| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11991.02 | 225 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4429.96 | 190 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1827.54 | 28 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1819.65 | 38 |
| 5 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1676.14 | 200 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1330.66 | 30 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1270.06 | 23 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1266.82 | 84 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1226.59 | 32 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1067.22 | 12 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 979.16 | 107 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 961.98 | 24 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 947.69 | 24 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 912.41 | 27 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 857.38 | 19 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 842.27 | 21 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 830.62 | 15 |
| 17 | CESifo | München, Germany | 830.03 | 53 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 805.82 | 29 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 741.95 | 29 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 705.2 | 59 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 697.1 | 25 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 693.08 | 34 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 692.66 | 18 |
| 22 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 688.17 | 19 |
| 23 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 645.18 | 32 |
| 24 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 632.47 | 11 |
| 25 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 626.54 | 37 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 611.85 | 22 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 604.98 | 14 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 599.36 | 18 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 592.26 | 17 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 578.64 | 21 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 570.64 | 23 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 545.31 | 27 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 513.47 | 27 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 508.67 | 30 |
| 34 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 502.73 | 80 |
| 35 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 479.85 | 19 |
| 36 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 458.86 | 26 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 457.72 | 13 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 457.63 | 21 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 455.74 | 21 |
| 40 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 438.2 | 9 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 420.91 | 21 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 412.18 | 25 |
| (42) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 404.9 | 13 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 392.34 | 23 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 390.4 | 11 |
| 45 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 378.26 | 11 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 371.03 | 21 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 369.38 | 33 |
| 48 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 360.61 | 18 |
| 49 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 358.12 | 13 |
| 50 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 349.76 | 15 |
| (50) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 347.94 | 16 |
| 51 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 342.16 | 8 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 341.7 | 15 |
| (52) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 333.24 | 4 |
| 53 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 319.12 | 29 |
| 54 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 317.62 | 18 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 313.76 | 20 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 309.51 | 10 |
| 57 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 308.99 | 11 |
| 58 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 308.12 | 13 |
| 59 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 308.02 | 8 |
| (59) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 307.89 | 7 |
| (59) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 307.49 | 7 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 301.91 | 30 |
| (60) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 301.39 | 24 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 296.49 | 19 |
| 62 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 293.1 | 44 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 290.83 | 23 |
| (63) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 289.16 | 4 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 285.37 | 22 |
| 65 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 285.28 | 3 |
| 66 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 284.29 | 21 |
| 67 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 274.24 | 31 |
| 68 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 271.08 | 14 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 266.82 | 21 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 266.73 | 29 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 266.41 | 19 |
| (71) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 265.76 | 10 |
| (71) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 260.91 | 18 |
| 72 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 260.91 | 18 |
| 73 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 260 | 4 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 256.24 | 9 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 255.48 | 48 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 248.67 | 10 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 246.48 | 45 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 245.42 | 15 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 241.56 | 14 |
| (78) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 239.68 | 13 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 239.4 | 27 |
| 80 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 238.94 | 7 |
| (80) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 238.83 | 25 |
| 81 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 238.19 | 19 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 228.95 | 8 |
| (82) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 227.73 | 2 |
| 83 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 224.18 | 45 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 222.87 | 11 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 220.37 | 26 |
| 86 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 219.84 | 40 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 217.37 | 14 |
| (87) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 217.15 | 4 |
| (87) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 215.66 | 3 |
| (87) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 215.31 | 7 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 209.8 | 26 |
| 89 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 208.83 | 8 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 208.8 | 7 |
| 90 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 208.13 | 10 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 206.9 | 10 |
| 92 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 201.69 | 14 |
| 93 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 200.8 | 21 |
| 94 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 199.99 | 6 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 198.17 | 9 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 196.3 | 16 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 195.28 | 14 |
| 97 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 193.41 | 18 |
| 98 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 192.3 | 5 |
| (98) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 185.94 | 1 |
| (98) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 184.44 | 8 |
| 99 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 183.31 | 25 |
| 100 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 180.22 | 34 |
| 101 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 179.97 | 12 |
| 102 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 171.92 | 25 |
| 103 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 170.68 | 9 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 166.4 | 13 |
| (104) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 165.58 | 5 |
| (104) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 163.95 | 16 |
| (104) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 161.79 | 18 |
| (104) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 161 | 5 |
| 105 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 160.91 | 6 |
| 106 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 159.4 | 23 |
| (106) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 158.13 | 5 |
| 107 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 156.79 | 14 |
| 108 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 156.09 | 29 |
| 109 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 155.86 | 6 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 155.72 | 13 |
| 111 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 154.16 | 10 |
| 112 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 154.1 | 17 |
| (112) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 152.48 | 5 |
| 113 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 148.85 | 5 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 146.48 | 25 |
| 115 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 143.55 | 9 |
| (115) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 143.36 | 2 |
| (115) | 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 | 143.23 | 12 |
| 116 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 143.04 | 18 |
| 117 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 141.22 | 14 |
| 118 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 140.19 | 40 |
| 119 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 139.34 | 8 |
| 120 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 138.56 | 3 |
| (120) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 137.49 | 2 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 136.68 | 14 |
| 122 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 136.16 | 13 |
| 123 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 135 | 16 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 134.02 | 6 |
| 125 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 133.35 | 17 |
| 126 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 132.79 | 40 |
| (126) | Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 130.9 | 3 |
| (126) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 129.81 | 5 |
| 127 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 129.77 | 7 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 129.62 | 12 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 126.64 | 14 |
| (129) | Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 126.08 | 2 |
| 130 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 125.37 | 27 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 125.24 | 8 |
| (131) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 124.67 | 1 |
| 132 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 124.45 | 37 |
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