| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11786.72 | 204 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2670.9 | 149 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2616.14 | 33 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1679.33 | 25 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1495.98 | 26 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1417.29 | 11 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1257.36 | 20 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1145.66 | 11 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 959.04 | 65 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 888.58 | 20 |
| 11 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 880.08 | 30 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 875.01 | 16 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 854.83 | 21 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 831.41 | 25 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 824.41 | 16 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 724.98 | 12 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 711.92 | 11 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 695.41 | 16 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 682.64 | 19 |
| 19 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 673.94 | 148 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 664.03 | 16 |
| 21 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 657.34 | 87 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 652.82 | 27 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 628.79 | 20 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 628.21 | 11 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 610.83 | 19 |
| 24 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 610.13 | 31 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 607.68 | 12 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 536.92 | 15 |
| (26) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 519.2 | 12 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 515.71 | 19 |
| (27) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 506.26 | 4 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 490.75 | 12 |
| 29 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 488.71 | 7 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 464.73 | 22 |
| (30) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 463.82 | 15 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 432.36 | 23 |
| 32 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 420.51 | 8 |
| (32) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 420.4 | 7 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 418.63 | 18 |
| 34 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 399.97 | 3 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 378.37 | 18 |
| (35) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 377.91 | 3 |
| 36 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 376.42 | 31 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 373.69 | 25 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 356.61 | 26 |
| 39 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 346.12 | 10 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 345.27 | 24 |
| 41 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 339.87 | 7 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 339.16 | 10 |
| 43 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 328.56 | 29 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 323.53 | 18 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 299.47 | 14 |
| 45 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 294.82 | 7 |
| (45) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 293.43 | 2 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 290.86 | 18 |
| (46) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 280.97 | 13 |
| (46) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 274.7 | 6 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 274.34 | 10 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 273.98 | 27 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 267.03 | 13 |
| 50 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 256.66 | 7 |
| 51 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 248.22 | 57 |
| 52 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 246.15 | 8 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 239.35 | 23 |
| (53) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 239.03 | 3 |
| (53) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 238.07 | 2 |
| (53) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 235.8 | 5 |
| 54 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 234.99 | 8 |
| 55 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 233.13 | 11 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 231.8 | 21 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 226.36 | 22 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 223.53 | 16 |
| 59 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 217.44 | 17 |
| 60 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 215.49 | 21 |
| (60) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 213.2 | 14 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 209.9 | 19 |
| (61) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 209.36 | 5 |
| (61) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 209.03 | 6 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 202.7 | 27 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 197.01 | 6 |
| 64 | CESifo | München, Germany | 192.72 | 36 |
| 65 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 192.2 | 5 |
| 66 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 191.51 | 1 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 185.59 | 20 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 184.26 | 6 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 182.96 | 6 |
| 70 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 182.69 | 7 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 182.08 | 22 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 181.77 | 7 |
| (71) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 175.54 | 3 |
| 72 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 174.08 | 2 |
| 73 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 172.87 | 4 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 170.55 | 18 |
| (74) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 162.8 | 3 |
| (74) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 160.22 | 5 |
| (74) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 157.92 | 1 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 153.42 | 14 |
| (75) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 153.16 | 1 |
| (75) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 151.33 | 2 |
| 76 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 151.16 | 7 |
| (76) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 148.13 | 3 |
| (76) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 145.52 | 3 |
| 77 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 141.65 | 15 |
| 78 | Program in Economic Growth and Policy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 139.21 | 4 |
| 79 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 138.77 | 14 |
| 80 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 132.83 | 1 |
| (80) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 132.16 | 12 |
| 81 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 128.77 | 7 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 128.58 | 5 |
| (82) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 127.93 | 12 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 125.99 | 8 |
| (83) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 125.09 | 3 |
| 84 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 124.73 | 8 |
| 85 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 118.15 | 39 |
| (85) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 116.9 | 1 |
| (85) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 116.9 | 1 |
| (85) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 115.22 | 1 |
| 86 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 114.29 | 9 |
| 87 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 114.14 | 24 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 113.57 | 7 |
| (87) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 112.12 | 4 |
| 88 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 111.77 | 3 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 110.86 | 7 |
| (89) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 110.86 | 7 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 109.73 | 19 |
| 91 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 108.47 | 7 |
| 92 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 106.47 | 42 |
| 93 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 104.92 | 14 |
| (93) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 104.92 | 8 |
| (93) | 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 | 103.36 | 10 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 103.29 | 14 |
| 95 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 101.59 | 37 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 100.83 | 9 |
| 97 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 100.7 | 10 |
| (97) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 100.66 | 8 |
| 98 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 100.34 | 1 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 98.65 | 14 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 98.52 | 28 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 98.23 | 17 |
| 102 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 91.94 | 9 |
| (102) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 91.63 | 9 |
| 103 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 91.63 | 9 |
| 104 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 91.44 | 5 |
| 105 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 91.2 | 38 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 90.63 | 8 |
| 107 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 89.16 | 9 |
| 108 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 85.49 | 14 |
| 109 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 85.42 | 12 |
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