| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 65377.11 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 26888.58 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 19162.73 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11210.83 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10721.33 | 29 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8207.09 | 32 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7421.3 | 85 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6847.37 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6587.94 | 21 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6533.62 | 22 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6487.29 | 31 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5843.57 | 24 |
| 13 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5550.39 | 59 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5377.49 | 116 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5352.21 | 26 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5350.82 | 27 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5181.69 | 19 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5123.32 | 21 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4876.48 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4866.72 | 31 |
| 20 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4855.44 | 13 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4817.48 | 17 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4805.99 | 29 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4680.44 | 35 |
| 23 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4230.35 | 37 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4205.03 | 76 |
| 25 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4104.59 | 84 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4058.29 | 22 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4034.76 | 28 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4024.47 | 23 |
| 29 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3992.28 | 55 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3972.37 | 21 |
| (29) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3824.01 | 13 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3790.61 | 37 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3522.34 | 22 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3489.84 | 27 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3416.95 | 14 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3345.9 | 34 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3310.34 | 15 |
| 36 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3260.15 | 22 |
| 37 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3233.07 | 33 |
| 38 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3203.4 | 11 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3137.01 | 30 |
| (39) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3014.62 | 26 |
| 40 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2864.52 | 19 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2854.99 | 25 |
| 42 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2749.68 | 3 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2729.69 | 21 |
| 44 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2673.48 | 9 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2654.75 | 27 |
| (45) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2626.79 | 25 |
| 46 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2614.72 | 31 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2517.44 | 25 |
| 48 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2465.9 | 7 |
| 49 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2391.73 | 11 |
| 50 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2383.95 | 15 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2377.81 | 26 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2370.86 | 21 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2323.5 | 21 |
| 54 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2313.35 | 15 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2172.99 | 14 |
| 56 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2169.71 | 13 |
| (56) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2159.11 | 16 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 2101.34 | 9 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2062.28 | 10 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2016.6 | 19 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2014.45 | 19 |
| (60) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2013.87 | 19 |
| 61 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2013.87 | 19 |
| 62 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1994.61 | 7 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1989.14 | 22 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1987.18 | 19 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1982.24 | 10 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1955.24 | 11 |
| 67 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1941.95 | 16 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1940.28 | 10 |
| 69 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1937.68 | 9 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1930.09 | 21 |
| 71 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1879.12 | 32 |
| 72 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1877.85 | 21 |
| 73 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1850.17 | 15 |
| 74 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1845.65 | 48 |
| (74) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1822.65 | 5 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1808.73 | 29 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1804.21 | 15 |
| (76) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1775.38 | 7 |
| (76) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1749.78 | 7 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1732.94 | 8 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1731.73 | 21 |
| 79 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1725.29 | 25 |
| (79) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1720.36 | 9 |
| 80 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1720.36 | 10 |
| (80) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1706.04 | 26 |
| (80) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1702.88 | 8 |
| 81 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1625.8 | 45 |
| 82 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1603.31 | 46 |
| 83 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1601.22 | 20 |
| 84 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1578.87 | 34 |
| 85 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1560.21 | 7 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1559.98 | 6 |
| 86 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1552.18 | 23 |
| (86) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1530.8 | 13 |
| (86) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1497.38 | 7 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1491.85 | 16 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1466.67 | 8 |
| 89 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1453.84 | 10 |
| 90 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1450.02 | 9 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1449.92 | 8 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1404.05 | 16 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1390.72 | 14 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1355.11 | 11 |
| (92) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1352.45 | 4 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1347.43 | 15 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1333.62 | 10 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1307.18 | 15 |
| (95) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1300 | 21 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1270.36 | 6 |
| 96 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1254.48 | 19 |
| 97 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1243.68 | 45 |
| (97) | 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 | 1241.89 | 12 |
| (97) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1230.88 | 5 |
| (97) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1230.82 | 5 |
| (97) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1229 | 9 |
| (97) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1226.31 | 1 |
| (97) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1226.31 | 1 |
| 98 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1197.72 | 10 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1194.03 | 28 |
| 100 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1191.68 | 7 |
| 101 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1191.39 | 24 |
| 102 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1189.66 | 22 |
| 103 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 1184.26 | 7 |
| 104 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1172.15 | 8 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1162.44 | 15 |
| 106 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1148.37 | 8 |
| (106) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1138.06 | 4 |
| 107 | Program in Institutions, Organizations and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 1135.31 | 7 |
| 108 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1107.73 | 11 |
| 109 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1106.81 | 19 |
| 110 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1095.28 | 28 |
| 111 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1091.23 | 10 |
| (111) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1087.48 | 5 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1086.52 | 18 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 1078.85 | 23 |
| 114 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1064.78 | 18 |
| 115 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1060.86 | 5 |
| 116 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1059.45 | 27 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1047.82 | 17 |
| 118 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1046.29 | 14 |
| 119 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1019.74 | 3 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1007.66 | 14 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 1002.04 | 25 |
| 122 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 992.51 | 11 |
| 123 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 988.33 | 14 |
| 124 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 986.8 | 17 |
| 125 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 981.37 | 14 |
| (125) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 981.33 | 2 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 975.2 | 7 |
| (126) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 975.2 | 7 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 972.75 | 28 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 967.82 | 6 |
| 129 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 953.87 | 35 |
| (129) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 931.18 | 5 |
| (129) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 924.71 | 12 |
| 130 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 914.05 | 25 |
| (130) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 910.67 | 10 |
| 131 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 910.67 | 11 |
| (131) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 909.53 | 3 |
| (131) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 870.87 | 2 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 865.54 | 21 |
| 133 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 862.12 | 9 |
| 134 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 861.06 | 41 |
| 135 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 859.71 | 4 |
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