| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 31999.67 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8926.82 | 185 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6163.57 | 28 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6161.26 | 40 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4395.04 | 31 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3185.53 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2845.37 | 29 |
| 8 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2723.53 | 17 |
| 9 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2657.78 | 194 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2651.14 | 104 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2627.17 | 23 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2593.71 | 16 |
| 13 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2565.63 | 82 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2519.29 | 11 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2419.76 | 23 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2327.93 | 17 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2279.45 | 18 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2255.94 | 33 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2225.14 | 28 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2127.56 | 14 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2098.55 | 14 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2020.7 | 26 |
| (21) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1911.59 | 13 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1775.02 | 26 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1743.31 | 34 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1717.28 | 28 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1602.36 | 24 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1365.52 | 11 |
| 25 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1333.75 | 36 |
| 26 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1310.99 | 32 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1309.14 | 22 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1306.45 | 20 |
| 29 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1297.35 | 21 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1271.32 | 21 |
| 31 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1240.05 | 8 |
| (31) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1240.03 | 7 |
| (31) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1220.65 | 5 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1181.65 | 27 |
| 33 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1140.29 | 13 |
| 34 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1129.66 | 79 |
| (34) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1124.74 | 7 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1103.93 | 20 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1094 | 22 |
| 37 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1092.4 | 12 |
| 38 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1074.85 | 13 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1070.57 | 21 |
| (39) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1049.34 | 7 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1037.2 | 19 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1033.83 | 19 |
| 42 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1027.55 | 13 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1012.97 | 15 |
| 44 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1000.23 | 13 |
| (44) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 996.33 | 16 |
| (44) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 968.22 | 4 |
| 45 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 963.42 | 58 |
| 46 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 958.67 | 3 |
| 47 | CESifo | München, Germany | 924.26 | 51 |
| 48 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 886.79 | 10 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 874.04 | 25 |
| 50 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 860.63 | 36 |
| (50) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 842.49 | 21 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 837.89 | 29 |
| (51) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 834.71 | 7 |
| (51) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 831.16 | 8 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 826.57 | 10 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 812.12 | 26 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 802.46 | 30 |
| 55 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 794.24 | 8 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 783.38 | 19 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 777 | 24 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 775.91 | 20 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 765.65 | 16 |
| (57) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 721.65 | 4 |
| 58 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 717.47 | 7 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 654.93 | 23 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 640.11 | 8 |
| (60) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 630.61 | 13 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 627.76 | 21 |
| 62 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 607.26 | 19 |
| (62) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 598.05 | 4 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 587.67 | 6 |
| 64 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 572.99 | 23 |
| 65 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 568.08 | 5 |
| (65) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 567.78 | 5 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 562.66 | 10 |
| (66) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 560.2 | 10 |
| (66) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 528.22 | 5 |
| 67 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 521.88 | 45 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 519.12 | 28 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 504.12 | 29 |
| 70 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 488.95 | 16 |
| 71 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 488.5 | 6 |
| (71) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 488.45 | 5 |
| (71) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 483.91 | 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) | 483.91 | 1 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 481.73 | 24 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 480.97 | 29 |
| (72) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 469.39 | 2 |
| 73 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 463.03 | 7 |
| 74 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 449.93 | 7 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 431.65 | 8 |
| (75) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 430.6 | 5 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 430.02 | 45 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 416.95 | 9 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 415.72 | 6 |
| (77) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 414.23 | 16 |
| (77) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 409.1 | 3 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 408.04 | 8 |
| 79 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 396.57 | 15 |
| 80 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 380.81 | 40 |
| (80) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 378.84 | 2 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 374.48 | 26 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 374.04 | 10 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 373.57 | 4 |
| 84 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 372.48 | 10 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 360.86 | 9 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 360.84 | 7 |
| (86) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 360.84 | 7 |
| 87 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 351.11 | 4 |
| 88 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 350.9 | 7 |
| 89 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 350.42 | 14 |
| 90 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 347.81 | 11 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 344.84 | 19 |
| 92 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 344.6 | 2 |
| 93 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 343.84 | 15 |
| 94 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 337.63 | 7 |
| (94) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 337.29 | 1 |
| 95 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | | 337.01 | 13 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 334.41 | 15 |
| (96) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 332.7 | 9 |
| 97 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 332.7 | 10 |
| (97) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 332.59 | 7 |
| 98 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 329.58 | 4 |
| (98) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 327.19 | 18 |
| 99 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 325.29 | 3 |
| 100 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 319.46 | 6 |
| (100) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 318.08 | 1 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 316.08 | 22 |
| (101) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 310.02 | 4 |
| 102 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 309.56 | 3 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 307.8 | 14 |
| (103) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 294.2 | 16 |
| 104 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 294.2 | 16 |
| 105 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 290.11 | 6 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 285.85 | 12 |
| (106) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 278.78 | 1 |
| 107 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 278.76 | 2 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 277.47 | 21 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 266.79 | 14 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 263.76 | 10 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 262.63 | 14 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 262.51 | 31 |
| (112) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 262.28 | 2 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 259.39 | 19 |
| 114 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 258.68 | 13 |
| 115 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 249.27 | 10 |
| 116 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 246.75 | 7 |
| 117 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 242.03 | 16 |
| 118 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 238.75 | 15 |
| (118) | 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 | 237.14 | 12 |
| 119 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 236.93 | 7 |
| (119) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 236.93 | 7 |
| 120 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 235.06 | 33 |
| 121 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 234.97 | 8 |
| 122 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 234.64 | 39 |
| (122) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 232.76 | 10 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 229.76 | 12 |
| 124 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 227.5 | 23 |
| 125 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 225.13 | 7 |
| (125) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 220.39 | 6 |
| 126 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 220.39 | 7 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 218.13 | 14 |
| 128 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 212.8 | 25 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 212.57 | 8 |
| 130 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 206.84 | 9 |
| (130) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 205.69 | 3 |
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