| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 46764.68 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 14906.13 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 12103 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8708.91 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8103.23 | 29 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5664.28 | 32 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5615.78 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5381.61 | 21 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5374.43 | 85 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4991.13 | 22 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4805.91 | 11 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4535.4 | 23 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3807.49 | 24 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3770.91 | 29 |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3694.67 | 116 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3617.65 | 35 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3414.65 | 27 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3284.83 | 26 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3275.16 | 15 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3243.25 | 34 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3231.03 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3191.12 | 31 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2855.03 | 28 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2831.24 | 17 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2706.67 | 15 |
| 23 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2630.78 | 11 |
| 24 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2492.49 | 55 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2415.41 | 15 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2396.85 | 13 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2299.28 | 76 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2200.41 | 19 |
| (28) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2200.08 | 13 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2160.75 | 21 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2117.75 | 19 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2100.52 | 21 |
| 32 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1938.94 | 33 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1937.16 | 14 |
| 34 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1890.93 | 84 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1857.99 | 59 |
| 36 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1780.25 | 27 |
| 37 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1687.58 | 3 |
| 38 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1651.51 | 25 |
| 39 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1648.35 | 37 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1643.66 | 21 |
| 41 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1627.16 | 13 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1624.76 | 21 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1544.58 | 23 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1531.3 | 22 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1507.33 | 30 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1504.51 | 21 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1495.25 | 9 |
| 47 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1486.34 | 25 |
| (47) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1459.65 | 4 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1457.93 | 22 |
| (48) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1437.2 | 16 |
| 49 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1412.08 | 26 |
| 50 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1411.33 | 10 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1400.9 | 22 |
| 52 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1388.83 | 5 |
| 53 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1362.5 | 9 |
| (53) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1361 | 8 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1300.49 | 16 |
| (53) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1294.49 | 7 |
| 54 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1292.3 | 15 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1207.66 | 21 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1194.01 | 21 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1174 | 37 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1147.16 | 19 |
| 59 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 1145.41 | 8 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1138.24 | 32 |
| 61 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1128.41 | 7 |
| (61) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1118.63 | 7 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1114.08 | 25 |
| 63 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1093.99 | 8 |
| (63) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1086.66 | 4 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1085.24 | 10 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1072.26 | 29 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1033.28 | 19 |
| 67 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1029.5 | 18 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 984.63 | 19 |
| (68) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 971.33 | 9 |
| 69 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 958.24 | 9 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 952.58 | 27 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 935.74 | 25 |
| (70) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 907.99 | 5 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 901.5 | 26 |
| 71 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 897.88 | 23 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 894.58 | 14 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 874.33 | 7 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 868.63 | 9 |
| 74 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 866.41 | 48 |
| (74) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 841.83 | 13 |
| (74) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 812.33 | 5 |
| (74) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 802.41 | 5 |
| 75 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 798.6 | 45 |
| 76 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 751.84 | 46 |
| (76) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 751.5 | 5 |
| 77 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 744.66 | 7 |
| 78 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 732.33 | 16 |
| (78) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 727.2 | 21 |
| 79 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 722.41 | 4 |
| 80 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 720.74 | 7 |
| (80) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 720.16 | 2 |
| (80) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 717.74 | 8 |
| 81 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 713.72 | 45 |
| 82 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 688.68 | 8 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 686 | 10 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 673.08 | 8 |
| 85 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 669.08 | 34 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 664.75 | 7 |
| 87 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 662.58 | 7 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 662.58 | 6 |
| 88 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 659.25 | 10 |
| 89 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 657.28 | 6 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 656.33 | 11 |
| (90) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 653.46 | 1 |
| (90) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 653.46 | 1 |
| (90) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 650.41 | 3 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 648.56 | 31 |
| (91) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 637.83 | 2 |
| 92 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 632.56 | 22 |
| 93 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 629.62 | 17 |
| (93) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 628.33 | 1 |
| 94 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 625.66 | 22 |
| 95 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 624.08 | 13 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 621.08 | 10 |
| 97 | Program in Institutions, Organizations and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 617.66 | 7 |
| (97) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 611.33 | 5 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 591.58 | 15 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 584.58 | 15 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 584 | 28 |
| (100) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 581.33 | 10 |
| 101 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 581.33 | 11 |
| 102 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 579.17 | 15 |
| (102) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 575.33 | 2 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 572.24 | 6 |
| 104 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 558.56 | 10 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 553.66 | 5 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 525.08 | 21 |
| 107 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 522.76 | 13 |
| (107) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 521.16 | 6 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 516.16 | 22 |
| (108) | 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 | 515.41 | 12 |
| 109 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 499.58 | 14 |
| 110 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 497.25 | 14 |
| 111 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 493.74 | 2 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 488.33 | 10 |
| 113 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 485.33 | 35 |
| (113) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 481.08 | 2 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 478.66 | 15 |
| (114) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 474.24 | 15 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 470.66 | 11 |
| 116 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 469.82 | 5 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 462.66 | 15 |
| 118 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 461.38 | 15 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 455.08 | 19 |
| (119) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 446.58 | 6 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 441.25 | 12 |
| (120) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 437.16 | 7 |
| 121 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 436.08 | 7 |
| 122 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 435.66 | 19 |
| 123 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 433.34 | 11 |
| (123) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 430.71 | 19 |
| 124 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 430.71 | 19 |
| 125 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 428.83 | 11 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 427.78 | 7 |
| (126) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 427.78 | 7 |
| (126) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 420.83 | 9 |
| 127 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 420.83 | 10 |
| (127) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 411.5 | 1 |
| 128 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 393.83 | 10 |
| 129 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 391.61 | 18 |
| 130 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 390.16 | 2 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 386.46 | 14 |
| 132 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 380.66 | 9 |
| 133 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 380.61 | 54 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 378.36 | 12 |
| 135 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 375.33 | 43 |
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