| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 72850.21 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 18194.98 | 185 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 15133.14 | 40 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13179.61 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8584.62 | 31 |
| 6 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7585.99 | 11 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7403.02 | 23 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7045.71 | 29 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6679.45 | 16 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6288.9 | 82 |
| 11 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6061 | 194 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5376.47 | 23 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5323.47 | 18 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5236.68 | 17 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5204.47 | 23 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4885.54 | 26 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4829.81 | 104 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4823.89 | 33 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4770.84 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4580.54 | 28 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4543.51 | 14 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4283.28 | 14 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4181.04 | 34 |
| (21) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4071.48 | 13 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4033.63 | 24 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3980.09 | 17 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3668.34 | 13 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3626.44 | 26 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3544.81 | 11 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3531.63 | 20 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3281.24 | 32 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3253.61 | 21 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3243.35 | 12 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2782.44 | 22 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2715.05 | 19 |
| 32 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2677.62 | 13 |
| 33 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2567.41 | 21 |
| (33) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2506.7 | 16 |
| 34 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2499.96 | 8 |
| (34) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2499.86 | 7 |
| (34) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2427.44 | 5 |
| 35 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2394.8 | 3 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2361.72 | 21 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2333.34 | 13 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2320.35 | 27 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2293.3 | 22 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2269.64 | 20 |
| 41 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2236.86 | 58 |
| 42 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2222.5 | 10 |
| 43 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2188.27 | 36 |
| (43) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2121.73 | 4 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2120.17 | 30 |
| 45 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2067.88 | 51 |
| (45) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2011.16 | 7 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2010.08 | 36 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1976.39 | 21 |
| 47 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1956.96 | 19 |
| 48 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1913.28 | 5 |
| 49 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1863.98 | 79 |
| 50 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1842.84 | 25 |
| (50) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1833.01 | 7 |
| 51 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1830.38 | 13 |
| (51) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1795.56 | 16 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1784.27 | 15 |
| 53 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1774.35 | 8 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1771.8 | 26 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1771.16 | 29 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1768.79 | 19 |
| (56) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1658.25 | 7 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1654.61 | 10 |
| (57) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1604.41 | 4 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1551.8 | 23 |
| (58) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1451.11 | 9 |
| 59 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1430.14 | 7 |
| (59) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1420.04 | 8 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1418.15 | 20 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1393.8 | 21 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1372.22 | 8 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1367.6 | 28 |
| 64 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1366.74 | 6 |
| (64) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1366.71 | 5 |
| 65 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1308.6 | 15 |
| (65) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1274.96 | 5 |
| 66 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1261.56 | 16 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1250.13 | 24 |
| (66) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1243.64 | 4 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1241.75 | 29 |
| (67) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1210.35 | 24 |
| (67) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1186.99 | 13 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1176.55 | 29 |
| 69 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1165.16 | 23 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1129.01 | 10 |
| 71 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1124.7 | 19 |
| (71) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1100.72 | 2 |
| 72 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1086.33 | 7 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1067.8 | 6 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1066.95 | 6 |
| 75 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1046.87 | 7 |
| (75) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1022.09 | 5 |
| (75) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1013.61 | 10 |
| 76 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1012.92 | 4 |
| (76) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 988.35 | 3 |
| (76) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 976.49 | 2 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 952.21 | 8 |
| (77) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 934.98 | 5 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 924.64 | 8 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 923.73 | 15 |
| 80 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 918.98 | 6 |
| (80) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 918.82 | 1 |
| (80) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 918.82 | 1 |
| 81 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 914.84 | 45 |
| (81) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 902.96 | 1 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 889.11 | 10 |
| 83 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 874.5 | 7 |
| (83) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 861.88 | 1 |
| 84 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 842.52 | 7 |
| 85 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 809.36 | 40 |
| (85) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 807.76 | 7 |
| (85) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 802.35 | 3 |
| 86 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 794.46 | 14 |
| (86) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 769.12 | 4 |
| (86) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 767.24 | 16 |
| 87 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 760.43 | 10 |
| 88 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 759.88 | 45 |
| 89 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 757.14 | 15 |
| 90 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 755.67 | 15 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 750.61 | 19 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 731.69 | 4 |
| 93 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 719.05 | 7 |
| (93) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 719.05 | 7 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 695.91 | 9 |
| (94) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 690.16 | 9 |
| 95 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 690.16 | 10 |
| 96 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | | 683.96 | 13 |
| 97 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 681.71 | 2 |
| 98 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 665.5 | 21 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 664.29 | 12 |
| (99) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 660.36 | 1 |
| 100 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 660.35 | 11 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 659.18 | 22 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 657.53 | 31 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 656.93 | 7 |
| (103) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 656.93 | 7 |
| 104 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 642.04 | 4 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 625.08 | 26 |
| 106 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 609.1 | 13 |
| 107 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 605.36 | 6 |
| 108 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 604.71 | 1 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 590.94 | 14 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 585.95 | 14 |
| 111 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 571.41 | 25 |
| 112 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 567.72 | 39 |
| 113 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 567.69 | 8 |
| 114 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 560.19 | 2 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 553.87 | 14 |
| (115) | 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 | 553.16 | 12 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 551.55 | 19 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 546.45 | 14 |
| 118 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 545.24 | 6 |
| 119 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 541.52 | 9 |
| 120 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 535.78 | 3 |
| 121 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 531.66 | 9 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 530.53 | 10 |
| (122) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 524.18 | 18 |
| 123 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 514.78 | 2 |
| 124 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 503.59 | 33 |
| 125 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 502.85 | 10 |
| 126 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 494.44 | 7 |
| 127 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 482.38 | 4 |
| (127) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 477.56 | 2 |
| 128 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 476.9 | 6 |
| (128) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 476.87 | 6 |
| 129 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 476.87 | 7 |
| 130 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 473.92 | 18 |
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