| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16470.09 | 211 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3806.38 | 167 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3286.29 | 37 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2515.99 | 25 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1965.3 | 29 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1761.22 | 11 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1697.13 | 23 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1646.26 | 28 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1483.37 | 14 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1283.72 | 70 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1253.46 | 16 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1228.59 | 23 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1207.39 | 18 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1091.34 | 15 |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1084.97 | 99 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1055.55 | 30 |
| 17 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1050.06 | 169 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1019.03 | 14 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1007.73 | 27 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1005.47 | 21 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 994.18 | 24 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 983.09 | 26 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 876.45 | 11 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 876.09 | 27 |
| (22) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 860.27 | 11 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 856.63 | 27 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 839.94 | 13 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 826.06 | 15 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 825.53 | 20 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 769.91 | 11 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 739.6 | 30 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 721.74 | 20 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 699.97 | 12 |
| 30 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 645.83 | 7 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 634.51 | 24 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 590.91 | 21 |
| (32) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 567.95 | 5 |
| 33 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 563.11 | 8 |
| (33) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 562.65 | 7 |
| (33) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 559.76 | 15 |
| 34 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 549.49 | 18 |
| 35 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 540.19 | 3 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 536.73 | 19 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 531.36 | 21 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 504.98 | 11 |
| 39 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 494.32 | 12 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 494.14 | 22 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 477.39 | 35 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 468.6 | 20 |
| 42 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 463.75 | 9 |
| (42) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 463.56 | 3 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 458.06 | 25 |
| 44 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 456.78 | 56 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 451.34 | 29 |
| 46 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 437.92 | 33 |
| (46) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 436.83 | 7 |
| 47 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 409.89 | 71 |
| (47) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 409.67 | 16 |
| 48 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 409.55 | 11 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 407.21 | 17 |
| (49) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 400.78 | 6 |
| 50 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 392.87 | 23 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 386.71 | 18 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 371.98 | 15 |
| 53 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 364.85 | 8 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 363.68 | 25 |
| 55 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 356.58 | 7 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 351.96 | 26 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 346.42 | 10 |
| 58 | CESifo | München, Germany | 336.72 | 40 |
| (58) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 332.87 | 6 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 317.21 | 22 |
| (59) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 317.16 | 5 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 315.79 | 8 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 310.47 | 8 |
| (60) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 309.15 | 3 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 307.29 | 20 |
| 62 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 306.39 | 6 |
| (62) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 306.38 | 5 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 295.49 | 18 |
| (63) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 293.97 | 8 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 286.46 | 27 |
| 65 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 281.08 | 15 |
| (65) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 276.13 | 13 |
| (65) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 271.36 | 24 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 266.75 | 9 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 256.48 | 22 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 253.44 | 6 |
| 69 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 251.88 | 5 |
| (69) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 249.91 | 3 |
| 70 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 247.56 | 6 |
| (70) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 245.12 | 2 |
| (70) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 243.72 | 5 |
| 71 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 236.86 | 7 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 233.84 | 16 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 231.54 | 10 |
| 74 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 227.52 | 16 |
| 75 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 226.93 | 15 |
| 76 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 226.65 | 6 |
| (76) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 224.5 | 1 |
| (76) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 222.16 | 2 |
| 77 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 214.57 | 6 |
| (77) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 212.51 | 11 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 209.16 | 7 |
| (78) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 202.64 | 3 |
| 79 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 201.8 | 7 |
| (79) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 200.71 | 1 |
| (79) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 200.71 | 1 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 199.8 | 10 |
| 81 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 194.09 | 25 |
| (81) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 193.05 | 1 |
| 82 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 191.71 | 6 |
| (82) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 182.79 | 7 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 181.65 | 4 |
| (83) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 174.26 | 4 |
| (83) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 168.48 | 14 |
| 84 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 168.33 | 1 |
| 85 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 164.23 | 12 |
| (85) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 161.18 | 3 |
| 86 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 159.32 | 12 |
| (86) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 158.42 | 1 |
| 87 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 156.91 | 45 |
| 88 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 155.65 | 10 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 154.26 | 20 |
| 90 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 151.69 | 16 |
| (90) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 151.69 | 10 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 151.44 | 9 |
| 92 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 151.14 | 40 |
| 93 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 145.27 | 15 |
| 94 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 143.98 | 11 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 143.85 | 24 |
| 96 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 142.29 | 38 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 140.71 | 14 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 138.42 | 7 |
| (98) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 138.42 | 7 |
| 99 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 137.36 | 8 |
| (99) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 137.36 | 8 |
| (99) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 137.15 | 9 |
| 100 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 137.15 | 10 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 136.61 | 13 |
| 102 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 135.46 | 6 |
| 103 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 134.12 | 6 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 133.1 | 10 |
| (104) | 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 | 132.93 | 11 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 132.06 | 30 |
| 106 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 130.1 | 11 |
| (106) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 129.83 | 4 |
| 107 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 127.62 | 3 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 126.78 | 18 |
| (108) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 125.57 | 17 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 124.21 | 13 |
| 110 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 118.8 | 6 |
| 111 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 117.61 | 6 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 116.83 | 20 |
| 113 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 115.1 | 4 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 115.09 | 11 |
| 115 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 113.87 | 7 |
| (115) | Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina | Greensboro, North Carolina (USA) | 113.13 | 3 |
| 116 | Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina | Greensboro, North Carolina (USA) | 113.13 | 4 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 111.12 | 10 |
| 118 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 110.87 | 14 |
| 119 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 110.76 | 4 |
| 120 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 109.63 | 3 |
| 121 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 109.23 | 1 |
| 122 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 107.54 | 8 |
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