| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19956.29 | 204 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 7178.69 | 149 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3787.46 | 33 |
| 4 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2517.9 | 148 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2416.68 | 65 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2395.56 | 20 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2372.78 | 26 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2074.18 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1928.62 | 25 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1737.01 | 20 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1707.93 | 11 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1687.93 | 12 |
| (12) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1509.41 | 12 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1465.07 | 87 |
| (13) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1442.8 | 19 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1438.31 | 23 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1361.19 | 21 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1341.41 | 11 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1303.69 | 16 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1289.27 | 11 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1268.59 | 27 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1228.19 | 16 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1222.88 | 20 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1214.75 | 22 |
| 22 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1189.18 | 31 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1136.13 | 16 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1121.91 | 19 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1108.37 | 19 |
| 26 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1098.25 | 36 |
| 27 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1064.06 | 16 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1041.6 | 29 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1019.91 | 27 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1005.61 | 15 |
| (30) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 993.14 | 18 |
| 31 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 972.86 | 26 |
| 32 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 972.31 | 30 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 912.28 | 25 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 900.04 | 24 |
| 35 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 852.74 | 12 |
| 36 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 815.15 | 7 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 810.93 | 10 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 796.33 | 21 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 790.21 | 22 |
| 40 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 746.08 | 16 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 715.13 | 18 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 703.41 | 17 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 695.6 | 18 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 689.52 | 18 |
| (44) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 684.73 | 12 |
| (44) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 665.99 | 15 |
| 45 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 664.09 | 57 |
| 46 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 642.75 | 11 |
| 47 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 641.07 | 23 |
| (47) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 635.36 | 3 |
| 48 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 616.21 | 7 |
| 49 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 612.44 | 8 |
| 50 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 608.74 | 14 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 605.05 | 10 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 593.71 | 27 |
| 53 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 574.92 | 42 |
| 54 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 573.72 | 20 |
| 55 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 566.25 | 14 |
| 56 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 564.79 | 21 |
| (56) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 549.84 | 3 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 549.04 | 13 |
| 57 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 544.22 | 4 |
| 58 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 539.97 | 3 |
| 59 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 533.48 | 24 |
| 60 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 531.31 | 8 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 531.31 | 8 |
| (60) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 521.56 | 14 |
| 61 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 516.25 | 7 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 513.98 | 18 |
| (62) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 512.78 | 6 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 509.11 | 13 |
| 64 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 502.7 | 10 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 501.91 | 15 |
| 66 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 496.23 | 7 |
| 67 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 484.12 | 31 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 479.57 | 19 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 474.71 | 19 |
| 70 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 468.71 | 8 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 466.45 | 7 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 460.43 | 12 |
| (71) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 455.78 | 22 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 453.89 | 10 |
| (72) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 446.96 | 12 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 440.75 | 6 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 438.62 | 28 |
| (74) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 435 | 3 |
| 75 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 424.72 | 39 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 418.57 | 9 |
| 77 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 410.03 | 8 |
| (77) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 383.88 | 5 |
| (77) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 381.82 | 1 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 378.62 | 7 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 374.61 | 14 |
| 80 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 373.26 | 19 |
| 81 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 372.66 | 5 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 369.2 | 8 |
| 83 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 365.39 | 17 |
| (83) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 358.57 | 3 |
| 84 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 357.37 | 1 |
| 85 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 355.94 | 9 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 352.67 | 10 |
| (86) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 347.48 | 2 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 345.83 | 14 |
| 88 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 341.04 | 38 |
| (88) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 338.11 | 2 |
| 89 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 333.37 | 11 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 329.22 | 7 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 328.31 | 6 |
| (90) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 319.75 | 6 |
| 91 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 317.83 | 13 |
| (91) | 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 | 308.84 | 10 |
| (91) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 297.99 | 12 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 293.68 | 8 |
| 93 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 292.23 | 9 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 290.77 | 8 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 288 | 13 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 286.98 | 13 |
| 97 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 284.29 | 9 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 283.4 | 5 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 282.85 | 12 |
| 100 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 280.46 | 37 |
| (100) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 277.24 | 1 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 276.99 | 8 |
| (101) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 272.93 | 4 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 271.08 | 18 |
| 103 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 263.02 | 5 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 262.67 | 23 |
| 105 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 261.5 | 14 |
| 106 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 258.65 | 6 |
| 107 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 257.63 | 9 |
| 108 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 256.11 | 9 |
| (108) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 250.29 | 4 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 250.06 | 16 |
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