| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 40536.31 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 15672.75 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 11713.36 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7070.94 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6563.68 | 29 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4818.66 | 32 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4726.57 | 85 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4552.91 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4198.15 | 31 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4073.43 | 22 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3962.76 | 21 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3533.99 | 24 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3476.3 | 21 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3452.15 | 13 |
| 15 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3446.88 | 59 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3322.45 | 26 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3255.56 | 29 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3150.51 | 27 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3080.15 | 35 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3020.57 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3003.66 | 19 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2954.11 | 31 |
| 21 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2874.61 | 116 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2833.98 | 17 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2763.92 | 76 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2541.35 | 37 |
| 25 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2493.24 | 37 |
| 26 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2425.5 | 55 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2394.65 | 22 |
| (27) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2359.68 | 21 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2343.92 | 28 |
| (28) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2313 | 13 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2252.95 | 23 |
| 30 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2230.14 | 11 |
| 31 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2195.11 | 14 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2112.3 | 22 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2069.74 | 34 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2016.28 | 30 |
| (34) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1999.2 | 26 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1961.72 | 33 |
| 36 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1961.3 | 84 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1867.77 | 15 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1836.29 | 19 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1828.49 | 27 |
| 40 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1817.33 | 15 |
| 41 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1770.29 | 9 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1764.96 | 22 |
| 43 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1706.62 | 3 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1682.41 | 27 |
| (44) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1664.29 | 25 |
| 45 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1579.9 | 31 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1516.37 | 25 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1476.8 | 10 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1474.41 | 21 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1470.07 | 25 |
| 50 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1454.2 | 7 |
| 51 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1437.87 | 7 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1427.83 | 10 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1406.43 | 26 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1394.24 | 9 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1353.77 | 21 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1349.05 | 19 |
| 57 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1340.56 | 11 |
| 58 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1340.09 | 15 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1315.75 | 19 |
| (59) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1307.73 | 16 |
| (59) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1303.55 | 5 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1277.1 | 22 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1250.04 | 21 |
| 62 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1248.92 | 16 |
| 63 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1243 | 13 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1224.99 | 19 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1167.04 | 15 |
| 66 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1160.37 | 10 |
| (66) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1150.48 | 7 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1138.79 | 29 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1131.45 | 32 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1113.53 | 14 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1104.22 | 11 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1100.85 | 10 |
| 72 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1098.14 | 25 |
| 73 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1073.1 | 21 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1055.04 | 9 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1054.64 | 21 |
| 75 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1049.74 | 48 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1037.93 | 21 |
| 77 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1035.86 | 7 |
| (77) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1035.82 | 6 |
| 78 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1021.03 | 15 |
| (78) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1012.92 | 7 |
| (78) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1006.81 | 9 |
| 79 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1006.81 | 10 |
| 80 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1006.27 | 9 |
| 81 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 982.04 | 46 |
| (81) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 976.17 | 19 |
| 82 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 976.17 | 19 |
| 83 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 948.27 | 34 |
| (83) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 916.97 | 7 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 912.68 | 15 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 904.56 | 8 |
| 86 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 883.47 | 23 |
| (86) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 863.52 | 26 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 862.97 | 8 |
| 88 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 832.91 | 20 |
| 89 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 831.57 | 9 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 831.52 | 8 |
| (89) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 822.84 | 13 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 819.96 | 16 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 801.99 | 14 |
| (91) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 801.82 | 16 |
| 92 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 789.78 | 45 |
| 93 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 788.66 | 19 |
| 94 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 788.29 | 11 |
| (94) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 769.01 | 8 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 757.23 | 10 |
| 96 | Program in Institutions, Organizations and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 745.27 | 7 |
| (96) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 739.09 | 5 |
| (96) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 730.19 | 4 |
| (96) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 720.48 | 4 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 710.12 | 11 |
| 98 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 705.51 | 4 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 705.51 | 15 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 696.91 | 15 |
| (100) | 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 | 696.49 | 12 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 696.36 | 18 |
| 102 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 695.64 | 24 |
| (102) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 689.07 | 21 |
| (102) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 688.38 | 1 |
| (102) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 688.38 | 1 |
| 103 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 685.87 | 9 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 683.59 | 17 |
| 105 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 680.59 | 10 |
| 106 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 677.47 | 14 |
| 107 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 673.27 | 7 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 666.43 | 14 |
| 109 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 656.57 | 22 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 653.44 | 7 |
| 111 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 651.27 | 17 |
| (111) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 645.57 | 5 |
| (111) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 643.36 | 6 |
| 112 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 643.08 | 10 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 639 | 28 |
| 114 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 636.54 | 18 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 634.62 | 23 |
| 116 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 626.1 | 45 |
| (116) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 623.4 | 6 |
| 117 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 618.02 | 7 |
| 118 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 611.43 | 18 |
| 119 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 609.49 | 14 |
| 120 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 606.23 | 8 |
| 121 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 605.83 | 28 |
| 122 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 603.26 | 16 |
| 123 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 595.16 | 19 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 588.61 | 28 |
| 125 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 583.22 | 27 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, State University of New York | Buffalo, New York (USA) | 582.74 | 4 |
| 127 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 568.82 | 7 |
| (127) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 568.82 | 7 |
| 128 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 561.97 | 5 |
| 129 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 560.44 | 8 |
| 130 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 548.33 | 11 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 548.21 | 25 |
| (131) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 543.33 | 5 |
| (131) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 534.51 | 2 |
| (131) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 534.15 | 12 |
| 132 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 532.52 | 22 |
| 133 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 532.51 | 35 |
| 134 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 529.12 | 3 |
| 135 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 521.72 | 14 |
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