| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9947.87 | 208 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3134.56 | 154 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1786.49 | 35 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1237.58 | 27 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1103.77 | 25 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1076.84 | 20 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1045.28 | 67 |
| 8 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1012.13 | 160 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 845.97 | 26 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 815.81 | 21 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 724.7 | 93 |
| (11) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 699.8 | 13 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 656.81 | 12 |
| 13 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 646.85 | 11 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 642.24 | 20 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 640.48 | 15 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 615.08 | 16 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 610.68 | 15 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 604.94 | 23 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 599.01 | 12 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 594.19 | 22 |
| 21 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 589.51 | 31 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 586.88 | 19 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 573.87 | 22 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 564.68 | 27 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 556.42 | 17 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 552.38 | 11 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 533.98 | 24 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 513.6 | 23 |
| 27 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 495.73 | 16 |
| 28 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 494.87 | 26 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 475.42 | 18 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 463.13 | 31 |
| 31 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 440.11 | 50 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 439.06 | 19 |
| 32 | CESifo | München, Germany | 435.37 | 38 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 422.87 | 25 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 417.69 | 29 |
| 35 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 406.11 | 17 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 389.34 | 21 |
| 37 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 382.85 | 12 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 366.72 | 29 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 362.53 | 11 |
| (39) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 355.17 | 11 |
| 40 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 345.53 | 7 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 341.98 | 20 |
| (41) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 333.89 | 15 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 324.1 | 18 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 318.44 | 20 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 318.21 | 24 |
| 45 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 313.02 | 62 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 303.04 | 24 |
| 47 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 300.7 | 8 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 291.73 | 13 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 287.45 | 22 |
| 50 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 277.31 | 14 |
| (50) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 268.9 | 14 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 263.14 | 18 |
| 52 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 261.07 | 3 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 257.32 | 17 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 255.78 | 28 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 254.95 | 10 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 253.79 | 15 |
| (55) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 252.45 | 3 |
| 56 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 249.64 | 11 |
| 57 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 247.52 | 11 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 244.43 | 9 |
| 59 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 244.32 | 8 |
| 60 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 243.47 | 14 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 243.46 | 7 |
| (60) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 241.57 | 3 |
| 61 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 241.15 | 6 |
| 62 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 240.79 | 7 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 236.97 | 19 |
| (63) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 236.64 | 23 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 232.44 | 19 |
| (64) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 225.09 | 6 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 222.88 | 20 |
| 66 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 215.54 | 5 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 212.98 | 6 |
| (67) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 212.13 | 2 |
| 68 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 211.55 | 8 |
| (68) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 211.55 | 8 |
| 69 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 208.09 | 7 |
| (69) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 206.1 | 7 |
| 70 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 205.11 | 24 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 203.54 | 9 |
| 72 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 196.44 | 11 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 194.41 | 13 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 185.39 | 10 |
| 75 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 183.09 | 33 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 182.42 | 10 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 178.57 | 13 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 177.87 | 16 |
| (78) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 176.05 | 1 |
| (78) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 175.79 | 3 |
| (78) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 175.58 | 3 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 174.69 | 8 |
| 80 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 174.54 | 9 |
| 81 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 173.13 | 8 |
| 82 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 171.16 | 5 |
| 83 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 168.71 | 44 |
| (83) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 167.02 | 5 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 165.01 | 29 |
| (84) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 162.24 | 12 |
| 85 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 159.21 | 5 |
| (85) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 158.91 | 3 |
| (85) | 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 | 157.6 | 10 |
| 86 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 155.19 | 10 |
| 87 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 153.85 | 9 |
| (87) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 152.75 | 15 |
| 88 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 152.75 | 15 |
| 89 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 150.87 | 7 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 149.55 | 10 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 147.38 | 8 |
| 92 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 145.54 | 37 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 144.81 | 6 |
| (93) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 138.07 | 1 |
| 94 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 136.37 | 19 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 136.03 | 13 |
| 96 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 135.46 | 36 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 134.74 | 6 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 132.35 | 13 |
| (98) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 130.84 | 5 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 128.68 | 14 |
| 100 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 128.53 | 17 |
| 101 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 128.16 | 9 |
| (101) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 127.86 | 3 |
| 102 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 127.25 | 15 |
| (102) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 127.14 | 5 |
| (102) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 126.53 | 2 |
| (102) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 124.5 | 9 |
| 103 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 124.5 | 9 |
| 104 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 123.59 | 6 |
| (104) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 122.69 | 4 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 122.48 | 10 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 121.71 | 7 |
| 106 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 118.85 | 7 |
| 107 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 117.88 | 25 |
| 108 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 115.03 | 14 |
| 109 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 114.17 | 7 |
| (109) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 114.17 | 7 |
| 110 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 113.7 | 19 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 112.16 | 18 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 111.72 | 23 |
| 113 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 111.54 | 13 |
| (113) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 109.44 | 2 |
| (113) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 109.4 | 6 |
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