| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 39554.38 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 15449.69 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 11613.37 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6728.51 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6163.62 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4744.13 | 85 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4662.43 | 31 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4309.07 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4095.38 | 32 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3513.81 | 13 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3321.74 | 55 |
| 12 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3222.53 | 27 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3116.06 | 116 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3038.66 | 24 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3015.89 | 26 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2814.93 | 22 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2759.35 | 21 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2751.39 | 29 |
| 19 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2722.27 | 11 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2679.13 | 21 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2670.49 | 15 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2662.43 | 26 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2618.3 | 31 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2507.94 | 35 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2337.27 | 59 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2323.57 | 17 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2280.44 | 19 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2203.04 | 19 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2092.22 | 76 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2087.09 | 15 |
| 28 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2084.6 | 33 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1995.32 | 37 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1986.5 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1980.35 | 30 |
| 32 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1883.07 | 34 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1875.6 | 28 |
| (33) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1866.22 | 21 |
| 34 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1849.26 | 84 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1794.65 | 22 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1789.24 | 23 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1785.35 | 21 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1757.24 | 14 |
| (38) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1747.16 | 13 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1627.19 | 27 |
| 40 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1509.47 | 19 |
| 41 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1451.49 | 11 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1449.39 | 9 |
| 43 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1406.51 | 19 |
| 44 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1396.98 | 15 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1389.48 | 22 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1332.23 | 21 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1309.15 | 25 |
| 48 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1306.78 | 25 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1304.85 | 37 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1267.13 | 26 |
| (50) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1240.13 | 4 |
| 51 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1223.15 | 10 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1208.89 | 27 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1194.27 | 25 |
| (52) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1186.76 | 16 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1180.33 | 19 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1170.96 | 21 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1170.56 | 29 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1132.35 | 15 |
| 57 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1125.86 | 16 |
| 58 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1121.17 | 32 |
| (58) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1094.24 | 9 |
| 59 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1092 | 9 |
| 60 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1073.65 | 48 |
| 61 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1057.52 | 23 |
| 62 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1046.28 | 13 |
| (62) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1044.96 | 7 |
| (62) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1043.16 | 16 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1028.26 | 31 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1017.05 | 10 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1012.41 | 21 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1002.23 | 10 |
| 67 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 992.33 | 11 |
| (67) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 985.87 | 5 |
| 68 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 960.1 | 46 |
| 69 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 953.44 | 25 |
| 70 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 953.06 | 22 |
| 71 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 939.19 | 4 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 918.11 | 14 |
| 73 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 903.21 | 3 |
| 74 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 888.13 | 19 |
| 75 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 885.97 | 7 |
| (75) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 885.84 | 6 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 881.08 | 21 |
| 77 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 865.13 | 45 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 854.86 | 22 |
| (78) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 853.3 | 26 |
| 79 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 842.56 | 7 |
| (79) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 829.52 | 13 |
| 80 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 828.26 | 15 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 817.57 | 14 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 815.78 | 15 |
| 83 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 807.31 | 9 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 807.13 | 8 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 795.6 | 21 |
| 85 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 783.27 | 34 |
| (85) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 775.86 | 21 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 773.42 | 8 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 748.62 | 9 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 742.27 | 10 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 736.78 | 28 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 734.21 | 11 |
| (90) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 729.26 | 2 |
| 91 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 724.34 | 7 |
| 92 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 710.19 | 17 |
| (92) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 707.59 | 9 |
| (92) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 693.34 | 2 |
| (92) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 677.09 | 19 |
| 93 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 677.09 | 19 |
| 94 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 669.65 | 11 |
| (94) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 668.59 | 1 |
| (94) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 667.99 | 8 |
| 95 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 667.01 | 19 |
| 96 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 657.61 | 35 |
| 97 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 653.4 | 45 |
| 98 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 647.48 | 7 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 627.94 | 7 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 626.25 | 15 |
| (100) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 615.74 | 5 |
| (100) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 610.07 | 7 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 606.29 | 15 |
| 102 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 605.7 | 18 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 596.87 | 28 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 583.15 | 13 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 582.23 | 16 |
| (105) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 582.04 | 2 |
| (105) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 580.78 | 4 |
| 106 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 575.37 | 22 |
| 107 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 573.29 | 15 |
| 108 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 569.11 | 5 |
| (108) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 565.47 | 5 |
| (108) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 563.94 | 15 |
| 109 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 560.62 | 10 |
| 110 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 558.43 | 25 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 550.65 | 17 |
| 112 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 546.65 | 30 |
| 113 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 540.13 | 18 |
| 114 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 534.52 | 5 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 531.42 | 12 |
| (115) | 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 | 530.67 | 12 |
| 116 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 525.97 | 15 |
| 117 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 525.93 | 11 |
| 118 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 525.54 | 28 |
| (118) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 525.01 | 2 |
| 119 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 524.48 | 20 |
| 120 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 523.74 | 10 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 522.97 | 14 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 519.56 | 6 |
| (122) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 518.74 | 10 |
| 123 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 513.02 | 7 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 512.57 | 18 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 497.69 | 16 |
| (125) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 494.58 | 5 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 491.26 | 41 |
| 127 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 485.45 | 8 |
| 128 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 483.44 | 10 |
| 129 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 477.71 | 27 |
| 130 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 473.97 | 14 |
| 131 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 473.32 | 14 |
| 132 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 458.8 | 8 |
| 133 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 458.07 | 43 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 453.86 | 18 |
| 135 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 450.95 | 8 |
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