| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 52099.73 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 16383.48 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 13312.13 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9633.75 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8853.11 | 28 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6168.06 | 31 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6105.94 | 21 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6026.13 | 32 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5847.6 | 87 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5493.86 | 24 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5391.08 | 11 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5016.76 | 23 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4260.16 | 24 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4134.92 | 121 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4080.91 | 28 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3952.07 | 35 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3686.43 | 26 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3685.24 | 15 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3647.41 | 26 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3617.9 | 36 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3511.2 | 27 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3474.54 | 30 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3186.11 | 29 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3159.5 | 17 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3015.7 | 15 |
| 23 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2903.11 | 11 |
| 24 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2723.08 | 56 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2685.91 | 15 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2665.92 | 13 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2513.16 | 20 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2470.2 | 78 |
| (28) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2455.66 | 13 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2436.67 | 21 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2331.49 | 19 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2301.79 | 21 |
| 32 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2269.58 | 14 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2146.99 | 14 |
| 34 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2105.36 | 33 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2058.39 | 59 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2052.66 | 24 |
| 37 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2017.83 | 84 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1971.91 | 28 |
| 39 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1908.58 | 3 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1868.81 | 22 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1829.96 | 38 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1793.88 | 21 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1778.33 | 24 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1730.31 | 22 |
| 44 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1693.91 | 9 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1673.7 | 22 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1665.01 | 22 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1632.58 | 30 |
| (47) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1621.68 | 4 |
| 48 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1585.18 | 27 |
| 49 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1578.83 | 10 |
| (49) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1560.94 | 16 |
| 50 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1548.33 | 9 |
| (50) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1546.83 | 8 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1536.08 | 26 |
| 52 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1513.83 | 5 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1503.74 | 22 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1486.75 | 17 |
| (53) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1457 | 7 |
| 54 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1388.03 | 15 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1345.08 | 21 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1312.16 | 38 |
| (56) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1248 | 4 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1227.66 | 19 |
| 58 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 1222.25 | 8 |
| 59 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1221.83 | 33 |
| 60 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1211.99 | 7 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1206.25 | 11 |
| (61) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1199.7 | 7 |
| 62 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1190.08 | 8 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1173.16 | 26 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1164.6 | 29 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1163.19 | 20 |
| (65) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1122.5 | 27 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1093.87 | 19 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1081.99 | 9 |
| (67) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1062.83 | 9 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1061.41 | 19 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1018.49 | 28 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1005 | 15 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1000.66 | 25 |
| 71 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1000.25 | 7 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 988.05 | 23 |
| (72) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 987.91 | 5 |
| (72) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 930.83 | 9 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 930.66 | 8 |
| 74 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 926.08 | 49 |
| (74) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 921.49 | 14 |
| (74) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 901.91 | 5 |
| (74) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 896.33 | 4 |
| 75 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 864.34 | 44 |
| 76 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 846.16 | 17 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 839.16 | 46 |
| (77) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 809.83 | 5 |
| (77) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 805.25 | 9 |
| 78 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 791.16 | 7 |
| (78) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 790.66 | 2 |
| 79 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 787.91 | 7 |
| 80 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 768.68 | 48 |
| (80) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 768.45 | 21 |
| 81 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 756.41 | 4 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 746.75 | 8 |
| 83 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 738.25 | 7 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 738.25 | 6 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 722.81 | 31 |
| 85 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 720.75 | 10 |
| (85) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 716.91 | 3 |
| 86 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 715.85 | 8 |
| 87 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 712.75 | 86 |
| 88 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 711 | 34 |
| (88) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 709.16 | 2 |
| (88) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 704.7 | 1 |
| (88) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 704.7 | 1 |
| 89 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 700.11 | 6 |
| 90 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 693.75 | 22 |
| 91 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 676.62 | 17 |
| 92 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 674.38 | 22 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 673.16 | 11 |
| 94 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 672.75 | 14 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 667.75 | 10 |
| (95) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 660.08 | 2 |
| 96 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 655.75 | 15 |
| (96) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 650.83 | 5 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 650.25 | 30 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 642.66 | 15 |
| (98) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 638.08 | 11 |
| 99 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 635 | 15 |
| (99) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 627.66 | 1 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 621.83 | 15 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 599.33 | 5 |
| 102 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 586.68 | 15 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 582.99 | 6 |
| 104 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 576.08 | 15 |
| 105 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 574.06 | 10 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 565.5 | 22 |
| 107 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 563.88 | 2 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 560.83 | 22 |
| 109 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 545.83 | 35 |
| (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 | 543.66 | 12 |
| 110 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 539.75 | 14 |
| (110) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 521.16 | 6 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 520.66 | 15 |
| 112 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 520.48 | 5 |
| (112) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 518.75 | 2 |
| 113 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 516.66 | 10 |
| 114 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 516.36 | 17 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 515.83 | 15 |
| (115) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 505.91 | 15 |
| 116 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 496.13 | 15 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 495.5 | 11 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 493.08 | 11 |
| 119 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 490.58 | 9 |
| 120 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 487 | 19 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 482.08 | 19 |
| 122 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 479.58 | 11 |
| (122) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 478.46 | 21 |
| 123 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 478.46 | 21 |
| (123) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 478 | 1 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 477.86 | 11 |
| 125 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 474.66 | 7 |
| (125) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 470.33 | 9 |
| 126 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 470.33 | 10 |
| 127 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 460.68 | 11 |
| (127) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 460.66 | 7 |
| 128 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 458.66 | 2 |
| 129 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 457.45 | 7 |
| (129) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 457.45 | 7 |
| (129) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 456.25 | 7 |
| 130 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 437.1 | 37 |
| 131 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 436.33 | 10 |
| 132 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 435.78 | 30 |
| 133 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 435.44 | 21 |
| 134 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 430.41 | 45 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 427.5 | 9 |
| 136 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 424.99 | 10 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 424.96 | 14 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 421.33 | 16 |
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