| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 109335.62 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 31546.84 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 24693.37 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19424.51 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 19354.46 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12802.78 | 21 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12616 | 32 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12465.21 | 31 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11949.95 | 22 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11034.95 | 23 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10631.61 | 11 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10108.63 | 85 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8077.45 | 24 |
| 14 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7942.8 | 27 |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7702.44 | 116 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7603.17 | 17 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 7422.62 | 29 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7397.94 | 34 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7223.19 | 26 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6915.45 | 35 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6854.53 | 15 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6676.59 | 31 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6356.43 | 26 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5995.39 | 15 |
| (21) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5903.45 | 13 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5723.29 | 19 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 5707.44 | 28 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5499.84 | 15 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5404.99 | 11 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4903.83 | 21 |
| 27 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4764.57 | 33 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4716.19 | 13 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4709.56 | 19 |
| 30 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4185.75 | 55 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4010.9 | 21 |
| 32 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3916.2 | 13 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3886.33 | 14 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3750.83 | 22 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3729.02 | 59 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3684.29 | 76 |
| 37 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3664.15 | 3 |
| (37) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3642.31 | 16 |
| 38 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 3639.92 | 9 |
| (38) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 3639.75 | 8 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3588.62 | 22 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3556.58 | 21 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3435.21 | 37 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3405.47 | 23 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3392.62 | 21 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3294.03 | 27 |
| 44 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3289.51 | 84 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3253.64 | 21 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3251.32 | 22 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3244.9 | 30 |
| (47) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3208.67 | 4 |
| 48 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3204.57 | 10 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2999.98 | 25 |
| 50 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2966.04 | 19 |
| 51 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2946.08 | 15 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2905.35 | 26 |
| (52) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2794.73 | 7 |
| 53 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2784.39 | 9 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2764.96 | 16 |
| (53) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2763.06 | 7 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2695.38 | 29 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2681.66 | 21 |
| 56 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 2597.9 | 8 |
| 57 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2544.7 | 5 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2464.97 | 37 |
| (58) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2456.49 | 4 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2411.14 | 19 |
| 60 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2408.99 | 25 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2401.54 | 10 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2395.13 | 21 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2380.64 | 14 |
| 64 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2356.24 | 7 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2161.29 | 9 |
| 65 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2095.46 | 8 |
| (65) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2028.29 | 5 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2010.46 | 27 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1994.86 | 9 |
| (67) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1974.87 | 25 |
| (67) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1936.88 | 26 |
| (67) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1930.38 | 8 |
| 68 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1916.36 | 18 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1891.99 | 32 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1890.24 | 7 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1851.96 | 25 |
| (71) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1843.34 | 5 |
| (71) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1796.75 | 5 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1776 | 23 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1770.62 | 19 |
| (73) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1726.01 | 13 |
| 74 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1662.38 | 7 |
| 75 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1631.31 | 7 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1598.73 | 10 |
| (76) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1569.87 | 9 |
| 77 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1562.55 | 7 |
| (77) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1525.99 | 3 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1515.39 | 11 |
| (78) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1514.91 | 2 |
| (78) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1494.15 | 5 |
| (78) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1492.69 | 1 |
| (78) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1492.69 | 1 |
| 79 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1487.9 | 4 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1445.83 | 8 |
| 81 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1418.02 | 6 |
| 82 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1407.57 | 13 |
| (82) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1380.65 | 2 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1368.93 | 15 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1363.16 | 15 |
| 85 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1352.94 | 10 |
| (85) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1340.52 | 2 |
| 86 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1336.72 | 48 |
| 87 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1320.72 | 45 |
| (87) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1320.71 | 1 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1305.06 | 10 |
| (88) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1282.98 | 5 |
| 89 | Program in Institutions, Organizations and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 1275.74 | 7 |
| 90 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1275.37 | 45 |
| (90) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1263.19 | 15 |
| (90) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1254.35 | 10 |
| 91 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1254.35 | 11 |
| (91) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1250.91 | 6 |
| 92 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1247.74 | 14 |
| 93 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1221.82 | 8 |
| (93) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1186.22 | 7 |
| 94 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1179.9 | 22 |
| 95 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1173.51 | 10 |
| (95) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1165.27 | 1 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1159.5 | 11 |
| 97 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1143.15 | 21 |
| 98 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1127.95 | 34 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1127.07 | 28 |
| 100 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1116.68 | 5 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1109.38 | 5 |
| 102 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1100.76 | 15 |
| 103 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1094.87 | 46 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1074.03 | 10 |
| (104) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1061.37 | 21 |
| (104) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1057.07 | 2 |
| (104) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1053.02 | 6 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1041.82 | 22 |
| 106 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1035.87 | 14 |
| 107 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1033.11 | 16 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1028.45 | 12 |
| 109 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1018.86 | 11 |
| 110 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1011.91 | 2 |
| (110) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1010.16 | 9 |
| 111 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1010.16 | 10 |
| 112 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1000.23 | 31 |
| (112) | 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 | 978.89 | 12 |
| 113 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 966.85 | 7 |
| (113) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 966.85 | 6 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 914.68 | 19 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 903.9 | 15 |
| 116 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 899.29 | 9 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 890.55 | 6 |
| 118 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 885.29 | 2 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 880.25 | 7 |
| (119) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 880.25 | 7 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 877.26 | 16 |
| 121 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 874.05 | 9 |
| 122 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 866.87 | 7 |
| 123 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 848.26 | 22 |
| (123) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 842.98 | 19 |
| 124 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 842.98 | 19 |
| 125 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 835.79 | 3 |
| 126 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 829.42 | 1 |
| 127 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 828.25 | 11 |
| 128 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 820.42 | 35 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 786.95 | 14 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 785.9 | 15 |
| 131 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 776.16 | 19 |
| 132 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 775.72 | 6 |
| 133 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 767.86 | 18 |
| 134 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 760.64 | 3 |
| 135 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 758.47 | 6 |
| (135) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 755.92 | 6 |
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