| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 27434.94 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 7201.71 | 169 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4997.85 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4953.22 | 26 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3473.43 | 31 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2719.54 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2524.47 | 28 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2289.75 | 74 |
| 9 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2274.91 | 11 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2248.19 | 23 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2174.36 | 14 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2131.18 | 100 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2102.81 | 20 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1997.8 | 15 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1980.39 | 16 |
| 16 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1937.05 | 173 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1853.59 | 14 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1848.19 | 16 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1807.07 | 27 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1800.83 | 24 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1728.71 | 31 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1611.6 | 11 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1603.09 | 28 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1550.06 | 26 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1534.35 | 28 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1412.79 | 23 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1386.84 | 21 |
| (24) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1279.41 | 11 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1229.13 | 11 |
| 26 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1192.2 | 18 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1148.8 | 30 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1101.41 | 23 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1097.03 | 20 |
| 30 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1085.88 | 33 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1045.9 | 22 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1016.81 | 13 |
| 33 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1000.07 | 24 |
| (33) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 978.53 | 7 |
| 34 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 953.92 | 12 |
| 35 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 952.5 | 72 |
| (35) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 901.98 | 6 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 898.88 | 19 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 879.55 | 20 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 859.76 | 21 |
| (38) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 845.45 | 15 |
| 39 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 832.58 | 12 |
| (39) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 829.98 | 5 |
| 40 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 827.25 | 8 |
| (40) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 827.09 | 7 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 826.91 | 18 |
| 42 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 817.21 | 3 |
| 43 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 802.87 | 7 |
| 44 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 767.79 | 11 |
| 45 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 762.55 | 22 |
| 46 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 756.63 | 18 |
| 47 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 749 | 57 |
| 48 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 734.74 | 36 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 726.01 | 19 |
| (49) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 720.01 | 3 |
| 50 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 718.86 | 9 |
| (50) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 718 | 20 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 717.47 | 15 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 705.95 | 30 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 702.09 | 27 |
| 54 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 696.64 | 12 |
| 55 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 683.81 | 10 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 640.9 | 16 |
| 56 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 637.78 | 7 |
| 57 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 631.14 | 25 |
| (57) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 630.18 | 6 |
| (57) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 618.01 | 25 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 604 | 10 |
| 59 | CESifo | München, Germany | 602.68 | 42 |
| (59) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 584.98 | 8 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 574.7 | 21 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 556.53 | 10 |
| (61) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 528.15 | 5 |
| (61) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 521.05 | 12 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 519.97 | 20 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 499.2 | 8 |
| (63) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 493.42 | 3 |
| (63) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 490.79 | 5 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 483.35 | 6 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 479.96 | 22 |
| 66 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 474.03 | 16 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 472.81 | 9 |
| 68 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 460.96 | 6 |
| (68) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 460.9 | 5 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 459.27 | 16 |
| (69) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 427.18 | 11 |
| (69) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 426.51 | 2 |
| 70 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 423.94 | 7 |
| (70) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 400.08 | 1 |
| (70) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 400.08 | 1 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 398.18 | 9 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 393.08 | 6 |
| (71) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 388.41 | 3 |
| 72 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 386.29 | 39 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 384.24 | 27 |
| (73) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 379.98 | 2 |
| 74 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 375.06 | 6 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 372.48 | 16 |
| (75) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 363.74 | 14 |
| (75) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 360.84 | 4 |
| (75) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 335.8 | 3 |
| 76 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 328.13 | 25 |
| 77 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 326.25 | 16 |
| 78 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 320.54 | 3 |
| 79 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 320.17 | 4 |
| 80 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 317.79 | 13 |
| 81 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 315.98 | 17 |
| (81) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 315.87 | 10 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 314.39 | 9 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 313.4 | 8 |
| 84 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 312.08 | 4 |
| (84) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 306.44 | 1 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 303.98 | 10 |
| 86 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 302.95 | 7 |
| 87 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 299.24 | 10 |
| 88 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 298.71 | 44 |
| 89 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 296.94 | 11 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 294.25 | 22 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 288.25 | 4 |
| (91) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 284.85 | 9 |
| 92 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 284.85 | 10 |
| 93 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 283.77 | 2 |
| 94 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 282.15 | 7 |
| 95 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 281.45 | 40 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 281.02 | 32 |
| 97 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 279.68 | 12 |
| (97) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 269.88 | 17 |
| (97) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 265.87 | 7 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 263.85 | 20 |
| (98) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 258.92 | 1 |
| 99 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 258.42 | 6 |
| 100 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 256.29 | 6 |
| (100) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 255.31 | 16 |
| 101 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 255.31 | 16 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 254.93 | 14 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 254.62 | 7 |
| (103) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 254.62 | 7 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 252.95 | 14 |
| (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 | 243.68 | 11 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 238.65 | 11 |
| (105) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 237.07 | 4 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 234.62 | 18 |
| 107 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 232.89 | 10 |
| (107) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 225.38 | 1 |
| 108 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 222.77 | 4 |
| 109 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 221.26 | 6 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 220.42 | 13 |
| (110) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 219.52 | 6 |
| 111 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 219.52 | 7 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 217.26 | 20 |
| (112) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 213.82 | 3 |
| 113 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 213.53 | 6 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 213.27 | 13 |
| 115 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 209.87 | 12 |
| 116 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 207.32 | 16 |
| (116) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 203.12 | 2 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 198.9 | 11 |
| 118 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 198.61 | 2 |
| (118) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 198.36 | 10 |
| 119 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 192.3 | 8 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 188.17 | 10 |
| 121 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 184.51 | 8 |
| 122 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 183.97 | 15 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 183.51 | 3 |
| 123 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 177.43 | 8 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 177.43 | 8 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 177.04 | 8 |
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