| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 38162.91 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 13018.49 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 10790.29 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7941.25 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5750.82 | 28 |
| 6 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4722.66 | 13 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4673.4 | 21 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4654.35 | 87 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4609.4 | 24 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4466.99 | 32 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4209.1 | 23 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4194 | 21 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3956.88 | 31 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3896.38 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3381.19 | 28 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3344.51 | 35 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3198.44 | 26 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3021.3 | 24 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2945.56 | 17 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2870.48 | 19 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2755.4 | 59 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2735.59 | 30 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2660.47 | 56 |
| 23 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2589.59 | 26 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2578.09 | 15 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2574.05 | 29 |
| (25) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2545.37 | 15 |
| 26 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2381.55 | 121 |
| (26) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2197.13 | 13 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2152.74 | 78 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2144.38 | 22 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2138.64 | 38 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2124.02 | 20 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2122.21 | 24 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2080.15 | 38 |
| 33 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2033.89 | 15 |
| (33) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2029.06 | 27 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2023.45 | 14 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1982.24 | 21 |
| 35 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1954.71 | 17 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1952.37 | 30 |
| 37 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1909.33 | 33 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1867.62 | 22 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1833.6 | 21 |
| 40 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1800.83 | 22 |
| 41 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1677.5 | 7 |
| (41) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1677.46 | 6 |
| 42 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1670.68 | 28 |
| 43 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1591.22 | 11 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1536.95 | 21 |
| 45 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1471.18 | 3 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1448.61 | 9 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1421.58 | 36 |
| 48 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1409.93 | 19 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1399.63 | 19 |
| (49) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1375.31 | 16 |
| 50 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1372.77 | 7 |
| 51 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1338.94 | 84 |
| 52 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1337.01 | 14 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1308.34 | 28 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1299.02 | 25 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1287.49 | 11 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1264.16 | 24 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1248.75 | 22 |
| 57 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1246.11 | 31 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1145.42 | 19 |
| 59 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1093.68 | 10 |
| 60 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1086.41 | 9 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1086.41 | 8 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1082.89 | 9 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1076.97 | 26 |
| (62) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1074.41 | 21 |
| 63 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1074.41 | 21 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1033.42 | 29 |
| 65 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1018.92 | 15 |
| 66 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1005.39 | 27 |
| 67 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 997.5 | 22 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 984.52 | 33 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 978.51 | 22 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 977.18 | 20 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 944.67 | 15 |
| (71) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 921.61 | 9 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 913.42 | 22 |
| 73 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 906.09 | 26 |
| (73) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 884.27 | 7 |
| 74 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 877.5 | 49 |
| 75 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 877.09 | 11 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 868.85 | 10 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 864.08 | 15 |
| 78 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 857.39 | 8 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 851.73 | 15 |
| 80 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 845.02 | 23 |
| (80) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 835.15 | 27 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 834.92 | 17 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 828.52 | 10 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 810.64 | 16 |
| (83) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 807.64 | 7 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 802.89 | 10 |
| 85 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 801.24 | 15 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 795.75 | 14 |
| 87 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 784.23 | 7 |
| 88 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 757.97 | 14 |
| 89 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 756.83 | 46 |
| 90 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 749.29 | 21 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 731.97 | 9 |
| 92 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 721.8 | 7 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 715.82 | 11 |
| (93) | 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 | 705.82 | 12 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 704.5 | 15 |
| (94) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 701.94 | 2 |
| (94) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 698.35 | 14 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 696.55 | 8 |
| 96 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 691.06 | 10 |
| 97 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 690.53 | 34 |
| (97) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 682.09 | 17 |
| 98 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 681.76 | 5 |
| (98) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 676.63 | 11 |
| 99 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 675.26 | 8 |
| 100 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 664.91 | 22 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 659.39 | 6 |
| 102 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 649.03 | 9 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 644.34 | 18 |
| (103) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 632.41 | 5 |
| 104 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 631.45 | 19 |
| 105 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 623.02 | 2 |
| 106 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 620.63 | 14 |
| 107 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 618.41 | 7 |
| 108 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 616.28 | 9 |
| 109 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 615.95 | 7 |
| 110 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 612.56 | 44 |
| (110) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 603.59 | 9 |
| 111 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 600.07 | 2 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 597.05 | 14 |
| (112) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 592.05 | 15 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 589.65 | 9 |
| 114 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 586.91 | 6 |
| (114) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 579.48 | 21 |
| (114) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 570.42 | 5 |
| (114) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 569.33 | 2 |
| (114) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 566.03 | 12 |
| 115 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 560.16 | 9 |
| 116 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 555.31 | 22 |
| (116) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 554.81 | 1 |
| (116) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 554.11 | 4 |
| 117 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 553.93 | 7 |
| (117) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 549.9 | 7 |
| (117) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 542.03 | 9 |
| 118 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 542.03 | 10 |
| (118) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 530.95 | 7 |
| 119 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 530.22 | 3 |
| 120 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 529.77 | 5 |
| 121 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 526.47 | 17 |
| (121) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 525.98 | 5 |
| 122 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 524.53 | 13 |
| 123 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 521.25 | 11 |
| (123) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 519.25 | 4 |
| 124 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 509.54 | 7 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 493.24 | 15 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 491.7 | 12 |
| 127 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 487.22 | 11 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 486.86 | 30 |
| (128) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 479.02 | 5 |
| 129 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 475.89 | 14 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 474.67 | 23 |
| 131 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 474.01 | 4 |
| (131) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 473.4 | 6 |
| (131) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 469.32 | 4 |
| 132 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 460.86 | 9 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 458.95 | 29 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 451.78 | 27 |
| 135 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 449.47 | 2 |
| 136 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 448.61 | 19 |
| (136) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 445.36 | 2 |
| 137 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 440.79 | 10 |
| 138 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 435.74 | 12 |
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