| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 30724.13 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8967.28 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6470.4 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6237.12 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4547.78 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3977.16 | 21 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3640.26 | 32 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3308.15 | 24 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3120.25 | 31 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2776.61 | 23 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2623.59 | 87 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2550.69 | 24 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2417.18 | 121 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2402.87 | 17 |
| 15 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2364.04 | 11 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2276.35 | 26 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2170.64 | 15 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2112.57 | 36 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2100.45 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1905.03 | 19 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1887.28 | 35 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1831.51 | 15 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1825.03 | 29 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1808.55 | 30 |
| (22) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1752.71 | 13 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1563.55 | 28 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1516.4 | 27 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1344.71 | 24 |
| 25 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1315.76 | 14 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1276.99 | 20 |
| 27 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1196.37 | 3 |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1183.77 | 11 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1172.48 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1168.95 | 21 |
| 31 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1166.34 | 33 |
| 32 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1148.79 | 22 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1136.1 | 14 |
| 34 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 1117.34 | 8 |
| 35 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1109.05 | 9 |
| (35) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1109.03 | 8 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1105.53 | 59 |
| 37 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1095.91 | 13 |
| 38 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1087.36 | 84 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1074.57 | 28 |
| 40 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1050.53 | 15 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1046.1 | 38 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1042.71 | 9 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1038.64 | 22 |
| 44 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1026.02 | 56 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1025.23 | 22 |
| (45) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1023.34 | 21 |
| (45) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 963.45 | 4 |
| 46 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 961.48 | 15 |
| (46) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 928.13 | 7 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 894.58 | 21 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 883.73 | 22 |
| (48) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 879.13 | 7 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 870.33 | 21 |
| (49) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 854.85 | 16 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 854.06 | 78 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 837.59 | 15 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 824.48 | 19 |
| 53 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 789.7 | 24 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 766.8 | 17 |
| (53) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 759.84 | 4 |
| 54 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 738.89 | 7 |
| 55 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 719.85 | 10 |
| (55) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 700.47 | 27 |
| (55) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 694.49 | 4 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 693.58 | 30 |
| (56) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 676.13 | 9 |
| 57 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 674.61 | 8 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 660.55 | 29 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 657.55 | 11 |
| 60 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 652.24 | 26 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 617.65 | 19 |
| 62 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 595.23 | 27 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 593.6 | 9 |
| 64 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 584.98 | 7 |
| (64) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 574.09 | 14 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 531.23 | 19 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 528.73 | 20 |
| (66) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 527.1 | 5 |
| (66) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 514.54 | 5 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 502.98 | 38 |
| 68 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 488.47 | 5 |
| (68) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 485.54 | 9 |
| (68) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 483.85 | 1 |
| (68) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 483.85 | 1 |
| 69 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 480.63 | 23 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 472.54 | 15 |
| (70) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 470.68 | 2 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 469.15 | 28 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 463.37 | 25 |
| (71) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 447.19 | 5 |
| 72 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 439.69 | 33 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 439.22 | 26 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 435.89 | 8 |
| 75 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 428.29 | 5 |
| 76 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 419.04 | 7 |
| (76) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 397.46 | 5 |
| 77 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 396.12 | 7 |
| 78 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 386.25 | 2 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 368.3 | 8 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 368.23 | 11 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 360.13 | 9 |
| (80) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 357.84 | 2 |
| (80) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 355.1 | 3 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 354.16 | 11 |
| (81) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 352.77 | 15 |
| 82 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 348.04 | 48 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 345.87 | 10 |
| 84 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 342.94 | 44 |
| 85 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 342.07 | 9 |
| 86 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 337.16 | 14 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 333.93 | 11 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 332.83 | 30 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 331.6 | 15 |
| (89) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 329.79 | 2 |
| 90 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 328.32 | 11 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 324.19 | 22 |
| 92 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 322.57 | 10 |
| 93 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 322.17 | 15 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 319.56 | 15 |
| (94) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 317.02 | 21 |
| 95 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 317.02 | 21 |
| (95) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 309.13 | 11 |
| 96 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 308.86 | 15 |
| (96) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 308.08 | 9 |
| 97 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 308.08 | 10 |
| 98 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 300.52 | 86 |
| (98) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 299.25 | 21 |
| 99 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 294.98 | 8 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 293.63 | 22 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 289.53 | 5 |
| 102 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 284.32 | 6 |
| 103 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 280.73 | 14 |
| (103) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 277.67 | 1 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 277.38 | 16 |
| (104) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 274.35 | 6 |
| (104) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 272.99 | 2 |
| 105 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 270.98 | 11 |
| 106 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 269.67 | 4 |
| 107 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 268.7 | 31 |
| 108 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 265.07 | 15 |
| 109 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 264.1 | 2 |
| 110 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 261.78 | 49 |
| 111 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 259.89 | 10 |
| 112 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 258.94 | 3 |
| 113 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 257.51 | 22 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 257.23 | 7 |
| (114) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 257.23 | 7 |
| (114) | 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 | 256.91 | 12 |
| 115 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 256.71 | 22 |
| (115) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 249.68 | 2 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 243.53 | 19 |
| (116) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 243.43 | 3 |
| 117 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 243.42 | 10 |
| 118 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 241.48 | 3 |
| 119 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 239.59 | 34 |
| 120 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 237.61 | 46 |
| 121 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 234.47 | 30 |
| 122 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 230.18 | 7 |
| 123 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 228.93 | 14 |
| 124 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 227.59 | 10 |
| (124) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 224.64 | 12 |
| 125 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 222.58 | 10 |
| 126 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 220.61 | 9 |
| (126) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 218.66 | 7 |
| 127 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 214.5 | 4 |
| (127) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 214.24 | 1 |
| 128 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 212.75 | 17 |
| (128) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 209.48 | 1 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 208.49 | 11 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 205.4 | 13 |
| 131 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 204.81 | 21 |
| (131) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 204.68 | 7 |
| 132 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 201.33 | 19 |
| 133 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 201.1 | 35 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 200.04 | 6 |
| 135 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 199.12 | 17 |
| 136 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 197.46 | 9 |
| 137 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 196.82 | 7 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 195.32 | 14 |
| (138) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 194.97 | 8 |
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