| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 225518.74 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 81934.38 | 169 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 44604.56 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 32897.93 | 31 |
| 5 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 28646.12 | 173 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 28604.48 | 23 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 28303.57 | 74 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 27231.41 | 26 |
| 9 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 24673.05 | 12 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 24353.79 | 20 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 22643.46 | 28 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21326.94 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 20842.62 | 28 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 20724.73 | 14 |
| 15 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 20449.41 | 11 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 20348.42 | 24 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18524.46 | 14 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18237.71 | 20 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 17450.91 | 57 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17262.06 | 16 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 16245.07 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 16107.07 | 27 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 15219.3 | 23 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 14976.01 | 11 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 14725.13 | 26 |
| 23 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 14602.87 | 36 |
| 24 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14232.43 | 100 |
| (24) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 13986.98 | 20 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 13663.06 | 16 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 13202.57 | 21 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 13198.61 | 20 |
| 28 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12856.34 | 9 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 12777.7 | 30 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 12584.74 | 15 |
| 31 | CESifo | München, Germany | 12568.92 | 42 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12451.48 | 22 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11945.26 | 23 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 11084.55 | 20 |
| 35 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11044.05 | 30 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 10723.91 | 21 |
| 37 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 10497.18 | 15 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 10360.25 | 11 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 10207.25 | 27 |
| 40 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9991.23 | 13 |
| 41 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9881.96 | 24 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 9821.2 | 18 |
| 43 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9671.38 | 11 |
| (43) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9402.31 | 11 |
| 44 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9137.5 | 8 |
| (44) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9137.5 | 8 |
| 45 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9082.97 | 3 |
| 46 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9022.06 | 72 |
| 47 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 8768.66 | 7 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8364.75 | 31 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 8244.51 | 18 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 8200.75 | 19 |
| 51 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 7905.41 | 22 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 7743.98 | 18 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 7729.77 | 32 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7711.35 | 19 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 7623.77 | 18 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 7230.55 | 10 |
| 57 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 7140.51 | 8 |
| 58 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 7103.47 | 25 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7050.55 | 20 |
| 60 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7041.56 | 40 |
| 61 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 6980.77 | 25 |
| (61) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6796.96 | 15 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 6699.71 | 11 |
| 63 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6625.97 | 6 |
| (63) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6491.8 | 5 |
| 64 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6426.02 | 12 |
| 65 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 6354.95 | 21 |
| 66 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6314.86 | 7 |
| 67 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 6228.32 | 12 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 6193.44 | 27 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 6145.34 | 10 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 6045.6 | 21 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 5968.93 | 9 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5778.43 | 22 |
| 73 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5766.3 | 10 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 5548.38 | 14 |
| 75 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 5539.38 | 8 |
| (75) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 5538.17 | 7 |
| 76 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5405.93 | 12 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 5303.54 | 16 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5261.03 | 13 |
| (78) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5160.76 | 6 |
| 79 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 5157.68 | 6 |
| 80 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5073.83 | 44 |
| (80) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5061.5 | 7 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5016.14 | 15 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4959.05 | 9 |
| 82 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 4903.53 | 33 |
| 83 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4872.87 | 16 |
| (83) | 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 | 4851.93 | 11 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 4809.23 | 16 |
| 85 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4794.2 | 11 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 4789.21 | 10 |
| (86) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4592.94 | 2 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 4592.67 | 14 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 4584.74 | 9 |
| (88) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4565.05 | 9 |
| 89 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4565.05 | 10 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4505.17 | 9 |
| 91 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4488.26 | 9 |
| 92 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 4424.5 | 16 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4418.9 | 8 |
| (93) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4391.71 | 12 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 4362.13 | 12 |
| 95 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 4337.09 | 16 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4300.32 | 16 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4225.69 | 11 |
| (96) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3992.54 | 3 |
| 97 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 3987.86 | 10 |
| (97) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3958.59 | 5 |
| (97) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3935.73 | 25 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 3906.53 | 6 |
| (98) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3869.38 | 16 |
| 99 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3869.38 | 16 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3839.01 | 24 |
| 101 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3833.15 | 15 |
| 102 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3784.57 | 14 |
| 103 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 3758.77 | 21 |
| 104 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3742 | 16 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 3672.6 | 18 |
| (105) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3671.85 | 6 |
| (105) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3634.12 | 7 |
| 106 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3619.67 | 14 |
| 107 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3602.78 | 6 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 3600.13 | 16 |
| 109 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3599.65 | 10 |
| (109) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3585.8 | 3 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 3571.63 | 5 |
| 111 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 3564.2 | 6 |
| (111) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3562.92 | 2 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 3516.75 | 20 |
| 113 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3481.09 | 5 |
| 114 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 3456.06 | 11 |
| (114) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3455.67 | 5 |
| 115 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 3423.41 | 3 |
| 116 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3410.18 | 4 |
| 117 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3394.07 | 10 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3391.74 | 25 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 3355.65 | 22 |
| (119) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3326.25 | 17 |
| 120 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 3323.41 | 16 |
| (120) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3314.09 | 8 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3308.02 | 5 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 3276.99 | 13 |
| 123 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3267.48 | 2 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3246.4 | 12 |
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