| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 101508.97 | 211 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 26287.06 | 167 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 18856.41 | 37 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17558.85 | 25 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13971.04 | 29 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10248.78 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9512.34 | 28 |
| 8 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8643.21 | 11 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8402.27 | 23 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8399.42 | 70 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8287.23 | 14 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7870.91 | 99 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7537.01 | 18 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7327.02 | 15 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 7148.49 | 26 |
| 16 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 7004.6 | 169 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6956.1 | 30 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6757.56 | 14 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6608.08 | 16 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6411.25 | 15 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6399.19 | 11 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6176.7 | 27 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6048.43 | 24 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5843.18 | 27 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5556.69 | 27 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5293.53 | 20 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5248.92 | 21 |
| (24) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5109.63 | 11 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4478.06 | 11 |
| 26 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4244.66 | 30 |
| 27 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4164.55 | 18 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4111.09 | 12 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4040.51 | 24 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3995.77 | 20 |
| 31 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3798.34 | 33 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3683.11 | 22 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3634.1 | 19 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3628.56 | 13 |
| 35 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 3615.92 | 8 |
| (35) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 3614.42 | 7 |
| (35) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3611.65 | 5 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3565.64 | 21 |
| 37 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3560.95 | 25 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3412.14 | 21 |
| (38) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3332.34 | 7 |
| 39 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3288.78 | 71 |
| 40 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3147.86 | 3 |
| (40) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3125.33 | 6 |
| (40) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3099.23 | 15 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3094.86 | 18 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3053.14 | 11 |
| 43 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3028.61 | 56 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2987.21 | 15 |
| 45 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2983.06 | 35 |
| 46 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2927.4 | 7 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2921.84 | 20 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2879.63 | 23 |
| 48 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2814.52 | 11 |
| (48) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2795.16 | 3 |
| 49 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2744.15 | 9 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2584.95 | 29 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2580.23 | 25 |
| 52 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2577.78 | 12 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2522.78 | 18 |
| 54 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2516.02 | 8 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2482.65 | 16 |
| (54) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2473.81 | 6 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2455.16 | 10 |
| (55) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2452.31 | 8 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2413.66 | 17 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2380.21 | 24 |
| 57 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2368.03 | 7 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2324.97 | 26 |
| 59 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2284.61 | 40 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2228.82 | 22 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2164.52 | 8 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2084.68 | 20 |
| (62) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2077.38 | 5 |
| (62) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2035.06 | 3 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1997.91 | 6 |
| 64 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1987.15 | 22 |
| (64) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1957.88 | 13 |
| (64) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1846.18 | 5 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1817.35 | 16 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1812.91 | 10 |
| (66) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1701.03 | 11 |
| 67 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1661.5 | 6 |
| (67) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1661.31 | 5 |
| 68 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1561.84 | 15 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1525.41 | 9 |
| 70 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1524.91 | 7 |
| (70) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1507.75 | 2 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1434.63 | 27 |
| 72 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1405.06 | 15 |
| (72) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1403.54 | 8 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1401.82 | 7 |
| (73) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1361.65 | 2 |
| 74 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1324.5 | 6 |
| (74) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1316.27 | 3 |
| 75 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1300.88 | 6 |
| 76 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1298.14 | 25 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1276.8 | 6 |
| 78 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1272.13 | 45 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1272.09 | 9 |
| (79) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1270.8 | 14 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1246.27 | 4 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1243.32 | 16 |
| 82 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1235.52 | 7 |
| 83 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1211.65 | 1 |
| 84 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1198.76 | 5 |
| (84) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1196.61 | 1 |
| (84) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1196.61 | 1 |
| (84) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1192.62 | 4 |
| 85 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1180.54 | 12 |
| (85) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1171.95 | 3 |
| 86 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1162.28 | 10 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1159.48 | 24 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1156.89 | 10 |
| 89 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1144.96 | 40 |
| 90 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1109.42 | 38 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1105.03 | 4 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1101.82 | 7 |
| (91) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1101.82 | 7 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1101.25 | 20 |
| 93 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 1086.68 | 16 |
| (93) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 1086.5 | 10 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1065.53 | 14 |
| (94) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1054.79 | 7 |
| (94) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1033.61 | 1 |
| (94) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1025.88 | 1 |
| 95 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1014.99 | 15 |
| 96 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1003.33 | 3 |
| 97 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 1000.95 | 6 |
| 98 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1000.78 | 12 |
| (98) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 995.54 | 1 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 995.08 | 30 |
| 100 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 995.01 | 6 |
| 101 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 988.75 | 8 |
| (101) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 988.75 | 8 |
| 102 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 978.21 | 11 |
| (102) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 962.79 | 17 |
| 103 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 962.79 | 17 |
| (103) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 957.05 | 9 |
| 104 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 957.05 | 10 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 947.76 | 13 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 911.41 | 18 |
| (106) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 908.47 | 17 |
| 107 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 907.73 | 4 |
| (107) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 894.78 | 2 |
| (107) | 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 | 874.16 | 11 |
| 108 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 857.92 | 6 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 798.96 | 11 |
| (109) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 798.26 | 3 |
| 110 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 768.99 | 20 |
| 111 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 757.75 | 11 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 745.65 | 8 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 745.19 | 13 |
| (113) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 738.14 | 6 |
| 114 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 738.14 | 7 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 735.09 | 13 |
| 116 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 731.93 | 16 |
| 117 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 716.28 | 10 |
| (117) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 698.26 | 10 |
| 118 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 689.35 | 14 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 685.84 | 4 |
| 120 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 684.02 | 14 |
| 121 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 670.69 | 6 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 665.03 | 10 |
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