| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 313285.16 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 118434.46 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 97517.65 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 58166.59 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 50721.83 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 42146.74 | 85 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 40741.53 | 32 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 37579.59 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 33491.34 | 31 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 32838.74 | 21 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 31588.78 | 22 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 30983.67 | 13 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 29871.29 | 21 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 27522.5 | 29 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 27067.17 | 26 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 26587.37 | 24 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 26240.19 | 35 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 25428.41 | 11 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 24782.28 | 59 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 24604.01 | 27 |
| 20 | CESifo | München, Germany | 23928.2 | 55 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 23224.21 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 22839.72 | 76 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 22676.58 | 31 |
| 23 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20755.2 | 116 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19742.47 | 17 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19703.63 | 19 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 19638.59 | 26 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 19486.8 | 28 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 18910.05 | 37 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 18333.61 | 15 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 18023.26 | 21 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 17837.03 | 22 |
| 30 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 17070.19 | 14 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 16172.72 | 30 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 16036.17 | 23 |
| 33 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16009.53 | 84 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 15836.27 | 37 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 15570.78 | 22 |
| 36 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 15478.1 | 19 |
| 37 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 15477.28 | 15 |
| (37) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 15383.46 | 13 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 15278.33 | 33 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14479.82 | 9 |
| 40 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 13387.71 | 16 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 13280.44 | 22 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 13258.18 | 21 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12961.18 | 27 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12704.04 | 11 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12332.33 | 34 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 12215.08 | 25 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 11304.21 | 31 |
| 48 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11212.28 | 3 |
| 49 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 10886.41 | 7 |
| (49) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 10885.51 | 6 |
| 50 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10827.2 | 7 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 10657.62 | 19 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 10651.85 | 25 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 10473.08 | 21 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 10332.85 | 19 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10232.01 | 27 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 10184.24 | 19 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10115.5 | 25 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10047.59 | 21 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 9966.75 | 21 |
| (58) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9902.44 | 16 |
| 59 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 9862.07 | 25 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 9801.03 | 32 |
| 61 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9695.56 | 26 |
| 62 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 9644.23 | 48 |
| 63 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9355.16 | 13 |
| 64 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9285.39 | 7 |
| 65 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 9058.05 | 9 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8973.63 | 22 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 8944.34 | 10 |
| 68 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 8700.85 | 46 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 8638.64 | 10 |
| 70 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8607.63 | 15 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 8371.91 | 15 |
| (71) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8367.21 | 7 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8170.82 | 29 |
| (72) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8024.85 | 5 |
| (72) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8009.08 | 19 |
| 73 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8009.08 | 19 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 7894.28 | 9 |
| 75 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 7668.08 | 15 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 7622.66 | 21 |
| 77 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7555.35 | 21 |
| 78 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7319.54 | 10 |
| 79 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7238.59 | 23 |
| 80 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7120.84 | 45 |
| 81 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7111.41 | 9 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7109.87 | 8 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6644.58 | 10 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 6510.97 | 14 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6436.1 | 11 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 6408.44 | 15 |
| (85) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6404.54 | 7 |
| (85) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6365.76 | 4 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6319.12 | 9 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 6262.45 | 10 |
| 87 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6241.33 | 7 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6230.46 | 15 |
| 89 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6159.71 | 11 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 6136.28 | 16 |
| (90) | 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 | 6134.22 | 12 |
| 91 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 6102.43 | 20 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 6082.35 | 17 |
| (92) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6048.4 | 26 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5958.87 | 14 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 5946.91 | 7 |
| (94) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5943.23 | 21 |
| 95 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 5925.78 | 22 |
| 96 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 5886.56 | 19 |
| 97 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 5772.49 | 34 |
| (97) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5757.14 | 9 |
| 98 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5757.14 | 10 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5652.32 | 6 |
| (99) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5644.24 | 2 |
| 100 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 5607.77 | 18 |
| (100) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5570.25 | 13 |
| 101 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 5531.8 | 17 |
| 102 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 5515.21 | 22 |
| 103 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 5497.7 | 8 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 5488.31 | 23 |
| 105 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5460.17 | 24 |
| 106 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 5458.72 | 8 |
| 107 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 5440.96 | 8 |
| 108 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5433.52 | 19 |
| (108) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5404.31 | 16 |
| (108) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5367.42 | 10 |
| 109 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5367.42 | 11 |
| 110 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 5151.89 | 14 |
| 111 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 5121.79 | 10 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 5056.76 | 28 |
| 113 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5033.97 | 7 |
| (113) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5002.27 | 5 |
| 114 | Program in Institutions, Organizations and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 4982.99 | 7 |
| 115 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 4956.63 | 10 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 4942.55 | 28 |
| (116) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4881.82 | 4 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 4750.94 | 18 |
| 118 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4746.74 | 11 |
| 119 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 4692.29 | 14 |
| (119) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 4665.04 | 7 |
| 120 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 4660.45 | 16 |
| 121 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4573.73 | 11 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 4570.7 | 15 |
| (122) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4518.11 | 6 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4499.39 | 12 |
| (122) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4462.62 | 5 |
| 123 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 4447.02 | 27 |
| 124 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4445.35 | 28 |
| (124) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4431.93 | 2 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 4385.81 | 14 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 4376.39 | 5 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 4354.87 | 25 |
| 128 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4279.78 | 3 |
| (128) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4273.3 | 5 |
| 129 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4256.45 | 5 |
| (129) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4232.68 | 5 |
| 130 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4190.95 | 5 |
| (130) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4188.14 | 8 |
| 131 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4183.08 | 13 |
| 132 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 4178.43 | 35 |
| 133 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 4177.16 | 7 |
| 134 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4149.06 | 4 |
| 135 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 4103.68 | 5 |
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