| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 38629.75 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 11144.8 | 185 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8454 | 40 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6798.68 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4760.08 | 31 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4289.92 | 82 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4181.58 | 11 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3996.66 | 29 |
| 9 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3948.67 | 194 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3834.56 | 23 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3470.26 | 16 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3108.41 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2957.54 | 28 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2905.7 | 104 |
| (14) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2809.07 | 34 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2777.16 | 23 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2719.12 | 28 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2689.33 | 26 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2666.41 | 14 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2645.88 | 24 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2635.76 | 18 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2586.28 | 33 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2372.41 | 17 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2324.41 | 26 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2262.63 | 13 |
| 23 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2188.91 | 11 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2117.91 | 20 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2106.49 | 14 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2009.49 | 12 |
| (26) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1857.91 | 13 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1773.61 | 19 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1762.08 | 17 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1758.48 | 21 |
| 30 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1649.11 | 32 |
| 31 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1538.66 | 51 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1524 | 27 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1456.49 | 13 |
| 34 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1437.05 | 58 |
| 35 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1386.16 | 13 |
| 36 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1365.08 | 3 |
| 37 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1358.5 | 21 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1348.51 | 21 |
| 39 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1320.04 | 79 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1311.16 | 22 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1297.35 | 22 |
| 42 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1295.83 | 36 |
| 43 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1294.96 | 25 |
| 44 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1286.83 | 5 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1279.39 | 20 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1269.33 | 36 |
| (46) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1261.25 | 5 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1246.66 | 21 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1233.25 | 30 |
| (47) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1225.69 | 16 |
| 48 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1224.49 | 10 |
| (48) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1213.98 | 4 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1186.5 | 8 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1179.83 | 23 |
| 51 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1157.41 | 8 |
| (51) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1155.91 | 7 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1123 | 26 |
| (52) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1061.66 | 7 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1049.74 | 16 |
| (52) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1013.33 | 7 |
| 53 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1009.76 | 16 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 975.75 | 19 |
| 55 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 973.68 | 13 |
| 56 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 972.83 | 7 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 954.83 | 19 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 937.83 | 10 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 928.88 | 20 |
| (59) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 908.16 | 7 |
| (59) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 900.49 | 4 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 876.16 | 29 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 858.84 | 29 |
| 62 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 854.66 | 15 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 831.41 | 15 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 824.04 | 21 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 817.16 | 9 |
| 65 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 808.41 | 8 |
| 66 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 801.75 | 19 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 793.41 | 28 |
| 68 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 752.21 | 23 |
| 69 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 752 | 6 |
| (69) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 751.75 | 5 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 715.91 | 29 |
| (70) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 714.59 | 10 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 711 | 5 |
| (70) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 710.83 | 13 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 707.33 | 24 |
| (70) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 705.58 | 4 |
| (70) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 691.66 | 5 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 688.34 | 24 |
| 71 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 684.16 | 40 |
| 72 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 654.58 | 15 |
| (72) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 642.24 | 8 |
| (72) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 640.66 | 2 |
| 73 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 621.58 | 4 |
| 74 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 619.16 | 7 |
| 75 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 617.41 | 45 |
| 76 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 605.83 | 7 |
| 77 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 595.58 | 7 |
| (77) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 595.58 | 7 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 593.83 | 10 |
| 79 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 593.62 | 45 |
| 80 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 576.18 | 7 |
| 81 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 571.5 | 16 |
| (81) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 557.49 | 3 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 554.33 | 6 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 554.25 | 6 |
| 84 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 551.36 | 6 |
| (84) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 548.83 | 1 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 538.66 | 8 |
| 86 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 534.66 | 10 |
| 87 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 531 | 7 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 517.17 | 31 |
| (88) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 509.5 | 2 |
| (88) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 507.5 | 5 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 503 | 8 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 493.5 | 9 |
| (90) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 491.76 | 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) | 491.76 | 1 |
| 91 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 487 | 15 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 484.16 | 15 |
| 93 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 478.63 | 21 |
| 94 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 461.66 | 23 |
| (94) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 457.08 | 3 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 455.66 | 4 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 454.08 | 25 |
| (96) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 446.58 | 18 |
| 97 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 444.28 | 39 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 443.99 | 26 |
| 99 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | | 441.41 | 13 |
| (99) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 436.49 | 1 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 436.33 | 22 |
| 101 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 425.49 | 19 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 405.66 | 14 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 401.33 | 10 |
| 104 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 399.38 | 2 |
| 105 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 396.43 | 11 |
| 106 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 392.03 | 7 |
| (106) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 392.03 | 7 |
| (106) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 390.66 | 4 |
| 107 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 384.91 | 6 |
| 108 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 380.16 | 33 |
| 109 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 377.58 | 14 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 376.61 | 12 |
| (110) | 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 | 376.33 | 12 |
| (110) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 376 | 1 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 375.58 | 14 |
| 112 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 368.18 | 13 |
| 113 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 362.91 | 9 |
| (113) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 360.16 | 9 |
| 114 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 360.16 | 10 |
| 115 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 360.15 | 11 |
| (115) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 357.83 | 7 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 353.33 | 19 |
| (116) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 351.91 | 16 |
| 117 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 342.82 | 4 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 333.88 | 14 |
| 119 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 332 | 4 |
| 120 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 313.66 | 2 |
| 121 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 311.46 | 9 |
| 122 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 304.86 | 18 |
| 123 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 302 | 8 |
| 124 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 296.5 | 4 |
| (124) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 296.5 | 3 |
| 125 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 294.81 | 9 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 293.66 | 14 |
| 127 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 292.55 | 52 |
| 128 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 292.5 | 1 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 291.83 | 10 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 291.83 | 9 |
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