| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 29582.96 | 225 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8632.36 | 190 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6120.95 | 28 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4579.24 | 38 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3702.26 | 32 |
| 6 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3262.35 | 21 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3243.72 | 30 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3000.87 | 18 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2896.16 | 23 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2607.42 | 107 |
| 11 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2530.77 | 200 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2503 | 84 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2359.98 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2339.2 | 11 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2297.04 | 24 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2129.95 | 17 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2054.2 | 29 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1940.71 | 27 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1911.9 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1893.94 | 18 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1792.83 | 29 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1781.48 | 27 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1716.77 | 14 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1702.55 | 33 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1681.45 | 34 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1551.57 | 25 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1458.85 | 13 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1287.94 | 11 |
| 25 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1175.13 | 21 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1163.27 | 21 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1148.54 | 32 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1132.86 | 22 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1121.59 | 19 |
| 30 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1064.94 | 80 |
| 31 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1050.23 | 14 |
| 32 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1048.99 | 12 |
| 33 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1045.05 | 59 |
| 34 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1028.75 | 13 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1022.5 | 23 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1000.1 | 13 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 998.08 | 21 |
| 38 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 987.84 | 3 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 981.05 | 27 |
| 40 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 974.12 | 37 |
| 41 | CESifo | München, Germany | 970.53 | 53 |
| 42 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 960.12 | 26 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 959.44 | 13 |
| 44 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 958.81 | 19 |
| (44) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 956.72 | 21 |
| (44) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 914.66 | 4 |
| 45 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 913.36 | 25 |
| (45) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 906.88 | 7 |
| 46 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 881.29 | 8 |
| (46) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 881.26 | 7 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 853.63 | 19 |
| 48 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 852.24 | 8 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 813.7 | 9 |
| (49) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 811.66 | 16 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 809.89 | 21 |
| (50) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 791.73 | 7 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 775.83 | 20 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 774.3 | 14 |
| (52) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 749.47 | 24 |
| 53 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 725.99 | 8 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 720.8 | 19 |
| 55 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 709.05 | 11 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 685.97 | 10 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 684.48 | 30 |
| (57) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 680.92 | 4 |
| (57) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 668.63 | 8 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 667.62 | 29 |
| 59 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 653.23 | 18 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 628.75 | 23 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 625.19 | 8 |
| (61) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 598.35 | 9 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 596.73 | 23 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 589.3 | 6 |
| (63) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 585.95 | 5 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 585.28 | 21 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 574.45 | 16 |
| (64) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 558.04 | 4 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 557.98 | 21 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 544.97 | 18 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 532.12 | 10 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 522.91 | 29 |
| 69 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 521.39 | 5 |
| (69) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 497.76 | 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) | 497.76 | 1 |
| 70 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 491.55 | 6 |
| (70) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 491.54 | 5 |
| (70) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 490.94 | 13 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 456.41 | 30 |
| (71) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 453.17 | 5 |
| 72 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 428.22 | 45 |
| 73 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 423.89 | 45 |
| 74 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 421.8 | 7 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 420.96 | 27 |
| (75) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 417 | 25 |
| 76 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 404.49 | 7 |
| 77 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 398.33 | 14 |
| (77) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 388.88 | 3 |
| 78 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 387.86 | 17 |
| 79 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 381.2 | 5 |
| 80 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 380.52 | 44 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 379.68 | 10 |
| (80) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 376.06 | 2 |
| (80) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 371.91 | 5 |
| (80) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 368.55 | 2 |
| (80) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 361.67 | 16 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 360.26 | 8 |
| 82 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 358.58 | 14 |
| 83 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 356.79 | 10 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 355.03 | 5 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 352.86 | 6 |
| 86 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 352.51 | 14 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 350.25 | 10 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 343.09 | 48 |
| 89 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 338.31 | 4 |
| 90 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 337.8 | 21 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 335.93 | 26 |
| 92 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 331.73 | 13 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 329.24 | 19 |
| 94 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 328.69 | 8 |
| (94) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 327.64 | 18 |
| 95 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 327.64 | 18 |
| 96 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 327.38 | 2 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 324.2 | 15 |
| 98 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 323.51 | 3 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 321.99 | 22 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 320.48 | 9 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 312.14 | 11 |
| (101) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 307.15 | 18 |
| (101) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 306.44 | 1 |
| 102 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 305.72 | 7 |
| 103 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 303.78 | 6 |
| 104 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 294.02 | 2 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 293.22 | 10 |
| 106 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 291.12 | 11 |
| (106) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 291.01 | 1 |
| 107 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 286.25 | 3 |
| (107) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 282.68 | 9 |
| 108 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 282.68 | 10 |
| 109 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 271.56 | 31 |
| (109) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 270.98 | 7 |
| 110 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 267.25 | 6 |
| 111 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 264.57 | 8 |
| (111) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 264.57 | 7 |
| (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 | 264.13 | 12 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 262.24 | 14 |
| (112) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 260.13 | 1 |
| 113 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 258.49 | 15 |
| 114 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 254.04 | 34 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 253.51 | 12 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 249.17 | 14 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 247.54 | 14 |
| (117) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 240.5 | 4 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 238.21 | 19 |
| 119 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 234.03 | 17 |
| 120 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 231.83 | 23 |
| 121 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 231.2 | 26 |
| 122 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 230.36 | 40 |
| (122) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 229.43 | 6 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 226.96 | 8 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 225.19 | 14 |
| (124) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 223.82 | 3 |
| (124) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 221.12 | 2 |
| (124) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 220.12 | 10 |
| 125 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 218.42 | 40 |
| 126 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 217.87 | 10 |
| 127 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 214.15 | 7 |
| 128 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 210.21 | 8 |
| 129 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 206.05 | 9 |
| 130 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 204.57 | 37 |
| 131 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 200.56 | 14 |
| 132 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 199.45 | 6 |
| (132) | ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 197.96 | 4 |
| (132) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 197.34 | 6 |
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