| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 48228.5 | 225 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 17891.78 | 190 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9537.84 | 38 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7456.77 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6901.67 | 32 |
| 6 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6644.81 | 200 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6305.61 | 23 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6304.77 | 84 |
| 9 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6215.72 | 12 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6129.5 | 19 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5712.25 | 21 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5409.84 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4951.23 | 29 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4755.27 | 27 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4494.75 | 24 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4411.02 | 18 |
| 17 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4224.08 | 59 |
| (17) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4150.33 | 34 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4031.61 | 15 |
| 18 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3805.38 | 11 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3755.25 | 29 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3655.02 | 24 |
| 21 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3437.68 | 37 |
| (21) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3277.32 | 21 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3262.38 | 17 |
| 23 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3212.33 | 107 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3208.63 | 27 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3195.75 | 18 |
| 26 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3062.03 | 53 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3041.77 | 14 |
| (27) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2974.48 | 25 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2837.83 | 23 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2638.68 | 19 |
| 30 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2628.92 | 13 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2562.6 | 30 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2552.31 | 22 |
| 33 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2539.06 | 9 |
| 34 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2515.87 | 15 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2477.09 | 21 |
| (35) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2469.58 | 13 |
| 36 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2435.41 | 32 |
| 37 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2332.26 | 27 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2285.32 | 30 |
| 39 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2198.97 | 8 |
| (39) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2198.81 | 7 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2166.53 | 21 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2140.66 | 21 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2127.7 | 23 |
| 43 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2076.87 | 13 |
| 44 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1927.99 | 7 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1915 | 48 |
| 46 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1875.91 | 3 |
| 47 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1868.35 | 11 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1867.16 | 33 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1795.12 | 20 |
| 50 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1778.56 | 25 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1744.5 | 19 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1725.03 | 18 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1707.23 | 21 |
| 54 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1676.69 | 29 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1669.04 | 10 |
| (55) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1662.06 | 16 |
| 56 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1655.97 | 80 |
| 57 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1655.91 | 8 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1641.83 | 26 |
| 59 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1624.09 | 13 |
| (59) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1576.71 | 18 |
| 60 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1576.71 | 18 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1570.2 | 19 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1554.33 | 19 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1539.21 | 15 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1535.92 | 22 |
| 65 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1503.58 | 14 |
| 66 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1461.42 | 14 |
| (66) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1446.16 | 7 |
| 67 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1440.29 | 44 |
| 68 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1434.83 | 26 |
| 69 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1377.89 | 21 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1348.35 | 27 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1345.71 | 25 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1341.46 | 10 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1282.48 | 9 |
| 73 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1279.83 | 6 |
| (73) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1258.68 | 5 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1251.8 | 19 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1226.26 | 29 |
| 76 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1210 | 11 |
| 77 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1208.67 | 8 |
| (77) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1208.59 | 7 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1175.09 | 21 |
| 79 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1118.48 | 40 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1096.64 | 10 |
| 81 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1062.36 | 11 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1058.28 | 14 |
| 83 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1053.9 | 23 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1044.08 | 11 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1037.4 | 10 |
| (84) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1025.33 | 7 |
| 85 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1017.07 | 18 |
| 86 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 989.87 | 6 |
| 87 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 982.83 | 31 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 980.19 | 15 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 978.75 | 14 |
| 90 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 978.18 | 10 |
| (90) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 947.09 | 13 |
| (90) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 925.74 | 24 |
| 91 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 924.12 | 45 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 918.71 | 17 |
| (92) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 907.12 | 5 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 886.78 | 14 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 877.16 | 8 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 872.03 | 14 |
| (95) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 871.82 | 4 |
| (95) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 869.05 | 4 |
| 96 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 863.67 | 18 |
| (96) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 863.44 | 9 |
| 97 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 863.44 | 10 |
| 98 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 860.95 | 23 |
| 99 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 855.86 | 14 |
| (99) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 855.31 | 16 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 845.72 | 10 |
| 101 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 844.84 | 21 |
| 102 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 838.88 | 7 |
| (102) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 832.5 | 2 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 829.62 | 19 |
| 104 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 829.32 | 6 |
| 105 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 827.92 | 14 |
| 106 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 795.65 | 2 |
| (106) | 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 | 795.35 | 12 |
| 107 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 785.32 | 9 |
| 108 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 784.45 | 7 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 772.75 | 25 |
| 110 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 768.34 | 16 |
| 111 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 766.23 | 17 |
| 112 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 762.65 | 6 |
| 113 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 756.21 | 11 |
| 114 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 745.99 | 25 |
| 115 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 745.88 | 9 |
| (115) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 737.16 | 5 |
| (115) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 728.53 | 16 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 728.32 | 5 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 727.74 | 18 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 715.81 | 14 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 712.4 | 25 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 697.98 | 26 |
| 121 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 692.35 | 17 |
| (121) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 686.68 | 11 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 683.47 | 6 |
| 123 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 679.97 | 13 |
| 124 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 664.96 | 18 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 663.37 | 8 |
| 126 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 659.27 | 3 |
| (126) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 654.55 | 5 |
| (126) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 652.66 | 7 |
| 127 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 649.97 | 5 |
| (127) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 641.59 | 4 |
| (127) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 630.52 | 1 |
| 128 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 629.04 | 34 |
| 129 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 626.85 | 5 |
| (129) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 625.55 | 18 |
| 130 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 625.34 | 14 |
| (130) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 624.73 | 2 |
| (130) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 624.34 | 9 |
| 131 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 618.07 | 5 |
| 132 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 607.33 | 10 |
Credits: