| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 66529.34 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 15872.1 | 169 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13479.21 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10514 | 26 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8249.02 | 31 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7061.74 | 11 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6859.86 | 23 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6565.77 | 28 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6498.92 | 14 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5767.5 | 74 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5291.28 | 23 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4988.16 | 16 |
| 13 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4880.55 | 173 |
| 14 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4782.28 | 20 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4627.35 | 15 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4620.36 | 24 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4499.98 | 100 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4484.46 | 28 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4462.38 | 14 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4425.75 | 31 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4004.89 | 27 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3951.25 | 11 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3829.61 | 28 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3807.55 | 21 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3744.1 | 23 |
| (22) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3585.32 | 11 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3500.55 | 16 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3340.08 | 26 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3333.9 | 13 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3290 | 11 |
| 27 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3119.22 | 12 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2985.86 | 20 |
| 29 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2971.29 | 30 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2575.64 | 20 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2520.65 | 23 |
| 32 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2430.76 | 7 |
| 33 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2385.95 | 8 |
| (33) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2384.54 | 7 |
| 34 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2341.81 | 3 |
| (34) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2332 | 5 |
| 35 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2280.69 | 18 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2242.14 | 21 |
| (36) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2240.81 | 15 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2220.28 | 19 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2115.45 | 24 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2062.03 | 22 |
| 40 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2030.1 | 10 |
| 41 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2023.44 | 12 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1942.49 | 30 |
| 43 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1931.76 | 36 |
| 44 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1927.8 | 57 |
| 45 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1925.03 | 33 |
| 46 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1916.26 | 11 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1899.88 | 20 |
| 47 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1858.84 | 18 |
| (47) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1850.27 | 3 |
| 48 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1840.41 | 9 |
| (48) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1801.4 | 7 |
| 49 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1783.84 | 72 |
| 50 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1746.33 | 12 |
| (50) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1700.05 | 16 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1645.24 | 18 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1642.06 | 22 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1611.14 | 27 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1589.28 | 15 |
| 55 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1588.11 | 25 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1496.65 | 10 |
| (56) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1471.26 | 6 |
| (56) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1471.14 | 6 |
| 57 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1408.75 | 42 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1395.43 | 21 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1353.33 | 19 |
| 60 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1332.13 | 6 |
| (60) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1332.09 | 5 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1327.58 | 9 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1306.81 | 8 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1295.09 | 20 |
| 63 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1276.96 | 7 |
| (63) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1251.69 | 8 |
| (63) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1227.53 | 5 |
| 64 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1191.72 | 16 |
| (64) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1182.87 | 3 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1163.46 | 16 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1134.96 | 27 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1105.41 | 22 |
| (67) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1089.21 | 25 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1084.77 | 9 |
| (68) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1072.44 | 12 |
| (68) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1071.46 | 3 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1040.65 | 16 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1004.42 | 6 |
| (70) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1003.9 | 2 |
| 71 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1003.9 | 7 |
| 72 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 988.56 | 6 |
| 73 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 983.51 | 25 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 970.5 | 11 |
| (73) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 945.17 | 5 |
| 74 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 942.48 | 4 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 941.17 | 10 |
| 76 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 913.43 | 6 |
| (76) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 912.81 | 1 |
| (76) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 912.81 | 1 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 906.82 | 8 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 904.67 | 16 |
| 79 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 902.78 | 7 |
| (79) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 898.03 | 2 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 868.47 | 10 |
| (80) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 858.57 | 4 |
| (80) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 839.02 | 1 |
| (80) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 819.56 | 3 |
| (80) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 795.59 | 7 |
| 81 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 776.46 | 7 |
| 82 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 760.45 | 40 |
| (82) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 756.17 | 1 |
| 83 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 752.93 | 13 |
| (83) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 725.98 | 4 |
| 84 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 725.67 | 6 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 724.94 | 4 |
| 86 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 722.6 | 15 |
| (86) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 717.64 | 3 |
| 87 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 716.23 | 39 |
| 88 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 708.47 | 12 |
| 89 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 704.08 | 44 |
| 90 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 699.39 | 10 |
| 91 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 694.42 | 8 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 694.42 | 8 |
| (91) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 692.55 | 14 |
| 92 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 683.62 | 2 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 668.71 | 9 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 636.01 | 32 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 630.55 | 7 |
| (95) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 630.55 | 7 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 625.6 | 20 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 625.05 | 22 |
| (97) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 607.49 | 9 |
| 98 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 607.49 | 10 |
| 99 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 589.64 | 17 |
| (99) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 588.67 | 10 |
| (99) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 583.05 | 1 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 574.41 | 14 |
| 101 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 573.88 | 11 |
| 102 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 571.12 | 1 |
| 103 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 565.74 | 6 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 562.65 | 14 |
| (104) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 550.64 | 17 |
| 105 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 535.13 | 4 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 531.61 | 18 |
| 107 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 530.55 | 6 |
| 108 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 526.32 | 12 |
| (108) | 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 | 522.15 | 11 |
| 109 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 515.13 | 3 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 501.22 | 11 |
| 111 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 499.7 | 6 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 489.7 | 13 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 483.62 | 10 |
| 114 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 482.1 | 10 |
| 115 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 480.38 | 14 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 471.7 | 11 |
| 117 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 468.15 | 6 |
| (117) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 467.51 | 2 |
| 118 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 462.61 | 6 |
| 119 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 456.77 | 20 |
| 120 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 452.85 | 8 |
| 121 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 443.16 | 6 |
| 122 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 441.58 | 15 |
| 123 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 441.31 | 3 |
| (123) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 441.31 | 3 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 439.07 | 8 |
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