| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 46426.16 | 200 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 14179.1 | 147 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9841.46 | 33 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6585.8 | 25 |
| 5 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5988.09 | 19 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5609.4 | 65 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5546.84 | 11 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5358.44 | 24 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5056.21 | 11 |
| 10 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4908.59 | 145 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4476.61 | 22 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4220.93 | 20 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4068.81 | 12 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4032.44 | 25 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3637.81 | 12 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3410.22 | 21 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3398.93 | 27 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3383.8 | 16 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3331.13 | 16 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3144.55 | 20 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3120.26 | 19 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2902.78 | 10 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2810.23 | 15 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2793.23 | 25 |
| 22 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2784.4 | 27 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2732.88 | 16 |
| (23) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2694.38 | 17 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2646.67 | 19 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2640.57 | 15 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2620.31 | 21 |
| 27 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2526.59 | 86 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2476.69 | 19 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2457.96 | 22 |
| 30 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2346.4 | 7 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2296.67 | 11 |
| 32 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2157.94 | 31 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2146.08 | 27 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2044.68 | 27 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2002.97 | 10 |
| 36 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1985.85 | 7 |
| 37 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1984.61 | 36 |
| 38 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1980.87 | 12 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1972.36 | 26 |
| 40 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1960.33 | 3 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1939.15 | 24 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1901.58 | 21 |
| (42) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1702.13 | 12 |
| 43 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1666.99 | 7 |
| 44 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1662.88 | 42 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1570.84 | 18 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1563.34 | 17 |
| 47 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1526.57 | 14 |
| (47) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1444.9 | 5 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1438.65 | 17 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1436 | 28 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1423.88 | 10 |
| 51 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1418.09 | 14 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1390.82 | 19 |
| 53 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1387.47 | 6 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1360.61 | 8 |
| 55 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 1320.01 | 1 |
| 56 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1289.47 | 21 |
| 57 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1259.34 | 9 |
| 58 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1235.93 | 8 |
| (58) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1235.93 | 8 |
| 59 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1227.32 | 8 |
| (59) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1227.25 | 7 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1215.98 | 7 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1194.1 | 15 |
| (61) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1191.84 | 6 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1189.66 | 15 |
| 63 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1180.08 | 23 |
| 64 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1166.86 | 24 |
| (64) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1166.22 | 15 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1164.46 | 27 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1156.52 | 9 |
| 67 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1149.4 | 9 |
| (67) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1144.94 | 6 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1138.15 | 17 |
| 69 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1136 | 19 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1123.23 | 7 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1072.53 | 10 |
| 72 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1068.56 | 54 |
| 73 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1064.16 | 11 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1063.63 | 15 |
| (74) | 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 | 1039.18 | 10 |
| 75 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1031.5 | 5 |
| 76 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 979.06 | 7 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 970.12 | 12 |
| (77) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 940.92 | 9 |
| 78 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 940.92 | 9 |
| (78) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 932.15 | 2 |
| (78) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 925.75 | 3 |
| (78) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 924.94 | 14 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 922.43 | 13 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 916.99 | 8 |
| 81 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 911.84 | 30 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 909.98 | 6 |
| (82) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 899.8 | 2 |
| 83 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 887.02 | 17 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 867.75 | 10 |
| (84) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 864.47 | 3 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 829.53 | 13 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 829.5 | 18 |
| (86) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 828.56 | 3 |
| 87 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 823.41 | 8 |
| (87) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 819.17 | 21 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 818.23 | 23 |
| 89 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 817.23 | 5 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 803.98 | 6 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 794.97 | 11 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 793.29 | 11 |
| 92 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 786.31 | 2 |
| 93 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 786.29 | 9 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 773.02 | 14 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 763.47 | 17 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 756.44 | 13 |
| 97 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 746.08 | 38 |
| 98 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 738.55 | 4 |
| 99 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 738.51 | 7 |
| 100 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 733.93 | 37 |
| 101 | Center for Economic Design, Bogazici University | Istanbul, Turkey | 732.6 | 2 |
| 102 | Program in Economic Growth and Policy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 718.77 | 4 |
| (102) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 689.01 | 3 |
| (102) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 683.83 | 1 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 683.35 | 8 |
| 104 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 680.03 | 9 |
| 105 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 678.28 | 13 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 653.51 | 9 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 631.17 | 10 |
| (107) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 629.75 | 7 |
| (107) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 626.36 | 5 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 620.61 | 7 |
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