| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 189464.34 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 59316.39 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 42577.2 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36891.21 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 29878.04 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24194.66 | 32 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 20870.39 | 22 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 20516.12 | 21 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 20095.28 | 31 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18219.97 | 23 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17149.02 | 85 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15879.37 | 116 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14819.53 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 14417.04 | 11 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14169.69 | 27 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 13950.51 | 17 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12979.43 | 34 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 12886.6 | 31 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12124.94 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 12038.7 | 19 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11926.19 | 26 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11577.3 | 35 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 11312.14 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 11226.44 | 29 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 11186.83 | 28 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10466.68 | 26 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9836.24 | 13 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8445.97 | 11 |
| 25 | CESifo | München, Germany | 7608.25 | 55 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 7494 | 19 |
| 27 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7491.52 | 84 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7427.33 | 21 |
| 29 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7404.24 | 33 |
| 30 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7349.54 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 7056.46 | 22 |
| 32 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7048.77 | 13 |
| 33 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6869.99 | 15 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6820.57 | 23 |
| 35 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6558.88 | 27 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6483.12 | 59 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6460.55 | 14 |
| 38 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6446.48 | 13 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6343.23 | 21 |
| 40 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 6224.09 | 25 |
| 41 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6192.9 | 15 |
| 42 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6156.27 | 9 |
| (42) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 6155.95 | 8 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 6101.2 | 76 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 6049.93 | 21 |
| 45 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 6044.9 | 8 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5952.15 | 21 |
| 47 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 5936.9 | 37 |
| 48 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5870.91 | 3 |
| (48) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 5843.61 | 21 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5810.83 | 21 |
| (49) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5762.84 | 7 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 5674.08 | 22 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 5589.66 | 26 |
| (51) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5519.3 | 4 |
| (51) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5483.61 | 16 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5359 | 14 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5346.96 | 21 |
| 54 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4963.37 | 9 |
| (54) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4956.76 | 7 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4912.81 | 30 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4830.94 | 10 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4718.73 | 19 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 4569.38 | 29 |
| (58) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4537.59 | 8 |
| (58) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4531.89 | 26 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4451.59 | 16 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 4426.82 | 10 |
| (59) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4268.15 | 4 |
| 60 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4182.94 | 25 |
| 61 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4058.99 | 8 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3742.45 | 9 |
| 63 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3656.62 | 19 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3655.95 | 37 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3650.31 | 23 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3610.06 | 19 |
| 67 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 3596.71 | 7 |
| (67) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3427.96 | 5 |
| (67) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3367.72 | 13 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3318.16 | 32 |
| (68) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3309.81 | 5 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 3302.77 | 10 |
| (69) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3282.86 | 9 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 3245.18 | 25 |
| 71 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3210.7 | 7 |
| 72 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3189.45 | 5 |
| (72) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3153.09 | 5 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3041.55 | 27 |
| (73) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3012.74 | 1 |
| (73) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3012.74 | 1 |
| (73) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2991.53 | 25 |
| (73) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2877.24 | 5 |
| 74 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2839.69 | 45 |
| 75 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2811.51 | 7 |
| (75) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2800.48 | 2 |
| 76 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2782.9 | 45 |
| 77 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 2760.16 | 10 |
| 78 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2673.08 | 7 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 2651.1 | 7 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2608.82 | 11 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2573.79 | 9 |
| 81 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2571.21 | 48 |
| (81) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2534.9 | 5 |
| (81) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2479.77 | 10 |
| 82 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2479.77 | 11 |
| (82) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2470.76 | 3 |
| 83 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 2470.06 | 18 |
| (83) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2454.54 | 2 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2453.31 | 28 |
| (84) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2445.52 | 15 |
| 85 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 2371.7 | 5 |
| (85) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2354.77 | 2 |
| 86 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 2339.94 | 14 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 2322.71 | 15 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2280.82 | 8 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2267.71 | 10 |
| 90 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 2255.56 | 10 |
| (90) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2248.62 | 21 |
| 91 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2211.55 | 6 |
| 92 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2200.45 | 13 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2173.63 | 11 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 2161.46 | 5 |
| (94) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2138.67 | 19 |
| 95 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2138.67 | 19 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2095.77 | 15 |
| 97 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2093.85 | 21 |
| 98 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 2076.31 | 14 |
| (98) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2053.32 | 6 |
| 99 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 2051.42 | 8 |
| 100 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 2045.57 | 15 |
| 101 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2023.64 | 2 |
| 102 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2009.31 | 10 |
| 103 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2005.53 | 22 |
| 104 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2003.42 | 4 |
| 105 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1975.08 | 46 |
| 106 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1968.78 | 3 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1966.44 | 6 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1958.59 | 22 |
| 109 | Program in Institutions, Organizations and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 1958.4 | 7 |
| (109) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1909.52 | 9 |
| 110 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1909.52 | 10 |
| 111 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1905.39 | 34 |
| 112 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1892.34 | 11 |
| (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 | 1828.39 | 12 |
| (112) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1813.05 | 7 |
| 113 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1808.39 | 22 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1791.04 | 16 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1748.63 | 15 |
| 116 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1717.51 | 2 |
| 117 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1714.03 | 31 |
| 118 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1713.63 | 3 |
| (118) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1712.5 | 1 |
| (118) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1685.76 | 1 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1677.96 | 7 |
| (119) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1677.96 | 7 |
| 120 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1664.84 | 7 |
| 121 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1662.47 | 27 |
| 122 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1646.24 | 16 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1613.1 | 19 |
| 124 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1557.4 | 7 |
| (124) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1557.4 | 6 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1555.84 | 12 |
| (125) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1550.81 | 6 |
| 126 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1515.46 | 35 |
| 127 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1499.63 | 11 |
| (127) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1448.77 | 2 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1414.91 | 14 |
| 129 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1413.96 | 19 |
| 130 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1405.14 | 9 |
| (130) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1400.64 | 4 |
| (130) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1390.83 | 3 |
| 131 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1385.97 | 8 |
| 132 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 1383.38 | 4 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1381.82 | 14 |
| 134 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1337.94 | 21 |
| 135 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1337.55 | 36 |
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