| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 164425.41 | 204 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 55127.83 | 149 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 35133.35 | 33 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 23322.36 | 26 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21131.21 | 65 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 20846.11 | 20 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 19034.07 | 11 |
| 8 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 18792.91 | 148 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18779.76 | 25 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 18468.37 | 23 |
| 11 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 17056.85 | 12 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16970.88 | 11 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 15258.05 | 20 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14502.25 | 25 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13117.46 | 12 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12828.41 | 21 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12265.25 | 27 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 11824.04 | 20 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11782.67 | 16 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11488.71 | 19 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 11467.93 | 11 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11341.96 | 16 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 10293.74 | 19 |
| 21 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 10281.16 | 29 |
| 22 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10131.56 | 16 |
| (22) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 9944.66 | 18 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 9917.47 | 25 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 9338.83 | 19 |
| 25 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9132.74 | 87 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9128.8 | 16 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8985.19 | 22 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 8863.26 | 21 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8785.59 | 22 |
| 30 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8549.97 | 7 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 8543.13 | 15 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 8316.36 | 27 |
| 33 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8300.09 | 31 |
| 34 | CESifo | München, Germany | 8218.25 | 36 |
| 35 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8186.14 | 11 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8157.35 | 24 |
| 37 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7777.34 | 12 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7680.93 | 26 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 7600.11 | 27 |
| 40 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7446.51 | 14 |
| 41 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7091.04 | 10 |
| 42 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6712.18 | 3 |
| 43 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6623.88 | 7 |
| 44 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 6581.52 | 8 |
| (44) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 6581.52 | 8 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 6558.7 | 18 |
| 46 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6444.66 | 7 |
| 47 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6329.32 | 42 |
| 48 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6133.47 | 7 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6002.38 | 30 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5897.43 | 17 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5754.03 | 18 |
| (51) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5620.51 | 12 |
| 52 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5530.7 | 14 |
| 53 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 5308.02 | 8 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5248.01 | 19 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5159.72 | 28 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5143.74 | 10 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5113.72 | 16 |
| 58 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5002.37 | 57 |
| (58) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4895.85 | 5 |
| (58) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4859.94 | 15 |
| 59 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4843.05 | 24 |
| 60 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4779.19 | 21 |
| 61 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 4658.69 | 1 |
| 62 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 4510.1 | 23 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 4477.13 | 9 |
| 64 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4415.07 | 20 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4413.82 | 18 |
| 66 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4376.78 | 10 |
| 67 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4297.39 | 8 |
| (67) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4296.41 | 7 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 4268 | 10 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 4196.16 | 18 |
| 70 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 4084.37 | 9 |
| 71 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4046.24 | 5 |
| (71) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3967.12 | 6 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 3908.06 | 14 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 3858.01 | 7 |
| (73) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3809.27 | 14 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3805.51 | 8 |
| (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 | 3731.27 | 10 |
| (74) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3676.59 | 3 |
| 75 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3602.18 | 31 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3559.39 | 39 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 3549.72 | 12 |
| 78 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 3507.13 | 17 |
| 79 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3471.5 | 38 |
| 80 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3463.59 | 11 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3453.02 | 8 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3389.15 | 10 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3386.32 | 14 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 3258.67 | 6 |
| (84) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3244.79 | 6 |
| 85 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3232.1 | 7 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3164.52 | 13 |
| (86) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3119.44 | 13 |
| (86) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3106.92 | 9 |
| 87 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3106.92 | 9 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 3094.54 | 18 |
| (88) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3060.32 | 2 |
| (88) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3039.35 | 2 |
| (88) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3033.84 | 3 |
| 89 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 3031.04 | 6 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3002.78 | 23 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2935.68 | 19 |
| (91) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2910.2 | 22 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2843.71 | 14 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2841.27 | 13 |
| 94 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 2825.48 | 13 |
| 95 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2805.16 | 8 |
| (95) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2780.57 | 3 |
| 96 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2754.48 | 9 |
| 97 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2665.83 | 4 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2648.83 | 9 |
| 99 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2618.42 | 7 |
| 100 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 2612.21 | 5 |
| (100) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2597.78 | 3 |
| 101 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2586.67 | 12 |
| 102 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2567.74 | 2 |
| 103 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2539.89 | 19 |
| 104 | Program in Economic Growth and Policy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 2487.26 | 4 |
| 105 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2454.23 | 15 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 2425.99 | 3 |
| 107 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 2371.47 | 12 |
| 108 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 2362.59 | 9 |
| (108) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2353.76 | 1 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2350.31 | 8 |
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