| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17067.42 | 225 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4549.71 | 190 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3178.8 | 28 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2949.58 | 38 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2012.78 | 30 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1967.53 | 32 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1876.73 | 18 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1863.71 | 21 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1750.14 | 23 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1703 | 11 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1480.53 | 84 |
| 12 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1420.25 | 200 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1288.72 | 24 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1286.59 | 24 |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1261.85 | 107 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1180.24 | 29 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1170.95 | 27 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1145.04 | 17 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1082.46 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1062.12 | 29 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1005.84 | 34 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 982.81 | 33 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 953.74 | 25 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 914.79 | 14 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 902.57 | 27 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 899.44 | 18 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 869.88 | 13 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 828.7 | 11 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 809.26 | 13 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 746.51 | 21 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 739.83 | 32 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 704.2 | 12 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 702.21 | 19 |
| 30 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 625.7 | 13 |
| 31 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 619.72 | 3 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 603 | 19 |
| 33 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 602.48 | 59 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 594.32 | 22 |
| 35 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 577.43 | 21 |
| 36 | CESifo | München, Germany | 568.6 | 53 |
| 37 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 564.74 | 37 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 561.55 | 13 |
| (38) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 556.75 | 21 |
| (38) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 541.28 | 16 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 535.93 | 21 |
| (39) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 527.64 | 4 |
| 40 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 514.73 | 8 |
| (40) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 514.71 | 7 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 512.05 | 23 |
| 42 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 502.32 | 26 |
| 43 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 502.06 | 14 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 489.29 | 27 |
| 45 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 474.03 | 11 |
| 46 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 468.87 | 80 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 467.88 | 21 |
| 48 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 463.92 | 9 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 452.13 | 19 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 446.72 | 30 |
| (50) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 444.08 | 7 |
| 51 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 439.3 | 25 |
| (51) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 439.05 | 7 |
| 52 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 404.91 | 5 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 399.43 | 19 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 396.87 | 29 |
| (54) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 394.4 | 4 |
| 55 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 374.89 | 8 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 372.47 | 10 |
| 57 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 368.89 | 8 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 360.74 | 23 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 359.81 | 18 |
| (59) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 348.31 | 16 |
| 60 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 348.07 | 6 |
| (60) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 348.07 | 5 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 344.55 | 20 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 342.87 | 14 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 339.66 | 8 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 332.38 | 21 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 322.01 | 10 |
| (64) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 318.24 | 5 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 317.08 | 18 |
| (65) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 313.71 | 24 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 312.08 | 30 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 308.32 | 21 |
| 68 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 304.73 | 17 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 300.62 | 29 |
| (69) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 300.08 | 4 |
| (69) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 287.95 | 9 |
| (69) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 286.89 | 8 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 285.06 | 27 |
| 71 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 284.91 | 23 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 281.87 | 25 |
| 72 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 269.31 | 6 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 258.68 | 10 |
| 74 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 255.68 | 7 |
| 75 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 250.89 | 4 |
| (75) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 248.03 | 13 |
| (75) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 246.46 | 1 |
| (75) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 246.46 | 1 |
| (75) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 246.12 | 2 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 239 | 6 |
| (76) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 232.98 | 3 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 228.18 | 8 |
| (77) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 226.64 | 1 |
| 78 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 225.68 | 7 |
| (78) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 219.36 | 5 |
| 79 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 215.34 | 13 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 212.35 | 15 |
| 81 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 208.88 | 14 |
| 82 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 206.76 | 7 |
| 83 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 201.79 | 44 |
| (83) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 200.97 | 2 |
| 84 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 200.52 | 45 |
| 85 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 195.56 | 8 |
| 86 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 195.48 | 21 |
| 87 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 192.87 | 14 |
| 88 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 191.2 | 45 |
| 89 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 190.18 | 6 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 189.26 | 48 |
| (90) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 188.63 | 16 |
| (90) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 188.48 | 5 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 187 | 10 |
| 92 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 185.93 | 10 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 185.17 | 5 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 184.09 | 9 |
| (94) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 178.65 | 3 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 175.99 | 19 |
| 96 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 175.4 | 5 |
| (96) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 174.63 | 1 |
| (96) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 173.16 | 7 |
| 97 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 172.51 | 14 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 168.16 | 22 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 166.63 | 12 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 164.93 | 10 |
| 101 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 164.02 | 31 |
| 102 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 163.51 | 2 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 163.01 | 11 |
| 104 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 159.78 | 8 |
| (104) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 159.78 | 7 |
| (104) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 159.45 | 6 |
| 105 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 158.93 | 15 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 157.23 | 26 |
| 107 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 155.59 | 11 |
| (107) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 154.41 | 1 |
| 108 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 152.25 | 2 |
| (108) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 147.43 | 9 |
| 109 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 147.43 | 10 |
| (109) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 147.03 | 4 |
| 110 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 143.55 | 9 |
| 111 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 139.98 | 6 |
| (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 | 139.98 | 12 |
| 112 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 139.89 | 34 |
| (112) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 139.42 | 18 |
| 113 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 138.7 | 3 |
| 114 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 137.86 | 40 |
| 115 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 136.7 | 6 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 136.55 | 14 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 132.97 | 19 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 131.75 | 14 |
| 119 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 131.35 | 26 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 130.55 | 14 |
| (120) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 127.98 | 18 |
| 121 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 127.98 | 18 |
| 122 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 124.77 | 3 |
| 123 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 124.66 | 1 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 124.42 | 15 |
| 125 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 122.63 | 6 |
| 126 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 122.56 | 40 |
| 127 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 121.16 | 18 |
| 128 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 119.21 | 10 |
| 129 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 118.68 | 6 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 116.93 | 8 |
| 131 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 115.87 | 2 |
| 132 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 114.98 | 11 |
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