| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9456.69 | 200 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3158.82 | 147 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1666.69 | 33 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1197.82 | 25 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1041.07 | 65 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1039.48 | 24 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1035.1 | 19 |
| 8 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1018.39 | 145 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 824.31 | 25 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 799 | 20 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 723.03 | 86 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 680.7 | 16 |
| (12) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 673.55 | 12 |
| 13 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 660.14 | 11 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 644.58 | 15 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 618.33 | 22 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 596.74 | 11 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 588.2 | 19 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 582.21 | 15 |
| (17) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 574.97 | 27 |
| 18 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 563.23 | 12 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 563.2 | 21 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 550.03 | 16 |
| 21 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 542.88 | 31 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 535.75 | 10 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 535.63 | 22 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 528.02 | 16 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 515.31 | 19 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 482.73 | 20 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 480.56 | 19 |
| 28 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 475.38 | 26 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 463.28 | 27 |
| 30 | CESifo | München, Germany | 443.94 | 36 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 442.56 | 24 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 438.08 | 17 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 438.04 | 27 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 413.3 | 25 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 410.7 | 28 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 398.62 | 21 |
| (35) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 393.18 | 12 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 346.1 | 10 |
| 37 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 346.07 | 7 |
| 38 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 344.11 | 12 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 327.1 | 15 |
| 40 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 309.51 | 23 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 306.42 | 21 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 306.28 | 15 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 302.96 | 17 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 296.87 | 17 |
| 45 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 291.95 | 21 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 284.6 | 13 |
| (46) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 281.32 | 15 |
| 47 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 277.61 | 54 |
| 48 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 275.84 | 14 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 273.48 | 10 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 270.73 | 18 |
| 51 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 267.11 | 7 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 264.76 | 17 |
| 53 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 264.58 | 8 |
| (53) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 264.56 | 7 |
| 54 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 258.39 | 3 |
| (54) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 256.43 | 3 |
| (54) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 256.42 | 3 |
| 55 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 254.9 | 7 |
| 56 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 250.59 | 9 |
| 57 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 247.7 | 19 |
| (57) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 244.85 | 14 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 238.69 | 11 |
| (57) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 238.37 | 21 |
| 58 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 237.92 | 42 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 235.94 | 27 |
| (59) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 234.88 | 6 |
| 60 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 233.98 | 11 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 229.87 | 19 |
| 62 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 218.5 | 4 |
| 63 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 216.61 | 24 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 210.49 | 6 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 209.75 | 17 |
| 66 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 206.43 | 11 |
| 67 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 203.42 | 30 |
| 68 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 201.72 | 7 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 195.91 | 7 |
| 70 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 192.99 | 1 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 191.16 | 10 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 190.8 | 15 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 188.38 | 12 |
| (73) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 185.91 | 6 |
| (73) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 184.92 | 3 |
| 74 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 180.08 | 8 |
| 75 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 179.54 | 14 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 179.09 | 9 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 178.29 | 8 |
| 78 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 177.68 | 9 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 174.58 | 27 |
| 80 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 171.24 | 5 |
| 81 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 169.24 | 38 |
| (81) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 169.13 | 2 |
| (81) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 166.46 | 2 |
| (81) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 165.52 | 5 |
| 82 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 164.97 | 6 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 162.85 | 8 |
| (83) | 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 | 161.76 | 10 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 161.74 | 13 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 155.79 | 5 |
| (85) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 154.7 | 1 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 153.85 | 10 |
| 87 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 150.58 | 6 |
| 88 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 150.12 | 9 |
| (88) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 150.07 | 3 |
| 89 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 149.61 | 8 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 149.61 | 8 |
| 90 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 147.81 | 9 |
| 91 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 144.58 | 18 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 143.53 | 8 |
| (92) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 143.11 | 1 |
| 93 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 141.15 | 37 |
| 94 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 140.9 | 5 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 137.74 | 6 |
| (95) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 134.47 | 11 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 131.64 | 10 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 131.44 | 18 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 131.14 | 13 |
| (98) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 130.98 | 4 |
| (98) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 130.3 | 5 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 129.49 | 13 |
| (99) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 129.33 | 6 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 128.75 | 23 |
| (100) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 127.31 | 9 |
| 101 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 127.31 | 9 |
| 102 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 127.15 | 15 |
| (102) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 126.81 | 3 |
| 103 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 126.32 | 17 |
| 104 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 125.32 | 37 |
| 105 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 124.87 | 9 |
| (105) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 124.54 | 2 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 123.51 | 7 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 122.86 | 14 |
| (106) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 122.35 | 4 |
| 107 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 121.36 | 7 |
| 108 | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 120.71 | 9 |
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