| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11521.5 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4598.4 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3084.83 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1768.14 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1681.14 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1185.83 | 31 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1163.83 | 32 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1119.25 | 85 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1052.23 | 23 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 929.26 | 19 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 928.44 | 116 |
| 12 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 846.8 | 27 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 833.46 | 22 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 805.13 | 24 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 784.46 | 17 |
| 16 | CESifo | München, Germany | 752.8 | 55 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 715.59 | 31 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 709.67 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 699.89 | 21 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 695.16 | 29 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 657.61 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 639.69 | 23 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 639.26 | 34 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 628.06 | 26 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 621.78 | 22 |
| 24 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 614.81 | 13 |
| 25 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 597.38 | 33 |
| (25) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 591.67 | 35 |
| 26 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 566.06 | 84 |
| (26) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 562.9 | 13 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 544.57 | 19 |
| 28 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 514.44 | 59 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 504.59 | 28 |
| 30 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 501.56 | 27 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 493.55 | 15 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 492.68 | 30 |
| 33 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 483.06 | 11 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 464.43 | 21 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 457.1 | 21 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 440.36 | 14 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 427.69 | 22 |
| 38 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 425.31 | 37 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 405.84 | 76 |
| (39) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 392.76 | 21 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 390.75 | 27 |
| 41 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 388.34 | 26 |
| (41) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 386.17 | 25 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 377.39 | 19 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 376.66 | 14 |
| 44 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 368.67 | 10 |
| (44) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 362.55 | 16 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 359.96 | 22 |
| 46 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 353.69 | 11 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 353.06 | 29 |
| 48 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 344.55 | 25 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 342.93 | 37 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 341.62 | 21 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 323.47 | 21 |
| (51) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 321.1 | 16 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 320.62 | 25 |
| (52) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 318.68 | 9 |
| (52) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 316 | 7 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 307.97 | 19 |
| (53) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 290.81 | 4 |
| 54 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 290.67 | 15 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 290.15 | 22 |
| 56 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 287.91 | 13 |
| 57 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 287.87 | 9 |
| (57) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 285.46 | 13 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 272.18 | 21 |
| (58) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 270.49 | 8 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 270.31 | 8 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 270.28 | 9 |
| 61 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 268.67 | 45 |
| (61) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 265.69 | 26 |
| 62 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 261.35 | 15 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 259.44 | 15 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 258.81 | 19 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 258.08 | 23 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 256.11 | 10 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 250.84 | 21 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 250.15 | 11 |
| 69 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 245.2 | 46 |
| 70 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 243.18 | 34 |
| 71 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 236.75 | 48 |
| 72 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 236.32 | 4 |
| 73 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 236.04 | 3 |
| 74 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 233.95 | 45 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 232.13 | 10 |
| 76 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 229.27 | 9 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 229.25 | 8 |
| 77 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 228.66 | 11 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 226.4 | 31 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 223.62 | 9 |
| 80 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 222 | 32 |
| (80) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 217.13 | 5 |
| (80) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 216.23 | 2 |
| 81 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 215.97 | 21 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 214.74 | 10 |
| (82) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 214.58 | 21 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 210.72 | 15 |
| (83) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 210.13 | 2 |
| 84 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 205.83 | 10 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 202.52 | 28 |
| (85) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 202.28 | 19 |
| 86 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 202.28 | 19 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 202.24 | 15 |
| 88 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 200.97 | 22 |
| (88) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 193.56 | 7 |
| 89 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 191.74 | 11 |
| (89) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 187.7 | 4 |
| 90 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 186.46 | 19 |
| (90) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 183.5 | 2 |
| 91 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 181.8 | 7 |
| 92 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 176.28 | 5 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 175.25 | 11 |
| (93) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 173.3 | 15 |
| (93) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 173.08 | 7 |
| (93) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 172.54 | 5 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 167.67 | 10 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 167.42 | 14 |
| 96 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 166.32 | 25 |
| 97 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 159.83 | 16 |
| 98 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 159.27 | 7 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 156.31 | 16 |
| (99) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 154.54 | 5 |
| 100 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 153.27 | 8 |
| 101 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 151.89 | 7 |
| 102 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 150.62 | 8 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 147.96 | 14 |
| 104 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 147.74 | 15 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 147.62 | 8 |
| 106 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 147.25 | 19 |
| (106) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 146.16 | 5 |
| 107 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 145.96 | 18 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 144.54 | 14 |
| 109 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 143.96 | 25 |
| 110 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 142.68 | 30 |
| 111 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 142.31 | 11 |
| (111) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 141.28 | 10 |
| 112 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 141.23 | 28 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 140.56 | 15 |
| 114 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 140.41 | 35 |
| (114) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 140.07 | 1 |
| (114) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 140.07 | 1 |
| (114) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 139.66 | 9 |
| 115 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 139.43 | 5 |
| 116 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 139.26 | 17 |
| (116) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 138.52 | 2 |
| 117 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 138.04 | 8 |
| 118 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 137.58 | 7 |
| (118) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 137.44 | 1 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 137.29 | 28 |
| 120 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 136.34 | 12 |
| 121 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 135.17 | 10 |
| (121) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 135.13 | 9 |
| 122 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 134.64 | 10 |
| 123 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 134.03 | 27 |
| 124 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 130.57 | 14 |
| 125 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 129.72 | 20 |
| 126 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 129.31 | 14 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 128.4 | 13 |
| 128 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 127.56 | 22 |
| 129 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 126.2 | 41 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 126.19 | 7 |
| 131 | Program in Institutions, Organizations and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 124.02 | 7 |
| 132 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 123.31 | 7 |
| (132) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 123.28 | 6 |
| 133 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 120.47 | 10 |
| (133) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 119.87 | 5 |
| 134 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 117.74 | 9 |
| (134) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 117.42 | 2 |
| 135 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 114.51 | 18 |
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