| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 20236.1 | 204 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4987.46 | 149 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3982.17 | 33 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3179.96 | 25 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2855.72 | 26 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2074.56 | 20 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1921.01 | 11 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1677.23 | 11 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1631.74 | 20 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1586.18 | 65 |
| 11 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1507.47 | 16 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1507.21 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1347.22 | 25 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1347.1 | 16 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1342.38 | 11 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1340.69 | 19 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1312.78 | 87 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1270.89 | 12 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1253.4 | 21 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1233.78 | 15 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1146.89 | 16 |
| 21 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1125.73 | 148 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1105.08 | 16 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1076.1 | 27 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1006.1 | 20 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 964 | 19 |
| 24 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 959.82 | 31 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 916.1 | 12 |
| (25) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 886.93 | 12 |
| 26 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 858.32 | 31 |
| (26) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 847.33 | 4 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 841.48 | 22 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 790.56 | 19 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 786.78 | 25 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 771.18 | 18 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 759.15 | 11 |
| 32 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 728.69 | 8 |
| (32) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 728.58 | 7 |
| (32) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 718.81 | 2 |
| 33 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 717.01 | 26 |
| (33) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 711.72 | 15 |
| 34 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 701.66 | 12 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 686.48 | 23 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 677.48 | 24 |
| 37 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 644.22 | 7 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 627.75 | 18 |
| (38) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 624.61 | 3 |
| 39 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 620.79 | 3 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 607.94 | 13 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 602.77 | 18 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 590.15 | 10 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 571.05 | 14 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 567.44 | 29 |
| (44) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 555.88 | 18 |
| 45 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 523.75 | 7 |
| 46 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 521.74 | 7 |
| 47 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 520.88 | 10 |
| 48 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 518.66 | 57 |
| 49 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 509.7 | 11 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 505.45 | 10 |
| (50) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 503.28 | 6 |
| (50) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 499.98 | 6 |
| 51 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 479.01 | 7 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 466.75 | 23 |
| (52) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 446.64 | 2 |
| 53 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 435.19 | 8 |
| (53) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 433.12 | 3 |
| 54 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 432.36 | 5 |
| (54) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 427.65 | 22 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 427.46 | 21 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 424.28 | 13 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 422.99 | 8 |
| (56) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 421.7 | 14 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 414.82 | 21 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 407.01 | 27 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 403.66 | 22 |
| (59) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 394.76 | 5 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 379.21 | 16 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 378.71 | 19 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 378.52 | 7 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 376.35 | 20 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 360.94 | 14 |
| (64) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 344.2 | 5 |
| (64) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 343.47 | 5 |
| 65 | CESifo | München, Germany | 342.05 | 36 |
| 66 | Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Analyse Socio-Économique (CERAS), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Paris, France | 331.65 | 1 |
| 67 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 327.52 | 7 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 316.53 | 6 |
| 69 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 316.01 | 2 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 284.69 | 6 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 274.87 | 8 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 274.39 | 27 |
| (72) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 273.73 | 3 |
| 73 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 272.95 | 17 |
| (73) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 268.16 | 2 |
| 74 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 264.84 | 6 |
| 75 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 264.58 | 1 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 263.83 | 39 |
| (76) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 262.9 | 12 |
| (76) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 254.07 | 3 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 250.28 | 18 |
| 78 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 249.8 | 14 |
| (78) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 242.15 | 3 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 242.13 | 5 |
| 80 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 238.87 | 3 |
| 81 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 238.47 | 4 |
| (81) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 236.2 | 1 |
| (81) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 236.2 | 1 |
| 82 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 230.56 | 15 |
| (82) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 230.03 | 1 |
| (82) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 229.37 | 1 |
| 83 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 225.76 | 7 |
| (83) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 224.58 | 4 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 223.58 | 7 |
| (84) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 223.58 | 7 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 216.89 | 19 |
| 86 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 214.93 | 7 |
| (86) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 214.39 | 12 |
| 87 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 208.84 | 37 |
| 88 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 208.25 | 14 |
| (88) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 208.25 | 8 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 207.71 | 14 |
| 90 | Program in Economic Growth and Policy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 207.04 | 4 |
| 91 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 206.69 | 8 |
| (91) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 202.89 | 1 |
| 92 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 202.82 | 9 |
| 93 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 202.42 | 24 |
| 94 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 197.65 | 7 |
| (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 | 193.98 | 10 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 190.13 | 17 |
| (95) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 189.79 | 9 |
| 96 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 189.79 | 9 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 188.82 | 28 |
| (97) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 185.14 | 2 |
| (97) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 184 | 3 |
| (97) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 183.71 | 3 |
| 98 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 182.79 | 42 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 181.12 | 9 |
| (99) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 180.95 | 8 |
| 100 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 179.94 | 38 |
| 101 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 179.08 | 9 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 178.62 | 14 |
| 103 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 178.36 | 5 |
| 104 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 175.84 | 49 |
| 105 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 175.56 | 5 |
| 106 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 172.93 | 9 |
| 107 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 162.66 | 10 |
| 108 | Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 160.62 | 2 |
| (108) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 160.08 | 14 |
| 109 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 160.08 | 14 |
| (109) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 160.03 | 5 |
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