| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36849.09 | 200 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8485.28 | 147 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8262.51 | 33 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5141.8 | 24 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4883.52 | 25 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4273.81 | 11 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3998.39 | 19 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3806.76 | 11 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3314.9 | 65 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2922.41 | 20 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2774.94 | 16 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2738.6 | 25 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2662.36 | 16 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2457.49 | 21 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2396.83 | 12 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2329.98 | 28 |
| 16 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2320.43 | 145 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2277.99 | 10 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2274.4 | 16 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2255.01 | 27 |
| 19 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2146.91 | 86 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2126.06 | 19 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2111.44 | 20 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1964.78 | 19 |
| 22 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1934.84 | 15 |
| 23 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1871.75 | 12 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1866.93 | 11 |
| (24) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1767.05 | 12 |
| 25 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1723.76 | 31 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1711.18 | 15 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1710.76 | 19 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1612.99 | 22 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1598.26 | 12 |
| (29) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1556.48 | 4 |
| 30 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1417.43 | 8 |
| (30) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1417.37 | 7 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1400.14 | 22 |
| 32 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1376.12 | 3 |
| 33 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1333.55 | 6 |
| (33) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1241.62 | 15 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1227.81 | 15 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1208.58 | 25 |
| 36 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1199.12 | 26 |
| 37 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1176.93 | 30 |
| (37) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1150.12 | 3 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1114.17 | 10 |
| 39 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1111.33 | 7 |
| 40 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1102.74 | 9 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1029.46 | 27 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1029.17 | 17 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1014 | 17 |
| 43 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1010.46 | 7 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1006.28 | 24 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 973.99 | 18 |
| 46 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 944.21 | 14 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 917.87 | 13 |
| (47) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 916.76 | 11 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 915.25 | 10 |
| (48) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 908.95 | 6 |
| (48) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 894.55 | 2 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 882.95 | 27 |
| 50 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 852.51 | 7 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 837.58 | 21 |
| 52 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 831.16 | 8 |
| (52) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 781.91 | 2 |
| (52) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 778.66 | 5 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 770.64 | 23 |
| 54 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 768.12 | 17 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 759.29 | 21 |
| 56 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 755.35 | 11 |
| (56) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 746.23 | 3 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 738.72 | 21 |
| (57) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 736.08 | 6 |
| 58 | CESifo | München, Germany | 674.57 | 36 |
| 59 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 672.12 | 54 |
| (59) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 662.74 | 14 |
| (59) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 644.88 | 5 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 628.38 | 6 |
| 61 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 627.44 | 5 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 612.01 | 19 |
| (62) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 611.74 | 21 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 606.22 | 27 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 605.73 | 6 |
| 65 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 594.6 | 7 |
| 66 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 588.16 | 7 |
| 67 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 585.26 | 14 |
| 68 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 582.04 | 1 |
| (68) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 572.61 | 3 |
| 69 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 570.34 | 4 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 560.54 | 6 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 555 | 7 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 552.9 | 17 |
| (72) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 534.06 | 3 |
| (72) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 532.35 | 2 |
| 73 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 523.74 | 2 |
| (73) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 510.36 | 5 |
| (73) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 505.98 | 1 |
| (73) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 493.37 | 1 |
| 74 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 478.04 | 7 |
| (74) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 476.19 | 3 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 472.08 | 17 |
| 76 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 450.9 | 15 |
| (76) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 448.19 | 3 |
| 77 | Program in Economic Growth and Policy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 440.11 | 4 |
| (77) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 426.53 | 4 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 425.82 | 13 |
| 79 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 425.76 | 7 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 422.22 | 15 |
| 81 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 421.02 | 14 |
| (81) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 415.93 | 12 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 406.11 | 8 |
| (82) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 399.37 | 3 |
| 83 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 397.16 | 8 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 397.16 | 8 |
| 84 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 395.11 | 1 |
| 85 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 388.59 | 24 |
| 86 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 384.74 | 9 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 379.78 | 5 |
| (87) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 376.17 | 1 |
| (87) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 376.17 | 1 |
| 88 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 371.97 | 7 |
| (88) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 368.45 | 7 |
| 89 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 365.23 | 42 |
| (89) | 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 | 360.68 | 10 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 357.29 | 19 |
| (90) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 351.35 | 1 |
| 91 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 348.01 | 3 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 342.21 | 27 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 332.78 | 14 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 331.71 | 17 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 331.28 | 15 |
| 96 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 329.31 | 10 |
| 97 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 326.51 | 13 |
| (97) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 326.5 | 7 |
| 98 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 326.31 | 9 |
| 99 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 322.16 | 37 |
| 100 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 319.59 | 1 |
| 101 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 313.33 | 9 |
| (101) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 312.75 | 8 |
| 102 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 301.79 | 5 |
| 103 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 299.76 | 37 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 291.54 | 8 |
| (104) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 283.74 | 9 |
| 105 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 283.74 | 9 |
| 106 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 283.09 | 9 |
| 107 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 280.05 | 11 |
| 108 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 279.53 | 38 |
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