| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 38229.71 | 204 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8804.93 | 149 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8503.01 | 33 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5498.64 | 25 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4914.67 | 26 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4585.2 | 11 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4029.29 | 20 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3878.91 | 11 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3339.21 | 65 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2933.34 | 20 |
| 11 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2904.78 | 30 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2824.19 | 16 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2768.11 | 25 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2698.34 | 16 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2656.59 | 21 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2410.66 | 12 |
| 16 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2327.59 | 148 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2310.04 | 11 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2302.95 | 16 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2274.47 | 27 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2251.19 | 19 |
| 20 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2169.56 | 87 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2164.96 | 19 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2100.16 | 20 |
| 22 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2096.51 | 16 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2046.15 | 11 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2025.39 | 12 |
| 25 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1950.82 | 31 |
| (25) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1772.37 | 12 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1709.55 | 15 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1702.04 | 19 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1695.88 | 12 |
| (28) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1573.92 | 4 |
| 29 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1561.94 | 7 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1533.27 | 23 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1502.29 | 22 |
| (31) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1469.99 | 15 |
| 32 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1445.76 | 8 |
| (32) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1445.14 | 7 |
| 33 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1391.99 | 3 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1349.56 | 18 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1292.51 | 18 |
| 36 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1241.13 | 26 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1236.1 | 25 |
| 38 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1199.86 | 31 |
| (38) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1171.76 | 3 |
| 39 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1144.61 | 7 |
| 40 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1122.04 | 10 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1112.7 | 24 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1108.7 | 10 |
| 43 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1039.57 | 29 |
| 44 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1029.67 | 7 |
| (44) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1023.27 | 18 |
| (44) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 974.42 | 13 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 957.05 | 14 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 953.15 | 18 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 922.73 | 10 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 917.21 | 27 |
| (48) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 911.91 | 2 |
| (48) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 906.1 | 6 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 902.16 | 13 |
| 50 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 863.18 | 7 |
| 51 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 852.44 | 8 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 848.98 | 22 |
| 53 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 829.21 | 57 |
| (53) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 801.78 | 2 |
| (53) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 800.34 | 5 |
| 54 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 780.15 | 17 |
| 55 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 779.32 | 23 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 775.89 | 21 |
| 57 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 770.35 | 11 |
| (57) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 761 | 3 |
| 58 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 748.39 | 8 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 732.94 | 16 |
| 60 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 731.34 | 21 |
| (60) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 719.37 | 6 |
| (60) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 703.84 | 14 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 662.49 | 19 |
| (61) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 658.92 | 5 |
| 62 | CESifo | München, Germany | 657.91 | 36 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 642.21 | 27 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 637.64 | 5 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 633.92 | 6 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 628.44 | 20 |
| (66) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 616.9 | 22 |
| 67 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 606.88 | 7 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 606.71 | 6 |
| 69 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 592.39 | 1 |
| (69) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 582.71 | 3 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 573.24 | 6 |
| 71 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 571.22 | 4 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 567.73 | 18 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 566.33 | 7 |
| (73) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 542.7 | 3 |
| (73) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 538.53 | 2 |
| 74 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 534.93 | 2 |
| (74) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 518.21 | 5 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 508.25 | 14 |
| (75) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 505.97 | 1 |
| (75) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 502.9 | 1 |
| 76 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 492.45 | 14 |
| 77 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 489.26 | 15 |
| (77) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 485.75 | 3 |
| 78 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 482.06 | 7 |
| (78) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 459.55 | 3 |
| (78) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 453.84 | 12 |
| 79 | Program in Economic Growth and Policy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 446.88 | 4 |
| 80 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 444.55 | 7 |
| (80) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 427.24 | 4 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 411.79 | 8 |
| (81) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 408.72 | 12 |
| 82 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 402.47 | 1 |
| (82) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 401.55 | 3 |
| 83 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 396.75 | 8 |
| 84 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 394.56 | 9 |
| 85 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 389.44 | 24 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 388.85 | 5 |
| 87 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 384.41 | 39 |
| (87) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 384.18 | 1 |
| (87) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 384.18 | 1 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 381.39 | 7 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 378.66 | 7 |
| (88) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 378.66 | 7 |
| 89 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 378.21 | 7 |
| 90 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 374.63 | 42 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 360.24 | 19 |
| 92 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 357.81 | 3 |
| (92) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 356.46 | 1 |
| 93 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 355.2 | 37 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 346.26 | 28 |
| (94) | 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 | 344.93 | 10 |
| 95 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 341.56 | 14 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 335.86 | 14 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 335.2 | 14 |
| 98 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 335.02 | 9 |
| 99 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 331.85 | 14 |
| (99) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 331.84 | 8 |
| 100 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 329.66 | 10 |
| 101 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 320.58 | 5 |
| 102 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 319.51 | 9 |
| (102) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 318.92 | 8 |
| 103 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 317.33 | 8 |
| (103) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 317.33 | 8 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 316.99 | 17 |
| 105 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 305.17 | 38 |
| 106 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 301.33 | 1 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 300.41 | 8 |
| 108 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 299.01 | 12 |
| (108) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 293.94 | 9 |
| 109 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 293.94 | 9 |
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