| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11950.3 | 211 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4230.18 | 167 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1815.11 | 37 |
| 4 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1382.59 | 169 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1337.94 | 25 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1261.94 | 29 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1236.35 | 23 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1123.4 | 28 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1122.93 | 70 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1020.96 | 23 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 961.08 | 99 |
| 12 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 879.97 | 18 |
| (12) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 868.81 | 14 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 822.82 | 12 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 781.11 | 24 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 754.15 | 26 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 698.55 | 27 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 690.63 | 16 |
| 18 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 677.25 | 30 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 666.05 | 21 |
| 20 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 665.57 | 11 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 649.73 | 15 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 646.99 | 40 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 643.92 | 24 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 634.17 | 20 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 630.54 | 20 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 622.32 | 14 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 617.52 | 11 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 609.94 | 15 |
| (27) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 584.15 | 27 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 582.58 | 22 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 562.85 | 29 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 562.02 | 21 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 544.48 | 27 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 512.07 | 35 |
| 33 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 503.25 | 56 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 495.19 | 25 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 474.7 | 20 |
| 35 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 474.65 | 71 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 472.63 | 30 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 449.4 | 11 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 431.65 | 17 |
| 39 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 416.81 | 25 |
| 40 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 414.26 | 8 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 407.55 | 18 |
| (41) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 405.75 | 11 |
| 42 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 402.54 | 11 |
| 43 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 395.01 | 23 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 390.18 | 19 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 378.49 | 16 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 369.08 | 20 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 368.76 | 22 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 363.71 | 21 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 359.33 | 18 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 348.49 | 15 |
| (50) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 347.77 | 15 |
| 51 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 334.57 | 8 |
| 52 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 332.8 | 11 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 330.76 | 9 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 330.7 | 26 |
| 55 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 323.19 | 9 |
| 56 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 320.39 | 11 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 310.45 | 24 |
| 57 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 305.61 | 22 |
| 58 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 297.39 | 13 |
| 59 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 295.75 | 12 |
| (59) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 294.29 | 3 |
| (59) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 293.24 | 3 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 289.41 | 10 |
| (60) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 288.54 | 6 |
| 61 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 287.7 | 3 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 287.1 | 18 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 285.18 | 10 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 283.07 | 18 |
| 65 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 279.48 | 5 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 277.95 | 20 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 277.81 | 27 |
| (67) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 275.41 | 8 |
| (67) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 275.09 | 16 |
| 68 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 269.06 | 7 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 264.96 | 16 |
| 70 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 262.76 | 40 |
| 71 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 260.85 | 33 |
| (71) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 259.89 | 13 |
| (71) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 257.39 | 8 |
| (71) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 243.76 | 2 |
| 72 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 241.59 | 25 |
| (72) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 240.42 | 7 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 237.91 | 13 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 236.73 | 11 |
| 74 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 232.42 | 15 |
| 75 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 225.51 | 45 |
| 76 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 223.67 | 8 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 223.12 | 7 |
| 77 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 220.05 | 6 |
| 78 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 215.8 | 10 |
| (78) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 211.28 | 3 |
| 79 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 208.23 | 7 |
| 80 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 202.56 | 8 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 202.56 | 8 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 200.19 | 30 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 197.82 | 13 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 197.35 | 6 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 196.65 | 9 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 192.53 | 24 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 190.37 | 11 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 190.2 | 11 |
| (87) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 188.69 | 5 |
| 88 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 186.77 | 38 |
| 89 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 182.81 | 20 |
| 90 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 178.6 | 8 |
| (90) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 178.56 | 14 |
| (90) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 177.43 | 1 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 174.77 | 9 |
| 92 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 173.33 | 6 |
| (92) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 166.83 | 5 |
| (92) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 166.73 | 5 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 164.85 | 8 |
| 94 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 162.78 | 4 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 161.16 | 10 |
| (95) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 159.91 | 1 |
| (95) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 159.91 | 1 |
| (95) | 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 | 158.17 | 11 |
| 96 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 158.02 | 12 |
| 97 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 157.21 | 7 |
| 98 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 154.44 | 16 |
| 99 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 153.16 | 19 |
| (99) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 152.68 | 2 |
| (99) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 152.18 | 10 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 150.77 | 6 |
| 101 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 150.56 | 15 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 149.66 | 12 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 148.76 | 14 |
| (103) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 148.52 | 17 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 147.32 | 10 |
| (104) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 147.3 | 3 |
| (104) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 145.72 | 2 |
| (104) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 145.56 | 17 |
| 105 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 145.56 | 17 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 145.15 | 13 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 145.12 | 14 |
| (107) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 144.9 | 1 |
| 108 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 143.22 | 16 |
| 109 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 143.21 | 27 |
| (109) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 141.61 | 5 |
| 110 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 141.53 | 10 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 139.98 | 8 |
| 112 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 138.35 | 9 |
| 113 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 137.81 | 10 |
| (113) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 137.6 | 9 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 134.29 | 18 |
| (114) | Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 134.05 | 2 |
| (114) | Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 132.07 | 2 |
| 115 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 130.32 | 15 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 128.9 | 7 |
| (116) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 128.9 | 7 |
| (116) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 128.33 | 2 |
| 117 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 128.32 | 15 |
| 118 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 127.08 | 9 |
| (118) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 126.03 | 7 |
| 119 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 123.62 | 11 |
| 120 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 122.58 | 7 |
| (120) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 122.58 | 3 |
| (120) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 121.89 | 10 |
| 121 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 121.82 | 15 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 121.77 | 16 |
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