| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19168.47 | 200 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 6985.33 | 147 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3687.23 | 33 |
| 4 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2429.08 | 145 |
| 5 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2376.05 | 19 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2366.32 | 65 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2337.11 | 25 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1967.35 | 24 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1908.36 | 25 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1709.7 | 20 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1635.56 | 11 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1631.23 | 12 |
| (12) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1488.4 | 12 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1455.76 | 86 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1435.37 | 22 |
| (14) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1418.23 | 19 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1342.36 | 21 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1331.11 | 11 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1254 | 15 |
| (17) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1234.94 | 27 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1222.49 | 16 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1207.98 | 10 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1204.24 | 20 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1135.13 | 22 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1114 | 16 |
| 23 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1095.81 | 19 |
| 24 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1084.96 | 36 |
| 25 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1060.53 | 31 |
| 26 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1053.51 | 16 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1040.43 | 27 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1030.97 | 19 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1013.56 | 27 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 995 | 15 |
| (30) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 993.08 | 17 |
| 31 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 936.39 | 26 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 879.7 | 25 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 823.62 | 28 |
| 34 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 810.95 | 7 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 809.95 | 24 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 796.48 | 10 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 793.51 | 21 |
| 38 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 792.45 | 12 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 775.8 | 21 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 690.02 | 17 |
| (40) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 673.4 | 12 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 643.59 | 17 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 637.2 | 15 |
| 43 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 625.62 | 15 |
| (43) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 625.17 | 3 |
| 44 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 622.6 | 23 |
| 45 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 610.66 | 14 |
| 46 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 610.62 | 7 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 604.39 | 10 |
| 48 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 603.68 | 11 |
| 49 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 586.44 | 54 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 575.74 | 17 |
| 51 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 575.5 | 42 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 563.37 | 27 |
| 53 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 562.19 | 21 |
| 54 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 558.53 | 14 |
| 55 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 551.83 | 19 |
| (55) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 548.36 | 15 |
| (55) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 540.97 | 3 |
| 56 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 536.5 | 3 |
| 57 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 534.68 | 4 |
| 58 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 534.42 | 24 |
| 59 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 532.25 | 7 |
| 60 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 529.55 | 8 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 529.55 | 8 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 511.04 | 18 |
| (61) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 504.91 | 6 |
| 62 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 495.74 | 9 |
| (62) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 488.09 | 14 |
| 63 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 486.94 | 7 |
| (63) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 486.14 | 11 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 482.78 | 13 |
| 65 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 466.67 | 30 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 464.99 | 19 |
| 67 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 463.31 | 8 |
| (67) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 463.2 | 7 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 459.87 | 10 |
| (68) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 453.73 | 21 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 452.63 | 12 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 434.56 | 6 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 434.55 | 27 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 432.7 | 15 |
| (72) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 429.51 | 3 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 422.31 | 17 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 413.96 | 9 |
| 75 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 407.76 | 8 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 393.52 | 38 |
| (76) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 384.91 | 5 |
| (76) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 378.14 | 12 |
| (76) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 373.54 | 1 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 371.1 | 15 |
| 78 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 365.42 | 5 |
| 79 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 358.16 | 6 |
| 80 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 357.66 | 1 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 357.49 | 8 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 355.46 | 10 |
| (82) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 355.34 | 3 |
| 83 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 351.44 | 9 |
| 84 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 350.93 | 18 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 349.93 | 7 |
| 86 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 346.02 | 17 |
| (86) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 342.18 | 2 |
| 87 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 330.25 | 11 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 329.75 | 13 |
| (88) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 329.1 | 2 |
| (88) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 327.13 | 7 |
| 89 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 324.32 | 37 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 321.72 | 6 |
| (90) | 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 | 306.15 | 10 |
| (90) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 298.18 | 6 |
| 91 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 288.41 | 9 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 287.85 | 8 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 286.64 | 13 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 284.24 | 13 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 283.8 | 12 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 279.05 | 5 |
| 97 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 278.46 | 9 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 275.34 | 8 |
| (98) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 275.26 | 1 |
| (98) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 272.26 | 4 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 271.72 | 8 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 269.02 | 18 |
| 101 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 265.57 | 13 |
| 102 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 262.05 | 14 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 261.15 | 23 |
| 104 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 255.92 | 9 |
| (104) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 253.66 | 11 |
| 105 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 253.03 | 6 |
| 106 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 248.45 | 9 |
| 107 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 247.98 | 37 |
| 108 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 247.16 | 49 |
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