| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44098.02 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 17154.71 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 12835.51 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7401.76 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6724.43 | 28 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5286.48 | 87 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5109.16 | 31 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4741.82 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4298.33 | 32 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3919.67 | 13 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3690.75 | 56 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3530.13 | 121 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3518.24 | 26 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3340.99 | 24 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3323.01 | 26 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3211.97 | 24 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3085.29 | 21 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3016.61 | 28 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3003.78 | 21 |
| 20 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3001.35 | 11 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2939.84 | 15 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2891.59 | 27 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2857.62 | 35 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2830.64 | 30 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2580.85 | 59 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2560.8 | 17 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2544.34 | 20 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2517.09 | 19 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2381.66 | 15 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2321.41 | 78 |
| 28 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2307.93 | 33 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2228.11 | 38 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2220.63 | 24 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2210.05 | 22 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2181.12 | 30 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2144.31 | 29 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2126.85 | 36 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2088.78 | 21 |
| 35 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2012.1 | 84 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1967.32 | 22 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1961.19 | 14 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1951.24 | 21 |
| (38) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1917.42 | 13 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1817.77 | 28 |
| 40 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1658.97 | 19 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1622.89 | 22 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1612.06 | 9 |
| 43 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1592.7 | 11 |
| 44 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1553.87 | 15 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1540.07 | 22 |
| 46 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1533.31 | 19 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1499.47 | 38 |
| 48 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1438.09 | 24 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1431.66 | 26 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1385.79 | 26 |
| 51 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1370.69 | 31 |
| (51) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1363.07 | 4 |
| 52 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1344.17 | 10 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1303.9 | 29 |
| (53) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1302.72 | 16 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1296.69 | 17 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1291.72 | 22 |
| 55 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1288.71 | 17 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1285.55 | 19 |
| 57 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1254.05 | 33 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1242.67 | 15 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1239.53 | 28 |
| (59) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1223.03 | 25 |
| 60 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1206.76 | 49 |
| 61 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1205.68 | 14 |
| (61) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1201.5 | 9 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1197.63 | 9 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1156.83 | 23 |
| (63) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1154.57 | 7 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1115.23 | 11 |
| 65 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1096.93 | 11 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1084.43 | 20 |
| (66) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1070.34 | 4 |
| 67 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1053.28 | 27 |
| 68 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1052.91 | 22 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1047.34 | 15 |
| 70 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1042.63 | 46 |
| 71 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1034.02 | 4 |
| (71) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1027.53 | 27 |
| 72 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 996.58 | 7 |
| (72) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 996.44 | 6 |
| 73 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 995.26 | 3 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 969.94 | 21 |
| 75 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 964.58 | 19 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 953.46 | 44 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 934.96 | 22 |
| (77) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 934.82 | 14 |
| 78 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 928.93 | 7 |
| 79 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 902.56 | 15 |
| 80 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 895.6 | 9 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 895.4 | 8 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 888.83 | 10 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 888.47 | 14 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 887.84 | 15 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 886.89 | 22 |
| 85 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 849.92 | 34 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 849.56 | 8 |
| (86) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 848.1 | 21 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 820.47 | 9 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 817.13 | 10 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 813.6 | 30 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 799.9 | 11 |
| (90) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 792.58 | 2 |
| 91 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 788.01 | 7 |
| 92 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 781.43 | 17 |
| 93 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 772.25 | 86 |
| (93) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 771.03 | 9 |
| (93) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 768.71 | 21 |
| 94 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 768.71 | 21 |
| (94) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 768.4 | 9 |
| 95 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 757.68 | 19 |
| (95) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 756.76 | 2 |
| (95) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 735.43 | 1 |
| 96 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 728.55 | 11 |
| 97 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 718.97 | 35 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 714.88 | 11 |
| 99 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 712.27 | 48 |
| 100 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 707.56 | 7 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 701.87 | 15 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 687.75 | 8 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 680.89 | 29 |
| (103) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 672.5 | 7 |
| (103) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 668.18 | 5 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 658.52 | 15 |
| 105 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 653.39 | 14 |
| 106 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 651.32 | 21 |
| 107 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 645 | 21 |
| (107) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 642.48 | 2 |
| (107) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 638.68 | 4 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 637.38 | 16 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 636.2 | 13 |
| 110 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 634.24 | 7 |
| (110) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 634.23 | 15 |
| 111 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 631.67 | 15 |
| 112 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 623.9 | 22 |
| 113 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 620.32 | 5 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 616.46 | 10 |
| (114) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 613.75 | 5 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 610.75 | 17 |
| 116 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 609.92 | 25 |
| (116) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 606.75 | 11 |
| 117 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 588.63 | 30 |
| (117) | 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 | 588.24 | 12 |
| 118 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 587.98 | 17 |
| 119 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 587.16 | 5 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 586.74 | 13 |
| 121 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 584.04 | 30 |
| 122 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 577.49 | 10 |
| (122) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 575.14 | 2 |
| 123 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 571.32 | 15 |
| 124 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 571.11 | 9 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 568.84 | 6 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 568.62 | 44 |
| 127 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 565.49 | 9 |
| 128 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 558 | 18 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 553.81 | 13 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 552.31 | 16 |
| (130) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 550.73 | 5 |
| 131 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 548.35 | 28 |
| 132 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 532.98 | 15 |
| 133 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 519.74 | 45 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 515.16 | 18 |
| 135 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 514.88 | 14 |
| 136 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 493.13 | 2 |
| 137 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 489.24 | 39 |
| 138 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 486.53 | 8 |
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