| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 64380 | 188 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 35360 | 143 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 14634 | 141 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12406 | 64 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11699 | 30 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8837 | 24 |
| 7 | CESifo | München, Germany | 7458 | 34 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 7208 | 20 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7043 | 19 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6877 | 25 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6670 | 19 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6653 | 22 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6586 | 85 |
| (13) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6492 | 19 |
| (13) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6314 | 12 |
| (13) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5911 | 26 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5706 | 12 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 5665 | 27 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5465 | 11 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5332 | 16 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5177 | 23 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5046 | 21 |
| 20 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5045 | 11 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5006 | 15 |
| 22 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4843 | 18 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4634 | 19 |
| 24 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4580 | 54 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4364 | 21 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4318 | 25 |
| 27 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4264 | 37 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4254 | 10 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4227 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4146 | 16 |
| 31 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4125 | 25 |
| 32 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4120 | 28 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4061 | 26 |
| 34 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3965 | 15 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3965 | 17 |
| 36 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3954 | 38 |
| 37 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 3940 | 14 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3774 | 17 |
| 39 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3679 | 24 |
| 40 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3646 | 39 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3596 | 11 |
| 42 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3590 | 25 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3589 | 9 |
| 44 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3543 | 21 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3535 | 23 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3432 | 18 |
| 47 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3412 | 15 |
| 48 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3400 | 6 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3399 | 19 |
| 50 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3301 | 19 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3254 | 22 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3188 | 17 |
| 53 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3172 | 11 |
| (53) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3163 | 15 |
| 54 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3079 | 14 |
| 55 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3029 | 9 |
| 56 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2955 | 8 |
| (56) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2955 | 8 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2934 | 15 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2895 | 6 |
| 59 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2894 | 23 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2855 | 27 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 2843 | 29 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2807 | 16 |
| 63 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2801 | 7 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2800 | 10 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2769 | 7 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2580 | 12 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2549 | 7 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2546 | 15 |
| 69 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2514 | 9 |
| 70 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2502 | 3 |
| 71 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2494 | 7 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2489 | 10 |
| 73 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2488 | 7 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2488 | 7 |
| 74 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2481 | 30 |
| (74) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2456 | 13 |
| 75 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2439 | 9 |
| 76 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2423 | 15 |
| 77 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2375 | 11 |
| 78 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 2353 | 18 |
| (78) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2293 | 5 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2262 | 13 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2245 | 9 |
| 81 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2227 | 9 |
| (81) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2208 | 11 |
| (81) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2207 | 21 |
| (81) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2197 | 14 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2196 | 16 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 2187 | 13 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2182 | 13 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2137 | 18 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2133 | 13 |
| (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 | 2131 | 10 |
| 87 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2118 | 29 |
| 87 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2118 | 6 |
| 89 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 2116 | 9 |
| 90 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 2060 | 15 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2038 | 15 |
| 92 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 2024 | 12 |
| (92) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2009 | 12 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2001 | 9 |
| 94 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1996 | 15 |
| 95 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1988 | 35 |
| 96 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1980 | 7 |
| 97 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1946 | 10 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1942 | 16 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1939 | 7 |
| 100 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 1930 | 17 |
| 101 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 1927 | 16 |
| 102 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1900 | 5 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1889 | 7 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 1855 | 7 |
| (104) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1850 | 7 |
| (104) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1830 | 8 |
| 104 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1830 | 8 |
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