| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6245.83 | 204 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2066.85 | 149 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1154.69 | 33 |
| 4 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 723.46 | 20 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 717.8 | 26 |
| 6 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 696.57 | 148 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 673.62 | 65 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 632.08 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 587.86 | 25 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 554.2 | 11 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 520.27 | 20 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 475.95 | 12 |
| (12) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 451.16 | 12 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 434.69 | 87 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 425.7 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 416.75 | 21 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 408.08 | 16 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 402.45 | 11 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 401.11 | 19 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 394.03 | 22 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 392.39 | 23 |
| 20 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 372.26 | 31 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 371.12 | 16 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 354.31 | 27 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 348.92 | 16 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 347.86 | 16 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 341.65 | 19 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 335.13 | 20 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 315.81 | 19 |
| 27 | CESifo | München, Germany | 313.47 | 36 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 309.61 | 27 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 308.15 | 15 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 300.41 | 29 |
| (30) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 286.43 | 18 |
| 31 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 285 | 26 |
| 32 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 275.86 | 30 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 271.55 | 25 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 266.52 | 24 |
| 35 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 259.88 | 12 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 249.75 | 10 |
| 37 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 232.79 | 16 |
| 38 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 227.81 | 7 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 226.8 | 21 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 220.1 | 18 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 212.64 | 17 |
| (41) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 209.98 | 15 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 209.82 | 18 |
| (42) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 209.82 | 3 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 206.42 | 22 |
| (43) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 202.96 | 12 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 197.58 | 18 |
| 45 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 195.84 | 11 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 191.4 | 23 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 190.03 | 10 |
| 48 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 180.99 | 4 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 179.22 | 27 |
| 50 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 178.22 | 57 |
| 51 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 176.31 | 8 |
| (51) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 172.1 | 3 |
| 52 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 171.05 | 7 |
| 53 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 168.21 | 14 |
| 54 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 163.03 | 3 |
| 55 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 162.49 | 7 |
| 56 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 160.8 | 20 |
| (56) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 159.51 | 6 |
| (56) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 156.31 | 14 |
| 57 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 155.94 | 10 |
| 58 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 154.72 | 21 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 153.2 | 13 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 152.05 | 13 |
| 60 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 151.21 | 42 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 150.97 | 18 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 148.93 | 19 |
| 63 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 145.15 | 31 |
| 64 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 144.63 | 14 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 144.26 | 19 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 143.2 | 12 |
| 67 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 141.98 | 7 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 140.96 | 24 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 138.99 | 10 |
| (69) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 136.69 | 3 |
| 70 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 133.26 | 8 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 133.11 | 22 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 132.2 | 7 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 132.04 | 6 |
| 72 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 129.52 | 8 |
| (72) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 129.52 | 8 |
| 73 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 127.98 | 8 |
| (73) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 126.78 | 1 |
| 74 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 126.13 | 7 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 126.04 | 9 |
| 76 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 115.84 | 5 |
| 77 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 114.6 | 11 |
| 78 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 111.35 | 15 |
| 79 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 110.51 | 9 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 110.24 | 14 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 109.06 | 8 |
| (81) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 106.39 | 3 |
| 82 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 105.56 | 19 |
| 83 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 105.49 | 39 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 105.15 | 28 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 105.1 | 7 |
| (84) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 104.1 | 5 |
| (84) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 103.95 | 2 |
| (84) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 103.24 | 2 |
| 85 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 100.38 | 1 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 98.35 | 10 |
| (86) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 97.77 | 12 |
| 87 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 96.43 | 17 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 96.21 | 8 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 95.43 | 6 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 95.32 | 13 |
| (90) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 91.55 | 12 |
| (90) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 90.87 | 6 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 89.99 | 14 |
| 92 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 85.47 | 9 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 85.15 | 13 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 84.9 | 5 |
| (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 | 84.5 | 10 |
| 95 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 82.08 | 38 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 81.94 | 12 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 81.79 | 8 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 81.66 | 18 |
| 99 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 81.57 | 9 |
| 100 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 81.21 | 6 |
| (100) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 81.13 | 4 |
| 101 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 80.67 | 9 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 79.64 | 10 |
| (102) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 79.37 | 2 |
| 103 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 79.34 | 5 |
| (103) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 78.45 | 4 |
| (103) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 78.02 | 3 |
| 104 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 77.92 | 13 |
| 105 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 77.65 | 37 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 77.58 | 8 |
| (106) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 76.38 | 1 |
| 107 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 75.99 | 7 |
| 108 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 74.82 | 25 |
| 109 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 73.68 | 28 |
| (109) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 71.48 | 2 |
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