| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 497255.39 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 201510.86 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 160097.92 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 90624.65 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 80693.17 | 29 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 66677.26 | 32 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 66486.59 | 85 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 54413.83 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 53128.88 | 21 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 51973.48 | 31 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 51091.22 | 22 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 43360.24 | 21 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 43173.34 | 13 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 42384.11 | 26 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 42218.62 | 24 |
| 16 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 41167.04 | 59 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 40970.68 | 35 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 40692.65 | 27 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 40566.05 | 29 |
| 19 | CESifo | München, Germany | 38418.14 | 55 |
| 20 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 38240.98 | 116 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 36276.87 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 36195.66 | 31 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 35427.32 | 76 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 33986.87 | 17 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 33936.63 | 19 |
| 25 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 33872.96 | 11 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 32467.08 | 37 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 32281.51 | 28 |
| 28 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 31273.17 | 84 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 30779.4 | 21 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 30266.1 | 22 |
| (29) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 28943.17 | 26 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 28721.85 | 15 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 28339.9 | 23 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 26378.44 | 22 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 26065.3 | 14 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 25587.06 | 30 |
| (34) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 25219.36 | 13 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 24531.49 | 33 |
| 36 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24531.23 | 27 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 24076.88 | 37 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 24059.84 | 19 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 23736.29 | 22 |
| 40 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 21168.6 | 25 |
| 41 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21082.43 | 9 |
| 42 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 20771.99 | 11 |
| 43 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 20656.05 | 15 |
| 44 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 20328.1 | 16 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 20023.65 | 25 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 19994.68 | 21 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19769.21 | 34 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 19403.94 | 21 |
| 49 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 18570.35 | 3 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 17760.32 | 21 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 17649.13 | 21 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 17600.09 | 31 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 17389.49 | 26 |
| 54 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17271.38 | 7 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 17096.1 | 19 |
| (55) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 16905.95 | 19 |
| 56 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 16905.95 | 19 |
| 57 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 16818.03 | 48 |
| 58 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 16338.69 | 9 |
| 59 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 16262.32 | 7 |
| (59) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 16256.87 | 6 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 16144.83 | 32 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 16009.05 | 19 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 15993.49 | 27 |
| (62) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 15796.06 | 25 |
| (62) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 15734.51 | 16 |
| 63 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15606.32 | 15 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 15577.22 | 25 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 15486.11 | 19 |
| 66 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15267.7 | 13 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 15247.68 | 10 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 14947.44 | 22 |
| 69 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 14314.02 | 15 |
| 70 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 14307.27 | 46 |
| 71 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 14166 | 45 |
| (71) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 13940.81 | 7 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 13566.91 | 10 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 13550.34 | 21 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13271.95 | 21 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 12954.81 | 29 |
| 76 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 12867.1 | 23 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 12694.97 | 15 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 12479.45 | 9 |
| 79 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12475.37 | 7 |
| 80 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12312.14 | 9 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12309.07 | 8 |
| (80) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 12241.78 | 7 |
| (80) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12155.39 | 26 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11570.23 | 11 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11545.24 | 14 |
| 83 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 11542.78 | 20 |
| 84 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 11456.68 | 22 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 11453.14 | 16 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 11226.09 | 8 |
| (86) | 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 | 11058.49 | 12 |
| (86) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 11014.81 | 5 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10962.59 | 6 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10914.49 | 10 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 10767 | 15 |
| (89) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10725.02 | 21 |
| 90 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 10481.56 | 11 |
| (90) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10446.32 | 9 |
| 91 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10446.32 | 10 |
| (91) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10193.39 | 13 |
| 92 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 10102.3 | 19 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 10015.31 | 15 |
| 94 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 9890.95 | 34 |
| 95 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9781.55 | 10 |
| (95) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9780.38 | 4 |
| (95) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 9771.92 | 10 |
| 96 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 9771.92 | 11 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 9728.13 | 23 |
| 98 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 9704.62 | 19 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 9536.01 | 28 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 9346.41 | 14 |
| (100) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 9273.23 | 6 |
| (100) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9268.5 | 2 |
| 101 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 9264.55 | 10 |
| 102 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9100.56 | 24 |
| 103 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 9099.72 | 8 |
| 104 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 9091.09 | 17 |
| (104) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 9070.04 | 16 |
| (104) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9035.1 | 8 |
| 105 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9019.8 | 7 |
| 106 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 8910.43 | 14 |
| (106) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8821.12 | 4 |
| 107 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 8815.85 | 10 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 8733.69 | 22 |
| 109 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 8625.85 | 7 |
| (109) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8527.25 | 5 |
| 110 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 8495.13 | 27 |
| (110) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8483.11 | 5 |
| 111 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 8468.61 | 10 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 8440.98 | 17 |
| 113 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 8423.87 | 11 |
| (113) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8406.98 | 5 |
| 114 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 8352.44 | 28 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 8235.65 | 28 |
| 116 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8225.42 | 11 |
| 117 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 8156.98 | 7 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 8027.37 | 14 |
| (118) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8026.86 | 5 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 7963.07 | 7 |
| 120 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7960.31 | 3 |
| 121 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 7920.84 | 41 |
| (121) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 7866.86 | 12 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 7803.54 | 18 |
| 123 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 7798.8 | 5 |
| (123) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7748.51 | 9 |
| 124 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 7649.66 | 8 |
| 125 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 7638.63 | 18 |
| 126 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7619.59 | 2 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 7613.93 | 25 |
| (127) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7555.81 | 9 |
| 128 | Program in Institutions, Organizations and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 7552.01 | 7 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 7441.3 | 15 |
| (129) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7245.12 | 2 |
| 130 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 7201.18 | 45 |
| 131 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7165.59 | 8 |
| 132 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 7100.62 | 14 |
| 133 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 7020.11 | 35 |
| 134 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 6940.05 | 5 |
| 135 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 6889.47 | 14 |
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