| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16012.26 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3809.98 | 169 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3255.97 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2554.74 | 26 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1827.54 | 31 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1690.49 | 11 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1649.77 | 23 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1573.76 | 28 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1458.04 | 14 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1362.84 | 74 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1256.53 | 16 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1224.2 | 23 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1188.39 | 20 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1156.7 | 24 |
| 15 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1149.13 | 173 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1090.83 | 15 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1058.64 | 28 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1044.47 | 14 |
| 18 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1036.38 | 100 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1013.16 | 31 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 928.35 | 21 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 928.13 | 28 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 923.23 | 27 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 889.73 | 16 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 874.81 | 23 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 846.29 | 11 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 839.36 | 13 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 804.1 | 11 |
| (25) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 796.88 | 11 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 777.89 | 26 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 736.82 | 30 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 716.5 | 20 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 651.77 | 12 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 626.24 | 23 |
| 31 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 617.73 | 7 |
| 32 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 583.01 | 18 |
| (32) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 558.31 | 15 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 550.24 | 20 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 519.52 | 22 |
| 35 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 513.48 | 3 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 513.19 | 21 |
| 37 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 496.1 | 24 |
| 38 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 493.85 | 33 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 493.09 | 19 |
| (39) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 486.38 | 5 |
| 40 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 481.22 | 8 |
| (40) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 481.07 | 7 |
| (40) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 475.22 | 7 |
| 41 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 472.49 | 10 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 469.21 | 18 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 462.03 | 30 |
| 44 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 458.57 | 12 |
| 45 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 451.57 | 11 |
| 46 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 437.75 | 72 |
| (46) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 433.68 | 3 |
| 47 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 428.65 | 36 |
| (47) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 421.07 | 20 |
| 48 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 419.6 | 57 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 415.12 | 9 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 408.23 | 27 |
| (50) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 402.23 | 16 |
| 51 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 385.64 | 12 |
| (51) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 384.12 | 6 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 380.35 | 18 |
| 53 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 374.49 | 22 |
| (53) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 352 | 6 |
| (53) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 340.91 | 9 |
| 54 | CESifo | München, Germany | 335.62 | 42 |
| 55 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 331.26 | 25 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 331.02 | 10 |
| 57 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 330.6 | 7 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 327.72 | 21 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 324.78 | 15 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 323.3 | 19 |
| 61 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 319.03 | 6 |
| (61) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 319.01 | 5 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 295.19 | 9 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 289.34 | 20 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 277.23 | 27 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 274.38 | 16 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 269.33 | 10 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 269.23 | 8 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 267.04 | 6 |
| 69 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 265.23 | 16 |
| (69) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 264.16 | 3 |
| (69) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 264.13 | 5 |
| (69) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 261.03 | 12 |
| (69) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 260.34 | 25 |
| (69) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 253.06 | 8 |
| (69) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 252.31 | 3 |
| (69) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 248.81 | 2 |
| (69) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 248.45 | 5 |
| 70 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 245.01 | 6 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 243.63 | 16 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 237.48 | 22 |
| 73 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 236.28 | 7 |
| (73) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 231.81 | 2 |
| 74 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 226.54 | 4 |
| 75 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 223.98 | 16 |
| (75) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 216.44 | 3 |
| 76 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 215.32 | 6 |
| (76) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 207.54 | 11 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 200.68 | 10 |
| (77) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 197.99 | 1 |
| 78 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 197.96 | 25 |
| (78) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 194.52 | 1 |
| (78) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 194.52 | 1 |
| 79 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 185.72 | 13 |
| (79) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 184.21 | 14 |
| 80 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 183.55 | 39 |
| 81 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 182.63 | 7 |
| (81) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 182.17 | 4 |
| 82 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 181.61 | 7 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 179.84 | 8 |
| (83) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 176.77 | 7 |
| (83) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 168.43 | 3 |
| 84 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 168.13 | 6 |
| 85 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 158.08 | 17 |
| (85) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 157.98 | 10 |
| 86 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 154.94 | 10 |
| 87 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 153.62 | 11 |
| (87) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 153.61 | 1 |
| (87) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 153.43 | 9 |
| 88 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 153.43 | 10 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 152.66 | 32 |
| 90 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 152.53 | 40 |
| (90) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 152.52 | 1 |
| 91 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 151.27 | 3 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 150.38 | 4 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 148.89 | 9 |
| 94 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 148.82 | 12 |
| 95 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 145.04 | 4 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 142.96 | 4 |
| 96 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 140.75 | 6 |
| 97 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 140.61 | 2 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 138.45 | 22 |
| 99 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 137.98 | 44 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 137.19 | 20 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 136.65 | 14 |
| 102 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 135.45 | 6 |
| (102) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 135.17 | 17 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 132.34 | 13 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 129.67 | 18 |
| (104) | 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 | 128.64 | 11 |
| 105 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 127.95 | 12 |
| 106 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 126.88 | 10 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 126.23 | 11 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 125.83 | 10 |
| 109 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 125.27 | 7 |
| (109) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 125.27 | 7 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 125.26 | 14 |
| 111 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 120.35 | 4 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 120.02 | 11 |
| (112) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 114.59 | 6 |
| 113 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 114.59 | 7 |
| 114 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 113.67 | 20 |
| 115 | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 113.58 | 2 |
| 116 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 112.29 | 6 |
| 117 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 112.11 | 8 |
| 118 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 111.98 | 6 |
| 119 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 111.32 | 15 |
| (119) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 110.68 | 2 |
| 120 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 108.34 | 7 |
| 121 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 108.33 | 15 |
| 122 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 107.66 | 8 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 107.66 | 8 |
| 123 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 107.09 | 14 |
| 124 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 106.4 | 1 |
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