| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 230028.02 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 85734.52 | 172 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 46103.71 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 33637.49 | 31 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 32952.54 | 78 |
| 6 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 30389.41 | 180 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 30323.53 | 23 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 27924.23 | 25 |
| 9 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 25246.63 | 12 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 24908.8 | 20 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 23503.42 | 29 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21833.8 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21589.76 | 26 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 21445.21 | 28 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 20949.77 | 16 |
| 16 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 20749.6 | 11 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 20319.67 | 31 |
| 17 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 19854.2 | 58 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19006.13 | 14 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18710.93 | 20 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 18207.52 | 28 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17629.21 | 16 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 15855.31 | 24 |
| 21 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15672.79 | 102 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 15375.57 | 13 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 15138.93 | 26 |
| 24 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 15036.96 | 36 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 14609.11 | 16 |
| (25) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 14381.09 | 20 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 14170.75 | 19 |
| 27 | CESifo | München, Germany | 14023.04 | 44 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 13522.7 | 15 |
| 29 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13267.45 | 9 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13111.04 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 13087.39 | 30 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 12293.57 | 23 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 11485.74 | 20 |
| 34 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11303.92 | 30 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 11115.63 | 22 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 10985.49 | 28 |
| 37 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 10775.83 | 14 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 10749.58 | 11 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10569.07 | 20 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10553.71 | 20 |
| 41 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10182.99 | 25 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10157.5 | 13 |
| 43 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10080.91 | 11 |
| (43) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9923.57 | 11 |
| 44 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9406.78 | 74 |
| 45 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9226.86 | 7 |
| (45) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9226.86 | 7 |
| 46 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9156.79 | 3 |
| 47 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 9032.07 | 7 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8748.02 | 31 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 8495.03 | 18 |
| 50 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 8466.17 | 23 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 8413.3 | 20 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 8165.68 | 30 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 7969.62 | 18 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 7968.57 | 19 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 7800.47 | 19 |
| 56 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 7788.62 | 25 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 7474.2 | 10 |
| 58 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 7442.25 | 26 |
| 59 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7329.67 | 40 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 7325.64 | 25 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 7310.93 | 8 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7243.8 | 20 |
| (62) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6964.98 | 15 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 6845.88 | 12 |
| 64 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6832.71 | 6 |
| (64) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6693.51 | 5 |
| 65 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6499.35 | 12 |
| 66 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 6387.33 | 13 |
| 67 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6325.44 | 12 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 6311.9 | 10 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 6268.89 | 21 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 6262.66 | 28 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 6140.83 | 9 |
| 72 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6081.14 | 10 |
| 73 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5961.47 | 22 |
| 74 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 5726.36 | 8 |
| (74) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 5725.16 | 7 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 5701.77 | 14 |
| (75) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5454.2 | 6 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 5449.99 | 13 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 5411.87 | 16 |
| 78 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5383.08 | 47 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5369.32 | 14 |
| 80 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5367.75 | 16 |
| 81 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 5285.05 | 36 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5248.16 | 9 |
| 82 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 5203.56 | 6 |
| (82) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5196.02 | 7 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 5123.64 | 10 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5110.27 | 15 |
| 85 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5094.87 | 11 |
| (85) | 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 | 5012.66 | 11 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 4958.25 | 9 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 4880.54 | 17 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 4748.49 | 14 |
| (88) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4716.64 | 2 |
| (88) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4716.58 | 9 |
| 89 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4716.58 | 10 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4643.96 | 9 |
| 91 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 4581.69 | 16 |
| (91) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4579.06 | 25 |
| 92 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4550.64 | 9 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4528.01 | 8 |
| (93) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4504.01 | 12 |
| 94 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 4470.71 | 21 |
| 95 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 4444.86 | 16 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4435.16 | 16 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4395.08 | 11 |
| (96) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4182.18 | 5 |
| 97 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 4168.95 | 7 |
| 98 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 4154.45 | 22 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4121.36 | 15 |
| 100 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 4103.84 | 10 |
| (100) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4086.81 | 3 |
| 101 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 4030.53 | 35 |
| (101) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 4005.52 | 16 |
| 102 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 4005.52 | 16 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 3999.37 | 6 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3941.15 | 25 |
| 105 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3919.66 | 17 |
| 106 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 3895.31 | 14 |
| (106) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3865.6 | 7 |
| 107 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3820.64 | 14 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 3783.37 | 16 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 3774.91 | 18 |
| (109) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3774.81 | 6 |
| 110 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3714.6 | 10 |
| 111 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3679.88 | 13 |
| (111) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3646.5 | 2 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 3646.43 | 6 |
| (112) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3641.55 | 3 |
| 113 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 3621.47 | 6 |
| 114 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 3560.44 | 3 |
| (114) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3543.95 | 5 |
| 115 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3533.88 | 5 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 3509.55 | 22 |
| 117 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3490.28 | 10 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3488.88 | 25 |
| 119 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 3465.53 | 17 |
| 120 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3459.03 | 5 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 3417.18 | 14 |
| 122 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3410.75 | 4 |
| (122) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3409.38 | 18 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3382.43 | 5 |
| (123) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3377.95 | 8 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3361.45 | 12 |
| 125 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3314.37 | 2 |
| 126 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 3276.11 | 9 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 3259.65 | 11 |
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