| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36389 | 217 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 10567.52 | 179 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8242.58 | 40 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5572.78 | 26 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4615.88 | 31 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4177.08 | 79 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3982.5 | 11 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3936.78 | 29 |
| 9 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3741.17 | 188 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3618.39 | 23 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3474.23 | 16 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3128.25 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2909.54 | 28 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2783.33 | 101 |
| (14) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2777.73 | 32 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2691.25 | 26 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2687.75 | 14 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2682.46 | 21 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2618.18 | 18 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2566.13 | 24 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2497.74 | 32 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2444.79 | 28 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2313.08 | 17 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2183.66 | 26 |
| 22 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2120.91 | 11 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2102.96 | 13 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2035.08 | 20 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1998.16 | 14 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1991.58 | 12 |
| (26) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1806.58 | 13 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1756.19 | 19 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1734.15 | 21 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1703.58 | 17 |
| 30 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1553.94 | 30 |
| 31 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1474.75 | 25 |
| 32 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1423.35 | 58 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1406.49 | 13 |
| 34 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1360.58 | 3 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1331.59 | 21 |
| 36 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1294.58 | 48 |
| 37 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1271.26 | 20 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1260.53 | 20 |
| (38) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1256.75 | 5 |
| 39 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1253.33 | 35 |
| 40 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1250.91 | 36 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1249.71 | 25 |
| 42 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1247.43 | 76 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1229.58 | 20 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1220.33 | 22 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1194.18 | 22 |
| 45 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1187.83 | 10 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1187 | 8 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1186.58 | 30 |
| 48 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1172 | 5 |
| (48) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1158.03 | 4 |
| (48) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1142.86 | 15 |
| 49 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1127.41 | 8 |
| (49) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1126.41 | 7 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1105.5 | 22 |
| 51 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1062.99 | 12 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1049 | 26 |
| (52) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1041.16 | 7 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1040.24 | 16 |
| 53 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 972.68 | 16 |
| 54 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 957.34 | 12 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 940.83 | 19 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 938.83 | 19 |
| (56) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 938.43 | 7 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 916.71 | 19 |
| (57) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 901.83 | 6 |
| 58 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 884.25 | 7 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 858.66 | 10 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 845.26 | 28 |
| 61 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 837 | 16 |
| (61) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 820.16 | 9 |
| 62 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 795.75 | 19 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 770.08 | 8 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 763.88 | 21 |
| 65 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 749.16 | 6 |
| (65) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 748.91 | 5 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 742.46 | 23 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 740.33 | 15 |
| (67) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 726.25 | 12 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 700.74 | 27 |
| (68) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 699.75 | 4 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 699.25 | 28 |
| (69) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 680.65 | 24 |
| (69) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 671.99 | 12 |
| 70 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 658.83 | 40 |
| (70) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 658 | 3 |
| 71 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 648.08 | 14 |
| (71) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 637.16 | 5 |
| (71) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 634.33 | 3 |
| 72 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 602.83 | 7 |
| 73 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 596.41 | 7 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 596.41 | 7 |
| 74 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 593.41 | 7 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 583.83 | 11 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 578.74 | 26 |
| (76) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 573.33 | 2 |
| (76) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 573.33 | 8 |
| 77 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 569.75 | 4 |
| 78 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 569.52 | 43 |
| 79 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 559.66 | 47 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 553.33 | 6 |
| 81 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 547.68 | 7 |
| 82 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 544.5 | 16 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 541.16 | 8 |
| (83) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 532.08 | 3 |
| 84 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 529.83 | 10 |
| 85 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 529.36 | 6 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 515.41 | 6 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 512.34 | 31 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 509.16 | 15 |
| 89 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 508 | 7 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 504 | 8 |
| (90) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 496.91 | 5 |
| (90) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 496.5 | 1 |
| (90) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 494.76 | 1 |
| (90) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 494.76 | 1 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 493.66 | 22 |
| (90) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 492 | 2 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 478.33 | 9 |
| 92 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 467.46 | 21 |
| 93 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 465 | 14 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 447.5 | 4 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 435.66 | 25 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 430.83 | 25 |
| (96) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 422.83 | 17 |
| 97 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 422.36 | 37 |
| 98 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 416.91 | 21 |
| (98) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 415.91 | 3 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 413.24 | 22 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 405.33 | 10 |
| (100) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 399.16 | 1 |
| 101 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 398.71 | 2 |
| 102 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 393.68 | 11 |
| (102) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 390.66 | 4 |
| 103 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 387 | 20 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 383.83 | 12 |
| (104) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 382.5 | 12 |
| 105 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 377.41 | 14 |
| (105) | 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 | 375.33 | 11 |
| 106 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 372.16 | 31 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 369.58 | 14 |
| 108 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 367.86 | 7 |
| (108) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 367.86 | 7 |
| (108) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 361.83 | 7 |
| 109 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 361.58 | 6 |
| 110 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 356.41 | 8 |
| (110) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 356.08 | 15 |
| 111 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 352.65 | 11 |
| 112 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 352.18 | 13 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 342.66 | 18 |
| 114 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 333.82 | 4 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 333.5 | 10 |
| (115) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 328.16 | 9 |
| 116 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 328.16 | 10 |
| (116) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 328 | 1 |
| 117 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 305.25 | 4 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 304.25 | 14 |
| 119 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 295.5 | 4 |
| (119) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 295.5 | 3 |
| 120 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 294.79 | 8 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 289 | 14 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 286.83 | 10 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 286.33 | 9 |
| 124 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 279.5 | 10 |
| 125 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 274.5 | 7 |
| 126 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 274.48 | 9 |
| 127 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 272.83 | 3 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 271.91 | 5 |
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