| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18638.87 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4743.18 | 185 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3950.9 | 40 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3244.98 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2311.06 | 31 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1929.62 | 23 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1840.91 | 11 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1773.3 | 29 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1744 | 16 |
| 10 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1530 | 194 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1525.96 | 82 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1491.32 | 17 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1433.61 | 18 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1426.75 | 23 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1378.11 | 23 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1300.59 | 33 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1280.59 | 26 |
| 18 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1273.82 | 104 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1199.78 | 14 |
| (18) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1155.25 | 13 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1154.02 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1132.25 | 28 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1107.75 | 17 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1094.38 | 14 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1056.35 | 34 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 984.83 | 24 |
| 23 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 890.79 | 11 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 890.42 | 26 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 878.31 | 13 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 832.63 | 21 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 827.56 | 20 |
| 28 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 825.4 | 32 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 752.6 | 22 |
| 30 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 742.27 | 12 |
| 31 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 736.15 | 8 |
| (31) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 736.14 | 7 |
| (31) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 709.67 | 5 |
| 32 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 700.88 | 13 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 647.43 | 19 |
| (33) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 640.88 | 16 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 640.52 | 21 |
| 35 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 636.22 | 21 |
| 36 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 604.96 | 36 |
| 37 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 602.44 | 3 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 588.92 | 20 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 585.49 | 27 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 583.91 | 13 |
| 41 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 574.22 | 10 |
| (41) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 568.11 | 4 |
| 42 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 558.56 | 58 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 545.77 | 22 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 533.13 | 30 |
| 45 | CESifo | München, Germany | 531.55 | 51 |
| (45) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 506.06 | 7 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 504.78 | 36 |
| 47 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 501.16 | 79 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 497.24 | 29 |
| (48) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 496.19 | 21 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 487.56 | 19 |
| 50 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 486 | 13 |
| (50) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 484.87 | 16 |
| (50) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 477.1 | 7 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 474.27 | 19 |
| (51) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 469.67 | 7 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 454.07 | 15 |
| 53 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 453.85 | 8 |
| 54 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 453.83 | 5 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 440.72 | 10 |
| 56 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 426.67 | 26 |
| (56) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 417.84 | 4 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 417.29 | 25 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 373.33 | 23 |
| 59 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 371.09 | 7 |
| (59) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 357.88 | 9 |
| (59) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 355.44 | 8 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 351.55 | 21 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 350.92 | 28 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 347.69 | 20 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 343.82 | 29 |
| 64 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 342.55 | 8 |
| 65 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 337.6 | 6 |
| (65) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 337.58 | 5 |
| (65) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 330.92 | 24 |
| (65) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 324.07 | 24 |
| (65) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 322.17 | 4 |
| 66 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 321.71 | 15 |
| (66) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 314.98 | 13 |
| (66) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 306.86 | 5 |
| 67 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 292.05 | 19 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 288.52 | 29 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 285.52 | 6 |
| 70 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 282.79 | 16 |
| 71 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 281.14 | 7 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 277.9 | 23 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 273.46 | 10 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 267.96 | 10 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 266.03 | 6 |
| (74) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 264.36 | 2 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 261.45 | 8 |
| 76 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 257.3 | 7 |
| (76) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 252.87 | 3 |
| (76) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 250.88 | 5 |
| (76) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 247.99 | 2 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 247.38 | 8 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 247.32 | 10 |
| 79 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 245.84 | 45 |
| 80 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 241.89 | 4 |
| (80) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 237.2 | 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) | 237.2 | 1 |
| 81 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 233.18 | 7 |
| (81) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 230.58 | 1 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 223.12 | 15 |
| (82) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 221.05 | 7 |
| (82) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 216.94 | 5 |
| (82) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 214.59 | 1 |
| (82) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 213.1 | 16 |
| 83 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 203.02 | 7 |
| 84 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 202.32 | 40 |
| 85 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 200.86 | 6 |
| 86 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 197.15 | 45 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 196 | 4 |
| 88 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 195.38 | 10 |
| 89 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 193.35 | 14 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 190.64 | 19 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 188.78 | 12 |
| (91) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 188.21 | 4 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 187.99 | 11 |
| 93 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 186.46 | 15 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 183.9 | 7 |
| (94) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 183.9 | 7 |
| (94) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 176.83 | 9 |
| 95 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 176.83 | 10 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 172.62 | 9 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 171.87 | 26 |
| 98 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 171.83 | 2 |
| 99 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | | 166.07 | 13 |
| 100 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 165.07 | 13 |
| (100) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 163.62 | 3 |
| 101 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 163.37 | 8 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 163.04 | 22 |
| 103 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 162.06 | 21 |
| 104 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 160.52 | 4 |
| (104) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 159.89 | 1 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 156.4 | 14 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 152.27 | 14 |
| 107 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 151.62 | 6 |
| (107) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 149.1 | 18 |
| 108 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 148.83 | 15 |
| 109 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 148.45 | 3 |
| 110 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 145.1 | 6 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 144.82 | 31 |
| 112 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 144.41 | 7 |
| (112) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 144.41 | 7 |
| 113 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 140.88 | 2 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 139.89 | 14 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 137.93 | 10 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 137.41 | 19 |
| 117 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 136.09 | 1 |
| 118 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 135.66 | 10 |
| 119 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 130.34 | 39 |
| 120 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 129.34 | 2 |
| 121 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 127.51 | 33 |
| 122 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 126.17 | 9 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 126.09 | 14 |
| (123) | 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 | 125.89 | 12 |
| 124 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 125.49 | 25 |
| 125 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 124.42 | 3 |
| 126 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 123.92 | 7 |
| 127 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 122.93 | 9 |
| 128 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 122.82 | 6 |
| (128) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 119.93 | 2 |
| 129 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 118.62 | 4 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 116.82 | 12 |
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