| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 165392.5 | 205 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 55831.6 | 151 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 35308.78 | 34 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 23908.75 | 26 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21164.85 | 65 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 21051.07 | 20 |
| 7 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 19684.11 | 152 |
| 8 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 19121.57 | 11 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18819.69 | 25 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 18401.96 | 23 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17202.7 | 12 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 17027.23 | 12 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16045.14 | 21 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14870.08 | 25 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13903.32 | 13 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12870.2 | 21 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12273.37 | 27 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 11897.49 | 21 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11777.44 | 16 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11503.85 | 19 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 11406.64 | 11 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11352.95 | 16 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 11214.94 | 19 |
| 21 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 11171.47 | 49 |
| 22 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 10344.48 | 31 |
| 23 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10150.98 | 16 |
| (23) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 10007.94 | 19 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 9902.61 | 25 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 9783.67 | 24 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 9308.23 | 19 |
| 27 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9181.27 | 89 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9175.28 | 16 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 9000.28 | 23 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 8846.8 | 21 |
| 31 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8557.75 | 7 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 8530.12 | 15 |
| 33 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8359.03 | 31 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 8334 | 28 |
| 35 | CESifo | München, Germany | 8283.38 | 36 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8179.97 | 11 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8141.01 | 24 |
| 38 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7782.43 | 12 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7662.61 | 26 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 7656.29 | 27 |
| 41 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7436.34 | 14 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7102.55 | 10 |
| 43 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6935.25 | 3 |
| 44 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 6574.15 | 8 |
| (44) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 6574.15 | 8 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 6503.44 | 19 |
| 46 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6428.63 | 7 |
| 47 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6245.73 | 6 |
| 48 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6124.43 | 7 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6113.28 | 30 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5895.98 | 18 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5726.82 | 18 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5706.94 | 17 |
| (52) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5631.39 | 12 |
| 53 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5521.41 | 14 |
| 54 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 5298.2 | 8 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5241.34 | 19 |
| 56 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5158.27 | 59 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5125.46 | 28 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5106.83 | 10 |
| (58) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4917.53 | 5 |
| 59 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4866.7 | 24 |
| 60 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4862.93 | 22 |
| (60) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4852.89 | 15 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4766.22 | 20 |
| 62 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 4528.87 | 23 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 4454.09 | 9 |
| 64 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4382.2 | 20 |
| 65 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4377.45 | 10 |
| 66 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4299.52 | 8 |
| (66) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4298.55 | 7 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 4239.36 | 10 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 4196.94 | 18 |
| 69 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 4079.36 | 9 |
| 70 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4055.53 | 5 |
| (70) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3977.03 | 6 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3966.41 | 15 |
| 72 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3905.25 | 38 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 3895.48 | 13 |
| 74 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 3832.53 | 7 |
| (74) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3793.78 | 14 |
| (74) | 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 | 3740.69 | 10 |
| (74) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3679.02 | 3 |
| 75 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3613.35 | 33 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3559.15 | 42 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3549.14 | 8 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 3544.1 | 13 |
| 79 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 3512.32 | 17 |
| 80 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3472.29 | 11 |
| (80) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3462.69 | 15 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3445.72 | 8 |
| (81) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3410.49 | 9 |
| 82 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3410.49 | 9 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3371.03 | 10 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 3259.37 | 6 |
| 85 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3233.18 | 7 |
| (85) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3192.24 | 15 |
| 86 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3192.24 | 15 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3160.83 | 13 |
| 88 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3107.56 | 5 |
| (88) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3069.71 | 2 |
| (88) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3041.36 | 2 |
| 89 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 3033.11 | 6 |
| (89) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3019.27 | 3 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3000.85 | 23 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2985.69 | 6 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2977.53 | 19 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2947.5 | 17 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2926.72 | 14 |
| (93) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2911.56 | 23 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2843.9 | 13 |
| 95 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 2799.51 | 13 |
| 96 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2780.43 | 8 |
| (96) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2777.42 | 3 |
| 97 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2750.09 | 9 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2695.54 | 9 |
| 99 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2681.35 | 13 |
| 100 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2643.53 | 9 |
| 101 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 2614.92 | 5 |
| 102 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2613.15 | 12 |
| (102) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2596.59 | 3 |
| 103 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2595.64 | 7 |
| 104 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2570.17 | 2 |
| 105 | Program in Economic Growth and Policy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 2488.82 | 4 |
| 106 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2460.49 | 7 |
| 107 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2457.93 | 15 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2444.67 | 18 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 2417.25 | 3 |
| 110 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 2370 | 13 |
| 111 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 2358.9 | 9 |
| (111) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2355.41 | 1 |
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