| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11075.4 | 200 |
| 2 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2491.72 | 33 |
| 3 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2461.42 | 147 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1533.13 | 24 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1429.29 | 25 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1281.66 | 11 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1209.88 | 19 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1148.02 | 11 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 933.11 | 65 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 895.06 | 20 |
| 11 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 860.52 | 16 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 855.44 | 16 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 788.17 | 25 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 746.26 | 21 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 738.12 | 28 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 734.56 | 12 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 687.58 | 16 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 677 | 10 |
| 18 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 644.07 | 145 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 637.77 | 27 |
| 19 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 631.77 | 86 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 611.33 | 20 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 594.33 | 19 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 586.91 | 19 |
| 22 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 575.54 | 15 |
| (22) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 575.48 | 12 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 562.93 | 11 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 545.19 | 12 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 543.18 | 15 |
| 26 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 532.45 | 31 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 506.65 | 19 |
| (27) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 493.5 | 4 |
| 28 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 462.02 | 8 |
| (28) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 462.01 | 7 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 436.95 | 22 |
| 30 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 436.5 | 12 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 431.74 | 22 |
| 32 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 411.8 | 3 |
| 33 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 406.89 | 6 |
| (33) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 387.15 | 15 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 366.81 | 15 |
| 35 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 358.57 | 30 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 357.2 | 25 |
| 37 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 351.42 | 9 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 351.11 | 26 |
| (38) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 342.08 | 3 |
| 39 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 322.98 | 7 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 317.04 | 10 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 311.72 | 17 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 304.73 | 7 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 292.45 | 24 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 291.33 | 27 |
| (44) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 287.32 | 17 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 287.07 | 14 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 285.64 | 18 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 282.41 | 10 |
| (47) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 281.75 | 2 |
| (47) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 271.02 | 11 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 269.37 | 27 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 262.57 | 13 |
| (49) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 260.7 | 6 |
| 50 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 258.93 | 8 |
| 51 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 246.56 | 7 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 228.54 | 21 |
| 53 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 226.17 | 11 |
| (53) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 224.95 | 2 |
| (53) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 223.32 | 5 |
| (53) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 216.09 | 3 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 214.04 | 23 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 210.02 | 21 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 208.57 | 21 |
| 57 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 207.58 | 17 |
| (57) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 206.09 | 6 |
| (57) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 205.14 | 14 |
| (57) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 202.38 | 5 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 202.16 | 6 |
| 59 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 199.03 | 54 |
| 60 | CESifo | München, Germany | 191.69 | 36 |
| 61 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 188.09 | 5 |
| (61) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 181.58 | 21 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 181.05 | 27 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 180.38 | 7 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 180.12 | 6 |
| 65 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 174.38 | 4 |
| 66 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 172.26 | 7 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 171.65 | 6 |
| 68 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 169.14 | 2 |
| (68) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 168.64 | 2 |
| (68) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 166.76 | 3 |
| (68) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 164.23 | 3 |
| 69 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 163.01 | 1 |
| 70 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 161.96 | 7 |
| (70) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 159.92 | 1 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 159.01 | 17 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 158.74 | 19 |
| (72) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 155.04 | 1 |
| (72) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 154.29 | 5 |
| 73 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 152.56 | 14 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 148.84 | 17 |
| (74) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 143.15 | 3 |
| 75 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 141.88 | 7 |
| (75) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 137.44 | 3 |
| 76 | Program in Economic Growth and Policy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 129.57 | 4 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 122.7 | 15 |
| 78 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 120.3 | 1 |
| (78) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 118.12 | 3 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 117.99 | 13 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 117.52 | 5 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 116.37 | 8 |
| (81) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 116.01 | 4 |
| 82 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 114.66 | 15 |
| 83 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 114.02 | 7 |
| (83) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 113.4 | 1 |
| (83) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 113.4 | 1 |
| 84 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 111.29 | 9 |
| 85 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 109.18 | 24 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 106.92 | 7 |
| (85) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 106.65 | 12 |
| (85) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 106.31 | 1 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 104.69 | 19 |
| 87 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 103.11 | 10 |
| (87) | 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 | 102.65 | 10 |
| 88 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 102.4 | 3 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 100.28 | 14 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 99.84 | 15 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 99.35 | 17 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 98.85 | 9 |
| 93 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 98.77 | 7 |
| (93) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 98.69 | 8 |
| 94 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 95.47 | 37 |
| 95 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 94.55 | 13 |
| (95) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 94.55 | 7 |
| 96 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 94.47 | 42 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 91.6 | 27 |
| 98 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 90.97 | 1 |
| 99 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 89.1 | 14 |
| (99) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 88.3 | 9 |
| 100 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 88.3 | 9 |
| 101 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 87.75 | 9 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 87.62 | 8 |
| 103 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 85.25 | 9 |
| 104 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 84.78 | 8 |
| (104) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 84.78 | 8 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 82.79 | 13 |
| 106 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 82.6 | 5 |
| 107 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 79.64 | 37 |
| 108 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 79.63 | 8 |
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