| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 34356.08 | 211 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 9481.43 | 167 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7496.25 | 37 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5146.3 | 25 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4478.33 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3817.78 | 70 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3785.66 | 11 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3720.85 | 28 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3436.61 | 23 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3232.39 | 14 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2961.41 | 23 |
| 12 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2917.03 | 169 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2641.04 | 27 |
| (13) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2539.57 | 27 |
| (13) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2527.08 | 14 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2526.76 | 99 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2499.68 | 18 |
| (15) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2431.3 | 20 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2376.76 | 30 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2333.26 | 16 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2307.62 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2286.91 | 24 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2119.58 | 27 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2005.42 | 21 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2003.5 | 15 |
| 23 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1987.83 | 11 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1978.46 | 13 |
| 25 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1934.24 | 12 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1847.91 | 11 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1760.91 | 20 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1675.16 | 21 |
| (28) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1554 | 11 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1462 | 15 |
| 30 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1459.83 | 7 |
| 31 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1457.78 | 30 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1318.08 | 25 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1286.68 | 21 |
| 34 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1273.66 | 3 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1234.18 | 56 |
| (35) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1217.41 | 5 |
| 36 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1215.33 | 35 |
| 37 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1197.24 | 18 |
| (37) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1197.16 | 20 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1193.83 | 19 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1187.49 | 11 |
| 40 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1165.4 | 71 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1159.68 | 24 |
| 42 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1151.08 | 33 |
| 43 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1140 | 9 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1124.58 | 22 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1114.75 | 29 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1103.46 | 23 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1095.66 | 8 |
| 48 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1078.58 | 8 |
| (48) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1076.58 | 7 |
| (48) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1075.16 | 3 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1070 | 22 |
| (49) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1059.95 | 15 |
| 50 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1013.49 | 40 |
| (50) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1007.58 | 16 |
| 51 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 979.5 | 12 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 959.25 | 25 |
| (52) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 894.41 | 7 |
| 53 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 868 | 7 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 851.16 | 18 |
| (54) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 849.66 | 6 |
| 55 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 846.16 | 15 |
| (55) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 825.83 | 6 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 824.55 | 18 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 815 | 10 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 806.41 | 17 |
| (58) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 783.33 | 8 |
| 59 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 773.41 | 15 |
| 60 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 751.26 | 11 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 748.41 | 8 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 744.36 | 20 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 728.6 | 26 |
| 64 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 718.08 | 6 |
| (64) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 717.83 | 5 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 716.89 | 16 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 704.05 | 22 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 676.74 | 15 |
| (67) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 655.83 | 13 |
| (67) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 653.91 | 3 |
| (67) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 651.22 | 11 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 649.75 | 27 |
| (68) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 634.16 | 5 |
| 69 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 631.24 | 15 |
| (69) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 621.88 | 24 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 614.66 | 9 |
| 71 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 609.75 | 25 |
| 72 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 596 | 40 |
| 73 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 579.24 | 8 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 579.24 | 8 |
| (73) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 571.83 | 3 |
| 74 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 567.74 | 5 |
| (74) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 559.66 | 4 |
| 75 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 557.49 | 6 |
| 76 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 540.51 | 7 |
| (76) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 535.16 | 2 |
| 77 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 528.25 | 7 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 524.66 | 6 |
| 79 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 519.87 | 45 |
| (79) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 518.58 | 8 |
| 80 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 517.83 | 6 |
| 81 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 505.75 | 6 |
| 82 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 500.5 | 10 |
| (82) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 499.83 | 3 |
| (82) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 490.83 | 1 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 490.41 | 16 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 488.83 | 10 |
| (84) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 483.66 | 5 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 482.66 | 7 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 478.99 | 30 |
| (86) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 470.25 | 2 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 456 | 9 |
| 88 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 452.19 | 12 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 446.16 | 24 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 434.16 | 4 |
| (90) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 424.16 | 17 |
| 91 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 404.84 | 38 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 397.41 | 20 |
| 93 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 395.81 | 13 |
| (93) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 392 | 3 |
| 94 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 385.16 | 6 |
| (94) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 383.83 | 4 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 377.83 | 10 |
| (95) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 375.33 | 1 |
| 96 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 374.16 | 16 |
| (96) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 372.66 | 10 |
| 97 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 369.04 | 1 |
| 98 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 363.41 | 6 |
| (98) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 361.6 | 1 |
| (98) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 361.6 | 1 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 356.61 | 7 |
| (99) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 356.61 | 7 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 350.25 | 13 |
| (100) | 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 | 342.33 | 11 |
| (100) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 337.66 | 7 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 337.33 | 18 |
| 102 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 333.01 | 10 |
| (102) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 326.74 | 14 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 325.83 | 10 |
| (103) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 322.5 | 1 |
| 104 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 320.13 | 20 |
| 105 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 311.51 | 11 |
| 106 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 309.24 | 20 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 305.66 | 10 |
| 108 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 305 | 12 |
| 109 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 303.91 | 6 |
| 110 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 298.81 | 11 |
| 111 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 298.25 | 14 |
| (111) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 291.08 | 9 |
| 112 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 291.08 | 10 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 290.83 | 14 |
| (113) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 280.33 | 2 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 279.66 | 13 |
| 115 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 269.13 | 7 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 268.83 | 11 |
| 117 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 265.08 | 6 |
| 118 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 264.83 | 3 |
| 119 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 261.16 | 3 |
| (119) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 261.16 | 3 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 259.83 | 5 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 257.5 | 9 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 255.71 | 8 |
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