| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17113.35 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4009.04 | 172 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3604.21 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2616.86 | 25 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2074.43 | 31 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1798.81 | 11 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1769.7 | 23 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1663.52 | 29 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1632.79 | 16 |
| 10 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1452.13 | 15 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1364.98 | 78 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1345.66 | 31 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1340.63 | 16 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1298.26 | 23 |
| 15 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1228.84 | 180 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1221.52 | 26 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1194.26 | 20 |
| 18 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1176.29 | 102 |
| (18) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1120.66 | 11 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1093.57 | 14 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1088.17 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1083 | 28 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1067.49 | 13 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1055.49 | 16 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 917.36 | 31 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 845.12 | 24 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 845.09 | 13 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 807.96 | 11 |
| 25 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 807.07 | 30 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 796.51 | 20 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 790.95 | 26 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 748.51 | 19 |
| 29 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 745.02 | 8 |
| (29) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 744.93 | 7 |
| (29) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 709.94 | 5 |
| 30 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 708.91 | 12 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 668.08 | 23 |
| (31) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 638.84 | 15 |
| 32 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 633.46 | 20 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 629.84 | 20 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 616.63 | 21 |
| 35 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 591.63 | 36 |
| 36 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 580.18 | 10 |
| 37 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 558.47 | 25 |
| 38 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 556.55 | 3 |
| 39 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 552.28 | 12 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 531.52 | 22 |
| 41 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 523.82 | 11 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 518.93 | 30 |
| (42) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 503.7 | 7 |
| (42) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 489.07 | 16 |
| (42) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 475.82 | 6 |
| 43 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 475.69 | 12 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 475.02 | 20 |
| 45 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 472.35 | 58 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 467.4 | 15 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 461.98 | 28 |
| (47) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 457.97 | 3 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 448.78 | 19 |
| 49 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 445.19 | 5 |
| 50 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 444.7 | 9 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 434.73 | 18 |
| 52 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 433.73 | 74 |
| 53 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 420.37 | 36 |
| (53) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 418.35 | 6 |
| (53) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 411.44 | 20 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 403.14 | 10 |
| 55 | CESifo | München, Germany | 377.5 | 44 |
| (55) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 372.56 | 8 |
| (55) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 361.69 | 9 |
| 56 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 360.26 | 23 |
| 57 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 348.88 | 26 |
| 58 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 331.37 | 8 |
| 59 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 326.06 | 7 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 321.48 | 22 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 319.38 | 9 |
| 62 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 316.19 | 6 |
| (62) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 316.17 | 5 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 313.83 | 28 |
| (63) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 313.67 | 12 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 311.26 | 19 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 309.19 | 20 |
| (65) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 299.57 | 25 |
| (65) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 292.76 | 3 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 285.3 | 10 |
| (66) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 281.06 | 5 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 280.55 | 6 |
| (67) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 277.39 | 3 |
| 68 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 269.3 | 7 |
| 69 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 262.34 | 16 |
| 70 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 261.37 | 6 |
| 71 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 257.74 | 16 |
| (71) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 255.05 | 1 |
| (71) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 255.05 | 1 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 247.09 | 16 |
| (72) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 244.13 | 3 |
| (72) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 241.73 | 5 |
| (72) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 238.98 | 2 |
| 73 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 237.51 | 4 |
| 74 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 235.25 | 41 |
| (74) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 234.06 | 2 |
| 75 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 230.27 | 7 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 228.84 | 10 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 228.35 | 7 |
| 78 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 228.27 | 25 |
| 79 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 224.93 | 22 |
| (79) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 218.09 | 1 |
| (79) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 209.52 | 1 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 204.37 | 7 |
| (80) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 204.37 | 7 |
| 81 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 203.41 | 17 |
| (81) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 201.63 | 7 |
| (81) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 197.36 | 4 |
| 82 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 196.17 | 7 |
| (82) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 193.33 | 15 |
| 83 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 191.75 | 6 |
| (83) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 187.43 | 11 |
| (83) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 186.51 | 3 |
| 84 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 179.45 | 40 |
| (84) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 176.91 | 9 |
| 85 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 176.91 | 10 |
| 86 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 175.77 | 6 |
| 87 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 172.84 | 10 |
| 88 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 169.82 | 14 |
| (88) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 168.3 | 3 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 168.21 | 22 |
| 90 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 165.2 | 13 |
| 91 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 163.56 | 47 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 163.23 | 9 |
| (92) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 162.39 | 1 |
| 93 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 160.71 | 11 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 152.24 | 13 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 148.65 | 20 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 148.33 | 10 |
| 97 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 147.85 | 4 |
| 98 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 147.14 | 19 |
| (98) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 147 | 11 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 143.67 | 4 |
| (99) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 142.52 | 2 |
| 100 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 139.55 | 6 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 139.47 | 14 |
| 102 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 138.15 | 2 |
| 103 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 134.24 | 3 |
| 104 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 133.11 | 21 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 132.82 | 14 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 131.79 | 11 |
| 107 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 131.64 | 14 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 131.51 | 14 |
| 109 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 130.63 | 7 |
| 110 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 130.14 | 15 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 128.76 | 18 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 127.75 | 30 |
| 113 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 127.19 | 8 |
| 114 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 127 | 7 |
| (114) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 127 | 7 |
| (114) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 124.62 | 18 |
| 115 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 124.07 | 6 |
| (115) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 122.42 | 6 |
| 116 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 122.42 | 7 |
| 117 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 121.11 | 1 |
| 118 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 120.07 | 6 |
| (118) | 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 | 118.99 | 11 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 118.34 | 14 |
| 120 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 116.62 | 6 |
| 121 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 116.56 | 25 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 115.62 | 12 |
| 123 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 115.3 | 2 |
| 124 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 113.74 | 8 |
| 125 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 111.4 | 10 |
| 126 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 111.3 | 9 |
| 127 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 109.99 | 6 |
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