| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7387.35 | 225 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2557.67 | 190 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1182.18 | 38 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1131.25 | 28 |
| 5 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 984.17 | 200 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 901.69 | 30 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 866.87 | 23 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 788.63 | 84 |
| 9 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 779.94 | 12 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 734.57 | 32 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 601.04 | 24 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 596.71 | 19 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 586.76 | 24 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 569.77 | 27 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 533.34 | 15 |
| 15 | CESifo | München, Germany | 532.4 | 53 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 525.79 | 107 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 516.78 | 29 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 514.93 | 21 |
| 19 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 479.63 | 11 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 452.06 | 25 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 440.84 | 29 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 435.49 | 18 |
| 22 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 435.25 | 19 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 427.93 | 34 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 406.91 | 59 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 390.93 | 14 |
| 25 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 384.79 | 32 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 360.33 | 37 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 351.32 | 22 |
| (27) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 336.85 | 21 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 332.99 | 17 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 328.84 | 18 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 323.8 | 30 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 319.42 | 27 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 317.53 | 21 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 309.82 | 23 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 303.56 | 13 |
| 35 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 292.85 | 19 |
| 36 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 290.69 | 9 |
| 37 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 287.19 | 27 |
| 38 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 263.28 | 80 |
| 39 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 257.29 | 11 |
| 40 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 254.19 | 26 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 249.73 | 21 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 247.02 | 21 |
| 43 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 244.62 | 11 |
| 44 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 242.01 | 15 |
| (44) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 241.38 | 13 |
| 45 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 233.97 | 13 |
| (45) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 233.95 | 4 |
| 46 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 231.15 | 18 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 230.03 | 23 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 229.11 | 33 |
| 49 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 227.24 | 11 |
| (49) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 224.59 | 10 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 222.46 | 15 |
| 51 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 216.17 | 13 |
| (51) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 214.88 | 16 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 212.3 | 21 |
| 53 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 212.27 | 8 |
| (53) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 212.24 | 7 |
| 54 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 212.15 | 25 |
| 55 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 201.75 | 4 |
| (55) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 198.11 | 7 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 196.59 | 19 |
| 57 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 194.73 | 8 |
| 58 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 193.35 | 21 |
| 59 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 192.67 | 29 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 191.98 | 30 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 184.92 | 10 |
| (61) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 182.76 | 4 |
| 62 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 173.55 | 3 |
| 63 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 170.58 | 18 |
| 64 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 167.11 | 44 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 166.7 | 20 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 166.64 | 23 |
| 67 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 162.59 | 31 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 160.83 | 29 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 159.79 | 10 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 157.9 | 22 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 154.25 | 21 |
| (71) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 153.52 | 3 |
| (71) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 153.15 | 1 |
| (71) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 150.64 | 24 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 150.15 | 27 |
| (72) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 149.82 | 25 |
| 73 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 148.34 | 14 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 148.22 | 15 |
| 75 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 146.87 | 7 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 146.7 | 48 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 145.77 | 19 |
| (77) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 139.96 | 13 |
| (77) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 139.67 | 2 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 139.21 | 14 |
| (78) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 136.79 | 9 |
| 79 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 134.89 | 19 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 133.48 | 8 |
| 81 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 132.08 | 26 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 129.3 | 11 |
| 83 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 128.3 | 40 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 127.39 | 14 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 127.16 | 9 |
| (85) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 125.52 | 4 |
| 86 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 121.84 | 45 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 121.82 | 10 |
| 88 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 121.53 | 10 |
| 89 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 120.43 | 21 |
| (89) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 120.2 | 18 |
| 90 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 120.2 | 18 |
| 91 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 119.12 | 6 |
| (91) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 118.89 | 16 |
| 92 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 117.81 | 8 |
| (92) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 117.8 | 7 |
| 93 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 114.23 | 45 |
| 94 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 113.94 | 18 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 113.1 | 14 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 111.91 | 26 |
| 97 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 109.86 | 14 |
| (97) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 109.11 | 7 |
| 98 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 107.04 | 6 |
| 99 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 105.96 | 34 |
| (99) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 104.27 | 5 |
| 100 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 101.87 | 5 |
| 101 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 101.6 | 5 |
| 102 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 100.84 | 16 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 99.11 | 13 |
| (103) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 97.59 | 5 |
| 104 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 97.14 | 9 |
| (104) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 95.5 | 5 |
| 105 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 95.38 | 25 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 95.16 | 6 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 95.16 | 13 |
| (107) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 95.09 | 5 |
| (107) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 94.2 | 16 |
| 108 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 92.41 | 12 |
| 109 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 92.34 | 10 |
| 110 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 92.3 | 29 |
| (110) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 92.14 | 2 |
| (110) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 91.99 | 8 |
| 111 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 87.42 | 9 |
| (111) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 87.29 | 18 |
| 112 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 86.04 | 25 |
| 113 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 85.33 | 6 |
| 114 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 84.59 | 17 |
| 115 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 84.32 | 23 |
| 116 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 84.15 | 18 |
| (116) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 84.14 | 2 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 83.34 | 25 |
| 118 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 83.32 | 14 |
| 119 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 82.56 | 3 |
| 120 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 81.78 | 17 |
| 121 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 80.67 | 8 |
| 122 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 80.01 | 7 |
| 123 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 78.91 | 14 |
| 124 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 78.62 | 40 |
| 125 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 78.34 | 27 |
| 126 | ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. | München, Germany | 78.01 | 7 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 78.01 | 12 |
| 128 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 77.83 | 1 |
| 129 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 76.7 | 13 |
| (129) | 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 | 76.37 | 12 |
| (129) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 76.21 | 5 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 74.84 | 12 |
| (130) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 74.59 | 2 |
| 131 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 74.55 | 6 |
| 132 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 74.49 | 6 |
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