| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17881.49 | 188 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 6640.48 | 143 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3296.17 | 30 |
| 4 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2392.59 | 141 |
| 5 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2280.05 | 19 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2258.03 | 64 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2038.54 | 24 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1869.27 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1721.64 | 23 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1599.82 | 12 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1521.27 | 19 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1504.03 | 11 |
| (12) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1475.74 | 12 |
| (12) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1415.31 | 19 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1395.61 | 22 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1315.48 | 11 |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1241.9 | 85 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1229.53 | 15 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1227.22 | 21 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1210.66 | 10 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1204.1 | 15 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1161.2 | 26 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1123.06 | 22 |
| 21 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1116.94 | 18 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1055.52 | 17 |
| 23 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1031.03 | 34 |
| 24 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1015.55 | 28 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1012.4 | 27 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1003.09 | 16 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 991.46 | 19 |
| 28 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 908.08 | 25 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 899.82 | 17 |
| 30 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 879.75 | 15 |
| 31 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 806.23 | 6 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 783.57 | 21 |
| 33 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 774.31 | 11 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 758.49 | 27 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 701.69 | 17 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 695.23 | 16 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 692.32 | 20 |
| (37) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 687.93 | 13 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 665.83 | 22 |
| 39 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 661.26 | 25 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 637.49 | 15 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 636.82 | 16 |
| (41) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 618.42 | 3 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 614.69 | 9 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 613.72 | 15 |
| 43 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 611.73 | 15 |
| 44 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 611.22 | 21 |
| 45 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 608.4 | 7 |
| 46 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 605.65 | 14 |
| 47 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 601.47 | 11 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 601.45 | 10 |
| 49 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 585.91 | 23 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 574.13 | 16 |
| 51 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 547.54 | 14 |
| 52 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 546.29 | 54 |
| 53 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 538.54 | 19 |
| 54 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 532.1 | 3 |
| 55 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 527.71 | 4 |
| (55) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 524.66 | 3 |
| 56 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 523.65 | 8 |
| (56) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 523.65 | 8 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 517.14 | 26 |
| 58 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 515.93 | 7 |
| (58) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 514.75 | 13 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 503.94 | 18 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 493.01 | 24 |
| (60) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 486.54 | 11 |
| (60) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 486.39 | 14 |
| 61 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 485.76 | 9 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 477.5 | 13 |
| 63 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 477.18 | 7 |
| 64 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 463.19 | 39 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 461.34 | 19 |
| 66 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 457.85 | 7 |
| (66) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 457.85 | 7 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 456.58 | 10 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 443.96 | 12 |
| (68) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 439.13 | 21 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 433.47 | 15 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 432.76 | 6 |
| 71 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 423.16 | 30 |
| (71) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 420.47 | 3 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 417.07 | 25 |
| 73 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 408.61 | 8 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 405.62 | 9 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 401.51 | 16 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 385.36 | 37 |
| (76) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 383.57 | 5 |
| (76) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 381.19 | 12 |
| (76) | Global Economics @ Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 368.36 | 1 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 366.25 | 15 |
| 78 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 359.92 | 5 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 358.63 | 13 |
| (79) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 354.77 | 3 |
| 80 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 354.23 | 6 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 350.44 | 7 |
| 82 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 346.7 | 9 |
| (82) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 345.84 | 5 |
| (82) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 342.07 | 2 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 341.15 | 9 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 328.87 | 7 |
| 84 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 320.71 | 38 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 320.36 | 6 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 303.24 | 6 |
| (86) | 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 | 301.94 | 10 |
| (86) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 297.02 | 6 |
| 87 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 285.06 | 9 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 278.82 | 13 |
| 89 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 278.79 | 13 |
| 90 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 277.2 | 9 |
| 91 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 273.96 | 14 |
| (91) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 273.84 | 1 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 272.8 | 8 |
| 93 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 272.02 | 16 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 267.57 | 18 |
| 95 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 265.49 | 16 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 260.3 | 23 |
| (96) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 259.83 | 4 |
| 97 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 259.56 | 13 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 255.65 | 7 |
| 99 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 252.41 | 9 |
| 100 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 251.52 | 6 |
| 101 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 247.22 | 9 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 243.5 | 16 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 243.35 | 7 |
| 104 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 242.71 | 12 |
| 105 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 241.83 | 48 |
| (105) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 241.83 | 4 |
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