| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 147554.64 | 225 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 42290.98 | 190 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 29626.6 | 28 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 23344.48 | 38 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18779.91 | 32 |
| 6 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17016.24 | 21 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15638.54 | 30 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 15493.13 | 18 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14703.34 | 23 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12783.47 | 84 |
| 11 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 12710.67 | 200 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12564.55 | 107 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12177.96 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 11962.22 | 11 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 11200.57 | 17 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10686.06 | 24 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 10498.63 | 29 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10030.27 | 27 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9886.55 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9749.48 | 18 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9381.96 | 33 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 9110.81 | 14 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 9010.2 | 29 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 8895.94 | 27 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8446.17 | 34 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8019.6 | 25 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7744.99 | 13 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6365.31 | 11 |
| 25 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6037.69 | 32 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5962.3 | 19 |
| 27 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5910.67 | 21 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5714.58 | 22 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5657.93 | 12 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5526.11 | 21 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5459.32 | 23 |
| 32 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5455.78 | 13 |
| 33 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5330.89 | 27 |
| 34 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5200.74 | 59 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 5164.79 | 21 |
| 36 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5119.99 | 3 |
| 37 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5087.39 | 14 |
| 38 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5030.27 | 13 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4918.68 | 19 |
| 40 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4884.26 | 8 |
| (40) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4883.99 | 7 |
| 41 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4876.38 | 80 |
| 42 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4760.45 | 37 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4736.33 | 13 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4674.11 | 21 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4665.21 | 21 |
| (44) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4650.77 | 7 |
| 45 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4622.84 | 25 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 4608.33 | 26 |
| 47 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 4587.58 | 8 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 4559.98 | 19 |
| 49 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4461.77 | 53 |
| (49) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4439.81 | 16 |
| 50 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4425.22 | 9 |
| (50) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4144.71 | 4 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4107.26 | 14 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4025.69 | 20 |
| 53 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3939.77 | 11 |
| (53) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3880.6 | 7 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3683.35 | 30 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3637.36 | 19 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3616.29 | 10 |
| (56) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3597.22 | 4 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3558.34 | 29 |
| (57) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3545.72 | 8 |
| (57) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3480.01 | 24 |
| 58 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3439.87 | 8 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3329.27 | 16 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 3199.2 | 23 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3064.2 | 8 |
| 61 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3021.72 | 23 |
| 62 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3018.73 | 18 |
| 63 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2962.87 | 21 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2905.94 | 6 |
| (64) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2904.59 | 5 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2902.52 | 21 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2748.12 | 10 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2746.63 | 18 |
| (67) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2720.31 | 9 |
| (67) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2671.16 | 13 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2631.62 | 29 |
| 69 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2617.82 | 5 |
| (69) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2585.8 | 1 |
| (69) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2585.8 | 1 |
| (69) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2579.63 | 4 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2439.99 | 27 |
| (70) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2415.1 | 5 |
| 71 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2402.11 | 6 |
| (71) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2402 | 5 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2396.77 | 25 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2262.99 | 30 |
| 73 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2206.09 | 7 |
| 74 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2172.02 | 45 |
| (74) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2137.26 | 5 |
| 75 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 2119.81 | 17 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2014.48 | 45 |
| (76) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1967.95 | 2 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1957.46 | 10 |
| 77 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1955.23 | 7 |
| 78 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1922.57 | 14 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1905.5 | 9 |
| (79) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1870.19 | 2 |
| 80 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1855.57 | 44 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1826.58 | 6 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1821.85 | 10 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1816.28 | 48 |
| 84 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1788.85 | 2 |
| (84) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1788.74 | 3 |
| (84) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1787.95 | 16 |
| 85 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1770.85 | 10 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1765.67 | 8 |
| 87 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1726.3 | 8 |
| 88 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1714.48 | 5 |
| 89 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1700 | 14 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1675.99 | 5 |
| 91 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1660.34 | 6 |
| 92 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1658.56 | 14 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1624.44 | 10 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1610.11 | 15 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1602.59 | 11 |
| (95) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1592.44 | 18 |
| 96 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1592.44 | 18 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1583.5 | 26 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1552.94 | 19 |
| 99 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 1542.02 | 7 |
| 100 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1540.31 | 2 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1523.8 | 22 |
| 102 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1521.57 | 21 |
| 103 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1513.81 | 13 |
| 104 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1513.76 | 4 |
| (104) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1494.15 | 1 |
| (104) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1487.39 | 7 |
| (104) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1452.59 | 9 |
| 105 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1452.59 | 10 |
| (105) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1431 | 4 |
| (105) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1430.3 | 1 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1423.45 | 14 |
| 107 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1393.86 | 11 |
| 108 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1391.86 | 3 |
| 109 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1365.95 | 8 |
| (109) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1365.95 | 7 |
| 110 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1364.41 | 6 |
| 111 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1360.34 | 15 |
| (111) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1354.73 | 18 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1347.62 | 7 |
| (112) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1347.62 | 7 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1346.79 | 12 |
| 114 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1330.23 | 3 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1321.42 | 14 |
| 116 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1301.63 | 31 |
| (116) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1273.42 | 1 |
| (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 | 1251.84 | 12 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1240.22 | 19 |
| 118 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1225.05 | 26 |
| 119 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1170.57 | 34 |
| 120 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1160.48 | 8 |
| (120) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1157.88 | 2 |
| 121 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1148 | 40 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1142.7 | 14 |
| 123 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 1138.91 | 17 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1138.03 | 14 |
| 125 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1134.95 | 23 |
| 126 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1107.16 | 9 |
| (126) | ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1093.65 | 4 |
| (126) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1080.55 | 3 |
| 127 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 1074.4 | 7 |
| 128 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1071.38 | 10 |
| (128) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 1071.31 | 10 |
| 129 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1044.46 | 14 |
| (129) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1034.09 | 6 |
| 130 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 1027.3 | 11 |
| (130) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 1014.04 | 6 |
| 131 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 1014.04 | 7 |
| (131) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 998.82 | 11 |
| 132 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 995.12 | 37 |
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