| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 133381.25 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 37660.1 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 29582.46 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 23550.64 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23146.95 | 28 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16057.94 | 21 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15053.37 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14750.62 | 32 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14247.76 | 24 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13352.76 | 23 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 13344.89 | 11 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11927.44 | 87 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10058.35 | 24 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9390.54 | 17 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9334.27 | 26 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9291.66 | 121 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9085.06 | 36 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8937.48 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 8840.71 | 28 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8640.87 | 15 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8192.51 | 35 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8022.49 | 30 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7454.55 | 27 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7390.88 | 15 |
| (21) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7273.65 | 13 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6930.64 | 19 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6843.19 | 29 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6709 | 15 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6517.85 | 11 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6085.91 | 21 |
| 27 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6041.31 | 13 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5943.98 | 20 |
| 29 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5864.54 | 14 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5567.75 | 33 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5162.7 | 24 |
| 32 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5012.38 | 56 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4892.51 | 21 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4840.78 | 22 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4720.7 | 14 |
| 36 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4611.09 | 9 |
| (36) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4610.91 | 8 |
| 37 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4582.24 | 3 |
| 38 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4479.23 | 59 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4450.38 | 22 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4274.92 | 78 |
| (40) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4274.72 | 16 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4268.72 | 22 |
| 42 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4095.55 | 38 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4037.65 | 28 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4030.03 | 21 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4006.77 | 22 |
| 45 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3965.37 | 10 |
| (45) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3877.09 | 4 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3815.41 | 22 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3812.52 | 30 |
| 48 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3743.98 | 84 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3640.46 | 9 |
| (49) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3469.04 | 17 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3467.35 | 26 |
| 51 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3465.64 | 24 |
| (51) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3459.81 | 7 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3411.04 | 19 |
| 53 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3392.83 | 15 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3211.14 | 29 |
| (54) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3202.57 | 7 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3193.36 | 21 |
| (55) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3153.55 | 4 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3097.68 | 38 |
| 57 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 3027.84 | 8 |
| 58 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3022.31 | 5 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2969.29 | 11 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2899.39 | 15 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2797.06 | 19 |
| 62 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2775.06 | 7 |
| 63 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2736.61 | 27 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2697.37 | 7 |
| (64) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2653.31 | 27 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2595.94 | 9 |
| 65 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2491.6 | 9 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2464.71 | 20 |
| 67 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2429.03 | 8 |
| (67) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2411.3 | 5 |
| (67) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2365.17 | 9 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2362.4 | 28 |
| (68) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2323.64 | 25 |
| (68) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2264.03 | 4 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2237.26 | 33 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 2180.6 | 8 |
| (70) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2165.26 | 5 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2118.88 | 26 |
| (71) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2086.97 | 14 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2052.59 | 23 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2013.9 | 19 |
| 74 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1982.08 | 7 |
| 75 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1836.22 | 7 |
| (75) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1823.92 | 2 |
| (75) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1822.83 | 3 |
| (75) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1775.72 | 9 |
| (75) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1768.04 | 2 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1746.4 | 8 |
| (76) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1730.86 | 1 |
| (76) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1730.86 | 1 |
| (76) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1717.03 | 5 |
| (76) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1691.52 | 2 |
| 77 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1688 | 4 |
| 78 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1681.77 | 6 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1661.86 | 11 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1615.9 | 15 |
| 81 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1599.86 | 15 |
| (81) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1585.18 | 5 |
| 82 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1544.15 | 14 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1539.92 | 15 |
| 84 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1531.72 | 49 |
| 85 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1510.09 | 48 |
| (85) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1504.41 | 1 |
| 86 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1495.63 | 10 |
| (86) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1482.5 | 15 |
| (86) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1474.38 | 11 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1466.66 | 10 |
| 88 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1463.11 | 44 |
| 89 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1462.98 | 14 |
| (89) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1420.93 | 1 |
| 90 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1409.08 | 22 |
| 91 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1379.97 | 17 |
| 92 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1368.57 | 10 |
| 93 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1358.49 | 5 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1356.95 | 22 |
| 95 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1355.25 | 8 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1352.27 | 6 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1350.12 | 30 |
| 97 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1333.72 | 86 |
| (97) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1328.71 | 7 |
| 98 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1315.04 | 15 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1310.81 | 11 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1307.27 | 10 |
| 101 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1292.49 | 46 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1284.31 | 5 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1278.75 | 31 |
| (103) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1277.41 | 2 |
| 104 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1277.22 | 34 |
| 105 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1262.37 | 15 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1247.26 | 22 |
| 107 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1244.19 | 7 |
| (107) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1244.19 | 6 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1240.56 | 11 |
| 109 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1237.33 | 2 |
| (109) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1221.63 | 9 |
| 110 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1221.63 | 10 |
| (110) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1200.8 | 21 |
| 111 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1195.88 | 11 |
| (111) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1172.99 | 7 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1171.12 | 11 |
| 113 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1143.83 | 9 |
| 114 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1132.43 | 2 |
| (114) | 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 | 1110.14 | 12 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1105.02 | 15 |
| 116 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1089.62 | 9 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1086.73 | 16 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1047.65 | 19 |
| 119 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1036.69 | 35 |
| 120 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1025.85 | 7 |
| (120) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1022.83 | 21 |
| 121 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1022.83 | 21 |
| 122 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1022 | 11 |
| 123 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1019.82 | 7 |
| (123) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1019.82 | 7 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1008.09 | 10 |
| 125 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 1005.08 | 11 |
| 126 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1000.8 | 9 |
| 127 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 994.14 | 1 |
| 128 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 986.84 | 17 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 984.06 | 6 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 979.86 | 15 |
| 131 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 974.68 | 22 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 971.99 | 14 |
| 133 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 970.26 | 3 |
| 134 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 956.18 | 9 |
| 135 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 923.08 | 19 |
| 136 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 908.63 | 45 |
| 137 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 907.54 | 8 |
| 138 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 897.42 | 6 |
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