| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 52961.01 | 209 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 12255.2 | 156 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11177.75 | 36 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7474.8 | 24 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6742.11 | 27 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6140.04 | 11 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5722.89 | 22 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5521.85 | 27 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5470.5 | 13 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4499.54 | 67 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4186.28 | 22 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3931.64 | 16 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3771.08 | 15 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3762.3 | 21 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3708.67 | 29 |
| 16 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3622.77 | 161 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3499.11 | 13 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3287.09 | 20 |
| 18 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3237.06 | 93 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3205.29 | 11 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3134.85 | 17 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3033.81 | 26 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2908.15 | 19 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2849.66 | 25 |
| 22 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2823.79 | 16 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2805.61 | 11 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2665.87 | 12 |
| 25 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2530.14 | 30 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2481.12 | 13 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2451.7 | 19 |
| (27) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2447.44 | 11 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2324.91 | 15 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2229.78 | 24 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2177.78 | 23 |
| 31 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2107.95 | 7 |
| (31) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1991.84 | 5 |
| 32 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1977.37 | 8 |
| (32) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1976.67 | 7 |
| 33 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1958.45 | 3 |
| (33) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1912.88 | 15 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1859.74 | 20 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1827.24 | 20 |
| 36 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1720.19 | 26 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1681.54 | 24 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1676.66 | 25 |
| 39 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1664.52 | 11 |
| 40 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1638.67 | 32 |
| 41 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1595.78 | 12 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1590.68 | 16 |
| 43 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1567.23 | 32 |
| 44 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1556.75 | 55 |
| (44) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1548.14 | 3 |
| (44) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1541.99 | 19 |
| 45 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1471.27 | 6 |
| (45) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1425.99 | 15 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1405 | 7 |
| 47 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1369.78 | 17 |
| 48 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1364.16 | 65 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1345.55 | 18 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1271.69 | 15 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1270.53 | 29 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1237.41 | 10 |
| (52) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1228.93 | 4 |
| (52) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1220.17 | 6 |
| (52) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1178.11 | 7 |
| (52) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1158.31 | 5 |
| 53 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1151.81 | 11 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1142.76 | 23 |
| 55 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1140.56 | 25 |
| 56 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1134.09 | 6 |
| 57 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1113.52 | 8 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1071.88 | 21 |
| 59 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1069.48 | 38 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1056.9 | 8 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1054.92 | 19 |
| 62 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1054.74 | 22 |
| (62) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1034.82 | 3 |
| (62) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1010.6 | 8 |
| (62) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 995.52 | 14 |
| (62) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 988.9 | 3 |
| 63 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 988.26 | 16 |
| (63) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 913.42 | 24 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 876.01 | 27 |
| (64) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 871.41 | 3 |
| 65 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 867.6 | 6 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 853.19 | 16 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 840.2 | 21 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 838.94 | 6 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 815.27 | 16 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 809.23 | 9 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 806.9 | 6 |
| 72 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 804.41 | 5 |
| 73 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 798.1 | 7 |
| (73) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 790.06 | 2 |
| (73) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 778.14 | 3 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 762.79 | 11 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 754.91 | 18 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 739.14 | 7 |
| (75) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 725.08 | 5 |
| 76 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 718.7 | 14 |
| 77 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 717.48 | 3 |
| (77) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 701.38 | 1 |
| 78 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 656.78 | 24 |
| 79 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 644.18 | 6 |
| (79) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 642.85 | 1 |
| 80 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 634.97 | 7 |
| (80) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 622.96 | 3 |
| 81 | Program in Economic Growth and Policy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 602.42 | 4 |
| (81) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 594.31 | 4 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 590.51 | 5 |
| 83 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 584.3 | 11 |
| (83) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 580.48 | 12 |
| (83) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 577.12 | 4 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 574.72 | 8 |
| 85 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 574.08 | 44 |
| (85) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 555.29 | 3 |
| 86 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 549.47 | 1 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 545.78 | 10 |
| (87) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 541.6 | 1 |
| (87) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 541.6 | 1 |
| 88 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 537.59 | 7 |
| 89 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 535.78 | 9 |
| 90 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 526.96 | 38 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 511.52 | 7 |
| (91) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 511.52 | 7 |
| (91) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 505.01 | 1 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 503.87 | 7 |
| (91) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 502.56 | 9 |
| 92 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 502.56 | 9 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 502.48 | 29 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 496.54 | 24 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 496.52 | 19 |
| 96 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 485.95 | 38 |
| 97 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 484.13 | 14 |
| 98 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 481.55 | 14 |
| (98) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 481.46 | 9 |
| (98) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 480.41 | 7 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 476.18 | 14 |
| 100 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 472.31 | 8 |
| (100) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 472.31 | 8 |
| 101 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 463.62 | 4 |
| 102 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 456.34 | 10 |
| 103 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 452 | 13 |
| (103) | 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 | 448.37 | 10 |
| 104 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 447.78 | 9 |
| 105 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 447.32 | 5 |
| 106 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 445.95 | 3 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 442.75 | 18 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 438.6 | 13 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 434.74 | 10 |
| 110 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 424.33 | 12 |
| 111 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 422.62 | 6 |
| 112 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 419.31 | 1 |
| 113 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 409.87 | 14 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 406.91 | 9 |
| 115 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 400.81 | 5 |
| 116 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 396.54 | 4 |
| (116) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 395.75 | 16 |
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