| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 30505.58 | 200 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 11883.26 | 147 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5459.93 | 33 |
| 4 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3900.08 | 145 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3880.39 | 25 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3761.88 | 65 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3445.63 | 19 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3279.68 | 24 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2824.3 | 25 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2646.5 | 86 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2645.43 | 20 |
| (11) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2236.18 | 12 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2211.78 | 12 |
| (12) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2153.81 | 19 |
| 13 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2153.58 | 11 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2085.44 | 22 |
| (14) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2011.46 | 27 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1965.22 | 11 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1928.73 | 16 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1914.81 | 15 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1914.07 | 21 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1892.63 | 22 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1866.01 | 20 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1845.5 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1822.1 | 16 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1814.52 | 10 |
| 24 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1756.92 | 31 |
| 25 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1747.71 | 27 |
| 26 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1728.76 | 36 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1686.02 | 19 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1669.61 | 19 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1649.85 | 17 |
| 29 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1648.72 | 26 |
| 30 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1643.34 | 16 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1572.34 | 27 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1449.55 | 24 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1438.42 | 25 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1349.05 | 21 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1305.61 | 21 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1288.55 | 28 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1199.01 | 10 |
| 38 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1198.12 | 12 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1196.21 | 7 |
| 40 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1121.62 | 23 |
| (40) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1105.51 | 12 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1079.71 | 17 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1039.29 | 21 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1019.22 | 15 |
| 44 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1010.04 | 15 |
| 45 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 998.28 | 54 |
| 46 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 986.35 | 19 |
| 47 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 969.02 | 14 |
| 48 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 960.16 | 42 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 950.08 | 17 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 942.77 | 17 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 924.31 | 18 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 921.84 | 10 |
| 53 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 920.52 | 7 |
| (53) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 899.89 | 15 |
| 54 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 895.44 | 14 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 891.35 | 13 |
| (55) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 890.05 | 21 |
| 56 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 888.26 | 7 |
| 57 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 870.94 | 24 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 859.03 | 27 |
| 59 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 852.03 | 3 |
| (59) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 850.11 | 3 |
| (59) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 836.39 | 3 |
| (59) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 826.75 | 14 |
| 60 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 817.84 | 8 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 817.59 | 7 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 809.48 | 19 |
| (61) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 793.81 | 6 |
| 62 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 792.19 | 38 |
| 63 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 786.95 | 9 |
| 64 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 785.41 | 11 |
| 65 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 780.92 | 30 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 770.22 | 27 |
| 67 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 758.77 | 8 |
| (67) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 758.77 | 8 |
| 68 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 749.2 | 7 |
| (68) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 739.69 | 11 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 708 | 6 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 672.98 | 12 |
| 71 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 672.62 | 4 |
| 72 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 652.21 | 1 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 651.76 | 17 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 646.36 | 9 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 637.95 | 15 |
| 76 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 633.96 | 15 |
| 77 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 627.71 | 37 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 626.45 | 10 |
| 79 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 623.64 | 11 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 613.44 | 7 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 612.86 | 13 |
| (81) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 600.96 | 6 |
| 82 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 593.87 | 5 |
| (82) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 588.34 | 3 |
| 83 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 581.92 | 9 |
| 84 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 581.39 | 8 |
| 85 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 571.64 | 18 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 569.2 | 8 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 568.86 | 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 | 563.33 | 10 |
| 88 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 553.88 | 6 |
| (88) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 552.81 | 5 |
| (88) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 552.25 | 12 |
| (88) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 543.49 | 3 |
| (88) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 543 | 2 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 538.89 | 8 |
| 90 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 520.09 | 9 |
| 91 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 518.68 | 17 |
| (91) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 512.06 | 1 |
| (91) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 509.59 | 2 |
| 92 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 509.53 | 5 |
| 93 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 481.21 | 6 |
| 94 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 479.9 | 49 |
| (94) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 478.75 | 4 |
| 95 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 471.42 | 9 |
| 96 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 468.96 | 14 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 461.49 | 13 |
| 98 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 461.46 | 37 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 461.17 | 8 |
| 100 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 456.46 | 13 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 451.66 | 8 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 451.19 | 18 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 445.6 | 6 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 444.31 | 23 |
| (104) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 439.78 | 1 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 431.79 | 10 |
| 106 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 430.94 | 9 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 428.94 | 14 |
| 108 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 419.22 | 5 |
| (108) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 417.28 | 11 |
| (108) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 417.16 | 5 |
| (108) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 414.09 | 7 |
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