| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 479790.95 | 230 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 195942.76 | 194 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 145344.61 | 226 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 87394.34 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 78873.02 | 28 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 65652.59 | 33 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 62275.49 | 85 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 52745.42 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 51731.24 | 21 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 50692.39 | 31 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 49694.78 | 21 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 42183.19 | 19 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 41973.86 | 13 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 41865.98 | 27 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 41133.67 | 24 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 39609.6 | 24 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 39540.73 | 28 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 39539.1 | 59 |
| 19 | CESifo | München, Germany | 38207.52 | 56 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 37531.3 | 34 |
| 20 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 36658.35 | 113 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 35314.49 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 35226.73 | 31 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 33119.7 | 17 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 33004 | 19 |
| 24 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 32947.09 | 11 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 32822.63 | 70 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 31197.13 | 37 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 31096.25 | 28 |
| (27) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 29544.84 | 21 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 29033.64 | 22 |
| (28) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 28162.26 | 26 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 27586.79 | 14 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27577.41 | 23 |
| 31 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 25634.67 | 80 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 25405.29 | 22 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 24992.09 | 30 |
| (33) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 24638.12 | 13 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 23770.06 | 27 |
| 35 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 23473.41 | 32 |
| 36 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 23410.61 | 19 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 23389.02 | 37 |
| 38 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 23098.19 | 21 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 22905.68 | 13 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 22204.01 | 25 |
| 41 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21100.77 | 9 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 20698.46 | 25 |
| 43 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 19698.17 | 15 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 19287.96 | 11 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18919.76 | 21 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 18873.76 | 21 |
| 47 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 18086.77 | 3 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 17190.06 | 21 |
| 49 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 16962.48 | 26 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16893.2 | 33 |
| 51 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 16861.97 | 7 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 16829.39 | 19 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 16742.34 | 30 |
| (53) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 16436.21 | 19 |
| 54 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 16436.21 | 19 |
| 55 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 16105.53 | 47 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 16086.54 | 19 |
| 57 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 15954.39 | 9 |
| 58 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 15937.18 | 14 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 15882.91 | 27 |
| (59) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 15776.93 | 25 |
| 60 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 15732.09 | 7 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 15726.82 | 6 |
| 61 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 15615.06 | 30 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 15432.49 | 19 |
| (62) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 15057.54 | 16 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 15005.98 | 18 |
| 64 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14836.34 | 14 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 14757.37 | 10 |
| 66 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14667.91 | 13 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 14638.22 | 22 |
| 68 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 14200.26 | 23 |
| 69 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 13903.67 | 15 |
| (69) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 13483.18 | 7 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 13205.87 | 10 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 12983.16 | 21 |
| 72 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12911.3 | 45 |
| 73 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12881.46 | 21 |
| 74 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 12541.85 | 23 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 12402.6 | 29 |
| 76 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12208.84 | 7 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 12135.35 | 15 |
| (77) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 11893.88 | 7 |
| 78 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 11751.22 | 43 |
| 79 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11620.77 | 8 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11618.04 | 7 |
| (79) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 11582.3 | 26 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 11382.36 | 9 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 11335.04 | 8 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11246.1 | 11 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 11133.4 | 15 |
| 84 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 11105.69 | 23 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11038.91 | 14 |
| (85) | 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 | 10869.46 | 12 |
| (85) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10759.58 | 5 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10699.94 | 10 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 10496.57 | 15 |
| 88 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 10278.21 | 11 |
| (88) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10165.25 | 9 |
| 89 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10165.25 | 10 |
| 90 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 10028.66 | 19 |
| (90) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9844.27 | 13 |
| 91 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 9817.59 | 19 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 9799.1 | 15 |
| 93 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 9636.74 | 33 |
| (93) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9576.33 | 4 |
| 94 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9494.64 | 11 |
| (94) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 9452.8 | 6 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 9294.57 | 28 |
| (95) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9052.24 | 2 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 9045.09 | 14 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 9042.49 | 10 |
| 98 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 8869.87 | 17 |
| 99 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8846.73 | 7 |
| 100 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 8799.36 | 8 |
| 101 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8705.92 | 24 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 8663.77 | 20 |
| (102) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 8657.57 | 16 |
| (102) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8601.23 | 8 |
| 103 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 8521.54 | 14 |
| 104 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 8425.93 | 18 |
| 105 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 8420.77 | 7 |
| (105) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8388.87 | 4 |
| (105) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8347.57 | 5 |
| 106 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 8340.51 | 21 |
| (106) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8328.89 | 5 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 8253.43 | 17 |
| 108 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 8243.39 | 10 |
| (108) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8205.77 | 4 |
| 109 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 8071.3 | 26 |
| 110 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8016.66 | 11 |
| 111 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 7977.03 | 7 |
| (111) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7893.18 | 19 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 7861.58 | 7 |
| 113 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7831.21 | 10 |
| 114 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 7830.98 | 8 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 7791.76 | 14 |
| (115) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7788.84 | 5 |
| 116 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7780.54 | 3 |
| (116) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7583.6 | 9 |
| (116) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 7502.18 | 12 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 7476.05 | 18 |
| 118 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 7465.52 | 8 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 7407.27 | 24 |
| 120 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 7406.31 | 5 |
| 121 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 7385.41 | 7 |
| 122 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7363.11 | 2 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7339.18 | 10 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 7332.53 | 25 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 7310.15 | 15 |
| 125 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 7243.59 | 22 |
| 126 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 7202.51 | 17 |
| (126) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 7095.09 | 16 |
| 127 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 7025.7 | 40 |
| 128 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 6934.15 | 14 |
| 129 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 6879.3 | 44 |
| 130 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 6776.94 | 34 |
| 131 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 6762.03 | 5 |
| 132 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 6748.3 | 14 |
| 133 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6700.93 | 8 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 6591.42 | 8 |
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