| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 29447.6 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 7572.61 | 172 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5591.55 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5080.16 | 25 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3915 | 31 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2927.71 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2665.17 | 29 |
| 8 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2612.1 | 15 |
| 9 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2441.87 | 11 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2419.99 | 16 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2402.24 | 23 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2402.12 | 102 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2336.79 | 31 |
| 14 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2302.38 | 78 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2193.21 | 16 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2122.89 | 16 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2118.27 | 13 |
| 18 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2113.58 | 180 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2104.43 | 20 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2081.56 | 28 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1950.75 | 14 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1909.53 | 26 |
| (21) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1806.02 | 11 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1640.35 | 28 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1569.05 | 26 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1518.98 | 31 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1374.68 | 24 |
| 24 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1323.21 | 36 |
| 25 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1296.09 | 30 |
| 26 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1295.37 | 20 |
| 27 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1253.67 | 8 |
| (27) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1253.57 | 7 |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1239.46 | 11 |
| (28) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1234.23 | 5 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1203.53 | 20 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1172.04 | 23 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1145.62 | 19 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1138.9 | 25 |
| (32) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1129.09 | 6 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1061.96 | 15 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1053.7 | 22 |
| (34) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1044.33 | 7 |
| 35 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1036.97 | 12 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1029.55 | 13 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1019.97 | 21 |
| (37) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1008.01 | 15 |
| 38 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 999.08 | 12 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 991.66 | 20 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 984.55 | 19 |
| 41 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 946.87 | 74 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 910.87 | 11 |
| 43 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 896.33 | 10 |
| (43) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 884.08 | 8 |
| 44 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 881.94 | 3 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 879.42 | 20 |
| 46 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 826.59 | 12 |
| 47 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 793.69 | 58 |
| 48 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 778.54 | 9 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 776.32 | 30 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 772.68 | 28 |
| (50) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 769.95 | 16 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 769.39 | 10 |
| (51) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 764.15 | 3 |
| (51) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 756.09 | 6 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 743 | 23 |
| 53 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 719.86 | 36 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 706.66 | 19 |
| (54) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 700.92 | 20 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 696.1 | 18 |
| (55) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 687.88 | 25 |
| 56 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 671.25 | 26 |
| 57 | CESifo | München, Germany | 667.86 | 44 |
| (57) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 636.43 | 12 |
| 58 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 630.58 | 8 |
| 59 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 626.05 | 7 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 583.51 | 10 |
| 61 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 577.12 | 6 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 574.22 | 22 |
| 63 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 560.61 | 5 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 553.14 | 20 |
| (64) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 544.75 | 3 |
| (64) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 521.6 | 1 |
| (64) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 521.6 | 1 |
| (64) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 519.73 | 5 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 507.63 | 9 |
| (65) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 505.44 | 5 |
| 66 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 490.08 | 41 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 461.61 | 22 |
| 68 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 457.46 | 6 |
| (68) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 457.37 | 5 |
| 69 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 446.66 | 16 |
| 70 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 436.89 | 7 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 434.26 | 28 |
| (71) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 426.21 | 2 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 423.65 | 17 |
| (72) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 421.21 | 9 |
| (72) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 419.85 | 3 |
| 73 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 410.26 | 7 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 408.94 | 6 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 401.55 | 7 |
| (75) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 401.55 | 7 |
| (75) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 400.6 | 3 |
| (75) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 394.91 | 4 |
| (75) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 392.34 | 11 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 391.79 | 7 |
| 77 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 383.83 | 25 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 377.42 | 16 |
| (78) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 376.99 | 15 |
| (78) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 370.69 | 2 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 356.72 | 22 |
| 80 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 349.85 | 47 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 344.06 | 10 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 343.21 | 9 |
| 83 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 331.18 | 10 |
| 84 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 330.41 | 40 |
| 85 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 324.87 | 4 |
| (85) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 324.11 | 9 |
| 86 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 324.11 | 10 |
| (86) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 324.01 | 1 |
| 87 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 323.38 | 7 |
| 88 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 321.83 | 4 |
| 89 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 321.55 | 16 |
| (89) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 320.29 | 1 |
| (89) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 310.05 | 2 |
| 90 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 309.04 | 13 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 307.26 | 3 |
| (90) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 300.85 | 7 |
| 91 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 299.52 | 11 |
| 92 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 296.14 | 14 |
| 93 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 296.12 | 6 |
| 94 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 290.58 | 19 |
| (94) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 290.44 | 11 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 289.57 | 20 |
| 96 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 283.41 | 3 |
| 97 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 278.4 | 2 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 276.59 | 4 |
| (98) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 273.71 | 1 |
| 99 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 272.2 | 6 |
| 100 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 267.92 | 6 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 263.53 | 14 |
| (101) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 258.38 | 16 |
| 102 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 258.38 | 16 |
| (102) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 251.75 | 18 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 249.34 | 14 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 247.06 | 11 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 242.42 | 18 |
| 106 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 241.61 | 13 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 240.64 | 30 |
| 108 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 237.62 | 6 |
| (108) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 236.43 | 6 |
| 109 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 236.43 | 7 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 233.56 | 14 |
| 111 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 228.69 | 21 |
| (111) | 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 | 226.61 | 11 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 221.93 | 10 |
| 113 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 220.08 | 8 |
| 114 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 219.52 | 15 |
| 115 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 218.99 | 16 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 218.54 | 8 |
| (116) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 216.36 | 3 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 213.25 | 14 |
| 118 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 211.47 | 14 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 211.44 | 11 |
| (119) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 209.94 | 10 |
| 120 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 207.8 | 7 |
| (120) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 207.8 | 7 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 206.56 | 8 |
| 122 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 206.12 | 10 |
| 123 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 200.05 | 25 |
| 124 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 198.02 | 22 |
| 125 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 194.71 | 2 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 192.36 | 14 |
| 127 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 191.81 | 6 |
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