| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 71500.9 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 29726.11 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 21795.35 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11269.99 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10713.84 | 28 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8542.46 | 87 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7575.63 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7189.66 | 32 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6961.77 | 23 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6442.84 | 121 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5945.34 | 56 |
| 12 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5645.16 | 26 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5441.41 | 13 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5393.39 | 24 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5283.44 | 26 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5268.61 | 24 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4986.29 | 21 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4709.75 | 28 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4683.38 | 35 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4679.43 | 30 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4521.77 | 27 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4519.25 | 15 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4512.54 | 19 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4485.15 | 17 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4462.48 | 59 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4408.86 | 21 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4193.95 | 24 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4069.06 | 20 |
| 26 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3968.1 | 11 |
| 27 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3846.65 | 33 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3816.13 | 38 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3783.56 | 22 |
| 30 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3731.88 | 84 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3714.26 | 15 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3633.49 | 29 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3618.73 | 78 |
| (33) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3528.8 | 21 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3465.79 | 36 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3428.11 | 30 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3279.66 | 22 |
| 37 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3269.68 | 28 |
| (37) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3170.25 | 13 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2944.34 | 14 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2824.4 | 21 |
| 40 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2801.05 | 22 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2790.03 | 24 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2708.46 | 19 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2702.07 | 22 |
| 44 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2504.51 | 26 |
| 45 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2419.77 | 9 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2417.12 | 26 |
| 47 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2399.54 | 11 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2366 | 38 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2318.16 | 19 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2233.41 | 22 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2116.72 | 29 |
| 52 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2113.26 | 15 |
| (52) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2108.4 | 16 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2108.28 | 31 |
| 54 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2105.04 | 49 |
| 55 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2098.5 | 9 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2092.76 | 17 |
| 56 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2089.68 | 33 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2051.71 | 20 |
| 58 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2051.17 | 23 |
| 59 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2001.45 | 14 |
| (59) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1995.36 | 27 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1967.21 | 19 |
| (60) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1938.55 | 4 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1922.49 | 15 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1907.48 | 28 |
| 63 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1898.32 | 44 |
| 64 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1891.52 | 17 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1891.07 | 15 |
| (65) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1878.46 | 25 |
| 66 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1858.56 | 11 |
| (66) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1810.4 | 7 |
| 67 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1806.29 | 46 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1797.26 | 19 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1776.55 | 21 |
| 70 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1744.02 | 10 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1710.19 | 11 |
| (71) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1668.14 | 4 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1653.24 | 22 |
| 73 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1650.31 | 15 |
| 74 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1639.25 | 27 |
| (74) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1632.41 | 21 |
| 75 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1632.41 | 21 |
| 76 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1626.83 | 3 |
| (76) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1606.19 | 14 |
| 77 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1581.3 | 22 |
| 78 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1576.43 | 9 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1576 | 8 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1499.86 | 30 |
| (79) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1498.32 | 21 |
| 80 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1489.7 | 22 |
| 81 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1458.17 | 34 |
| 82 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1457.48 | 7 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1456.65 | 6 |
| (82) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1453.44 | 9 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1453.36 | 15 |
| 84 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1452.5 | 7 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1448.06 | 9 |
| (84) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1447.13 | 9 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1422.71 | 8 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1399.14 | 10 |
| 87 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1398.25 | 48 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1376.06 | 11 |
| 89 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1368.61 | 86 |
| 90 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1365.71 | 19 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1350.13 | 14 |
| 92 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1347.88 | 17 |
| (92) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1338.39 | 7 |
| 93 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1313.59 | 4 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1312.96 | 10 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1288 | 11 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1285.08 | 9 |
| 97 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1244.24 | 11 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1237.52 | 15 |
| 99 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1224.16 | 21 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1221.54 | 29 |
| 101 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1216.27 | 35 |
| (101) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1204.85 | 2 |
| 102 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1176.95 | 14 |
| 103 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1173.95 | 44 |
| 104 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1170.13 | 7 |
| 105 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1169.37 | 15 |
| 106 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1168.71 | 25 |
| 107 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1166 | 22 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1163.34 | 7 |
| 109 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1159.99 | 5 |
| 110 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1147.22 | 30 |
| (110) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1125.41 | 4 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1123.16 | 15 |
| 112 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1115.65 | 7 |
| (112) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1105.29 | 15 |
| (112) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1089.91 | 2 |
| (112) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1085.86 | 11 |
| (112) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1082.2 | 2 |
| 113 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1080.36 | 21 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1077.11 | 9 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1076.88 | 6 |
| 116 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1072.29 | 28 |
| (116) | 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 | 1064.32 | 12 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 1056.5 | 13 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1044.99 | 16 |
| (118) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1014.08 | 5 |
| 119 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 1009.19 | 30 |
| 120 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 996.7 | 15 |
| (120) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 993 | 5 |
| 121 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 986.59 | 37 |
| (121) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 980.34 | 5 |
| (121) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 973.31 | 5 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 971.2 | 13 |
| (122) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 969.33 | 2 |
| 123 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 969.2 | 17 |
| 124 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 946 | 10 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 931.48 | 8 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 929.28 | 10 |
| 127 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 925.82 | 10 |
| 128 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 924.59 | 18 |
| 129 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 923.56 | 39 |
| 130 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 914.91 | 14 |
| 131 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 910.75 | 45 |
| 132 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 905.8 | 12 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 893.24 | 13 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 890.35 | 18 |
| (134) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 878.41 | 1 |
| 135 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 872.87 | 5 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 870.79 | 27 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 867.35 | 14 |
| 138 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 863.83 | 9 |
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