| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5277.67 | 188 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 1854.73 | 143 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 992.76 | 30 |
| 4 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 675.33 | 19 |
| 5 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 631.96 | 141 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 609.17 | 24 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 595.51 | 64 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 563.33 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 521.91 | 23 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 466.29 | 11 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 441.42 | 19 |
| (11) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 428.85 | 12 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 427.78 | 12 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 404.74 | 11 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 378.09 | 22 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 366.64 | 17 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 366.4 | 15 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 362.56 | 19 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 362.29 | 10 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 361.78 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 359.48 | 21 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 357.46 | 22 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 345.12 | 16 |
| 22 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 345.01 | 85 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 320.49 | 26 |
| 23 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 314.42 | 18 |
| 24 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 291.69 | 28 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 285.83 | 19 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 281.59 | 27 |
| 27 | CESifo | München, Germany | 274.17 | 34 |
| 28 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 265.3 | 25 |
| 29 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 256.87 | 15 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 239.46 | 17 |
| 31 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 239.45 | 6 |
| (31) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 237.28 | 13 |
| 32 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 235.44 | 27 |
| 33 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 227.8 | 11 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 226.91 | 21 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 204.86 | 17 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 199.29 | 22 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 199.17 | 15 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 198 | 16 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 189.81 | 10 |
| 40 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 185.55 | 7 |
| 41 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 184.8 | 9 |
| (41) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 182.74 | 3 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 182.58 | 11 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 180.5 | 16 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 179.69 | 25 |
| 45 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 176.46 | 15 |
| (45) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 167.44 | 15 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 167.42 | 20 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 167.02 | 16 |
| 48 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 163.71 | 21 |
| 49 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 163.18 | 23 |
| (49) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 158.73 | 3 |
| 50 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 156.83 | 14 |
| 51 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 154.57 | 3 |
| (51) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 153.5 | 13 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 151.71 | 13 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 150.89 | 11 |
| 53 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 150.31 | 19 |
| 54 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 150.09 | 54 |
| (54) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 149.75 | 14 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 149.11 | 26 |
| 56 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 148.61 | 7 |
| 57 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 147.55 | 14 |
| 58 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 146.54 | 4 |
| 59 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 146.25 | 7 |
| (59) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 146.25 | 7 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 140.62 | 18 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 139.72 | 10 |
| 62 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 137.03 | 9 |
| 63 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 133.97 | 7 |
| 64 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 130.04 | 8 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 130.04 | 8 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 128.71 | 16 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 128.56 | 12 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 126.33 | 19 |
| (67) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 122.59 | 21 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 122.22 | 9 |
| 69 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 121.47 | 8 |
| 70 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 121.21 | 24 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 120.78 | 6 |
| 72 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 119.65 | 30 |
| (72) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 118.34 | 5 |
| (72) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 114.82 | 3 |
| 73 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 113.1 | 39 |
| 74 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 106.54 | 6 |
| (74) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 105.05 | 5 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 105.02 | 7 |
| (75) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 104.19 | 2 |
| (75) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 103.05 | 3 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 101.78 | 15 |
| 77 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 99.67 | 5 |
| (77) | Global Economics @ Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 99.4 | 1 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 96.96 | 25 |
| 79 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 96.85 | 9 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 95.26 | 7 |
| (79) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 94.66 | 6 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 93.57 | 6 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 93.21 | 13 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 90.53 | 9 |
| (82) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 89.99 | 1 |
| 83 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 88.09 | 15 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 87.21 | 13 |
| 85 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 86.5 | 37 |
| (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 | 86.02 | 10 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 85.04 | 6 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 81.15 | 7 |
| 88 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 80.89 | 9 |
| 89 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 79.52 | 13 |
| 90 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 79.03 | 9 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 77.61 | 8 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 77.21 | 18 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 76.57 | 7 |
| 94 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 75.99 | 5 |
| (94) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 75.99 | 12 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 74.92 | 23 |
| 96 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 74.85 | 38 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 74.36 | 10 |
| (97) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 74.28 | 10 |
| (97) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 73.66 | 4 |
| 98 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 72.84 | 9 |
| 99 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 70.75 | 6 |
| 100 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 70.45 | 16 |
| 101 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 70.33 | 7 |
| 102 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 70.13 | 7 |
| (102) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 68.12 | 4 |
| 103 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 67.98 | 7 |
| 104 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 67.24 | 9 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 67.12 | 11 |
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