| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19087.12 | 200 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4526.65 | 147 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3787.11 | 33 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2913.79 | 24 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2734.68 | 25 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1995.37 | 19 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1779.53 | 11 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1684.05 | 11 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1645.55 | 20 |
| 10 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1543.86 | 16 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1538.57 | 65 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1304.97 | 16 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1291.79 | 10 |
| (13) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1291.48 | 12 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1289.09 | 28 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1282.95 | 25 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1263.88 | 86 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1233.79 | 15 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1121.76 | 19 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1115.56 | 21 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1095.58 | 16 |
| 21 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1062.1 | 145 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1052.61 | 27 |
| 22 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 982.22 | 15 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 977.1 | 20 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 964.32 | 12 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 931.5 | 19 |
| (23) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 827.15 | 4 |
| 24 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 825.55 | 31 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 823.59 | 12 |
| 26 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 818.53 | 30 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 792.37 | 22 |
| 28 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 787.56 | 8 |
| (28) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 787.55 | 7 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 782.05 | 19 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 757.54 | 25 |
| 31 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 702.73 | 26 |
| (31) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 690.15 | 2 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 687.29 | 11 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 682.57 | 22 |
| 34 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 635.8 | 3 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 623.69 | 18 |
| 36 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 619.98 | 12 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 601.25 | 13 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 582.69 | 24 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 581.28 | 15 |
| (39) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 577.41 | 15 |
| (39) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 566.07 | 3 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 552.66 | 10 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 544.77 | 14 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 543.96 | 7 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 539.45 | 17 |
| 44 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 537.51 | 6 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 532.45 | 10 |
| 46 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 522.4 | 9 |
| 47 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 505.18 | 27 |
| (47) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 496.28 | 17 |
| 48 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 496.02 | 11 |
| (48) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 495.56 | 6 |
| 49 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 487.15 | 7 |
| (49) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 476.81 | 6 |
| 50 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 458.51 | 7 |
| 51 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 456.08 | 8 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 424.45 | 5 |
| (52) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 423.18 | 21 |
| (52) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 423.12 | 2 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 417.49 | 23 |
| 54 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 415.42 | 21 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 405.42 | 11 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 403.69 | 21 |
| (55) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 403.48 | 14 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 392.04 | 27 |
| (56) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 391.6 | 3 |
| 57 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 384.31 | 54 |
| (57) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 378.84 | 5 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 373.28 | 7 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 370.96 | 21 |
| 60 | CESifo | München, Germany | 336.33 | 36 |
| (60) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 330.73 | 5 |
| (60) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 324.58 | 5 |
| 61 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 324.12 | 19 |
| 62 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 310.79 | 7 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 310.7 | 6 |
| 64 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 303.65 | 2 |
| (64) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 292 | 2 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 288.64 | 6 |
| 66 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 286.15 | 1 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 285.36 | 7 |
| 68 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 267.08 | 14 |
| 69 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 260.89 | 17 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 256.47 | 8 |
| (70) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 255.45 | 3 |
| (70) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 253.12 | 3 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 249.04 | 6 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 246.14 | 13 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 242.31 | 27 |
| 74 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 240.57 | 1 |
| 75 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 235.41 | 4 |
| (75) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 234.93 | 3 |
| (75) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 231.33 | 4 |
| (75) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 231.11 | 1 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 229.93 | 17 |
| (76) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 229.21 | 1 |
| (76) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 229.21 | 1 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 228.93 | 17 |
| 78 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 222.69 | 3 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 221.64 | 5 |
| 80 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 214.28 | 7 |
| (80) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 211.99 | 1 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 208.63 | 15 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 207.67 | 19 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 203.08 | 14 |
| (83) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 201.56 | 1 |
| 84 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 197.99 | 9 |
| 85 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 195.66 | 37 |
| 86 | Program in Economic Growth and Policy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 194.79 | 4 |
| (86) | 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 | 192.67 | 10 |
| 87 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 192.32 | 24 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 192.04 | 17 |
| 89 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 189.29 | 7 |
| 90 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 186.43 | 13 |
| (90) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 186.43 | 7 |
| 91 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 185.01 | 15 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 184.19 | 15 |
| 93 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 181.17 | 7 |
| (93) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 178.61 | 9 |
| 94 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 178.61 | 9 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 177.62 | 9 |
| (95) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 177.47 | 8 |
| 96 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 174.59 | 38 |
| (96) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 173.78 | 3 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 173.63 | 27 |
| (97) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 171.55 | 3 |
| (97) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 171.4 | 12 |
| 98 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 170.48 | 5 |
| 99 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 169.34 | 9 |
| 100 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 167.38 | 10 |
| 101 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 163.35 | 49 |
| 102 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 163.11 | 9 |
| 103 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 161.27 | 42 |
| 104 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 160.96 | 5 |
| 105 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 158.32 | 37 |
| 106 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 150.5 | 8 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 150.09 | 10 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 143.15 | 10 |
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