| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12223.27 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 5166.9 | 185 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2020.71 | 40 |
| 4 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1833.65 | 194 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1827.6 | 28 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1220.57 | 31 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1212.26 | 82 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1135.3 | 29 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1126.08 | 23 |
| 10 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1052.65 | 17 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1032.22 | 17 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 963.13 | 23 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 958.64 | 104 |
| 14 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 940.19 | 23 |
| 15 | CESifo | München, Germany | 881.12 | 51 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 871.9 | 26 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 831.5 | 12 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 815.05 | 14 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 777.36 | 22 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 696.41 | 19 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 692.6 | 28 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 690.71 | 28 |
| 22 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 687.38 | 20 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 681.47 | 58 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 677.36 | 13 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 668.1 | 24 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 666.02 | 14 |
| (24) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 662.59 | 34 |
| 25 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 633.86 | 32 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 631.73 | 36 |
| 27 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 597.28 | 27 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 596.87 | 22 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 587.69 | 21 |
| 29 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 585.29 | 11 |
| 30 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 576.63 | 18 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 572.77 | 16 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 530.06 | 30 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 526.8 | 33 |
| 34 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 518.73 | 79 |
| 35 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 514.51 | 19 |
| 36 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 473.68 | 26 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 465.7 | 26 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 450.67 | 23 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 438.03 | 21 |
| 40 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 436.71 | 21 |
| 41 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 428.01 | 11 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 425.69 | 29 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 409.82 | 21 |
| 44 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 409.8 | 13 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 396.8 | 21 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 383.95 | 20 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 383.73 | 25 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 377.5 | 15 |
| 49 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 372.79 | 10 |
| (49) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 365.45 | 4 |
| 50 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 363.2 | 36 |
| 51 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 360.46 | 8 |
| 52 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 359.05 | 11 |
| (52) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 358.6 | 16 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 339.18 | 28 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 336.65 | 16 |
| 54 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 331.77 | 19 |
| 55 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 330.52 | 23 |
| (55) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 326.92 | 13 |
| 56 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 319.68 | 15 |
| 57 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 315.05 | 8 |
| (57) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 315.03 | 7 |
| 58 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 314.13 | 13 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 313.28 | 20 |
| 60 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 309.16 | 40 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 308.75 | 8 |
| (61) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 307.81 | 9 |
| 62 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 307.71 | 29 |
| (62) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 306.43 | 24 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 306.41 | 15 |
| 64 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 305.61 | 45 |
| 65 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 298.69 | 21 |
| (65) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 295.68 | 4 |
| (65) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 295.21 | 7 |
| (65) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 291.88 | 24 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 287.63 | 19 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 280.3 | 29 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 279.09 | 22 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 277.88 | 19 |
| 70 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 277.86 | 3 |
| 71 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 275.79 | 45 |
| (71) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 274.3 | 10 |
| 72 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 267.93 | 7 |
| (72) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 267.93 | 7 |
| (72) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 263.8 | 8 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 255.54 | 8 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 253.65 | 10 |
| 75 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 248.45 | 10 |
| 76 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 247.28 | 13 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 241.76 | 14 |
| 78 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 241.34 | 13 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 236.28 | 26 |
| (79) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 235.08 | 16 |
| (79) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 227.27 | 2 |
| (79) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 226.81 | 7 |
| 80 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 225.98 | 19 |
| (80) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 225.95 | 1 |
| 81 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 222.41 | 39 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 221.93 | 10 |
| 83 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 220.54 | 4 |
| 84 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 207.96 | 9 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 199.24 | 6 |
| 86 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 193.79 | 6 |
| 87 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 192.23 | 4 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 190.73 | 14 |
| 89 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 190.19 | 13 |
| 90 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 190.14 | 17 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 186.9 | 9 |
| 92 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 186.79 | 7 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 186.08 | 10 |
| 94 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 186.03 | 12 |
| 95 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | | 183.6 | 13 |
| (95) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 182.57 | 4 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 179.57 | 14 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 178.97 | 31 |
| (97) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 175.28 | 3 |
| 98 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 172.49 | 24 |
| (98) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 172.17 | 18 |
| (98) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 171.77 | 2 |
| 99 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 168.78 | 33 |
| (99) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 167.99 | 2 |
| (99) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 167.24 | 5 |
| 100 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 166.14 | 18 |
| (100) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 165.32 | 16 |
| 101 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 165.32 | 16 |
| 102 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 165.22 | 14 |
| 103 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 164.21 | 28 |
| 104 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 160.79 | 15 |
| (104) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 160.72 | 5 |
| 105 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 160.64 | 10 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 159.42 | 25 |
| 107 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 158.75 | 10 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 158.4 | 12 |
| 109 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 158.39 | 40 |
| 110 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 156.76 | 8 |
| (110) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 154.18 | 5 |
| (110) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 154.08 | 2 |
| 111 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 152.52 | 16 |
| 112 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 152.09 | 7 |
| 113 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 151.28 | 16 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 149.74 | 7 |
| (114) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 149.74 | 7 |
| 115 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 148.75 | 23 |
| 116 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 148.29 | 6 |
| (116) | 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 | 147.57 | 12 |
| (116) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 145.21 | 1 |
| 117 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 144.57 | 5 |
| (117) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 144.55 | 5 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 143.41 | 6 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 142.92 | 12 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 142.78 | 9 |
| 121 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 140.66 | 10 |
| (121) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 140.55 | 9 |
| 122 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 139.13 | 16 |
| 123 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 138.77 | 6 |
| 124 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 137.71 | 14 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 136.41 | 14 |
| (125) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 135.49 | 5 |
| 126 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 135.11 | 23 |
| (126) | Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 134.63 | 2 |
| 127 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 134.62 | 27 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 133.23 | 14 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 131.31 | 14 |
| 130 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 130.98 | 2 |
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