| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 64075.24 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 26781.3 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 19690.15 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10234.14 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9822.74 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7637.28 | 85 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6917.46 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6811.66 | 32 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6312.96 | 23 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5692.56 | 116 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5347.94 | 55 |
| 12 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5173.75 | 27 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4875.08 | 13 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4798.06 | 26 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4792.75 | 24 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4705.46 | 22 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4471.55 | 21 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4318.13 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4297.43 | 29 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4159.27 | 26 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4106.33 | 15 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4087.01 | 19 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4084.04 | 35 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4065.38 | 17 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4044.96 | 59 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3936.46 | 21 |
| 24 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3599.72 | 11 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3476.31 | 19 |
| 26 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3463.9 | 33 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3435.88 | 37 |
| 28 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3429.29 | 84 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3396.44 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3287.27 | 15 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3286.78 | 23 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3252.4 | 76 |
| (32) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3170.01 | 21 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3149.93 | 28 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3117.26 | 30 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3036.92 | 34 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2995.56 | 22 |
| 37 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2921.17 | 27 |
| (37) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2887.37 | 13 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2651.07 | 14 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2578.46 | 21 |
| 40 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2552.55 | 25 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2527.71 | 22 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2461.53 | 19 |
| 43 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2290.37 | 26 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2207.9 | 25 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2201.95 | 21 |
| 46 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2194.33 | 11 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2174.73 | 9 |
| 48 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2128.27 | 19 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2064.71 | 37 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2024.08 | 21 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1953.79 | 21 |
| (51) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1919.64 | 16 |
| 52 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1913.08 | 9 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1902.71 | 29 |
| 54 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1891.46 | 15 |
| 55 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1879.62 | 48 |
| 56 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1866.96 | 23 |
| 57 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1859.45 | 32 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1857.52 | 27 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1831.83 | 25 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1803.54 | 19 |
| (59) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1761.91 | 4 |
| 60 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1740.36 | 13 |
| 61 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1721.82 | 45 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1717.23 | 15 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1693.22 | 14 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1688.13 | 10 |
| 65 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1679.76 | 11 |
| (65) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1666.58 | 26 |
| 66 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1657.62 | 46 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1657.36 | 16 |
| 67 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1649.15 | 19 |
| 68 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1643.6 | 16 |
| (68) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1640.79 | 7 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1617.53 | 21 |
| 70 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1608.98 | 31 |
| 71 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1586.85 | 10 |
| (71) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1541.31 | 5 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1535.68 | 10 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1518.23 | 22 |
| 74 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1514.51 | 15 |
| 75 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1479.43 | 25 |
| 76 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1476.47 | 3 |
| (76) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1448.31 | 19 |
| 77 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1448.31 | 19 |
| 78 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1432.5 | 22 |
| 79 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1419.19 | 9 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1418.8 | 8 |
| (79) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1417.63 | 13 |
| (79) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1371.22 | 21 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1356.87 | 28 |
| 81 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1341.07 | 34 |
| 82 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1337.73 | 21 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1330.7 | 15 |
| (83) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1326.93 | 9 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1320.14 | 9 |
| 84 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1317.58 | 7 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1300.88 | 8 |
| 86 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1296.51 | 7 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1295.74 | 6 |
| 87 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1286.6 | 45 |
| (87) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1272.32 | 8 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1268.92 | 10 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1258.19 | 11 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1244.06 | 14 |
| 91 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1224.12 | 17 |
| (91) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1215.25 | 7 |
| 92 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1196.25 | 19 |
| 93 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1194.76 | 4 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1175.02 | 9 |
| 95 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1144.03 | 11 |
| 96 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1112.93 | 35 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1107.35 | 15 |
| (97) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1102.07 | 2 |
| 98 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1075.61 | 22 |
| 99 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1073.93 | 7 |
| 100 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1070.22 | 25 |
| 101 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1061.67 | 15 |
| 102 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1059.85 | 5 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1056.54 | 28 |
| 104 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1050.31 | 28 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1032.28 | 15 |
| 106 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1024.85 | 7 |
| (106) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1023.47 | 4 |
| 107 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 998.86 | 41 |
| (107) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 996.05 | 2 |
| (107) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 995 | 2 |
| (107) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 985.23 | 15 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 985 | 6 |
| 109 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 984.14 | 20 |
| (109) | 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 | 968.63 | 12 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 966.68 | 13 |
| 111 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 950.8 | 11 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 947.74 | 16 |
| (112) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 941.76 | 10 |
| 113 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 941.72 | 27 |
| (113) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 933.8 | 5 |
| 114 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 933.22 | 7 |
| 115 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 930.31 | 30 |
| 116 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 912.32 | 18 |
| (116) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 902.6 | 5 |
| (116) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 892.65 | 5 |
| 117 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 887.88 | 18 |
| (117) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 885.98 | 5 |
| (117) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 884.71 | 2 |
| 118 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 880.35 | 14 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 878.53 | 12 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 873.92 | 8 |
| 121 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 863.98 | 10 |
| 122 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 856.77 | 10 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 852.12 | 7 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 847.21 | 14 |
| 125 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 846.17 | 18 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 843.71 | 36 |
| 127 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 843.41 | 10 |
| 128 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 838.92 | 14 |
| 129 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 812.1 | 10 |
| 130 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 810.96 | 12 |
| (130) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 800.27 | 1 |
| 131 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 794.56 | 5 |
| 132 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 789.85 | 15 |
| 133 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 787.93 | 43 |
| 134 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 783.54 | 8 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 780.94 | 18 |
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