205 | 5 |
| (97) | 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 | 1203.41 | 10 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1193.58 | 13 |
| 99 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1193.08 | 9 |
| (99) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1176.83 | 14 |
| (99) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1175.83 | 5 |
| 100 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1174.49 | 10 |
| (100) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1166.75 | 21 |
| (100) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1150.66 | 7 |
| (100) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1150.08 | 13 |
| 101 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1143.58 | 15 |
| 102 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1140.83 | 7 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of St Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1140.66 | 8 |
| 104 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1120.5 | 8 |
| 105 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1089.16 | 9 |
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