| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 38251.02 | 230 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 14978.92 | 194 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 10598.78 | 226 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6522.41 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6014.13 | 28 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4559.25 | 85 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4525.01 | 31 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4182.34 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4039.79 | 33 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3404.89 | 13 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3353.93 | 56 |
| 12 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3148.99 | 24 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2997.91 | 27 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2960.09 | 24 |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2931.3 | 113 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2705.39 | 21 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2672.31 | 21 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2654.37 | 28 |
| 19 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2640.9 | 11 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2601.18 | 15 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2595.77 | 19 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2581.52 | 26 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2523.32 | 31 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2391.98 | 34 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2246.64 | 59 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2243.15 | 17 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2195.66 | 19 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2132.82 | 19 |
| 26 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2007.26 | 32 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1991.36 | 14 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1934.19 | 30 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1930.44 | 37 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1906.59 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1891.81 | 70 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1804.94 | 21 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1802.62 | 28 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1736.26 | 23 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1719.53 | 22 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1709.59 | 21 |
| (35) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1686.36 | 13 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1665.64 | 33 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1593.61 | 13 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1566.13 | 27 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1489.35 | 19 |
| 40 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1458.78 | 9 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1447.88 | 25 |
| 42 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1425.79 | 80 |
| 43 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1387.67 | 11 |
| 44 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1364.19 | 18 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1346.11 | 21 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1283.62 | 25 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1262 | 37 |
| 48 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1228.64 | 26 |
| (48) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1215.31 | 4 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1207.57 | 21 |
| 50 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1187.11 | 11 |
| 51 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1182.48 | 14 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1173.8 | 27 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1162.75 | 25 |
| (52) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1139.5 | 16 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1139.11 | 19 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1126.23 | 21 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1116.41 | 29 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1111.58 | 15 |
| 57 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1091.48 | 15 |
| 58 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1083.3 | 30 |
| (58) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1065.17 | 10 |
| 59 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1060.54 | 9 |
| 60 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1025.04 | 23 |
| (60) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1015.38 | 7 |
| 61 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1014.01 | 47 |
| 62 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1009.57 | 13 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 986.18 | 21 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 982.97 | 30 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 973.42 | 10 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 970.4 | 10 |
| (66) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 965.82 | 4 |
| 67 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 960.43 | 11 |
| (67) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 940.15 | 16 |
| 68 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 916.58 | 21 |
| 69 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 885.84 | 4 |
| 70 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 877.3 | 3 |
| 71 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 863.15 | 23 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 861.11 | 19 |
| 73 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 856.62 | 7 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 856.49 | 6 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 835.35 | 14 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 831.17 | 22 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 826.27 | 19 |
| 77 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 824.38 | 7 |
| (77) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 808.73 | 26 |
| (77) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 795.81 | 13 |
| 78 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 793.27 | 45 |
| 79 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 791.17 | 14 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 782.15 | 15 |
| 81 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 779.19 | 43 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 777.69 | 14 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 763.45 | 21 |
| 84 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 762.41 | 8 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 762.25 | 7 |
| 85 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 746.38 | 33 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 745.79 | 8 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 720.8 | 10 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 718.28 | 28 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 708.8 | 11 |
| 90 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 707.31 | 7 |
| (90) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 706.45 | 2 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 698.62 | 9 |
| (91) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 693.53 | 9 |
| 92 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 687.11 | 17 |
| (92) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 674.15 | 2 |
| (92) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 657.22 | 19 |
| 93 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 657.22 | 19 |
| 94 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 638.53 | 10 |
| 95 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 636.52 | 34 |
| (95) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 636.02 | 1 |
| 96 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 632.45 | 7 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 620.49 | 7 |
| 98 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 614.61 | 44 |
| (98) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 612.73 | 8 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 608.18 | 15 |
| (99) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 599.68 | 5 |
| (99) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 590.79 | 7 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 590.09 | 15 |
| (100) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 574.06 | 16 |
| 101 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 572.96 | 18 |
| 102 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 565.33 | 16 |
| (102) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 564.84 | 2 |
| 103 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 560.31 | 17 |
| 104 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 559.52 | 23 |
| (104) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 558.36 | 4 |
| 105 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 553.25 | 15 |
| (105) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 551.79 | 5 |
| 106 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 547.54 | 5 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 547.44 | 13 |
| 108 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 542.24 | 10 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 538.26 | 25 |
| 110 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 537.91 | 25 |
| 111 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 530.04 | 30 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 525.13 | 17 |
| 113 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 524.13 | 18 |
| (113) | 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 | 523.17 | 12 |
| 114 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 519.62 | 5 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 515.15 | 12 |
| 116 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 510.59 | 10 |
| 117 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 506.12 | 26 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 506.05 | 14 |
| (118) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 478.22 | 19 |
| (118) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 475.54 | 5 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 475.51 | 15 |
| 120 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 474.42 | 9 |
| 121 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 468.65 | 6 |
| 122 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 462.74 | 40 |
| 123 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 461.73 | 11 |
| 124 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 460.84 | 14 |
| 125 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 460.16 | 14 |
| 126 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 443.09 | 43 |
| (126) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 441.05 | 1 |
| 127 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 438.49 | 19 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 436.52 | 18 |
| 129 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 435.89 | 8 |
| 130 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 434.98 | 7 |
| 131 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 432.65 | 8 |
| 132 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 432.35 | 10 |
| (132) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 428.77 | 5 |
| (132) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 424.22 | 7 |
| (132) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 424.18 | 5 |
| 133 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 418.03 | 27 |
| 134 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 417.86 | 26 |
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