| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 302593.98 | 230 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 115257.67 | 194 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 89059.89 | 226 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 56025.51 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 49585.16 | 28 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 40157.47 | 33 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 39554.6 | 85 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36439.39 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 32713.21 | 31 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 32007.63 | 21 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 30668.93 | 21 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 30116.49 | 13 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 29052.44 | 19 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 26824.1 | 28 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 26780.15 | 27 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25921.84 | 24 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 24748.42 | 11 |
| (17) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 24088.04 | 34 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23999.88 | 24 |
| 19 | CESifo | München, Germany | 23960.88 | 56 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 23745.42 | 59 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 22620.17 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 22100.45 | 31 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 21078.32 | 70 |
| 23 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19861.52 | 113 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19237.4 | 17 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19176.13 | 19 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 19119.65 | 26 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 18723.5 | 28 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 18146.77 | 37 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17766.07 | 14 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 17279.75 | 21 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 17102.02 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 15783.95 | 30 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 15613.49 | 23 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 15396.07 | 37 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 15050.53 | 19 |
| (33) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 15020.38 | 13 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 14788.95 | 22 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14663.92 | 13 |
| 36 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 14606.32 | 32 |
| 37 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14500.05 | 9 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 13580.66 | 25 |
| 39 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13118.19 | 80 |
| 40 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 12972.04 | 15 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 12928.6 | 21 |
| 42 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12537.97 | 27 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12464.63 | 21 |
| 44 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12133.85 | 14 |
| 45 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11703.81 | 11 |
| 46 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10926.15 | 3 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 10821.18 | 30 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10731.63 | 33 |
| 49 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10586.79 | 7 |
| 50 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 10533.07 | 7 |
| (50) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 10532.19 | 6 |
| 51 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 10421.66 | 25 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 10334.42 | 19 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10178.92 | 27 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10109.56 | 25 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 10080.57 | 21 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 10066.42 | 18 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 10039.33 | 19 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9767.18 | 21 |
| 58 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 9501.55 | 30 |
| (58) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9466.23 | 16 |
| 59 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9456.77 | 26 |
| 60 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 9264.82 | 47 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 9156.64 | 19 |
| 62 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9089.62 | 7 |
| 63 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9012.03 | 13 |
| 64 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 8855.17 | 9 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 8853.96 | 23 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8760.13 | 22 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 8708.45 | 10 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 8362.49 | 10 |
| 69 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8156.95 | 14 |
| (69) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8104.61 | 7 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 7995.07 | 15 |
| (70) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7835.77 | 5 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 7824.39 | 29 |
| (71) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 7782.66 | 19 |
| 72 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 7782.66 | 19 |
| 73 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 7442.97 | 15 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7334.96 | 21 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 7275.63 | 21 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 7191 | 9 |
| 77 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7100.66 | 11 |
| 78 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7061.14 | 23 |
| 79 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 6921.87 | 43 |
| 80 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6754.27 | 8 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6752.91 | 7 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6526.97 | 10 |
| 82 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6508.19 | 45 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 6330.17 | 14 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 6271.9 | 15 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6249.83 | 11 |
| (85) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6249.2 | 4 |
| (85) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6223.9 | 7 |
| 86 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6133.27 | 7 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6131.05 | 10 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 6108.79 | 10 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6082.75 | 15 |
| 89 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6038.16 | 11 |
| (89) | 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 | 6024.61 | 12 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 5964.4 | 15 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 5955.1 | 17 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 5891.08 | 7 |
| 93 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 5775.83 | 23 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5736.55 | 14 |
| (94) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5711.18 | 26 |
| 95 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 5628.98 | 33 |
| (95) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5603.61 | 9 |
| 96 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5603.61 | 10 |
| (96) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5515.92 | 2 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 5489.37 | 8 |
| 98 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 5396.76 | 17 |
| (98) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5358.02 | 13 |
| 99 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 5332.82 | 8 |
| 100 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 5304.93 | 8 |
| 101 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 5304.72 | 17 |
| 102 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 5300 | 21 |
| 103 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5268.87 | 19 |
| 104 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5239.71 | 24 |
| (104) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5137.69 | 16 |
| 105 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 5059.11 | 19 |
| 106 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4939.9 | 14 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 4926.65 | 28 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 4921.73 | 20 |
| 109 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 4911.31 | 7 |
| (109) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4895.85 | 5 |
| 110 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 4875.46 | 18 |
| 111 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 4862.53 | 7 |
| 112 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 4820.67 | 10 |
| (112) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4655.29 | 4 |
| (112) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4601.11 | 6 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 4599.03 | 18 |
| 114 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 4583.37 | 14 |
| (114) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 4547.8 | 7 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 4520.88 | 15 |
| 116 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 4510.86 | 8 |
| 117 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 4509.81 | 16 |
| 118 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4460.78 | 11 |
| 119 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4391.02 | 10 |
| (119) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4370.81 | 4 |
| 120 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4317.77 | 26 |
| (120) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4309.3 | 2 |
| (120) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4302.63 | 12 |
| (120) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4271.38 | 19 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 4258.51 | 25 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 4246.34 | 5 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 4246.27 | 14 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 4237.63 | 24 |
| (124) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4190.08 | 5 |
| 125 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4188.55 | 3 |
| 126 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4149.32 | 5 |
| (126) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 4137.63 | 16 |
| (126) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4109.52 | 5 |
| 127 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4090.2 | 5 |
| 128 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4086.88 | 13 |
| 129 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 4086.46 | 7 |
| 130 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 4021.41 | 34 |
| (130) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4017.75 | 8 |
| (130) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 4006.68 | 9 |
| 131 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 3933.08 | 5 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 3919.57 | 14 |
| 133 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3903.99 | 2 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 3856.58 | 12 |
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