| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 58162.19 | 230 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 33262.56 | 194 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 24576.29 | 226 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10765.63 | 85 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 10182.45 | 56 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9883.66 | 37 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7713.51 | 28 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 7677.06 | 70 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7286 | 33 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7123.01 | 113 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6632.28 | 31 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6134.25 | 27 |
| (12) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 5992.58 | 25 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5910.83 | 23 |
| 14 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5746 | 59 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5657.33 | 24 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5653.66 | 27 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5582.66 | 13 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 5469.91 | 25 |
| 19 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5442.31 | 80 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5346.45 | 21 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5318.87 | 19 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5309.85 | 26 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5221.4 | 28 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5098.41 | 34 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4972.19 | 21 |
| (23) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4903 | 15 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4563.28 | 31 |
| 25 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4562.83 | 24 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 4426.41 | 30 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4380.83 | 30 |
| 28 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4318.31 | 47 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4248.66 | 37 |
| 30 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4151.75 | 11 |
| 31 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4120.46 | 37 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3894.16 | 28 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3854.5 | 19 |
| 34 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3835.39 | 32 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3784.14 | 13 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3760.88 | 23 |
| (36) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3748.73 | 21 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3652.19 | 17 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 3521.66 | 19 |
| 39 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 3481.33 | 15 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3336.03 | 19 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3296.88 | 22 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3221.83 | 30 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3186.28 | 14 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3176.96 | 27 |
| 45 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3168.48 | 18 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3124.85 | 22 |
| 47 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3093.86 | 21 |
| 48 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3018.68 | 45 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2956.5 | 9 |
| 50 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 2947.36 | 43 |
| 51 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 2939.66 | 23 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2925.49 | 33 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2914.88 | 21 |
| 54 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2831.95 | 25 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 2804.51 | 20 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 2680.59 | 34 |
| 57 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2651.15 | 26 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2610.59 | 21 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2586.98 | 21 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 2583.16 | 9 |
| (60) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2557.11 | 13 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2516.11 | 29 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2473.25 | 22 |
| 63 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 2461.66 | 21 |
| 64 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2442.5 | 23 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2427.18 | 23 |
| 66 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2387 | 19 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2310.99 | 16 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2274.16 | 21 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2231.5 | 19 |
| (68) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2231.28 | 16 |
| 69 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2221.83 | 17 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2219.83 | 10 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2195.16 | 15 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2190.5 | 14 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2181.16 | 19 |
| 74 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2181 | 27 |
| 75 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2164.08 | 14 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2161.16 | 10 |
| 77 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2155.41 | 11 |
| 78 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2150.49 | 7 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2149.33 | 6 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2133.66 | 24 |
| 80 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2131.3 | 11 |
| 81 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2125.83 | 26 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2108.18 | 25 |
| 83 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2105.21 | 21 |
| 84 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2053.83 | 7 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2044.08 | 21 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2042.08 | 8 |
| (86) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1991.19 | 7 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1965.08 | 17 |
| 88 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1955.96 | 24 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1932.5 | 28 |
| 90 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1931.49 | 13 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1888.63 | 10 |
| 91 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1887.5 | 10 |
| 92 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1884.83 | 33 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1875.9 | 10 |
| 94 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1827.16 | 18 |
| 95 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1824.36 | 44 |
| 96 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1821.13 | 9 |
| (96) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1820.76 | 19 |
| 97 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1817.66 | 40 |
| 98 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1775.73 | 14 |
| 99 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1771.81 | 34 |
| 100 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1761.91 | 19 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1755.24 | 15 |
| 102 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1735.58 | 15 |
| 103 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1721.49 | 21 |
| 104 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1721.09 | 14 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1700.25 | 8 |
| 106 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1695.58 | 17 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1690.33 | 15 |
| 108 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1686.66 | 25 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 1684.83 | 10 |
| 110 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 1675 | 19 |
| (110) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1663.16 | 9 |
| 111 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1662.23 | 13 |
| 112 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1653.33 | 8 |
| 113 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1650.33 | 3 |
| (113) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1648.33 | 7 |
| 114 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1644.56 | 25 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1642.16 | 11 |
| (115) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1599.25 | 26 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1598.24 | 15 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1595.75 | 21 |
| 118 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1560.5 | 11 |
| 119 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1557.71 | 11 |
| (119) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1550.76 | 13 |
| (119) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1550.16 | 12 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 1548.41 | 12 |
| 121 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1543.21 | 14 |
| 122 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1541.35 | 67 |
| 123 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1539.69 | 4 |
| (123) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1539.69 | 4 |
| 124 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1538 | 7 |
| (124) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1535.83 | 7 |
| 125 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 1526.15 | 11 |
| 126 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 1504.33 | 7 |
| 127 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 1499.24 | 16 |
| (127) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1498.74 | 19 |
| 128 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1498.74 | 19 |
| (128) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1486.16 | 18 |
| 129 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1484.5 | 11 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1457.66 | 15 |
| (130) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1455.83 | 6 |
| 131 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1453.06 | 18 |
| 132 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1444.54 | 14 |
| 133 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1438.58 | 22 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1437.58 | 15 |
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