| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6707.85 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2205.79 | 172 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1084.04 | 39 |
| 4 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 847.21 | 180 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 773.88 | 29 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 725.58 | 23 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 704.86 | 78 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 700.4 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 698.68 | 25 |
| 10 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 618.06 | 15 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 606.55 | 16 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 536.36 | 23 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 534.02 | 20 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 526.07 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 501.43 | 26 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 462.32 | 14 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 450.09 | 102 |
| (16) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 437.22 | 11 |
| 17 | CESifo | München, Germany | 431.75 | 44 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 427.9 | 13 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 424.87 | 23 |
| 20 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 411.42 | 12 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 402.13 | 28 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 401.27 | 16 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 393.73 | 24 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 390.36 | 28 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 390.34 | 31 |
| (24) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 362.92 | 31 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 361.99 | 19 |
| 26 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 357.49 | 30 |
| 27 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 354.29 | 16 |
| 28 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 336.1 | 58 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 327 | 30 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 325.36 | 20 |
| 31 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 318.25 | 36 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 314.21 | 22 |
| (32) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 297.5 | 20 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 293.7 | 21 |
| 34 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 269.18 | 18 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 260.01 | 26 |
| 36 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 254.97 | 10 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 253.75 | 20 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 251.39 | 28 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 250.9 | 20 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 250.55 | 11 |
| 41 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 247.11 | 25 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 245.22 | 15 |
| (42) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 238.32 | 16 |
| 43 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 235.89 | 9 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 226.78 | 11 |
| (44) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 218.43 | 9 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 213.69 | 16 |
| (45) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 209.83 | 15 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 204.88 | 26 |
| 47 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 199.98 | 9 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 199.58 | 20 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 199.57 | 20 |
| 50 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 198.44 | 13 |
| 51 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 193.52 | 74 |
| 52 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 189.74 | 4 |
| 53 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 185.33 | 8 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 184.64 | 28 |
| (54) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 184.44 | 7 |
| 55 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 184.33 | 36 |
| (55) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 181.93 | 3 |
| 56 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 179.47 | 23 |
| 57 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 172.45 | 12 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 172.42 | 22 |
| (58) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 171.94 | 8 |
| 59 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 171.35 | 22 |
| (59) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 169.29 | 6 |
| 60 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 168.29 | 3 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 165.81 | 18 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 165.31 | 19 |
| 63 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 161.52 | 21 |
| 64 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 160.28 | 11 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 160.1 | 10 |
| 66 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 154.97 | 8 |
| (66) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 146.27 | 3 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 145.54 | 19 |
| 68 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 142.45 | 41 |
| (68) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 141.83 | 25 |
| (68) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 141.57 | 12 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 140.18 | 13 |
| (69) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 139.98 | 2 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 136 | 14 |
| 71 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 135.7 | 40 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 135.55 | 12 |
| (72) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 134.44 | 1 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 133.91 | 10 |
| (73) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 133.51 | 7 |
| (73) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 131.87 | 3 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 128.99 | 20 |
| 75 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 126.64 | 25 |
| (75) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 126.55 | 15 |
| 76 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 121 | 12 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 119.78 | 9 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 118.57 | 14 |
| 79 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 116.19 | 10 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 115.84 | 22 |
| 81 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 115.14 | 6 |
| 82 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 113.56 | 17 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 112.73 | 10 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 110.63 | 7 |
| (84) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 110.63 | 7 |
| 85 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 109.19 | 14 |
| 86 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 106.85 | 7 |
| 87 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 104.72 | 47 |
| 88 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 101.82 | 16 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 101.7 | 11 |
| (89) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 100.93 | 11 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 98.53 | 15 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 97.03 | 25 |
| 92 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 94.66 | 35 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 94.48 | 8 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 93.35 | 9 |
| (94) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 92.92 | 5 |
| 95 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 92.82 | 8 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 90.91 | 16 |
| 97 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 90.73 | 7 |
| (97) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 90.73 | 7 |
| 98 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 89.81 | 5 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 89.8 | 12 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 89.58 | 30 |
| 101 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 89.07 | 6 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 87.2 | 17 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 87.05 | 6 |
| (103) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 86.86 | 5 |
| 104 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 86.02 | 14 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 85.76 | 6 |
| 106 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 85.54 | 10 |
| 107 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 84.96 | 7 |
| 108 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 82.74 | 9 |
| 109 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 82.26 | 16 |
| (109) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 82.15 | 7 |
| (109) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 81.66 | 3 |
| 110 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 80.17 | 6 |
| 111 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 79.71 | 4 |
| 112 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 79.41 | 22 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 79.18 | 14 |
| 114 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 78.61 | 10 |
| (114) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 78.55 | 2 |
| (114) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 78.52 | 9 |
| (114) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 78.43 | 2 |
| 115 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 77.45 | 13 |
| (115) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 76.96 | 5 |
| 116 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 76.82 | 27 |
| (116) | 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 | 75.72 | 11 |
| (116) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 74.74 | 5 |
| (116) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 74.43 | 5 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 73.84 | 11 |
| 118 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 73.31 | 19 |
| 119 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 71.47 | 12 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 71.08 | 13 |
| (120) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 71.03 | 11 |
| (120) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 70.06 | 6 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 69.69 | 8 |
| 122 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 69.5 | 7 |
| (122) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 68.69 | 2 |
| (122) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 68.28 | 1 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 68.18 | 14 |
| 124 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 67.39 | 16 |
| (124) | Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 66.71 | 2 |
| 125 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 66.61 | 6 |
| 126 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 66.5 | 14 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 65.75 | 18 |
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