| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 90770.24 | 209 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 22808.62 | 156 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 17174.44 | 36 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14122.04 | 24 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12879.66 | 27 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9423.61 | 22 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8791.56 | 27 |
| 8 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8308.39 | 11 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8051.25 | 13 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7646.9 | 22 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7431.64 | 67 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6818.4 | 15 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6554.42 | 20 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6507.45 | 93 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6385.32 | 29 |
| 16 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6217.8 | 161 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6144.1 | 13 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6052.97 | 11 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6045.82 | 16 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5453.01 | 21 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5312.14 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5028.46 | 17 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4995.37 | 26 |
| 22 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4895.18 | 16 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4595.42 | 19 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4569.91 | 25 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4187.4 | 11 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4079.5 | 12 |
| 25 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3990.55 | 30 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3864.43 | 23 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3735.92 | 19 |
| 28 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3653.87 | 32 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3626.35 | 13 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3505.69 | 24 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3472.52 | 25 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3453.34 | 26 |
| 33 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 3388.59 | 8 |
| (33) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 3387.82 | 7 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3383.05 | 11 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3382.58 | 20 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3382.53 | 24 |
| (36) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3380.57 | 5 |
| 37 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3100.55 | 16 |
| 38 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3087.65 | 3 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3036.35 | 20 |
| (39) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2978.51 | 4 |
| (39) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2936.85 | 15 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2925.97 | 18 |
| 41 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2910.36 | 65 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2867.63 | 15 |
| 43 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2786.93 | 7 |
| 44 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2764.93 | 55 |
| 45 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2728.78 | 12 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2692.46 | 32 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2636.74 | 19 |
| (46) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2584.05 | 3 |
| 47 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2524.96 | 11 |
| 48 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2473.88 | 7 |
| 49 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2448.87 | 11 |
| (49) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2387.65 | 8 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2311.72 | 10 |
| (50) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2299.23 | 7 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2230.13 | 25 |
| (51) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2224.6 | 15 |
| (51) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2204.46 | 6 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2179.62 | 17 |
| 53 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2155.79 | 6 |
| (53) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2143.37 | 24 |
| 54 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2142.61 | 6 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2087.74 | 22 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2018.07 | 23 |
| (56) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1982.57 | 14 |
| 57 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1965.26 | 38 |
| 58 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1955.85 | 8 |
| 59 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1926.08 | 8 |
| 60 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1924.38 | 6 |
| (60) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1918.08 | 3 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1903.08 | 21 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1898.55 | 29 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1886.63 | 16 |
| (63) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1816.1 | 3 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1802.54 | 19 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1732.17 | 21 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1669.98 | 9 |
| (66) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1633.21 | 5 |
| (66) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1526.59 | 5 |
| (66) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1446.38 | 2 |
| 67 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1422.58 | 7 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1360.38 | 16 |
| 69 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1306.29 | 3 |
| 70 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1282.52 | 14 |
| (70) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1280.76 | 3 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1274.95 | 7 |
| (71) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1272.09 | 11 |
| 72 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1242.34 | 44 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1239.86 | 6 |
| 74 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1231.4 | 16 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1218.67 | 8 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1218.66 | 6 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1207.17 | 27 |
| (77) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1197.78 | 3 |
| (77) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1175.14 | 12 |
| 78 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1141.11 | 24 |
| (78) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1134.54 | 4 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1131.71 | 5 |
| 80 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1121.66 | 1 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1114.69 | 18 |
| 82 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1108.84 | 5 |
| (82) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1101.02 | 1 |
| (82) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1101.02 | 1 |
| 83 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1068.46 | 11 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1067.94 | 24 |
| 85 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1048.55 | 7 |
| 86 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1011.23 | 7 |
| 87 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1009.75 | 38 |
| (87) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1007.93 | 1 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 997.13 | 7 |
| (88) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 997.13 | 7 |
| 89 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 996.96 | 38 |
| 90 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 971.64 | 6 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 971.25 | 4 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 970.35 | 14 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 961.78 | 19 |
| 93 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 949.59 | 3 |
| (93) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 949.48 | 1 |
| (93) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 945.7 | 9 |
| 94 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 945.7 | 9 |
| 95 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 928.74 | 14 |
| (95) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 928.56 | 9 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 928.31 | 29 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 918.36 | 10 |
| 98 | Program in Economic Growth and Policy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 912.65 | 4 |
| 99 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 911.46 | 9 |
| (99) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 911.07 | 1 |
| (99) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 881.64 | 15 |
| 100 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 881.64 | 15 |
| 101 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 873.98 | 5 |
| 102 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 867.64 | 9 |
| (102) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 840.84 | 3 |
| (102) | 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 | 839.3 | 10 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 822.56 | 18 |
| (103) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 820.8 | 7 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 817.01 | 13 |
| 105 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 816.66 | 12 |
| (105) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 803.4 | 2 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 800.97 | 10 |
| 107 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 795.61 | 13 |
| 108 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 781.82 | 5 |
| (108) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 777.46 | 3 |
| 109 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 769.2 | 14 |
| 110 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 751.55 | 8 |
| (110) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 751.55 | 8 |
| (110) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 749.81 | 16 |
| 111 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 743.02 | 10 |
| 112 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 696.5 | 50 |
| (112) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 685.25 | 5 |
| 113 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 685.25 | 6 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 673.71 | 8 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 671.23 | 10 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 664.57 | 2 |
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