| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22163.13 | 230 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 6182.17 | 194 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4228.15 | 226 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3770.15 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3754.71 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2595.22 | 31 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2524.86 | 21 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2496.73 | 33 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2281.08 | 21 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2278.47 | 23 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2196.19 | 11 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1797.27 | 17 |
| 13 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1786.25 | 85 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1733.99 | 24 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1653.38 | 33 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1583.37 | 113 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1551.02 | 27 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1536.82 | 24 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1481.91 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1410.79 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1383.41 | 31 |
| (20) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1383.2 | 13 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1248.19 | 34 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1246.03 | 19 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1190.4 | 14 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1164.68 | 26 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1139.08 | 28 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1088.55 | 11 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1060.63 | 14 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1050.99 | 21 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 992.4 | 19 |
| 28 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 965.4 | 32 |
| 29 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 908.4 | 8 |
| (29) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 908.37 | 7 |
| 30 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 886.4 | 13 |
| 31 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 856.13 | 13 |
| 32 | CESifo | München, Germany | 845.95 | 56 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 766.71 | 22 |
| 34 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 741.84 | 3 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 737.47 | 19 |
| (35) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 735.1 | 16 |
| 36 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 721.63 | 11 |
| 37 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 717.82 | 59 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 714.07 | 21 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 709.48 | 21 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 697.7 | 21 |
| 41 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 676.88 | 13 |
| (41) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 649.53 | 4 |
| 42 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 642.26 | 27 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 635.9 | 23 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 609.56 | 37 |
| (44) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 600.58 | 21 |
| 45 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 585.61 | 14 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 581.74 | 9 |
| 47 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 579.21 | 26 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 576.54 | 30 |
| 49 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 568.48 | 80 |
| (49) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 560.32 | 7 |
| (49) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 552.25 | 7 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 550.89 | 22 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 548.15 | 19 |
| (51) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 543.32 | 16 |
| 52 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 540.29 | 5 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 534.27 | 19 |
| (53) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 528.61 | 4 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 517.84 | 70 |
| (54) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 516.15 | 10 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 509.7 | 25 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 503.23 | 29 |
| 57 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 499.28 | 8 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 486.69 | 18 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 470.54 | 14 |
| 60 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 460.11 | 8 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 453.76 | 10 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 433.39 | 21 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 428.26 | 37 |
| (63) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 426.4 | 26 |
| 64 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 424.87 | 7 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 423.63 | 25 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 411.57 | 27 |
| 67 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 406.24 | 23 |
| (67) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 403.95 | 25 |
| (67) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 390.78 | 5 |
| 68 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 386.04 | 17 |
| (68) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 385.57 | 8 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 382.61 | 30 |
| 70 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 379.31 | 9 |
| (70) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 359.16 | 5 |
| (70) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 353.34 | 4 |
| 71 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 351.87 | 7 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 341.67 | 7 |
| (72) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 332.5 | 13 |
| (72) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 324.06 | 3 |
| 73 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 321.77 | 4 |
| 74 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 321.67 | 23 |
| (74) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 320.73 | 2 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 317.31 | 10 |
| (75) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 316.01 | 2 |
| 76 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 305.4 | 19 |
| 77 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 297.97 | 6 |
| (77) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 297.91 | 1 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 296.79 | 15 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 282.71 | 10 |
| 80 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 276.62 | 44 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 273.72 | 15 |
| (81) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 272.52 | 1 |
| (81) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 272.52 | 1 |
| (81) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 271.56 | 9 |
| 82 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 267.11 | 21 |
| 83 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 265.06 | 7 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 261.89 | 8 |
| 85 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 255.3 | 2 |
| (85) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 254.65 | 1 |
| (85) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 252.05 | 7 |
| (85) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 251.93 | 5 |
| (85) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 251.43 | 5 |
| 86 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 250.87 | 8 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 245.22 | 5 |
| 88 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 239.82 | 5 |
| 89 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 237.85 | 14 |
| 90 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 229.28 | 10 |
| 91 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 228.33 | 7 |
| (91) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 226.19 | 1 |
| 92 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 225.96 | 33 |
| 93 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 223.11 | 21 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 223.05 | 28 |
| 95 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 220.82 | 13 |
| (95) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 219.38 | 16 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 211.18 | 11 |
| 97 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 209.62 | 47 |
| 98 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 207.75 | 45 |
| 99 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 206.45 | 15 |
| (99) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 205.7 | 2 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 202.49 | 22 |
| (100) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 202.37 | 9 |
| 101 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 202.37 | 10 |
| 102 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 201.41 | 11 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 201.2 | 11 |
| 104 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 199.31 | 14 |
| 105 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 199.24 | 6 |
| (105) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 199.17 | 19 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 198.47 | 10 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 190.26 | 14 |
| 108 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 189.85 | 8 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 184.41 | 15 |
| 110 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 183.94 | 15 |
| 111 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 181.8 | 7 |
| (111) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 181.8 | 6 |
| 112 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 177.97 | 8 |
| 113 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 176.81 | 3 |
| 114 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 174.79 | 7 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 174.48 | 15 |
| 116 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 171.4 | 6 |
| 117 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 164.46 | 30 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 160.01 | 12 |
| (118) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 159.27 | 6 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 158.7 | 19 |
| (119) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 157.78 | 19 |
| 120 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 157.78 | 19 |
| 121 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 156.22 | 2 |
| (121) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 155.92 | 6 |
| 122 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 154.17 | 1 |
| 123 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 150.25 | 16 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 147.63 | 14 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 146.73 | 15 |
| (125) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 146.73 | 6 |
| 126 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 146.47 | 23 |
| (126) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 144.14 | 9 |
| (126) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 143.8 | 6 |
| 127 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 143.8 | 7 |
| 128 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 143.55 | 7 |
| (128) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 143.55 | 7 |
| 129 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 143.5 | 10 |
| 130 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 141.89 | 18 |
| 131 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 141.5 | 20 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 141.04 | 9 |
| (132) | 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 | 139.22 | 12 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 138.7 | 13 |
| 134 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 137.54 | 2 |
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