| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 295351.28 | 208 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 109350.77 | 154 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 61255.69 | 35 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 45207.1 | 27 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 38507.54 | 67 |
| 6 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 36308.85 | 160 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 35470.74 | 20 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 33919.95 | 25 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 30430.37 | 22 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 29073.58 | 12 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 27838.77 | 21 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 27702.65 | 11 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 27155.25 | 26 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 26675.35 | 12 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 23570.71 | 13 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 22463.23 | 20 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 22391.76 | 27 |
| 16 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 22212.98 | 50 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 21897.95 | 22 |
| 18 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 21323.64 | 93 |
| 19 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 20579.63 | 31 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 20535.54 | 23 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 19961.65 | 11 |
| (21) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 19604.32 | 19 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19209.95 | 17 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 19066.12 | 24 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 18960.58 | 16 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 18944.74 | 19 |
| 25 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18774.9 | 16 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18149.2 | 15 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17961.71 | 15 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 17660.71 | 25 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 17294.46 | 23 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 17216.21 | 21 |
| 31 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16457.44 | 26 |
| 32 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 15682.78 | 31 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 15651.92 | 24 |
| 34 | CESifo | München, Germany | 15083.92 | 38 |
| 35 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 15019.87 | 18 |
| 36 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14677.82 | 12 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 14348.6 | 29 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14122.53 | 11 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13842.69 | 7 |
| 40 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 13473.5 | 14 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 13188.41 | 28 |
| 42 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12605.82 | 3 |
| 43 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12435.83 | 62 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 12183.33 | 20 |
| 45 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 11537.64 | 8 |
| (45) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 11537.64 | 8 |
| 46 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 11492.64 | 11 |
| 47 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11379.47 | 7 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 11186.95 | 18 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 10813.95 | 19 |
| 50 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10755.13 | 14 |
| 51 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 10708.96 | 22 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 10708.08 | 17 |
| 53 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 10621.19 | 8 |
| (53) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 10615.37 | 11 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10573.71 | 24 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10386.92 | 29 |
| 56 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10273.63 | 7 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 10259.64 | 17 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10152.26 | 29 |
| 59 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 9673.6 | 9 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 9455.73 | 24 |
| (60) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9298.96 | 15 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9279.04 | 16 |
| 62 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9256.73 | 6 |
| 63 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8791.82 | 44 |
| 64 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8782.84 | 37 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 8657.54 | 10 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 8605.02 | 20 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 8597.41 | 20 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 8523.22 | 9 |
| (68) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8473.54 | 15 |
| 69 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8473.54 | 15 |
| 70 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 8442.72 | 8 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 8440.48 | 7 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 8127.92 | 8 |
| (71) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8127.61 | 14 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 8113.14 | 9 |
| 73 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7973.59 | 11 |
| (73) | 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 | 7905.12 | 10 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7545.81 | 13 |
| 75 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7403.5 | 11 |
| (75) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7365.41 | 5 |
| (75) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7169.33 | 6 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7126.43 | 13 |
| (76) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7107.23 | 23 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 7104.31 | 18 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 7081.71 | 10 |
| (78) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6963.9 | 9 |
| 79 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6963.9 | 9 |
| (79) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 6886.01 | 6 |
| (79) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6835.29 | 3 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6684.36 | 10 |
| 81 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6622.44 | 5 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 6593.87 | 14 |
| 83 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 6572.08 | 33 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 6169.34 | 19 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6038.32 | 8 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 5975.36 | 23 |
| (86) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5931.5 | 3 |
| (86) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5837.98 | 15 |
| (86) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5738.87 | 3 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5726.34 | 13 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 5633.97 | 6 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 5623.83 | 14 |
| (89) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5532.65 | 7 |
| 90 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 5412.65 | 17 |
| 91 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5369.7 | 15 |
| 92 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 5344.88 | 7 |
| 93 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 5270.62 | 13 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 5182.27 | 10 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5174.12 | 13 |
| (95) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5172.65 | 2 |
| 96 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5155.28 | 9 |
| 97 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5144.18 | 10 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 5128.3 | 18 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 5093.41 | 10 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5023.94 | 6 |
| 101 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4989.14 | 5 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 4978.74 | 6 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 4968.45 | 9 |
| 104 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 4916.6 | 9 |
| 105 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 4913.57 | 18 |
| 106 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4899.72 | 14 |
| 107 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 4898.6 | 13 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 4805.16 | 10 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 4785.5 | 19 |
| 110 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4746.45 | 8 |
| (110) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 4733.79 | 11 |
| (110) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4678.14 | 5 |
| (110) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4660.16 | 10 |
| 111 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4601.41 | 5 |
| (111) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4566.11 | 3 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 4553.39 | 6 |
| 113 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 4552.89 | 6 |
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