| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 119942.12 | 217 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 33008.51 | 179 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 23465.78 | 40 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 21735.95 | 26 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 15976.91 | 31 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11948.21 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11196.31 | 29 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10293.99 | 79 |
| 9 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 10060.86 | 188 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9971.5 | 11 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9899.76 | 16 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9892.42 | 23 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9745.32 | 101 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9553.87 | 17 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9201.88 | 21 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8596.59 | 18 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 8293.47 | 17 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8212.79 | 32 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8067.48 | 28 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8066.47 | 14 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7796.09 | 14 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7720.76 | 26 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 7093.14 | 28 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7029.58 | 26 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6829.45 | 32 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6719.56 | 13 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6332.96 | 24 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5418.58 | 11 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5325.45 | 20 |
| 26 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5007.32 | 30 |
| 27 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4999.39 | 20 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4924.6 | 21 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4778.87 | 12 |
| 30 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 4689.43 | 35 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4612.16 | 22 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4472.59 | 25 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4453.04 | 22 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4255.48 | 13 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4237.17 | 19 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4231.99 | 20 |
| (36) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4219.84 | 5 |
| 37 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4218.96 | 8 |
| (37) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4218.76 | 7 |
| 38 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4051.17 | 76 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3973.73 | 21 |
| (39) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3934.07 | 7 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3920.65 | 13 |
| 41 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3893.1 | 12 |
| (41) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3880.41 | 6 |
| 42 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3860.04 | 58 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3800.68 | 19 |
| 44 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3794.61 | 3 |
| 45 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3749.22 | 25 |
| (45) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3710.9 | 15 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3709.93 | 15 |
| (46) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3598.23 | 4 |
| 47 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3454.07 | 36 |
| (47) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3375.23 | 20 |
| 48 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3268.67 | 10 |
| 49 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3254.48 | 26 |
| (49) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3240.08 | 7 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 3162.34 | 19 |
| 51 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3155.88 | 12 |
| 52 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3145.17 | 48 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3135.42 | 19 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3127.62 | 30 |
| 55 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3082.68 | 8 |
| (55) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3063.19 | 8 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3019.38 | 28 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2921.73 | 10 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2863.31 | 16 |
| (57) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2834.8 | 24 |
| 58 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2622.9 | 7 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2596.74 | 22 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2490.44 | 8 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 2394.75 | 21 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2370.45 | 23 |
| 63 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2349.74 | 19 |
| (63) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2293.87 | 5 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2285.52 | 11 |
| 65 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2276.04 | 5 |
| 66 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2269.39 | 6 |
| (66) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2247.09 | 12 |
| (66) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2234.85 | 3 |
| (66) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2213.81 | 12 |
| 67 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2141.43 | 16 |
| (67) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2112.53 | 5 |
| 68 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1941.85 | 6 |
| (68) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1941.72 | 5 |
| (68) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1905.02 | 1 |
| (68) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1905.02 | 1 |
| 69 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1879.62 | 43 |
| 70 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1878.93 | 7 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1777.8 | 4 |
| (70) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1769.98 | 2 |
| 71 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1710.66 | 27 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1704.9 | 28 |
| 73 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1701.62 | 7 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1690.82 | 9 |
| (73) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1658.13 | 3 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1650.1 | 8 |
| (74) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1613.99 | 2 |
| 75 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1587.76 | 16 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1576.12 | 6 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1563.97 | 26 |
| (77) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1559.53 | 3 |
| (77) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1543.09 | 15 |
| 78 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1541.89 | 47 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1471.48 | 15 |
| 80 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1469.01 | 40 |
| 81 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1468.29 | 6 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1462.06 | 8 |
| 83 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1444.82 | 10 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1431.99 | 9 |
| 85 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1427.02 | 14 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1409.18 | 4 |
| (86) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1402.55 | 22 |
| 87 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1386.2 | 7 |
| 88 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1385.34 | 14 |
| 89 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1383.41 | 2 |
| 90 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1372.44 | 4 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1371.81 | 10 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1333.84 | 25 |
| 93 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1301.98 | 4 |
| 94 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 1292.18 | 7 |
| (94) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1266.79 | 4 |
| 95 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 1264.01 | 20 |
| (95) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 1262.9 | 12 |
| (95) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1254.03 | 1 |
| (95) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1242.61 | 7 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1239.95 | 22 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1231.84 | 7 |
| (97) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1231.84 | 7 |
| (97) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1222.42 | 9 |
| 98 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1222.42 | 10 |
| 99 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1217.55 | 11 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1200.99 | 14 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1197.2 | 31 |
| 102 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1192.61 | 14 |
| 103 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1185.93 | 3 |
| (103) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1176.46 | 1 |
| 104 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1161.77 | 7 |
| (104) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1161.77 | 7 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1129.93 | 14 |
| 106 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1127.82 | 3 |
| (106) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1126.5 | 17 |
| 107 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1119 | 6 |
| (107) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1100.92 | 17 |
| 108 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1100.92 | 17 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1096.77 | 21 |
| (109) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1091.49 | 1 |
| (109) | 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 | 1042.3 | 11 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1026.03 | 18 |
| (110) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1019.34 | 2 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 994.44 | 10 |
| 112 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 969.16 | 13 |
| 113 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 964.4 | 6 |
| 114 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 956.85 | 25 |
| 115 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 953.64 | 21 |
| (115) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 947.43 | 3 |
| 116 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 946.38 | 10 |
| 117 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 942.76 | 37 |
| 118 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 909.63 | 31 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 906.3 | 10 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 873.51 | 14 |
| (120) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 872.79 | 6 |
| 121 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 872.79 | 7 |
| 122 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 858.81 | 16 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 857.44 | 14 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 842.72 | 8 |
| 125 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 833.17 | 8 |
| (125) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 822.43 | 10 |
| 126 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 821.83 | 8 |
| (126) | ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 820.9 | 4 |
| 127 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 805.76 | 6 |
| 128 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 801.05 | 19 |
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