| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 551522.51 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 224583.53 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 176190.14 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 100733.06 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 88098.41 | 28 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 74497.86 | 87 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 68759.06 | 32 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 59781.63 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 59372.83 | 21 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 58559.55 | 24 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 57108.46 | 31 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 48624.94 | 21 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 48523.37 | 13 |
| (13) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 46781.33 | 35 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 46267.24 | 24 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 46223.84 | 26 |
| 16 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 45331.27 | 59 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 44558.14 | 28 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44326.87 | 26 |
| 19 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 43772.68 | 121 |
| 20 | CESifo | München, Germany | 42340.08 | 56 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39749.6 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 39219.5 | 30 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 39093.97 | 78 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 38119.83 | 29 |
| 24 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 37422.67 | 11 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 37369.2 | 17 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 37347.72 | 19 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 35941.45 | 38 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 35644.71 | 24 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 34101.35 | 21 |
| 29 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 33593.88 | 84 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 33508.42 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 31807.08 | 15 |
| (31) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 31617.35 | 27 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 29337.35 | 22 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 29144.44 | 20 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 28870.61 | 14 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 28128.53 | 30 |
| (35) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 27591.97 | 13 |
| 36 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27579.93 | 33 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 27475.78 | 38 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 27056.99 | 28 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 26145.64 | 22 |
| 40 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 23299.43 | 17 |
| 41 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 23206.98 | 15 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 23176.63 | 24 |
| 43 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 23006.69 | 9 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 22923.21 | 36 |
| 45 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 22824.95 | 11 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 21997.61 | 21 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 21936.89 | 26 |
| 48 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 20618.75 | 3 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 19750.08 | 20 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 19509.85 | 21 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 19460.79 | 22 |
| (51) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 19458.91 | 21 |
| 52 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 19458.91 | 21 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 19359.06 | 31 |
| 54 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 19016.88 | 7 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 18959.48 | 19 |
| 56 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 18826.32 | 26 |
| 57 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18716.86 | 14 |
| 58 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 18596.29 | 49 |
| 59 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 18270.04 | 7 |
| (59) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 18264.19 | 6 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 18124.14 | 28 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 18009.52 | 9 |
| (61) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17894.74 | 25 |
| 62 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 17751.54 | 33 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 17427.04 | 19 |
| (63) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 17357.16 | 16 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 17203.18 | 27 |
| 65 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17005.21 | 15 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 16854.29 | 19 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 16749.08 | 22 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 16366.21 | 22 |
| 69 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 15766.43 | 15 |
| 70 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 15662.15 | 46 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15440.34 | 27 |
| 71 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 15433.55 | 44 |
| (71) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15270.39 | 7 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 14912.21 | 11 |
| 73 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14790.03 | 22 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 14322.11 | 29 |
| 75 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 14037.24 | 23 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 13964.88 | 15 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 13747.49 | 9 |
| 78 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 13654.86 | 9 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 13651.45 | 8 |
| 79 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13635.61 | 7 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 13439.32 | 9 |
| (80) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 13357.33 | 7 |
| 81 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 13290.04 | 21 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13277.43 | 15 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 12622.79 | 16 |
| 84 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 12454.94 | 22 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12451.17 | 11 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 12349.8 | 10 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 12135.26 | 15 |
| 88 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 12100.07 | 14 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12053.48 | 10 |
| (89) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12027.83 | 5 |
| (89) | 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 | 11954.62 | 12 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11862 | 6 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11786.85 | 17 |
| (90) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 11658.88 | 21 |
| 91 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 11537.85 | 11 |
| (91) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11350.49 | 9 |
| 92 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11350.49 | 10 |
| (92) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 11307.63 | 7 |
| (92) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11176.77 | 14 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 11023.1 | 15 |
| 94 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 10971.83 | 19 |
| 95 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10823.96 | 10 |
| 96 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 10792.85 | 34 |
| 97 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 10664.79 | 19 |
| (97) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 10655.4 | 11 |
| (97) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10634.89 | 4 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 10582.82 | 30 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 10553.33 | 23 |
| (99) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10315.51 | 9 |
| (99) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10217.1 | 2 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 10183.97 | 10 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 10146.85 | 14 |
| 102 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 10033.43 | 17 |
| 103 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 9991.89 | 8 |
| 104 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9941.77 | 24 |
| 105 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 9927.61 | 30 |
| 106 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 9787.58 | 10 |
| 107 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9721.98 | 7 |
| 108 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 9716.15 | 14 |
| (108) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9690.67 | 4 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 9578.49 | 22 |
| 110 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 9495.62 | 7 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 9441.78 | 17 |
| 112 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 9336.2 | 10 |
| (112) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9311.02 | 5 |
| (112) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9271.97 | 5 |
| (112) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9200.15 | 4 |
| 113 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 9198.15 | 9 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 9193.32 | 9 |
| 115 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9181.36 | 11 |
| 116 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 9050.75 | 7 |
| 117 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 9046.16 | 7 |
| 118 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9037.57 | 12 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 9021.73 | 18 |
| 120 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9001.3 | 44 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 8930.04 | 29 |
| (121) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8910.54 | 5 |
| 122 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8908.89 | 3 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 8781.81 | 14 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 8701.7 | 27 |
| 125 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 8643.8 | 28 |
| (125) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 8573.62 | 12 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 8563.79 | 8 |
| 127 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 8547.58 | 5 |
| 128 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8492.15 | 2 |
| 129 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 8475.18 | 86 |
| 130 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 8423.99 | 8 |
| (130) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 8421.72 | 9 |
| (130) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8358.29 | 9 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 8252.88 | 25 |
| 132 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 8213.39 | 15 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 8063.09 | 15 |
| 134 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 8000.12 | 48 |
| (134) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7933.79 | 2 |
| 135 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 7878.46 | 9 |
| 136 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7852.31 | 8 |
| 137 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 7651.1 | 5 |
| 138 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 7633.56 | 13 |
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