| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18160.08 | 188 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4676.39 | 143 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3315.8 | 30 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2723.97 | 24 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2623.97 | 23 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2008.97 | 19 |
| 7 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1863.35 | 17 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1729.45 | 11 |
| 9 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1647.35 | 11 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1504.37 | 64 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1448.27 | 16 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1334.35 | 10 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1330.17 | 25 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1295.39 | 19 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1262.57 | 12 |
| (14) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1229.5 | 13 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1196.72 | 27 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1190.96 | 15 |
| 17 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1169.88 | 141 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1106.94 | 19 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1087.23 | 21 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1077.39 | 15 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1048.43 | 26 |
| 21 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 990.9 | 85 |
| 22 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 986.14 | 7 |
| (22) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 986.14 | 7 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 966.61 | 19 |
| 23 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 950.15 | 15 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 846.79 | 18 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 842.55 | 22 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 836.9 | 11 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 803.88 | 28 |
| (27) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 792.11 | 4 |
| 28 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 774.26 | 30 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 760.12 | 10 |
| 30 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 746.11 | 25 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 719.24 | 17 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 716.33 | 22 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 716.14 | 17 |
| 34 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 697.87 | 3 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 684.26 | 18 |
| 36 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 681.58 | 8 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 666.11 | 13 |
| 38 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 645.17 | 11 |
| (38) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 642.91 | 2 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 632.78 | 15 |
| 40 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 626.17 | 12 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 587.65 | 22 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 579.34 | 16 |
| (42) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 559.41 | 3 |
| (42) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 553.69 | 6 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 546.39 | 14 |
| (43) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 535.17 | 13 |
| 44 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 522.49 | 6 |
| 45 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 517.7 | 7 |
| 46 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 515.55 | 7 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 513.69 | 6 |
| 48 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 501.46 | 9 |
| 49 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 481.08 | 9 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 446.98 | 27 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 445.43 | 23 |
| (51) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 445.04 | 14 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 427.61 | 21 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 425.64 | 11 |
| (52) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 420.88 | 5 |
| (52) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 408.84 | 21 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 407.34 | 21 |
| 54 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 388.59 | 54 |
| (54) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 388.08 | 3 |
| 55 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 378.02 | 19 |
| 56 | CESifo | München, Germany | 376.38 | 34 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 376.14 | 20 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 365.77 | 7 |
| (58) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 361.56 | 5 |
| 59 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 334.82 | 7 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 331.57 | 7 |
| (60) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 326.69 | 5 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 317.05 | 6 |
| (61) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 315.9 | 5 |
| 62 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 292.9 | 2 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 287.33 | 7 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 283.74 | 14 |
| (64) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 274.33 | 2 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 272.54 | 6 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 263.27 | 13 |
| 67 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 262.52 | 4 |
| (67) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 252.72 | 3 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 248.69 | 15 |
| (68) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 244.77 | 4 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 244.56 | 16 |
| 70 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 244.19 | 7 |
| 71 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 242.22 | 1 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 236.4 | 4 |
| (71) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 236.05 | 3 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 233.71 | 16 |
| 73 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 228.77 | 3 |
| 74 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 222.36 | 16 |
| 75 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 222.2 | 7 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 220.97 | 16 |
| 77 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 216.42 | 25 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 213.32 | 9 |
| (78) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 213.18 | 8 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 213.02 | 13 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 212.62 | 19 |
| (80) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 212.51 | 1 |
| (80) | Global Economics @ Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 210.45 | 1 |
| (80) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 206.2 | 15 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 205.65 | 5 |
| 82 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 203.59 | 7 |
| 83 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 203.59 | 12 |
| (83) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 203.58 | 6 |
| (83) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 202.82 | 1 |
| 84 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 201.11 | 9 |
| 85 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 200.17 | 5 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 198.5 | 26 |
| (86) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 196.7 | 3 |
| 87 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 193.91 | 15 |
| 88 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 189.89 | 4 |
| (88) | 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 | 189.22 | 10 |
| 89 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 187.35 | 37 |
| 90 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 185.18 | 24 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 182.35 | 25 |
| 92 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 182.06 | 37 |
| (92) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 181.68 | 8 |
| 93 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 181.68 | 8 |
| 94 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 180.28 | 5 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 179.39 | 15 |
| (95) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 178.4 | 12 |
| 96 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 176.93 | 10 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 176.87 | 9 |
| 98 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 175.83 | 9 |
| 99 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 168.74 | 9 |
| 100 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 165.12 | 48 |
| 101 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 163.26 | 38 |
| 102 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 161.3 | 7 |
| 103 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 160.97 | 14 |
| (103) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 158.13 | 3 |
| (103) | Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 152.73 | 1 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 152.04 | 10 |
| 105 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 151.44 | 8 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 151.44 | 8 |
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