| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 35913.53 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 9869.05 | 169 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7694.08 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5473.33 | 26 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4652.49 | 31 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4005.47 | 74 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3949.16 | 11 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3827.68 | 28 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3557.69 | 23 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3469.81 | 14 |
| 11 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3182.41 | 173 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3126.58 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2892.96 | 28 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2700.21 | 100 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2685.58 | 14 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2631.5 | 24 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2621.07 | 28 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2581.68 | 20 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2531 | 16 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2523.38 | 23 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2447.91 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2407.79 | 27 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2148.66 | 26 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2126.41 | 15 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2078.5 | 13 |
| 23 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2076.16 | 11 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2067.73 | 21 |
| 25 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1995.58 | 12 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1992.66 | 11 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1898.08 | 20 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1740.53 | 20 |
| (28) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1650.41 | 11 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1558.75 | 16 |
| 30 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1513.86 | 30 |
| 31 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1503.49 | 7 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1465.25 | 24 |
| 33 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1370.08 | 3 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1332.76 | 21 |
| 35 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1321.08 | 9 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1294.93 | 57 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1276.49 | 19 |
| (37) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1259.58 | 5 |
| 38 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1248.25 | 36 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1243.99 | 18 |
| 40 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1234.39 | 72 |
| (40) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1228.75 | 20 |
| 41 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1199.33 | 11 |
| 42 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1195.5 | 33 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1189.01 | 23 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1188.58 | 22 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1170.16 | 30 |
| 46 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1167.33 | 10 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1163.3 | 22 |
| 48 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1133.08 | 8 |
| (48) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1131.08 | 7 |
| (48) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1108.45 | 15 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1089.16 | 21 |
| (49) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1081.83 | 3 |
| 50 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1064.16 | 12 |
| 51 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1042.33 | 42 |
| (51) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1036.83 | 16 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1016.41 | 25 |
| 53 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 950.74 | 16 |
| 54 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 932.24 | 12 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 930.75 | 18 |
| (55) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 920.66 | 7 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 917.75 | 18 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 917.71 | 19 |
| 58 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 857.58 | 7 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 856.16 | 10 |
| (59) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 855 | 6 |
| (59) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 852.49 | 6 |
| 60 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 822.83 | 16 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 802.43 | 27 |
| (61) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 795.83 | 9 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 778.08 | 8 |
| 63 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 771.42 | 16 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 758.05 | 20 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 746.99 | 15 |
| 66 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 746.41 | 6 |
| (66) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 746.16 | 5 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 731.38 | 22 |
| (67) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 702.25 | 11 |
| (67) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 701.83 | 4 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 701.58 | 25 |
| (68) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 663.83 | 12 |
| (68) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 659.08 | 3 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 658.58 | 27 |
| 70 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 655.49 | 40 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 648.5 | 9 |
| 72 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 646.08 | 15 |
| (72) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 638.99 | 5 |
| (72) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 633.89 | 25 |
| (72) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 633.49 | 3 |
| 73 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 596.91 | 8 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 596.91 | 8 |
| 74 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 585.5 | 7 |
| (74) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 575.49 | 8 |
| 75 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 570.75 | 4 |
| (75) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 569 | 2 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 556.07 | 44 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 548.33 | 6 |
| 78 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 546.36 | 7 |
| 79 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 544.16 | 6 |
| 80 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 531.68 | 7 |
| 81 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 523.16 | 10 |
| 82 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 517.58 | 6 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 513.49 | 32 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 512.5 | 8 |
| (84) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 500 | 1 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 499.58 | 16 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 499.33 | 10 |
| 87 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 496.81 | 14 |
| (87) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 496.16 | 1 |
| (87) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 496.16 | 1 |
| (87) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 485.33 | 3 |
| (87) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 485 | 5 |
| (87) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 475.33 | 2 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 471.83 | 9 |
| 89 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 466.94 | 39 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 465.74 | 22 |
| 91 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 463.53 | 12 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 452.33 | 4 |
| (92) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 449.08 | 17 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 411.41 | 20 |
| (93) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 410.91 | 3 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 409.49 | 10 |
| 95 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 407.71 | 2 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 398.66 | 4 |
| 96 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 396.66 | 6 |
| (96) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 394.33 | 1 |
| 97 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 391.85 | 11 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 384.25 | 14 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 375.83 | 11 |
| 100 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 375.24 | 21 |
| 101 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 374.58 | 17 |
| 102 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 370.11 | 7 |
| (102) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 370.11 | 7 |
| (102) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 370.08 | 10 |
| 103 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 369.91 | 13 |
| (103) | 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 | 369.66 | 11 |
| (103) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 369.33 | 7 |
| 104 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 360.75 | 6 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 341.49 | 18 |
| 106 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 335.74 | 6 |
| 107 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 335.08 | 21 |
| (107) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 331.5 | 1 |
| (107) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 327.24 | 14 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 324.13 | 20 |
| 109 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 323.01 | 12 |
| (109) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 318.08 | 9 |
| 110 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 318.08 | 10 |
| 111 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 316.08 | 14 |
| 112 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 313.89 | 11 |
| 113 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 301.82 | 4 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 299.25 | 13 |
| 115 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 296.99 | 3 |
| (115) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 296.99 | 3 |
| 116 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 296.17 | 30 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 289.83 | 14 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 289 | 10 |
| (118) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 286.5 | 2 |
| 119 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 286.13 | 8 |
| 120 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 283.75 | 6 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 281.5 | 9 |
| 122 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 279.5 | 10 |
| 123 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 274.83 | 3 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 272.66 | 11 |
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