| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 63325.91 | 230 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 31090.01 | 194 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 17774.42 | 226 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10239.93 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9718.89 | 28 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9569.99 | 33 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8659.8 | 85 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6418.53 | 21 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6413.8 | 24 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6404.52 | 113 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5946.67 | 23 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5858.57 | 31 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5796.47 | 56 |
| (13) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5662.93 | 15 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5608.23 | 21 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5367.95 | 27 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5350.26 | 34 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4933.71 | 31 |
| 17 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4806.16 | 59 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4796.71 | 24 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4547.34 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4481.16 | 19 |
| 21 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4455.8 | 37 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4364.35 | 17 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4340.18 | 70 |
| 24 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4252.38 | 80 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4149.73 | 26 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4115.07 | 22 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4106.15 | 23 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4102.38 | 19 |
| (27) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4082.7 | 21 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4056.88 | 28 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4036.78 | 13 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3934.65 | 37 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3855.95 | 22 |
| 32 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3709.38 | 11 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3638.91 | 19 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3492.25 | 27 |
| 35 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3366.74 | 21 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3294.36 | 13 |
| (36) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3228.33 | 13 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3194.83 | 27 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3189.69 | 33 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3189.06 | 30 |
| (39) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3186.72 | 25 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 3114.24 | 25 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 3011.9 | 30 |
| 42 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3007.64 | 32 |
| 43 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2903.59 | 25 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2717.54 | 14 |
| 45 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2708.98 | 26 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2649.68 | 21 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2647.46 | 8 |
| 48 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2618.15 | 18 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2549.76 | 9 |
| 50 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2533.55 | 30 |
| 51 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2493.44 | 21 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2477.28 | 19 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2462.39 | 19 |
| 54 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2450.61 | 7 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2301.46 | 19 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2286.77 | 21 |
| 57 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2260.12 | 47 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2206.54 | 6 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2186.17 | 22 |
| (58) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2178.64 | 26 |
| (58) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2152.4 | 16 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 2093.55 | 9 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2082.33 | 29 |
| 61 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2021.96 | 14 |
| 62 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2007.25 | 13 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2001.61 | 21 |
| 64 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1990.9 | 11 |
| 65 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1985.27 | 9 |
| (65) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1959.99 | 7 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1957.33 | 15 |
| 67 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1928.63 | 14 |
| 68 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1928.43 | 7 |
| (68) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1898.71 | 7 |
| 69 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1891.78 | 3 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1886.14 | 10 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1824.63 | 21 |
| 72 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1816.06 | 15 |
| 73 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1789.15 | 33 |
| (73) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1786.96 | 9 |
| 74 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1786.96 | 10 |
| (74) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1775.04 | 13 |
| (74) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1774.58 | 19 |
| 75 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1774.58 | 19 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1761.32 | 10 |
| (76) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1750.2 | 16 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1730.02 | 43 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1725.88 | 14 |
| 79 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1714.71 | 45 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1705.25 | 10 |
| 81 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1704.97 | 23 |
| 82 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1654.48 | 23 |
| 83 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1636.76 | 23 |
| 84 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1629.71 | 8 |
| 85 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1618.68 | 15 |
| (85) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1595.19 | 19 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1593.33 | 14 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1589.63 | 11 |
| (87) | 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 | 1589.47 | 12 |
| (87) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1566.38 | 3 |
| 88 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1530.25 | 8 |
| (88) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1530.11 | 7 |
| 89 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1430.4 | 14 |
| 90 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1427.58 | 19 |
| 91 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1425.12 | 10 |
| 92 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1425.11 | 7 |
| (92) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1424.95 | 6 |
| 93 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1424.4 | 11 |
| 94 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1411.56 | 14 |
| 95 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1402.84 | 18 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1373.59 | 28 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1372 | 15 |
| 98 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1368.74 | 10 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1348.9 | 17 |
| (99) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1333.64 | 5 |
| 100 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1330.78 | 3 |
| 101 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1322.42 | 19 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1315.88 | 10 |
| 103 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1314.19 | 17 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 1308.87 | 20 |
| 105 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1307 | 26 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1300.92 | 15 |
| 107 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1297.96 | 44 |
| (107) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1296.49 | 4 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1289.8 | 25 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1285.79 | 15 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1280.98 | 14 |
| 111 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1261.41 | 7 |
| (111) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1261.41 | 7 |
| 112 | Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1260.69 | 3 |
| 113 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 1243.98 | 7 |
| (113) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1237.4 | 8 |
| (113) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1235.71 | 7 |
| 114 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1215.4 | 11 |
| (114) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1196.1 | 12 |
| 115 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1184.52 | 8 |
| (115) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1177.99 | 10 |
| (115) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1159.24 | 4 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1154.22 | 18 |
| 117 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1145.94 | 21 |
| (117) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1134.93 | 5 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1108.9 | 15 |
| (118) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1087.09 | 16 |
| 119 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1084.72 | 17 |
| 120 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1083.46 | 11 |
| 121 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1081.41 | 8 |
| 122 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1065.52 | 22 |
| 123 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1045.22 | 25 |
| 124 | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1041.75 | 9 |
| 125 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 1033.3 | 16 |
| 126 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1031.6 | 24 |
| 127 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1026.2 | 2 |
| (127) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1025.78 | 4 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 1015.76 | 8 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1001.61 | 5 |
| 130 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1001.1 | 40 |
| 131 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 998.32 | 7 |
| (131) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 989.36 | 9 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University | Dallas, Texas (USA) | 987.73 | 12 |
| 133 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 980.62 | 13 |
| 134 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 970.76 | 8 |
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