| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 200864.69 | 210 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 69991.98 | 158 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 40349.3 | 37 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 29751.88 | 29 |
| 5 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 26688.53 | 22 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 25741.82 | 69 |
| 7 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 24436.79 | 164 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 23649.26 | 23 |
| 9 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 22661.2 | 13 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22139.57 | 24 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21163.03 | 28 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 19465.48 | 14 |
| 13 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 19431.75 | 11 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19106.92 | 22 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 17452.59 | 25 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16442.13 | 13 |
| 16 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 15303.9 | 55 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14755.86 | 26 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14470.1 | 16 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 14087.87 | 22 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14013.24 | 19 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13913.78 | 20 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 13811.05 | 11 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 13619.89 | 21 |
| 22 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 13412.09 | 33 |
| (22) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 12818.43 | 19 |
| 23 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12440.32 | 16 |
| 24 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12325.25 | 97 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 11912.19 | 26 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11492.92 | 24 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 11386.21 | 19 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 11351.56 | 16 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 11078.64 | 30 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10840.71 | 24 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 10600.61 | 21 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 10521.36 | 15 |
| 33 | CESifo | München, Germany | 10199.05 | 38 |
| 34 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10175.6 | 7 |
| 35 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10128.98 | 30 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 9653.06 | 23 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9620.26 | 11 |
| 38 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 9538.56 | 15 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 9195.59 | 27 |
| 40 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9052.15 | 13 |
| 41 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8650.8 | 25 |
| 42 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8585.11 | 3 |
| 43 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8325.87 | 8 |
| (43) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8325.87 | 8 |
| 44 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8233.57 | 11 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7785.49 | 17 |
| 46 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7782.04 | 7 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 7599.03 | 20 |
| 48 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 7560.77 | 7 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7418.05 | 30 |
| 50 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7363.33 | 69 |
| 51 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 7283.32 | 23 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7075.33 | 17 |
| (52) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6828.83 | 11 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 6743.98 | 18 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 6726.92 | 30 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 6575.47 | 17 |
| 56 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 6540.02 | 8 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6511.57 | 17 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 6338.34 | 19 |
| 59 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 6233.89 | 25 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 6204.66 | 10 |
| 61 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 6158.64 | 23 |
| (61) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6133.66 | 15 |
| (61) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6022.57 | 5 |
| 62 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5963.88 | 7 |
| 63 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5810.55 | 39 |
| 64 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5629.67 | 11 |
| 65 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 5594.83 | 11 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 5468.34 | 9 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 5453.37 | 10 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 5382.1 | 9 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5370.8 | 21 |
| 70 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 5283.49 | 8 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 5282.33 | 7 |
| 71 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5257.26 | 21 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 4932.9 | 14 |
| 73 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4915.33 | 6 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4885.55 | 13 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 4788.87 | 15 |
| (75) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4758.7 | 6 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4726.84 | 45 |
| (76) | 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 | 4586.68 | 11 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 4569.65 | 20 |
| 78 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 4545.21 | 32 |
| 79 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4497.73 | 8 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 4363.51 | 15 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4363.12 | 15 |
| (81) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4295.54 | 4 |
| 82 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4289.96 | 11 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4211 | 8 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4209.83 | 10 |
| (84) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4192.79 | 9 |
| 85 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4192.79 | 9 |
| 86 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4148.31 | 12 |
| 87 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 4086.79 | 16 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 4074.76 | 10 |
| 89 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4045.02 | 7 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 3944.33 | 14 |
| 91 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 3865.81 | 15 |
| (91) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3830.42 | 16 |
| (91) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3826.6 | 13 |
| (91) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3794.98 | 5 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3756.43 | 7 |
| 92 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3743.91 | 5 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3682.43 | 8 |
| (93) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3682 | 15 |
| 94 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3682 | 15 |
| (94) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3680.03 | 3 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 3663.13 | 6 |
| 96 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 3610.9 | 7 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3609.67 | 22 |
| (97) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3517.19 | 25 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 3470.43 | 18 |
| (98) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3385.34 | 7 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3368.96 | 14 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3366.04 | 10 |
| 101 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3350.65 | 14 |
| (101) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3350.56 | 2 |
| (101) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3290.17 | 3 |
| 102 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3288.49 | 16 |
| 103 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3283.21 | 5 |
| 104 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 3271.37 | 5 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3163.01 | 14 |
| 106 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 3138.53 | 20 |
| 107 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 3121.65 | 15 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3094.83 | 14 |
| 109 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3086.64 | 9 |
| 110 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3086 | 2 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 3041.88 | 4 |
| (111) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3031.94 | 6 |
| 112 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2946.32 | 6 |
| 113 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 2944.42 | 13 |
| 114 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 2936.95 | 20 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 2927.43 | 11 |
| 116 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2925.63 | 15 |
| (116) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2904.09 | 11 |
| 117 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 2897.57 | 9 |
| (117) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2876.9 | 5 |
| 118 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 2874.11 | 9 |
| 119 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 2859.07 | 15 |
| (119) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2827.08 | 1 |
| (119) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2801.94 | 11 |
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