| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 114051.37 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 29894.53 | 169 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 20853.03 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 20687.79 | 26 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 15675.71 | 31 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11333.53 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 10456.9 | 28 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9650.07 | 74 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9643.11 | 23 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9639.09 | 14 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9608.47 | 11 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9293.69 | 100 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 8408.76 | 15 |
| 14 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8392.54 | 20 |
| 15 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 8389.05 | 173 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 7915.16 | 27 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7893.6 | 16 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7832.74 | 14 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7616.37 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7410.44 | 11 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7364.4 | 16 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7340.85 | 24 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6727.12 | 28 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6713.87 | 26 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6316.6 | 28 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6055.24 | 23 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5866.38 | 11 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5776.44 | 21 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5087.54 | 11 |
| 26 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4717.99 | 30 |
| 27 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4650.94 | 18 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4557.71 | 12 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4528.4 | 20 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4462.21 | 23 |
| 31 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4224.34 | 24 |
| 32 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 4189.45 | 33 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4167.53 | 22 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4143.8 | 19 |
| 35 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4081.69 | 13 |
| 36 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4062.57 | 8 |
| (36) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4061.07 | 7 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3995.43 | 20 |
| (37) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3989.64 | 5 |
| 38 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3878.68 | 72 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3770.88 | 21 |
| 40 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3761.56 | 12 |
| 41 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3732.42 | 3 |
| (41) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3701.98 | 7 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3572.61 | 15 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3569.23 | 18 |
| (43) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3465.81 | 15 |
| 44 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3452.4 | 57 |
| (44) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3438.9 | 6 |
| 45 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3362.11 | 22 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3325.24 | 36 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3254.48 | 20 |
| 47 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3238.98 | 11 |
| 48 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3220.77 | 7 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3199.25 | 9 |
| 50 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3093.25 | 10 |
| (50) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3066.45 | 3 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3041.09 | 19 |
| 52 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3032.18 | 12 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2999.3 | 25 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2966.39 | 18 |
| (54) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2956.31 | 8 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2931.46 | 30 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2801.68 | 10 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2733.25 | 27 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2712.61 | 16 |
| (57) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2619.1 | 25 |
| (57) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2605.04 | 6 |
| 58 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2558.37 | 42 |
| 59 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2457.79 | 7 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2447.07 | 21 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2428.7 | 8 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2318.99 | 20 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2272.63 | 22 |
| (63) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2271.9 | 5 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2208.98 | 6 |
| (64) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2177.17 | 3 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2149.78 | 16 |
| (65) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2124.39 | 12 |
| 66 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2031.36 | 16 |
| (66) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2016.99 | 11 |
| (66) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1978.84 | 5 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1928.2 | 10 |
| 68 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1878.85 | 6 |
| (68) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1878.71 | 5 |
| (68) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1874.41 | 1 |
| (68) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1874.41 | 1 |
| 69 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1808.41 | 7 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1734.64 | 9 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1683.15 | 4 |
| 71 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1654.91 | 25 |
| (71) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1652.89 | 2 |
| (71) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1603.94 | 3 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1575.94 | 27 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1568.24 | 8 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1560.97 | 9 |
| (73) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1553.06 | 2 |
| 74 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1515.12 | 44 |
| 75 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1510.92 | 39 |
| 76 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1493.52 | 16 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1474.82 | 6 |
| 78 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1443.93 | 7 |
| 79 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1426.69 | 40 |
| 80 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1403.08 | 6 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1402.89 | 9 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1394.94 | 4 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1372.41 | 16 |
| 84 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1372.15 | 2 |
| (84) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1367.28 | 14 |
| 85 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1363.57 | 13 |
| 86 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1351.59 | 10 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1335.07 | 10 |
| 88 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1327.49 | 12 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1312.67 | 22 |
| 90 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1299.12 | 7 |
| 91 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1286.8 | 4 |
| (91) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1268.28 | 3 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1224.55 | 7 |
| (92) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1224.55 | 7 |
| (92) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1218.91 | 7 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1209.09 | 20 |
| (93) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1197.06 | 4 |
| 94 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 1176.84 | 17 |
| (94) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 1175.78 | 10 |
| 95 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1168.52 | 4 |
| (95) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1162.58 | 1 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1160.19 | 32 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1143.87 | 14 |
| 98 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1134.74 | 15 |
| (98) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1123.3 | 1 |
| (98) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1120.85 | 9 |
| 99 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1120.85 | 10 |
| 100 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1115.5 | 8 |
| (100) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1115.5 | 8 |
| 101 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 1107.86 | 6 |
| 102 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1106.65 | 11 |
| (102) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1105.87 | 17 |
| (102) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1091.18 | 1 |
| 103 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1086.13 | 3 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1085.39 | 14 |
| 105 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1083.04 | 6 |
| (105) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1070.35 | 16 |
| 106 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1070.35 | 16 |
| (106) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1003.53 | 2 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 993.19 | 18 |
| (107) | 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 | 976.67 | 11 |
| 108 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 917.21 | 6 |
| 109 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 898.54 | 10 |
| (109) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 896.05 | 3 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 879.29 | 11 |
| 111 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 853.7 | 12 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 852.27 | 20 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 845.31 | 8 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 844.71 | 13 |
| 115 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 825.45 | 16 |
| 116 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 806.39 | 21 |
| (116) | ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 804.77 | 4 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 802.91 | 13 |
| 118 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 795.35 | 8 |
| (118) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 787.58 | 10 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 781.32 | 14 |
| 120 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 777.04 | 6 |
| (120) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 772.85 | 6 |
| 121 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 772.85 | 7 |
| 122 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 753.13 | 15 |
| 123 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 751.64 | 8 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 742.28 | 11 |
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