| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 69729.52 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 17251.08 | 172 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14591.07 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10987.23 | 25 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8570.68 | 31 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7435.86 | 11 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7251.83 | 23 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7093.04 | 29 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6739.57 | 16 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6206.21 | 78 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5487.45 | 23 |
| 12 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 5372.58 | 180 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5243.59 | 16 |
| 14 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5070.78 | 20 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4975.79 | 15 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4930.79 | 26 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4872.2 | 102 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4771.36 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4742.05 | 28 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4640.26 | 14 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4421.2 | 28 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4180.6 | 31 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4149.91 | 13 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3950.2 | 24 |
| (21) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3824 | 11 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3788.38 | 16 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3560.15 | 26 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3537.32 | 11 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3522.87 | 13 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3284.31 | 20 |
| 27 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3256.47 | 12 |
| 28 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3192.11 | 30 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3169.1 | 19 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2723.16 | 20 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2663.2 | 23 |
| 32 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2507.09 | 8 |
| (32) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2505.65 | 7 |
| (32) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2469.3 | 5 |
| 33 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2459.02 | 20 |
| (33) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2423.19 | 15 |
| 34 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2386.27 | 3 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2367.69 | 21 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2308.88 | 20 |
| 37 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2261.11 | 58 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2236.99 | 25 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2216.77 | 22 |
| 40 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2180.59 | 10 |
| 41 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2157.11 | 36 |
| 42 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2118.32 | 12 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2074.98 | 11 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2067.03 | 30 |
| 45 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2016.47 | 36 |
| (45) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1980.81 | 20 |
| (45) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1965.02 | 3 |
| 46 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1957.86 | 18 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1939.68 | 9 |
| 48 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1931.96 | 74 |
| (48) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1920.69 | 7 |
| 49 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1846.97 | 12 |
| 50 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1840.57 | 5 |
| (50) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1800.02 | 16 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1795.98 | 28 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1765.13 | 23 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1753.23 | 19 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1695.25 | 26 |
| 55 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1672.56 | 44 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1664.72 | 15 |
| (56) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1657.96 | 6 |
| (56) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1602.84 | 6 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1567.33 | 10 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1480.24 | 22 |
| (58) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1454.12 | 9 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 1420.97 | 19 |
| 60 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1394.97 | 7 |
| 61 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1388.67 | 6 |
| (61) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1388.64 | 5 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1347.81 | 8 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 1346.75 | 20 |
| (63) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1310.69 | 8 |
| 64 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1265.43 | 16 |
| (64) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1250.13 | 5 |
| (64) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1247.51 | 25 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1235.73 | 16 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1227.6 | 28 |
| (66) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1226.79 | 3 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1170.32 | 9 |
| 68 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1153.92 | 22 |
| (68) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1135.45 | 12 |
| (68) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1117.5 | 3 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1086.98 | 17 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1066.45 | 6 |
| 71 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1060.26 | 7 |
| (71) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1058.21 | 2 |
| 72 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1056.1 | 7 |
| 73 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1034.55 | 6 |
| (73) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1022.21 | 5 |
| 74 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1016.79 | 25 |
| (74) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1015.18 | 11 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1008.73 | 10 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 981.15 | 16 |
| (76) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 975.1 | 2 |
| 77 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 967.82 | 4 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 963.58 | 7 |
| (78) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 960.2 | 3 |
| (78) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 933.21 | 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) | 933.21 | 1 |
| 79 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 915.27 | 6 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 902.21 | 10 |
| (80) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 901.29 | 4 |
| 81 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 879.95 | 41 |
| (81) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 856.01 | 1 |
| 82 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 822.99 | 7 |
| (82) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 819.49 | 7 |
| 83 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 813.5 | 40 |
| (83) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 793.38 | 15 |
| (83) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 792.67 | 1 |
| 84 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 792.01 | 14 |
| (84) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 773.45 | 3 |
| 85 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 757.59 | 14 |
| 86 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 754.94 | 6 |
| (86) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 753.86 | 3 |
| 87 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 753.52 | 10 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 749.32 | 4 |
| 89 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 739.24 | 13 |
| 90 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 738.72 | 47 |
| 91 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 725.73 | 7 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 725.73 | 7 |
| 92 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 700.52 | 2 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 696.98 | 9 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 663.56 | 30 |
| 95 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 658.35 | 21 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 657.91 | 22 |
| 97 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 657.01 | 11 |
| (97) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 656.65 | 9 |
| 98 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 656.65 | 10 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 652.93 | 20 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 652.37 | 7 |
| (100) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 652.37 | 7 |
| 101 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 639.96 | 19 |
| (101) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 638.95 | 11 |
| 102 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 638.13 | 4 |
| (102) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 637.88 | 1 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 615.74 | 14 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 607.51 | 10 |
| 105 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 607.39 | 13 |
| (105) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 604.62 | 18 |
| 106 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 596.1 | 6 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 593.79 | 14 |
| 108 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 583.39 | 1 |
| (108) | 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 | 568.99 | 11 |
| 109 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 562.38 | 25 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 555.87 | 18 |
| 111 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 547.85 | 6 |
| 112 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 541.88 | 3 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 535.81 | 11 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 529.84 | 12 |
| 115 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 529.29 | 7 |
| 116 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 521.01 | 7 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 513.02 | 14 |
| 118 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 509.92 | 10 |
| 119 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 505.15 | 2 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 503 | 14 |
| 121 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 497.35 | 6 |
| 122 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 492.08 | 8 |
| (122) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 486.45 | 2 |
| 123 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 482 | 6 |
| 124 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 465.72 | 15 |
| 125 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 463.39 | 3 |
| (125) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 463.39 | 3 |
| 126 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 463.02 | 6 |
| (126) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 456.45 | 6 |
| 127 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 456.45 | 7 |
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