| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 31847.51 | 204 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 12261.44 | 149 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5603.34 | 33 |
| 4 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4042.71 | 148 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3937.97 | 26 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3850.85 | 65 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3481.49 | 20 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3460.92 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2849.85 | 25 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2692.62 | 20 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2668.3 | 87 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2297 | 12 |
| (12) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2273.04 | 12 |
| 13 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2249.03 | 11 |
| (13) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2189.97 | 19 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2093.06 | 23 |
| (14) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2072.02 | 27 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2027.53 | 22 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2014.51 | 16 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1984.44 | 11 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1974.99 | 11 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1970.77 | 16 |
| 20 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1969.04 | 31 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1944.94 | 21 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1893.3 | 20 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1867.28 | 15 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1835.06 | 16 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1826.31 | 19 |
| 26 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1752.21 | 36 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1747.21 | 29 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1731.8 | 19 |
| 29 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1730.94 | 26 |
| 30 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1662.1 | 16 |
| (30) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1646.67 | 18 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1607.88 | 24 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1585.26 | 27 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1526.15 | 30 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1482.94 | 25 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1356.07 | 21 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1327.66 | 22 |
| 37 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1278.07 | 12 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1219.02 | 10 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1203.29 | 7 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1201.52 | 18 |
| 41 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1200.14 | 16 |
| 42 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1174.45 | 57 |
| 43 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1151.34 | 23 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1143.05 | 18 |
| (44) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1128.88 | 12 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1106.87 | 17 |
| (45) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1088.84 | 15 |
| 46 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1051.56 | 8 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1042.69 | 21 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1031.32 | 18 |
| 49 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1010.73 | 20 |
| 50 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 985.74 | 14 |
| 51 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 959.91 | 42 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 936.73 | 13 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 930.92 | 18 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 922.79 | 10 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 907.48 | 27 |
| (55) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 900.48 | 14 |
| (55) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 895.3 | 22 |
| 56 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 894.76 | 7 |
| 57 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 892.71 | 14 |
| 58 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 869.23 | 24 |
| (58) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 868.36 | 3 |
| 59 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 859.18 | 3 |
| 60 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 857.52 | 39 |
| (60) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 853.5 | 3 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 844.63 | 19 |
| (61) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 834.01 | 13 |
| 62 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 830.75 | 11 |
| 63 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 827.44 | 8 |
| (63) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 824.81 | 7 |
| 64 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 813.56 | 31 |
| (64) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 805.17 | 6 |
| 65 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 800.77 | 10 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 777.43 | 28 |
| 67 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 770.93 | 7 |
| 68 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 769.25 | 7 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 769.11 | 19 |
| 70 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 761.45 | 8 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 761.45 | 8 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 719.3 | 6 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 718.24 | 15 |
| 73 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 687.37 | 4 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 685.93 | 12 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 674.24 | 7 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 656.3 | 14 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 655.85 | 9 |
| 78 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 653.66 | 38 |
| 79 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 651.96 | 1 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 640.93 | 14 |
| (80) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 638.72 | 6 |
| (80) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 636.22 | 12 |
| 81 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 629.49 | 11 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 622.99 | 10 |
| 83 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 608.71 | 5 |
| 84 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 605.23 | 19 |
| (84) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 596.06 | 3 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 590.45 | 8 |
| 86 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 588.17 | 9 |
| 87 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 584.66 | 8 |
| (87) | 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 | 567.17 | 10 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 567.05 | 10 |
| (88) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 555.81 | 2 |
| (88) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 550.64 | 5 |
| (88) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 547.24 | 3 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 546.66 | 8 |
| 90 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 542.06 | 17 |
| 91 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 528.01 | 9 |
| (91) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 523.68 | 12 |
| 92 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 519.15 | 37 |
| (92) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 517.81 | 2 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 517.12 | 5 |
| (93) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 515.81 | 1 |
| 94 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 503.54 | 13 |
| 95 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 492.63 | 6 |
| 96 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 486.08 | 9 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 485.09 | 8 |
| (97) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 480.76 | 4 |
| 98 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 478.6 | 49 |
| 99 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 468.24 | 5 |
| 100 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 467.7 | 14 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 464.46 | 8 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 463.15 | 13 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 459.96 | 13 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 456.38 | 18 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 453.11 | 6 |
| 106 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 452.63 | 33 |
| (106) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 452.43 | 1 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 446.77 | 23 |
| 108 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 441.94 | 18 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 439.86 | 10 |
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