| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17812.51 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4822.05 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3783.88 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3226.59 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2994.43 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2541.52 | 21 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1958.79 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1954.24 | 32 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1879.2 | 24 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1718.34 | 11 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1703.48 | 23 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1568.23 | 87 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1392.12 | 24 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1327.43 | 17 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1255.5 | 26 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1254.83 | 26 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1221.67 | 15 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1182.22 | 36 |
| 18 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1160.91 | 121 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1121.59 | 35 |
| (18) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1051.23 | 13 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1025.46 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 974.06 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 951 | 30 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 946.14 | 27 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 937.3 | 29 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 918.57 | 19 |
| 24 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 854.39 | 14 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 837.29 | 15 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 789.03 | 20 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 770.34 | 21 |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 749.19 | 11 |
| 29 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 748.16 | 3 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 747.68 | 33 |
| 31 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 741.09 | 13 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 674.77 | 24 |
| 33 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 668.18 | 9 |
| (33) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 668.17 | 8 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 665.11 | 14 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 645.12 | 59 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 637.55 | 22 |
| 37 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 604.41 | 38 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 598.24 | 22 |
| (38) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 593.59 | 21 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 585.12 | 9 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 578.29 | 21 |
| 41 | CESifo | München, Germany | 572.52 | 56 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 567.83 | 22 |
| (42) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 567.21 | 16 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 557.32 | 22 |
| (43) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 555.69 | 4 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 529.51 | 28 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 526.66 | 78 |
| (45) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 521.8 | 7 |
| 46 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 519.19 | 19 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 502.76 | 22 |
| 48 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 475.32 | 8 |
| (48) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 470.8 | 4 |
| 49 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 468.59 | 84 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 468.07 | 30 |
| 51 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 465.19 | 10 |
| (51) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 461.83 | 17 |
| 52 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 447.99 | 15 |
| 53 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 432.37 | 7 |
| (53) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 427.36 | 7 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 416.25 | 19 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 397.19 | 29 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 393 | 21 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 389.72 | 24 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 382.29 | 15 |
| (58) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 379.31 | 4 |
| (58) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 375.13 | 5 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 354.84 | 11 |
| 60 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 353.75 | 27 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 348.26 | 38 |
| 62 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 345.51 | 8 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 344.94 | 7 |
| 64 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 340.21 | 5 |
| 65 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 333.51 | 26 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 323.53 | 28 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 319.04 | 25 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 315.01 | 8 |
| 68 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 307.59 | 9 |
| (68) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 306.98 | 27 |
| (68) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 298.85 | 9 |
| (68) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 296.7 | 9 |
| (68) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 286.43 | 2 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 283.48 | 15 |
| (69) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 282.74 | 14 |
| 70 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 267.65 | 33 |
| 71 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 263.39 | 19 |
| 72 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 258.21 | 7 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 252.46 | 20 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 249.65 | 26 |
| (74) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 241.58 | 5 |
| 75 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 240.8 | 23 |
| 76 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 238.87 | 7 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 238.8 | 8 |
| (77) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 237.29 | 5 |
| (77) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 237.07 | 1 |
| (77) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 237.07 | 1 |
| (77) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 236.68 | 9 |
| (77) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 230.69 | 3 |
| 78 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 225.33 | 5 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 214.71 | 15 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 211.98 | 11 |
| (80) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 210.94 | 2 |
| (80) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 201.7 | 5 |
| (80) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 200.71 | 2 |
| 81 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 199.53 | 4 |
| 82 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 196.79 | 15 |
| (82) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 192.94 | 15 |
| 83 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 192.63 | 2 |
| (83) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 188.8 | 1 |
| 84 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 186.8 | 6 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 181.67 | 22 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 181.1 | 11 |
| 87 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 179.72 | 11 |
| (87) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 176.85 | 2 |
| 88 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 176.31 | 86 |
| 89 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 174.31 | 14 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 174.28 | 11 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 173.45 | 10 |
| 92 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 172.43 | 8 |
| 93 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 169.31 | 48 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 168.53 | 15 |
| (94) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 166.6 | 6 |
| (94) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 165.77 | 1 |
| (94) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 162.12 | 9 |
| 95 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 162.12 | 10 |
| (95) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 161.24 | 11 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 157.4 | 31 |
| 97 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 156.25 | 10 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 155.74 | 10 |
| 99 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 155.29 | 44 |
| 100 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 155.28 | 11 |
| 101 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 155.11 | 9 |
| 102 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 155.07 | 15 |
| 103 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 154.46 | 22 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 154.11 | 30 |
| 105 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 153.19 | 14 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 153.11 | 22 |
| (106) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 150.23 | 1 |
| 107 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 149.37 | 1 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 148.16 | 5 |
| (108) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 141.83 | 7 |
| (108) | 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 | 141.82 | 12 |
| 109 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 141.27 | 10 |
| (109) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 140.75 | 21 |
| (109) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 140.63 | 7 |
| 110 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 139.36 | 34 |
| 111 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 139.26 | 15 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 136.68 | 16 |
| 113 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 136.05 | 49 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 135.89 | 11 |
| 115 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 134.9 | 10 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 134.58 | 19 |
| 117 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 132.65 | 2 |
| 118 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 132.01 | 2 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 131.43 | 7 |
| (119) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 131.43 | 7 |
| 120 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 131.19 | 17 |
| (120) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 130.1 | 2 |
| 121 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 128.6 | 6 |
| 122 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 128.34 | 46 |
| 123 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 128.2 | 21 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 125.62 | 10 |
| 125 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 122.03 | 7 |
| 126 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 121.73 | 3 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 121.65 | 15 |
| (127) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 121.33 | 21 |
| 128 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 121.33 | 21 |
| 129 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 120.96 | 9 |
| 130 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 118.44 | 9 |
| 131 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 117.07 | 22 |
| 132 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 116.54 | 7 |
| (132) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 116.54 | 6 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 113.58 | 14 |
| 134 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 113.1 | 14 |
| 135 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 112.9 | 6 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 112.73 | 13 |
| (136) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 110.7 | 12 |
| 137 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 110.7 | 19 |
| 138 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 110.69 | 11 |
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