| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 332997.66 | 211 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 128571.94 | 167 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 64161.25 | 37 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 49554.39 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 41720.74 | 25 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 41648.51 | 70 |
| 7 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 40542.9 | 169 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 39920.99 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 33078.02 | 28 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 32507.38 | 21 |
| 11 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 31651.97 | 12 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 31503.47 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 29678.89 | 14 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 28165.76 | 27 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 27654.26 | 18 |
| 16 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 26848.26 | 56 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 26766.14 | 14 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 25893.7 | 11 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25728.58 | 24 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 24849.62 | 26 |
| 20 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 24690.57 | 99 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 24001.25 | 27 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 23440.29 | 27 |
| 22 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 23207.29 | 35 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 22496.2 | 16 |
| (23) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 22092.26 | 20 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 21635.87 | 15 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 21490.38 | 11 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 20723.71 | 22 |
| (26) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 20504.9 | 20 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19717.65 | 15 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18951.86 | 21 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 18903.94 | 20 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 18629.67 | 24 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 18476.99 | 29 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 17829.88 | 20 |
| 33 | CESifo | München, Germany | 17523.63 | 40 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 17278.58 | 25 |
| 35 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 17135.66 | 30 |
| 36 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 16643.34 | 18 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 16304.33 | 22 |
| 38 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15887.89 | 71 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15180.11 | 11 |
| 40 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14813.57 | 11 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 14787.91 | 27 |
| 42 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 14622.8 | 15 |
| 43 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 14528.23 | 23 |
| 44 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14283.7 | 8 |
| 45 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14170.15 | 3 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13698.06 | 18 |
| (46) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 13617 | 11 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 13001.81 | 19 |
| 48 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 12516.73 | 8 |
| (48) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 12516.73 | 8 |
| 49 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12325.91 | 7 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12257.12 | 30 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 12097.57 | 18 |
| 52 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 12059.05 | 8 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 11905.84 | 30 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 11856.53 | 18 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 11794.84 | 17 |
| 56 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 11739.84 | 13 |
| 57 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 11480.85 | 25 |
| 58 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11325.11 | 40 |
| 59 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 10706.06 | 12 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 10697.88 | 20 |
| (60) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10504.03 | 15 |
| 61 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 10263.66 | 25 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9842.44 | 22 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 9691.4 | 21 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 9681.68 | 10 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 9679.01 | 10 |
| 66 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 9177.9 | 45 |
| (66) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 9086.01 | 7 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 9076.77 | 8 |
| 68 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9049.77 | 7 |
| 69 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8956.03 | 12 |
| 70 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 8857.93 | 8 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 8855.61 | 7 |
| (70) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8788.8 | 17 |
| 71 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8788.8 | 17 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8653.74 | 15 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 8617.21 | 9 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8605.36 | 26 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8401.93 | 13 |
| 76 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8369.65 | 11 |
| (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 | 8313.67 | 11 |
| 77 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8250.37 | 6 |
| (77) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8210.44 | 24 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 8207.77 | 10 |
| (78) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8183.82 | 6 |
| (78) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8121.68 | 5 |
| 79 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 7950.31 | 33 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 7853.54 | 16 |
| (80) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7725.23 | 13 |
| (80) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 7556.76 | 9 |
| 81 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 7556.76 | 10 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 7539.39 | 14 |
| (82) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 7520.56 | 6 |
| 83 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7444.79 | 11 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7287.35 | 11 |
| 85 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7223.84 | 9 |
| 86 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7208.49 | 6 |
| (86) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7067 | 2 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 7054.21 | 13 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 7025.15 | 9 |
| (88) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 6618.54 | 16 |
| (88) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6595.93 | 3 |
| (88) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6594.25 | 5 |
| (88) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6442.35 | 5 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6438 | 9 |
| 90 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 6429.74 | 15 |
| (90) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6405.56 | 8 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 6404.84 | 23 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 6401.69 | 10 |
| 93 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 6384.1 | 10 |
| 94 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 6184.94 | 16 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6075.54 | 14 |
| 96 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 6016.54 | 14 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 6001.74 | 16 |
| 98 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 5998.08 | 16 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5919.19 | 14 |
| 100 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5864.94 | 10 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 5814.41 | 24 |
| 102 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 5812.27 | 8 |
| 103 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 5791.58 | 11 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 5768.12 | 18 |
| 105 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 5643.32 | 20 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5579.12 | 8 |
| 106 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 5551.93 | 15 |
| 107 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5531.77 | 6 |
| 108 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5516.57 | 10 |
| (108) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5481.06 | 17 |
| (108) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5396.77 | 11 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 5345.94 | 20 |
| 110 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 5336.66 | 5 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 5334.9 | 13 |
| 112 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5300.7 | 5 |
| 113 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5263.49 | 15 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 5258.06 | 13 |
| (114) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5240.94 | 3 |
| (114) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 5231.64 | 11 |
| 115 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 5161.04 | 11 |
| (115) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5051.64 | 3 |
| 116 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 5046.79 | 6 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 5034.79 | 5 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5023.75 | 5 |
| (118) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4986.36 | 2 |
| 119 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 4928.06 | 4 |
| (119) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 4926.17 | 7 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 4883.97 | 6 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 4823.64 | 7 |
| 122 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4783.42 | 35 |
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