| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 363418.34 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 146216.8 | 172 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 70354.36 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 55024.3 | 31 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 51755.88 | 78 |
| 6 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 49476.45 | 180 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 47244.86 | 25 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44002.72 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 36422.63 | 29 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 35965.82 | 20 |
| 11 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 34680.16 | 12 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 34410.31 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 33250.36 | 26 |
| 14 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 32805.26 | 58 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 31812.3 | 16 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 31615.73 | 31 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 31546.35 | 28 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 30725.15 | 20 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 29434.18 | 14 |
| 18 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 29168.89 | 102 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 28831.87 | 28 |
| 20 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 27674.64 | 11 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 26621.47 | 16 |
| 22 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 25756.17 | 36 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 25339 | 16 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 25229.01 | 26 |
| (24) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 24466.21 | 20 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 24003.09 | 13 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 23272.69 | 24 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 23139.89 | 22 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 23129.56 | 15 |
| 28 | CESifo | München, Germany | 21857.34 | 44 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 21473.55 | 19 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 20750.55 | 23 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 20530.57 | 30 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 19950.56 | 20 |
| 33 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19164.98 | 25 |
| 34 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 19139.59 | 20 |
| 35 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18658.37 | 9 |
| 36 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 18508.75 | 30 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 18326.11 | 22 |
| 38 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 18208.52 | 74 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 16815.66 | 28 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 16716.88 | 11 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 16670.8 | 23 |
| 42 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 16536.61 | 11 |
| 43 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 16270.38 | 14 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 16044.83 | 20 |
| (44) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 15902.22 | 11 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 15371.57 | 19 |
| 46 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 15140.94 | 3 |
| 47 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14410.12 | 7 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 14299.45 | 20 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 14190.99 | 18 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 14155.21 | 30 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 13749.41 | 19 |
| 52 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 13741.05 | 7 |
| (52) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 13741.05 | 7 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13616.58 | 31 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 13419.03 | 26 |
| 55 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 13251.99 | 13 |
| 56 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 13160.07 | 8 |
| 57 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12908.24 | 40 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 12806.67 | 18 |
| 59 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 12448.12 | 25 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 11956.96 | 25 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 11908.9 | 20 |
| 62 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 11907.33 | 13 |
| 63 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11466.93 | 12 |
| (63) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11397.82 | 15 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11357.23 | 10 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11034.67 | 21 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 10908.32 | 10 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 10609.07 | 22 |
| 68 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10569.42 | 47 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 10326.9 | 12 |
| 70 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9943.44 | 12 |
| (70) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 9930.07 | 7 |
| 71 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 9809.89 | 8 |
| (71) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 9807.48 | 7 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9786.81 | 15 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9732.84 | 28 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 9703.48 | 9 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9541.27 | 14 |
| (75) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 9450.14 | 16 |
| 76 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 9450.14 | 16 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 9404.39 | 8 |
| (77) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9331.5 | 25 |
| 78 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9318.51 | 6 |
| (78) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9179.32 | 5 |
| (78) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9087.14 | 6 |
| (78) | 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 | 9058.8 | 11 |
| 79 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 8953.63 | 36 |
| 80 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 8851.93 | 16 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 8689.94 | 14 |
| 82 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8652.61 | 11 |
| (82) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8555.69 | 9 |
| 83 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8555.69 | 10 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 8391.23 | 16 |
| (84) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8287.44 | 12 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 8237.43 | 9 |
| 86 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8115.79 | 10 |
| 87 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 8111.27 | 22 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8065.66 | 11 |
| (88) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 7809.8 | 6 |
| (88) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7723.26 | 2 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 7649.67 | 14 |
| 90 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7528.32 | 6 |
| 91 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 7522.23 | 13 |
| 92 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 7516.82 | 16 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 7430.86 | 10 |
| (93) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7366.94 | 8 |
| (93) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 7338.33 | 16 |
| 94 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7206.21 | 17 |
| 95 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 7141.43 | 7 |
| (95) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7126.82 | 5 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 7044.95 | 9 |
| (96) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7035.31 | 5 |
| 97 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 7012.56 | 10 |
| 98 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 6972.39 | 21 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 6924.94 | 25 |
| (99) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6810.44 | 3 |
| 100 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6785.55 | 15 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 6749.02 | 17 |
| 102 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 6706.32 | 17 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6649.61 | 5 |
| 104 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6608.08 | 10 |
| 105 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6602.23 | 3 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 6581.31 | 22 |
| 107 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6567.29 | 14 |
| 108 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6492.55 | 10 |
| 109 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 6390.07 | 35 |
| 110 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 6377.31 | 13 |
| 111 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 6370.79 | 9 |
| (111) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6334.93 | 18 |
| (111) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6264.24 | 9 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 6203.23 | 18 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 6080.46 | 14 |
| 114 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 6043.65 | 4 |
| (114) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 6003.76 | 11 |
| 115 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 6003.61 | 16 |
| 116 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 5946.08 | 14 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 5900.21 | 25 |
| 118 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 5763.43 | 5 |
| (118) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5720.4 | 3 |
| (118) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5699.31 | 4 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 5676.53 | 12 |
| 120 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 5642.39 | 6 |
| 121 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 5622.05 | 41 |
| 122 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 5610.15 | 40 |
| 123 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 5552.22 | 22 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 5532.28 | 10 |
| (123) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 5518.76 | 7 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 5514.15 | 6 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 5499.6 | 6 |
| (125) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5444.65 | 3 |
| 126 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 5429.18 | 6 |
| 127 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5418.15 | 37 |
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