| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 28219.77 | 211 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 7136.1 | 167 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5128.41 | 37 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4843.67 | 25 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3730.09 | 29 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2803.61 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2640.79 | 28 |
| 8 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2395.44 | 11 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2254.26 | 23 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2222.07 | 99 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2197.49 | 14 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2137.29 | 70 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2127.9 | 18 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1962.74 | 15 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1946.22 | 26 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1932.52 | 16 |
| 17 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1810.98 | 169 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1809.65 | 30 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1793.28 | 14 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1719.62 | 15 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1709.71 | 27 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1673.37 | 11 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1589.26 | 24 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1530.76 | 27 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1527.1 | 21 |
| (24) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1438.72 | 27 |
| (24) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1405.65 | 11 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1323.33 | 20 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1181.95 | 11 |
| 26 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1162.35 | 30 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1123.6 | 24 |
| 28 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1113.77 | 18 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1108.38 | 20 |
| 30 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1023.57 | 12 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1021.89 | 13 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1000.55 | 19 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 991.74 | 22 |
| (33) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 964.62 | 5 |
| 34 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 962.6 | 8 |
| (34) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 962.12 | 7 |
| 35 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 960.89 | 33 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 930.83 | 21 |
| 37 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 920.71 | 25 |
| (37) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 891.97 | 7 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 885.49 | 21 |
| 39 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 882.63 | 71 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 869.12 | 11 |
| 41 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 863.5 | 11 |
| 42 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 858 | 7 |
| (42) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 852.46 | 15 |
| 43 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 848.64 | 3 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 836.43 | 18 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 834.81 | 15 |
| 46 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 820.04 | 56 |
| 47 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 819.09 | 35 |
| (47) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 800.26 | 20 |
| 48 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 799.45 | 23 |
| (48) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 783.81 | 6 |
| (48) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 775.21 | 3 |
| 49 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 733.36 | 12 |
| (49) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 713.91 | 6 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 697.57 | 25 |
| 51 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 696.46 | 9 |
| (51) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 689.89 | 8 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 678.93 | 29 |
| 53 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 677.74 | 7 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 676.93 | 18 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 660.5 | 17 |
| (55) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 659.68 | 24 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 649.37 | 16 |
| 56 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 641.01 | 8 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 637.07 | 10 |
| 58 | CESifo | München, Germany | 610.18 | 40 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 596.59 | 26 |
| (59) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 585.53 | 5 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 582.99 | 8 |
| (60) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 572.81 | 3 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 557.73 | 22 |
| 62 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 556.51 | 6 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 552.84 | 20 |
| (63) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 548.18 | 13 |
| 64 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 533.73 | 22 |
| (64) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 510.49 | 5 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 474.54 | 10 |
| 66 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 467.39 | 16 |
| (66) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 437.59 | 11 |
| 67 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 436.72 | 6 |
| (67) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 436.66 | 5 |
| 68 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 425.9 | 7 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 422.96 | 9 |
| (69) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 412.34 | 2 |
| 70 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 400.72 | 15 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 396.5 | 27 |
| (71) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 384.86 | 1 |
| (71) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 384.86 | 1 |
| (71) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 384.45 | 2 |
| (71) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 372.5 | 3 |
| (71) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 363.17 | 8 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 362.33 | 6 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 359.83 | 7 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 350.77 | 16 |
| 75 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 348.76 | 6 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 347.63 | 4 |
| 77 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 344.92 | 15 |
| 78 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 344.55 | 25 |
| 79 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 344.42 | 5 |
| 80 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 343.13 | 1 |
| 81 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 338.13 | 6 |
| 82 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 336.21 | 45 |
| 83 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 336.08 | 7 |
| (83) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 331.33 | 14 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 329.67 | 9 |
| (84) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 315.46 | 1 |
| (84) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 312.69 | 3 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 308.95 | 10 |
| 86 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 306.42 | 12 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 304.14 | 20 |
| 88 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 303.41 | 10 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 303.35 | 24 |
| 90 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 296.1 | 16 |
| (90) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 296.09 | 10 |
| 91 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 291.76 | 38 |
| (91) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 291.34 | 1 |
| 92 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 288.37 | 6 |
| (92) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 287.31 | 4 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 286.4 | 14 |
| (93) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 285.05 | 1 |
| (93) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 282.01 | 7 |
| 94 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 281.11 | 12 |
| 95 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 280.89 | 40 |
| 96 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 279.08 | 11 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 273.05 | 7 |
| (97) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 273.05 | 7 |
| 98 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 271.8 | 3 |
| 99 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 259.69 | 6 |
| (99) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 257.57 | 4 |
| (99) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 256.66 | 9 |
| 100 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 256.66 | 10 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 254.95 | 13 |
| (101) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 250.36 | 17 |
| 102 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 250.36 | 17 |
| (102) | 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 | 248.56 | 11 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 245.67 | 30 |
| 104 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 244.9 | 4 |
| (104) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 243.24 | 17 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 234.6 | 18 |
| 106 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 227.57 | 15 |
| 107 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 226.45 | 6 |
| (107) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 225.75 | 2 |
| 108 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 222.45 | 8 |
| (108) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 222.45 | 8 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 221.93 | 20 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 217.7 | 11 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 211.21 | 13 |
| 112 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 208.67 | 16 |
| 113 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 208.34 | 8 |
| 114 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 208.08 | 11 |
| (114) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 203.91 | 3 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 200.33 | 13 |
| (115) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 200.06 | 10 |
| (115) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 199.32 | 6 |
| 116 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 199.32 | 7 |
| 117 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 199.22 | 3 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 197.28 | 10 |
| 119 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 193.26 | 10 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 192.82 | 4 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 190 | 10 |
| 122 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 189.99 | 14 |
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