| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 125121.47 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 34216.1 | 185 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25057.27 | 28 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 23657.52 | 40 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16319.21 | 31 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12196.66 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11242.29 | 29 |
| 8 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 10527.21 | 194 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10490.38 | 82 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10267.03 | 11 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9956.72 | 104 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9921.68 | 16 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9809.05 | 23 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9654.59 | 17 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9266.2 | 23 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8859.33 | 28 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8583.23 | 18 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 8397.67 | 17 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8330.94 | 33 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8111.01 | 14 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7989.27 | 14 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7725 | 26 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7251.5 | 26 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 7145.56 | 28 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6884.69 | 34 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6812.2 | 13 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6490.09 | 24 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5484.54 | 20 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5480.12 | 11 |
| 26 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5248.03 | 21 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5155.01 | 32 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4941.13 | 21 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4915.33 | 22 |
| 30 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4755.12 | 12 |
| 31 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 4744.12 | 36 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4641.86 | 22 |
| 33 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4618.81 | 27 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4473.4 | 13 |
| 35 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4381.46 | 13 |
| 36 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4256.14 | 8 |
| (36) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4255.93 | 7 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4239.95 | 19 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4238.51 | 20 |
| 39 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4197.06 | 79 |
| (39) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4174.48 | 5 |
| (39) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4165.42 | 7 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4020.26 | 15 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3977.61 | 21 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3968.47 | 13 |
| 43 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3894.83 | 13 |
| (43) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3886.67 | 7 |
| 44 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3861.37 | 58 |
| 45 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3845.87 | 3 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3843.8 | 25 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3839.93 | 19 |
| (47) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3832.07 | 16 |
| (47) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3656.42 | 4 |
| 48 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3592.25 | 51 |
| 49 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3464.97 | 36 |
| (49) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3389.95 | 21 |
| 50 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3369.5 | 10 |
| (50) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3345.04 | 8 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3335.66 | 26 |
| (51) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3264.99 | 7 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3208.73 | 30 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3175.34 | 20 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3126.11 | 19 |
| 55 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3096.7 | 8 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3082.47 | 10 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3026.38 | 29 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2872.71 | 16 |
| (57) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2843.68 | 24 |
| (57) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2790.23 | 4 |
| 58 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2767.44 | 7 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2716.73 | 23 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2538.6 | 8 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2499 | 21 |
| 62 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2391.55 | 5 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2390.9 | 23 |
| (63) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2360.37 | 5 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2336.47 | 6 |
| (64) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2334.06 | 13 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2329.44 | 19 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2323.57 | 10 |
| (66) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2296.93 | 4 |
| 67 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2223.03 | 16 |
| (67) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2132.97 | 5 |
| (67) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2121.65 | 10 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2063.32 | 29 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2033.82 | 28 |
| 70 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1942.37 | 45 |
| 71 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1928.97 | 6 |
| (71) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1928.85 | 5 |
| (71) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1888.89 | 1 |
| (71) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1888.89 | 1 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1873.96 | 24 |
| 72 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1872.48 | 7 |
| (72) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1834.8 | 5 |
| (72) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1801.65 | 2 |
| 73 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1768.35 | 7 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1761.53 | 29 |
| (74) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1699.95 | 2 |
| (74) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1693.78 | 9 |
| 75 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1646.2 | 15 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1645.67 | 45 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1635.51 | 8 |
| (77) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1627.82 | 3 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1565.22 | 6 |
| (78) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1522.15 | 16 |
| 79 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1514.32 | 40 |
| 80 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1476.75 | 6 |
| 81 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1462.99 | 10 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1459.37 | 9 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1449.52 | 8 |
| 84 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1430.06 | 14 |
| 85 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1416.61 | 15 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1414.61 | 4 |
| 87 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1405.97 | 7 |
| 88 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1392.59 | 4 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1390.23 | 15 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1379.2 | 19 |
| 91 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1374.63 | 4 |
| 92 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | | 1371.88 | 13 |
| 93 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1369.75 | 2 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1362.6 | 10 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1357.79 | 26 |
| 96 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 1344.56 | 7 |
| (96) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1315.11 | 1 |
| (96) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1278.01 | 9 |
| 97 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1278.01 | 10 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1264.5 | 22 |
| (98) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1263.39 | 1 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1260.14 | 7 |
| (99) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1260.14 | 7 |
| (99) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1258.35 | 4 |
| (99) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1234.32 | 7 |
| 100 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1234.03 | 11 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1202.65 | 31 |
| 102 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1195.02 | 3 |
| 103 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1192.43 | 15 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1191.52 | 14 |
| (104) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1167.29 | 1 |
| 105 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1157.15 | 6 |
| (105) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1151.55 | 18 |
| 106 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1150.58 | 7 |
| (106) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1150.58 | 7 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1139.34 | 14 |
| 108 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1129.17 | 3 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1112.21 | 21 |
| (109) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1110.86 | 16 |
| 110 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1110.86 | 16 |
| 111 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1089.4 | 2 |
| (111) | 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 | 1041.22 | 12 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1034.73 | 19 |
| (112) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1024.74 | 2 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1010 | 12 |
| 114 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1006.2 | 23 |
| (114) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1003.03 | 3 |
| 115 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 995.45 | 39 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 993.73 | 10 |
| 117 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 975.96 | 13 |
| 118 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 974.07 | 7 |
| 119 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 971.34 | 25 |
| 120 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 937.62 | 10 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 935.03 | 14 |
| 122 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 923.53 | 33 |
| (122) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 923.33 | 6 |
| 123 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 923.33 | 7 |
| 124 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 888.94 | 9 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 886.86 | 14 |
| 126 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 865.01 | 7 |
| 127 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 856.41 | 16 |
| 128 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 850.86 | 9 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 838.6 | 8 |
| (129) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 818.24 | 10 |
| (129) | ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 816.93 | 4 |
| 130 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 814.51 | 8 |
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