| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7474.17 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2944.71 | 185 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1304.91 | 40 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1124.27 | 28 |
| 5 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1054.81 | 194 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 771.1 | 29 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 746.41 | 82 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 736.18 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 717.8 | 31 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 610.88 | 12 |
| 11 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 592.84 | 23 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 591.97 | 23 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 566.7 | 17 |
| 14 | CESifo | München, Germany | 561.89 | 51 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 548.49 | 26 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 536.77 | 17 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 516.61 | 14 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 514.25 | 104 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 467.56 | 19 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 461.72 | 22 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 438.57 | 28 |
| 21 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 433.14 | 20 |
| 22 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 432.99 | 11 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 420.27 | 24 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 416.16 | 14 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 405.56 | 28 |
| (24) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 404.5 | 34 |
| 25 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 392.95 | 58 |
| (25) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 389.93 | 13 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 375.04 | 36 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 373.07 | 32 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 364.26 | 16 |
| 29 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 354.85 | 18 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 354.2 | 21 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 340.27 | 30 |
| 31 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 322.28 | 33 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 315.33 | 27 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 312.37 | 19 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 301.99 | 22 |
| 35 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 287.02 | 11 |
| 36 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 286.03 | 10 |
| 37 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 271.01 | 79 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 268.66 | 26 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 268.17 | 21 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 268.15 | 13 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 264.43 | 23 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 264.16 | 21 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 263.15 | 29 |
| 44 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 257.3 | 26 |
| (44) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 255.72 | 4 |
| (44) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 255.01 | 9 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 238.81 | 21 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 231.9 | 8 |
| 47 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 230.65 | 21 |
| 48 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 222.24 | 15 |
| 49 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 220.07 | 36 |
| (49) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 218.46 | 16 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 215.69 | 20 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 213.76 | 28 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 210.9 | 15 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 209.94 | 16 |
| 53 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 204.66 | 11 |
| 54 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 200.84 | 21 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 198.56 | 25 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 197.36 | 15 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 190.09 | 24 |
| (56) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 189.54 | 7 |
| (56) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 187.49 | 4 |
| 57 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 186.14 | 7 |
| (57) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 186.14 | 7 |
| 58 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 184.63 | 29 |
| 59 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 183.84 | 13 |
| 60 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 181.22 | 23 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 180.11 | 29 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 177.94 | 8 |
| 63 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 177.81 | 13 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 175.99 | 19 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 174.98 | 19 |
| 66 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 174.07 | 40 |
| 67 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 173.63 | 8 |
| (67) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 173.62 | 7 |
| (67) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 173.55 | 13 |
| 68 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 168.27 | 3 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 167.7 | 20 |
| 70 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 167.29 | 4 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 163.03 | 10 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 160.53 | 22 |
| 73 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 153.85 | 45 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 152.34 | 14 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 145.98 | 8 |
| (75) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 144.81 | 2 |
| 76 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 144.42 | 10 |
| (76) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 143.92 | 8 |
| (76) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 143.79 | 10 |
| (76) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 142.93 | 24 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 140.12 | 19 |
| (77) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 136.23 | 16 |
| 78 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 135.43 | 45 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 133.58 | 13 |
| 80 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 131.36 | 13 |
| 81 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 130.08 | 19 |
| 82 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 129.54 | 39 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 126.64 | 10 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 125.49 | 26 |
| (84) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 124.01 | 3 |
| (84) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 120.23 | 1 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 120.04 | 9 |
| (85) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 118.63 | 1 |
| 86 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 118.24 | 7 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 112.53 | 14 |
| (87) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 111.98 | 2 |
| 88 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 111.73 | 17 |
| (88) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 109.98 | 7 |
| 89 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 107.05 | 9 |
| 90 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 106.98 | 6 |
| (90) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 106.27 | 2 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 106.23 | 10 |
| 92 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 106.12 | 6 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 105.64 | 10 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 105.25 | 16 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 102.77 | 6 |
| 96 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 102.48 | 6 |
| 97 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 101.51 | 4 |
| (97) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 100.91 | 4 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 99.51 | 14 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 99.03 | 31 |
| 100 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 97.34 | 10 |
| (100) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 96.32 | 2 |
| 101 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | | 96.18 | 13 |
| 102 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 95.97 | 28 |
| 103 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 95.23 | 18 |
| 104 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 95.14 | 5 |
| 105 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 94.63 | 12 |
| 106 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 94.53 | 33 |
| 107 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 94.14 | 25 |
| (107) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 93.68 | 5 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 93.18 | 12 |
| (108) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 92.3 | 18 |
| 109 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 92.14 | 6 |
| 110 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 91.35 | 14 |
| (110) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 91.06 | 5 |
| 111 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 90.73 | 16 |
| (111) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 88.89 | 5 |
| 112 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 88.81 | 24 |
| (112) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 88.79 | 5 |
| 113 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 88.69 | 15 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 88.52 | 7 |
| (114) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 88.52 | 7 |
| (114) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 87.67 | 5 |
| 115 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 85.97 | 4 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 85.51 | 9 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 85.48 | 12 |
| 118 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 83.56 | 14 |
| 119 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 83.47 | 7 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 82.89 | 14 |
| (120) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 82.47 | 5 |
| (120) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 81.17 | 7 |
| 121 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 81.03 | 15 |
| 122 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 80.87 | 27 |
| 123 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 80.52 | 8 |
| 124 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 80.24 | 9 |
| (124) | 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 | 79.61 | 12 |
| 125 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 79.25 | 40 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 78.84 | 17 |
| 127 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 78.4 | 23 |
| 128 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 78 | 16 |
| 129 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 77.02 | 8 |
| 130 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 76.91 | 39 |
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