| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7898.97 | 230 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2657.69 | 194 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1859.74 | 226 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1164 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1073.84 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 847.54 | 31 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 804.84 | 23 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 744.05 | 85 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 715.48 | 33 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 647.29 | 24 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 646.56 | 113 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 600.4 | 17 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 597.58 | 56 |
| 14 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 595.26 | 24 |
| 15 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 592.81 | 13 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 571.52 | 15 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 566.74 | 27 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 546.95 | 19 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 458.49 | 21 |
| 19 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 452.14 | 19 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 440.05 | 21 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 435.36 | 33 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 429.65 | 31 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 425.44 | 26 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 419.19 | 19 |
| 24 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 413.11 | 11 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 407.3 | 28 |
| (25) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 405.87 | 13 |
| 26 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 388.68 | 32 |
| (26) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 386.18 | 34 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 378.1 | 22 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 361.5 | 30 |
| 29 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 347.58 | 59 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 324.58 | 14 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 305.88 | 19 |
| 32 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 302.58 | 80 |
| 33 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 300.16 | 37 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 291.1 | 13 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 290.22 | 28 |
| 36 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 289.16 | 9 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 288.02 | 23 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 281.46 | 22 |
| (38) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 274.53 | 21 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 274.21 | 18 |
| 40 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 270.85 | 26 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 260.81 | 70 |
| 42 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 257.65 | 27 |
| 43 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 252.72 | 11 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 252.42 | 21 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 242.12 | 21 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 237.99 | 21 |
| (46) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 235 | 4 |
| (46) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 234.66 | 10 |
| 47 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 230.69 | 11 |
| 48 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 226.44 | 13 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 222.69 | 27 |
| (49) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 221.62 | 25 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 221.07 | 37 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 215.77 | 15 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 215.42 | 25 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 213.58 | 29 |
| (53) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 213.19 | 16 |
| 54 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 208.24 | 30 |
| 55 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 206.69 | 14 |
| (55) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 202.73 | 7 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 202.36 | 21 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 198.67 | 25 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 196.73 | 16 |
| 58 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 196.06 | 4 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 192.19 | 19 |
| 60 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 192.13 | 15 |
| (60) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 189.01 | 26 |
| 61 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 185.76 | 33 |
| 62 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 178.1 | 8 |
| (62) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 178.09 | 7 |
| 63 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 177.22 | 21 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 172.87 | 14 |
| 65 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 171.34 | 7 |
| (65) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 171.33 | 6 |
| (65) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 170.68 | 4 |
| 66 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 167.44 | 9 |
| 67 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 165.08 | 3 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 163.29 | 19 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 162.74 | 10 |
| 70 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 161.67 | 21 |
| 71 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 157.19 | 30 |
| (71) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 155.37 | 1 |
| (71) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 154.34 | 2 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 153.83 | 23 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 151.07 | 21 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 149.6 | 10 |
| 75 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 149.35 | 11 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 146.31 | 8 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 146.28 | 9 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 145.38 | 22 |
| (78) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 143.54 | 2 |
| 79 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 141.93 | 10 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 139.13 | 14 |
| 81 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 137.76 | 14 |
| 82 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 132.46 | 7 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 130.12 | 11 |
| 84 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 129.46 | 44 |
| (84) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 129.32 | 7 |
| (84) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 128.77 | 13 |
| 85 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 128.67 | 47 |
| (85) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 127.61 | 8 |
| 86 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 127.5 | 19 |
| 87 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 123.61 | 43 |
| (87) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 123.4 | 4 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 121.44 | 15 |
| (88) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 121.42 | 16 |
| 89 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 118.85 | 23 |
| 90 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 116.44 | 7 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 112.99 | 10 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 112.29 | 15 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 110.45 | 10 |
| (93) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 109.36 | 19 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 107.89 | 7 |
| 95 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 107.49 | 45 |
| 96 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 106.62 | 17 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 106.25 | 14 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 105.69 | 15 |
| (98) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 102.63 | 2 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 102.48 | 28 |
| (99) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 102.46 | 5 |
| 100 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 101.1 | 10 |
| 101 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 98.06 | 5 |
| 102 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 98.02 | 12 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 97.02 | 16 |
| (103) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 96.86 | 5 |
| (103) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 96.37 | 9 |
| 104 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 95.75 | 5 |
| 105 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 95.48 | 30 |
| 106 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 95.42 | 8 |
| 107 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 93.76 | 18 |
| (107) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 93.41 | 5 |
| (107) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 92.11 | 2 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 92.05 | 13 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 91.92 | 25 |
| 110 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 91.43 | 10 |
| 111 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 91.16 | 25 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 90.99 | 15 |
| 113 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 88.24 | 8 |
| (113) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 88.08 | 19 |
| 114 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 88.08 | 19 |
| (114) | 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 | 87.95 | 12 |
| 115 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 87.24 | 18 |
| 116 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 86.24 | 34 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 85.74 | 17 |
| 118 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 85.65 | 9 |
| (118) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 85.12 | 7 |
| 119 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 84.28 | 54 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 83.93 | 14 |
| 121 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 81.77 | 7 |
| (121) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 80.99 | 5 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 80.99 | 12 |
| 123 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 80.84 | 23 |
| 124 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 80.83 | 20 |
| 125 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 80.71 | 6 |
| 126 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 79.55 | 26 |
| 127 | ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. | München, Germany | 79.5 | 7 |
| 128 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 79.34 | 17 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 78.92 | 9 |
| 130 | Industriens Utredningsinstitut (IUI) | Stockholm, Sweden | 77.83 | 13 |
| (130) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 77.55 | 2 |
| 131 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 76.96 | 14 |
| 132 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 76.81 | 7 |
| 133 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 75.42 | 6 |
| 134 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 75.2 | 15 |
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