| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 431355.51 | 225 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 170995.2 | 190 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 80897.48 | 38 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 68721.65 | 28 |
| 5 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 62139.61 | 200 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 60966.97 | 32 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 57430.64 | 84 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 49073.03 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 47247.94 | 30 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 46128.15 | 21 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 40750.25 | 18 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 39382.21 | 19 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39186.81 | 27 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38151.45 | 24 |
| 15 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 37902.41 | 12 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 36997.13 | 29 |
| 17 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 36734.37 | 59 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36247.38 | 24 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 34864.14 | 34 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 32794.42 | 29 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 32782.22 | 15 |
| 20 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 32315.89 | 107 |
| 21 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 30532.3 | 11 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 30467.98 | 17 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 30360.89 | 18 |
| 24 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 28919.89 | 37 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 28550.24 | 27 |
| 26 | CESifo | München, Germany | 27684.24 | 53 |
| (26) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 27405.34 | 21 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 25987.77 | 14 |
| (27) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 25882.1 | 25 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 25568.52 | 23 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 23394.19 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 23332.43 | 30 |
| (30) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 22604.75 | 13 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 22147.43 | 21 |
| 32 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 22099.8 | 32 |
| 33 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21993.82 | 27 |
| 34 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 21786.33 | 19 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21362.3 | 13 |
| 36 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 21326.88 | 21 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 20771.8 | 23 |
| 38 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20653.48 | 80 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19668.49 | 9 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 19640.81 | 48 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 19114.25 | 25 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 18759.92 | 30 |
| 43 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 18288.86 | 15 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 17929.07 | 11 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 17656.59 | 21 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17143.34 | 20 |
| 47 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17014.29 | 3 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 16057.57 | 21 |
| 49 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 15762.72 | 7 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15710.58 | 33 |
| (50) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 15518.34 | 18 |
| 51 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 15518.34 | 18 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 15510.2 | 19 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 15231.79 | 26 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 15123.82 | 19 |
| 55 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 15038.65 | 8 |
| (55) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 15033.61 | 7 |
| 56 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 14857.18 | 13 |
| 57 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 14726.85 | 29 |
| 58 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 14648.07 | 44 |
| 59 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 14552.16 | 8 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14507.77 | 27 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 14395.57 | 19 |
| (61) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14380.26 | 25 |
| (61) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 14240 | 16 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 14013.04 | 18 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 13928.25 | 10 |
| 64 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13676.44 | 13 |
| 65 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13674.59 | 14 |
| 66 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 13657.59 | 26 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 13616.11 | 22 |
| 68 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 13129.02 | 14 |
| (68) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12534.95 | 7 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 12311.97 | 10 |
| 70 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 12138.76 | 21 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11972.05 | 21 |
| 72 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11906.71 | 45 |
| 73 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 11642.61 | 23 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 11550.62 | 19 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 11429.21 | 15 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 11313.94 | 29 |
| (76) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10865.63 | 7 |
| 77 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 10826.82 | 8 |
| (77) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 10824.23 | 7 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 10703.97 | 9 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10409.22 | 11 |
| 80 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 10357.33 | 23 |
| 81 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10298.35 | 6 |
| 82 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 10287.64 | 40 |
| (82) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10145.04 | 5 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10143.89 | 14 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 9941.39 | 10 |
| (84) | 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 | 9910.66 | 12 |
| (84) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9910.03 | 24 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9850.53 | 14 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 9761.44 | 8 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 9557.16 | 14 |
| 88 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9502.72 | 11 |
| (88) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 9356.23 | 9 |
| 89 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 9356.23 | 10 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 9119.09 | 15 |
| (90) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9101.14 | 13 |
| 91 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 9062.77 | 18 |
| 92 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8879 | 11 |
| (92) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8822.93 | 4 |
| 93 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 8683.88 | 31 |
| (93) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8458.03 | 2 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 8433.27 | 14 |
| 95 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 8337.17 | 18 |
| 96 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8294.86 | 6 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 8286.71 | 10 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 8092.71 | 19 |
| 99 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 8030.35 | 8 |
| (99) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 8009.46 | 6 |
| (99) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8005.7 | 8 |
| (99) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 7957.76 | 16 |
| (99) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7769.32 | 4 |
| (99) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7764.25 | 5 |
| 100 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 7743.41 | 10 |
| 101 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 7673.61 | 7 |
| 102 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 7671.11 | 21 |
| (102) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7650.66 | 5 |
| (102) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7612.44 | 4 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 7611.22 | 26 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 7581.32 | 25 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 7566.37 | 17 |
| 106 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7556.49 | 11 |
| 107 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 7499.71 | 18 |
| 108 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 7479.94 | 14 |
| 109 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 7425.37 | 25 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 7313.13 | 14 |
| 111 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 7291.84 | 7 |
| (111) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7236.03 | 5 |
| 112 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7224.6 | 3 |
| 113 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7186.23 | 10 |
| (113) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7010.85 | 9 |
| (113) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7010.13 | 18 |
| 114 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 6993.43 | 9 |
| 115 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6960.68 | 2 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 6957.41 | 18 |
| (116) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6852.4 | 10 |
| 117 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 6848.5 | 5 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6837.97 | 25 |
| 119 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 6832.64 | 7 |
| 120 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 6665.12 | 17 |
| (120) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 6570.55 | 11 |
| 121 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 6552.96 | 40 |
| 122 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 6472.84 | 14 |
| 123 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 6379.99 | 45 |
| (123) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 6318.12 | 16 |
| 124 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 6316.19 | 5 |
| 125 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6273.66 | 8 |
| 126 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 6191.44 | 34 |
| 127 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 6126.11 | 14 |
| 128 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 6088.15 | 8 |
| 129 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6083.67 | 37 |
| (129) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 6035.57 | 7 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 6027.15 | 5 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 6012.64 | 6 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 5964.55 | 8 |
| (132) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5960.51 | 3 |
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