| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 28666.03 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 10592.36 | 169 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5242.73 | 39 |
| 4 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3956.06 | 173 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3389.31 | 74 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3360.05 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3274.21 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3236 | 26 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3215.47 | 28 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2766.64 | 12 |
| 11 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2437.16 | 20 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2413.36 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2259.88 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2187.28 | 11 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2162.15 | 20 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2137.37 | 100 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2113.73 | 14 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2079.29 | 28 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2021.6 | 23 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1911.42 | 27 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1758.64 | 14 |
| 20 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1753.44 | 42 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1713.83 | 28 |
| 21 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1674.69 | 57 |
| 22 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1656.4 | 20 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1654.25 | 21 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1636.93 | 11 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1623.75 | 23 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1597.93 | 16 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1575.96 | 30 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1554.33 | 30 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1546.18 | 15 |
| 30 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1542.93 | 16 |
| 31 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1525.85 | 36 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1436.02 | 20 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1364.75 | 26 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1354.58 | 22 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1285.6 | 31 |
| 35 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1259.58 | 24 |
| 36 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1211.79 | 18 |
| 37 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1207.78 | 9 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1158.37 | 11 |
| 39 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1133.73 | 72 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1123.68 | 21 |
| 41 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1121.79 | 11 |
| (41) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1109.2 | 11 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1041.51 | 20 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1015.9 | 18 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1015.47 | 21 |
| 45 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 972.02 | 10 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 959.29 | 22 |
| 47 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 957.37 | 13 |
| 48 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 931.88 | 25 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 919.87 | 19 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 910.91 | 27 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 906.29 | 16 |
| (51) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 900.78 | 3 |
| (51) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 890.1 | 15 |
| 52 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 882.1 | 15 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 878.02 | 18 |
| (53) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 868.19 | 9 |
| 54 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 831.06 | 8 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 801.41 | 10 |
| 56 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 794.26 | 25 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 792.58 | 16 |
| 57 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 790.04 | 22 |
| (57) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 784.61 | 3 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 784.48 | 27 |
| 59 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 757.51 | 11 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 757.24 | 10 |
| 61 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 751.39 | 4 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 749.73 | 19 |
| 63 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 749.12 | 40 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 748.74 | 9 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 747.54 | 15 |
| 66 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 747.47 | 8 |
| (66) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 747.47 | 8 |
| 67 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 722.69 | 3 |
| 68 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 722.3 | 12 |
| 69 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 705.02 | 7 |
| 70 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 700.25 | 16 |
| (70) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 698 | 6 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 696.77 | 20 |
| 72 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 679.44 | 7 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 679.2 | 18 |
| 74 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 663.91 | 33 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 655.02 | 32 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 650.9 | 13 |
| (76) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 648.75 | 12 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 627.9 | 11 |
| 78 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 624.92 | 8 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 621.94 | 7 |
| (78) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 615.41 | 11 |
| 79 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 611.13 | 44 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 597.02 | 12 |
| (80) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 595.26 | 25 |
| (80) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 577.71 | 3 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 572.94 | 9 |
| 82 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 565.99 | 16 |
| (82) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 555.38 | 2 |
| 83 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 549.18 | 12 |
| (83) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 537.04 | 1 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 528.93 | 21 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 526.66 | 14 |
| 86 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 514.68 | 6 |
| 87 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 514.6 | 10 |
| (87) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 512.35 | 8 |
| 88 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 509.5 | 6 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 494.42 | 22 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 492.04 | 9 |
| (90) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 490.9 | 5 |
| 91 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 490.15 | 16 |
| 92 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 483.43 | 20 |
| (92) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 481.27 | 7 |
| 93 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 472.88 | 39 |
| (93) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 465.6 | 2 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 460.42 | 11 |
| (94) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 451.09 | 5 |
| (94) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 450.98 | 14 |
| 95 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 446.7 | 12 |
| 96 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 442.79 | 16 |
| 97 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 442.55 | 16 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 439.18 | 12 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 437.26 | 10 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 433.52 | 16 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 426.31 | 6 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 423.08 | 25 |
| (102) | 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 | 417.04 | 11 |
| 103 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 411.4 | 10 |
| 104 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 396.16 | 21 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 394.11 | 15 |
| 106 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 388.95 | 4 |
| 107 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 383.25 | 6 |
| 108 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 379.67 | 9 |
| (108) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 378.17 | 17 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 374.53 | 13 |
| 110 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 373.01 | 14 |
| (110) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 372.21 | 4 |
| 111 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 370.52 | 13 |
| 112 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 363.65 | 27 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 359.62 | 14 |
| 114 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 358.12 | 21 |
| 115 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 357.4 | 30 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 357.05 | 9 |
| 117 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 356.13 | 8 |
| (117) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 354.46 | 1 |
| (117) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 352.11 | 3 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 350.18 | 18 |
| 119 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 350.12 | 8 |
| (119) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 350.1 | 16 |
| 120 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 350.1 | 16 |
| 121 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 345.24 | 17 |
| (121) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 345.18 | 7 |
| 122 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 345.08 | 7 |
| (122) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 337.13 | 10 |
| (122) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 336.63 | 5 |
| (122) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 334.01 | 5 |
| (122) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 333.01 | 2 |
| 123 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 332.1 | 15 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 331.95 | 5 |
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