| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 240732.11 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 89283.25 | 185 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 49006.21 | 40 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 38105.67 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 33639.82 | 31 |
| 6 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 33481.78 | 194 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 32799.82 | 82 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 30512.88 | 23 |
| 9 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 25157.32 | 12 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 24785.18 | 19 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 23465.44 | 29 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21527.66 | 26 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21496.76 | 23 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 21348.83 | 28 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 20911.15 | 16 |
| 16 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 20625.06 | 11 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 20197.96 | 34 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19778.26 | 23 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 19756.9 | 58 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18722.22 | 14 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 18360.21 | 28 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 18233.72 | 18 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 16179.35 | 17 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 16112.16 | 17 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 15707.43 | 24 |
| 23 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15575.75 | 104 |
| 24 | CESifo | München, Germany | 15447.15 | 51 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 15168.38 | 14 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 15145.7 | 36 |
| (26) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 14491.84 | 21 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 14455.18 | 26 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 14070.14 | 20 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 13223.78 | 30 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12986.33 | 22 |
| (30) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 12591.98 | 13 |
| 31 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12339.94 | 13 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 12316.74 | 22 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 11667.54 | 21 |
| 34 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11663.95 | 32 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 11417.91 | 23 |
| 36 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11045.48 | 8 |
| 37 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 10998.23 | 15 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 10981.68 | 29 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10924.28 | 21 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10623.07 | 27 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10539.48 | 21 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10186.36 | 13 |
| 43 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10025.73 | 11 |
| 44 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9556.03 | 79 |
| 45 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9219.85 | 3 |
| 46 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9170.84 | 7 |
| (46) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9170.84 | 7 |
| 47 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 8991.15 | 7 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8927.73 | 33 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 8764.61 | 28 |
| 50 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 8698.15 | 25 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 8432.38 | 20 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 8432 | 19 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 8096.24 | 31 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 8068.45 | 19 |
| 55 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 8038.15 | 29 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8012.19 | 20 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 7885.81 | 24 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 7762.57 | 19 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 7737.87 | 25 |
| 59 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 7640.05 | 26 |
| 60 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7606.42 | 13 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 7414.35 | 10 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7408.47 | 22 |
| (62) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7355.03 | 16 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 7308.75 | 8 |
| 64 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7282.25 | 40 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 7160.19 | 10 |
| (65) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6788.8 | 7 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 6788.74 | 14 |
| 67 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6750.71 | 6 |
| (67) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6612.71 | 5 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 6516.79 | 29 |
| 69 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 6370.2 | 15 |
| 70 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6322.55 | 13 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 6162.3 | 21 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 6041.63 | 9 |
| 73 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6040.69 | 10 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5959.03 | 19 |
| 75 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5909.88 | 23 |
| 76 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 5684.52 | 8 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 5683.41 | 7 |
| 77 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 5576.19 | 36 |
| 78 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 5547.12 | 39 |
| 79 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5441.66 | 45 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5362.51 | 14 |
| 81 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5340.75 | 16 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 5290.98 | 13 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 5245.25 | 15 |
| (83) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5243.29 | 4 |
| (83) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5238.79 | 7 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5214.05 | 9 |
| 84 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 5197.71 | 6 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 5142.83 | 10 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 5090.36 | 14 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5089.67 | 15 |
| 88 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5080.75 | 11 |
| (88) | 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 | 4977.99 | 12 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 4942.97 | 17 |
| 90 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 4842.16 | 23 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 4728.94 | 14 |
| (91) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4723.62 | 2 |
| (91) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4674.09 | 9 |
| 92 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4674.09 | 10 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4602.59 | 9 |
| 94 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 4577.68 | 17 |
| (94) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4553.76 | 13 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4553.01 | 8 |
| 96 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4518.48 | 9 |
| 97 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 4464.93 | 21 |
| (97) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4373.42 | 16 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4373.42 | 10 |
| (98) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4367.44 | 24 |
| 99 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 4354.87 | 15 |
| 100 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 4340.59 | 8 |
| 101 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 4338.43 | 19 |
| 102 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 4187.56 | 7 |
| (102) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4131.28 | 5 |
| 103 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 4110.93 | 10 |
| 104 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 4053.72 | 7 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 3998.37 | 18 |
| (105) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3977.53 | 16 |
| 106 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3977.53 | 16 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 3954.06 | 6 |
| (107) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3931.65 | 4 |
| 108 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3914.42 | 14 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3908.28 | 25 |
| 110 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 3906.14 | 14 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 3892.1 | 18 |
| (111) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3848.91 | 7 |
| 112 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 3814.57 | 16 |
| (112) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3788.08 | 6 |
| (112) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3712.51 | 4 |
| 113 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3684.87 | 10 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 3664.79 | 26 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 3651.55 | 5 |
| (115) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3615.67 | 2 |
| 116 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 3539.2 | 3 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3534.93 | 25 |
| (117) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3531.32 | 5 |
| 118 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3512.45 | 5 |
| (118) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3478.23 | 5 |
| 119 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3474.53 | 5 |
| 120 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3473.67 | 10 |
| (120) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3464.24 | 18 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 3442.67 | 14 |
| 122 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 3436.66 | 18 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3385.78 | 11 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3371.85 | 5 |
| 124 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 3368.52 | 33 |
| (124) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3366.21 | 8 |
| 125 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 3362.91 | 7 |
| (125) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3316.34 | 16 |
| (125) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3314.32 | 10 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3313.62 | 13 |
| 127 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3284.5 | 2 |
| 128 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 3251.51 | 9 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 3234.81 | 11 |
| 130 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 3233.11 | 4 |
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