| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 24888.87 | 210 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 6011.34 | 158 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4662.22 | 37 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3729.22 | 24 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3378.33 | 29 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2650.2 | 22 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2387.87 | 28 |
| 8 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2164.85 | 11 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2110.13 | 14 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2044.97 | 22 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1901.46 | 69 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1897.74 | 97 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1875.85 | 16 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1736.83 | 30 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1725.34 | 16 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1723.12 | 21 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1654.01 | 13 |
| 17 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1601.03 | 164 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1579.19 | 11 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1479.53 | 22 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1399.52 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1351.08 | 19 |
| 22 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1321.04 | 16 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1285.94 | 25 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1264.59 | 26 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1174.75 | 20 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1174.57 | 11 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1108.2 | 24 |
| 25 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1094.07 | 30 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1070.5 | 13 |
| 27 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1011.5 | 32 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 991.58 | 19 |
| (28) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 966.34 | 5 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 959.99 | 26 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 958.81 | 20 |
| 31 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 957.66 | 8 |
| (31) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 957.47 | 7 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 905.76 | 11 |
| 33 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 901.37 | 17 |
| 34 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 901.33 | 13 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 899.5 | 23 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 875.11 | 24 |
| (36) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 842.68 | 5 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 831.48 | 21 |
| (37) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 808.93 | 15 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 795.95 | 25 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 787.32 | 18 |
| 40 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 780.69 | 3 |
| 41 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 765.6 | 7 |
| 42 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 765.37 | 69 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 760.03 | 15 |
| 44 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 710.74 | 11 |
| 45 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 707.68 | 11 |
| (45) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 685.13 | 7 |
| (45) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 683.88 | 3 |
| 46 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 662.4 | 11 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 660.09 | 10 |
| 48 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 658.71 | 55 |
| 49 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 643.19 | 33 |
| (49) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 627.89 | 19 |
| (49) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 624.34 | 8 |
| 50 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 623.01 | 7 |
| 51 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 618.54 | 6 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 613.73 | 23 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 608.51 | 30 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 606.56 | 16 |
| 54 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 602.31 | 8 |
| (54) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 594.21 | 25 |
| 55 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 589.61 | 25 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 576.35 | 17 |
| 57 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 569.51 | 7 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 564.35 | 17 |
| (58) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 561.9 | 6 |
| 59 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 531.13 | 8 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 519.99 | 21 |
| 61 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 515.53 | 6 |
| 62 | CESifo | München, Germany | 512.66 | 38 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 498.71 | 20 |
| (63) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 491.78 | 3 |
| (63) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 484.41 | 5 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 482.69 | 23 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 479.7 | 9 |
| (65) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 461.82 | 13 |
| (65) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 439.68 | 5 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 430.88 | 21 |
| (66) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 426.11 | 5 |
| (66) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 409.48 | 2 |
| 67 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 407.09 | 16 |
| (67) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 383.4 | 11 |
| 68 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 380.06 | 7 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 366.4 | 6 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 360.04 | 7 |
| 71 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 343.44 | 3 |
| (71) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 342.28 | 3 |
| 72 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 328.42 | 16 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 325.72 | 7 |
| (73) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 325.09 | 4 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 324.42 | 5 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 323.59 | 27 |
| 76 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 320.27 | 1 |
| 77 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 320 | 15 |
| (77) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 319.2 | 12 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 317.92 | 8 |
| 79 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 316.95 | 45 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 307.18 | 15 |
| 81 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 301.25 | 5 |
| 82 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 295.63 | 23 |
| (82) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 293.25 | 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) | 293.25 | 1 |
| 83 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 287.86 | 7 |
| (83) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 287.64 | 1 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 282.11 | 23 |
| 85 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 280.96 | 6 |
| 86 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 277.25 | 11 |
| (86) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 276.15 | 4 |
| 87 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 270.57 | 3 |
| (87) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 266.26 | 9 |
| 88 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 266.26 | 9 |
| 89 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 263.63 | 39 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 257.52 | 19 |
| 91 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 257.37 | 7 |
| 92 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 254.64 | 38 |
| (92) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 254.5 | 1 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 250.18 | 14 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 248.83 | 7 |
| (94) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 248.83 | 7 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 248.49 | 10 |
| 96 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 247.29 | 5 |
| (96) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 246.58 | 3 |
| (96) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 246.53 | 1 |
| 97 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 242.93 | 11 |
| (97) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 242.48 | 4 |
| 98 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 238.52 | 14 |
| (98) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 238.51 | 9 |
| 99 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 235.36 | 5 |
| 100 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 233.96 | 6 |
| 101 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 232.52 | 12 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 231.62 | 13 |
| 103 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 230.79 | 6 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 225.32 | 10 |
| (104) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 221.88 | 7 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 220.41 | 30 |
| (105) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 219.96 | 7 |
| (105) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 216.92 | 15 |
| 106 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 216.92 | 15 |
| 107 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 213.58 | 9 |
| (107) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 209.59 | 17 |
| (107) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 207.58 | 2 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 206.72 | 17 |
| 109 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 205.51 | 10 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 203.47 | 3 |
| (110) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 199.03 | 3 |
| (110) | 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 | 198.31 | 11 |
| 111 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 192.9 | 13 |
| 112 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 182.43 | 16 |
| 113 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 181.88 | 14 |
| 114 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 180.78 | 9 |
| 115 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 179.46 | 8 |
| (115) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 174.92 | 10 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 173.64 | 11 |
| 117 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 173.06 | 15 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 170.79 | 9 |
| 119 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 170.7 | 2 |
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