| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 73249.3 | 211 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 26916.16 | 167 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13265.6 | 37 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10477.93 | 29 |
| 5 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9239.07 | 23 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8735 | 25 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8065.69 | 70 |
| 8 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 7680.16 | 169 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7402.51 | 23 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7098.14 | 28 |
| (10) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6402.64 | 14 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5991.01 | 14 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5802.6 | 24 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5778.5 | 18 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5744.94 | 99 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5403.38 | 21 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 5359.39 | 27 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5306.36 | 11 |
| 18 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5231.89 | 12 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5216.39 | 26 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5087.61 | 56 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5042.14 | 27 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4780.08 | 16 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4598.74 | 27 |
| 23 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4523.83 | 35 |
| (23) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4333.97 | 20 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4295.97 | 11 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4271.36 | 15 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4130.74 | 22 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4081.95 | 20 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3910.41 | 15 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3876.4 | 24 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3788.83 | 29 |
| (30) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3778.73 | 20 |
| 31 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3751.43 | 18 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3668.26 | 21 |
| 33 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3656.56 | 30 |
| 34 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3516.66 | 40 |
| 35 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3467.83 | 25 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3396.01 | 11 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3382.14 | 20 |
| 38 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3304.67 | 71 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3237.35 | 8 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3082.86 | 27 |
| 41 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3065.09 | 11 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 3050.93 | 22 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 3046.83 | 18 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2992.91 | 19 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2949.23 | 30 |
| (45) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2724.8 | 11 |
| 46 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2716.01 | 3 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2638.56 | 23 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2574.39 | 18 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2509.71 | 17 |
| 50 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2507.96 | 7 |
| 51 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2447.67 | 13 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2416.49 | 8 |
| 53 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2406.89 | 8 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2370.64 | 25 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2365.89 | 18 |
| (55) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2254.32 | 7 |
| (55) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2214.27 | 15 |
| 56 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2195.17 | 15 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2185.47 | 20 |
| 58 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2158.58 | 22 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2129.9 | 21 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2105.7 | 10 |
| (60) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2073.53 | 6 |
| 61 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2038.22 | 11 |
| 62 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2033.5 | 40 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2019.98 | 15 |
| (63) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2016.82 | 24 |
| 64 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1979.04 | 25 |
| 65 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1967.16 | 12 |
| 66 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1956.3 | 7 |
| 67 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1947.49 | 12 |
| (67) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1943.49 | 6 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1928.75 | 30 |
| 69 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1912.96 | 6 |
| (69) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1872.61 | 5 |
| 70 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1869.91 | 8 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1869.91 | 8 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1828.39 | 13 |
| (71) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1790.49 | 9 |
| 72 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1790.49 | 10 |
| (72) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1762.01 | 13 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1759.45 | 10 |
| 74 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1753.14 | 10 |
| (74) | 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 | 1732.98 | 11 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1727.77 | 26 |
| 76 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1711.72 | 8 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1711.64 | 7 |
| 77 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1691.55 | 9 |
| 78 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1641.42 | 11 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1629.95 | 16 |
| 80 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1592.48 | 45 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1578.13 | 14 |
| 82 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1556.99 | 6 |
| 83 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1555.57 | 33 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1551 | 9 |
| (84) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1530.45 | 5 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1530.12 | 10 |
| (85) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1519.3 | 8 |
| (85) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1495.12 | 16 |
| (85) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1464.83 | 3 |
| (85) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1431.25 | 2 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1415.92 | 13 |
| (86) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1394.82 | 7 |
| 87 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1393.02 | 10 |
| (87) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1384 | 5 |
| 88 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1381.61 | 15 |
| 89 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1377.45 | 5 |
| (89) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1363.08 | 17 |
| 90 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1363.08 | 17 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1362.84 | 9 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1350.89 | 8 |
| 92 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1328.99 | 14 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1311.65 | 11 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1306.11 | 9 |
| 95 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1299.14 | 8 |
| 96 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1278.4 | 16 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 1274.68 | 23 |
| 98 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1254.25 | 7 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1249.85 | 14 |
| 100 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1233.8 | 6 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1227.42 | 18 |
| 102 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1215.72 | 10 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1211.53 | 14 |
| 104 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1198.25 | 20 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1197.8 | 16 |
| 106 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1195.85 | 6 |
| 107 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1192.74 | 11 |
| 108 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1175.33 | 5 |
| 109 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 1169.91 | 6 |
| (109) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1163.83 | 3 |
| (109) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1162.99 | 17 |
| (109) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1150.12 | 2 |
| 110 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1139.46 | 10 |
| (110) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1137.84 | 11 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1129.02 | 6 |
| (111) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1125.56 | 11 |
| 112 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1113.47 | 16 |
| 113 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1093.28 | 3 |
| (113) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1077.28 | 3 |
| 114 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1050.56 | 20 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1040.83 | 13 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1039.13 | 7 |
| (116) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1039.13 | 7 |
| (116) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1029.85 | 1 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1019.57 | 24 |
| 118 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1009.66 | 4 |
| 119 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 997.99 | 11 |
| 120 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 972.21 | 2 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 971.03 | 10 |
| 122 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 944.9 | 15 |
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