| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 59858.32 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 22125.99 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 17405.26 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12094.6 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8913.06 | 28 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7383.76 | 32 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7351.88 | 24 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7335.76 | 87 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6663.89 | 21 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6586.65 | 21 |
| 11 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6519.93 | 13 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6060.5 | 31 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5853.18 | 23 |
| (13) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5309.84 | 35 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5123.17 | 17 |
| 15 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5090.93 | 11 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5034.77 | 19 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5011.93 | 26 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4949.76 | 24 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4942.21 | 28 |
| 20 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4461.67 | 121 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4357.22 | 30 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4346.81 | 59 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4251.06 | 29 |
| 24 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4230.95 | 56 |
| 25 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4161.4 | 26 |
| (25) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4094.51 | 15 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4075.92 | 24 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3853.66 | 15 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3673.62 | 22 |
| (28) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3581.31 | 13 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3514.74 | 78 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3470.71 | 20 |
| 31 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3377.09 | 38 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3348.89 | 38 |
| 33 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3271.14 | 22 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3253.83 | 28 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3186.44 | 21 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3122 | 22 |
| 36 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3062.58 | 33 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3042.72 | 30 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2962.44 | 14 |
| 39 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2903.67 | 17 |
| (39) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2879.13 | 27 |
| 40 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2782.48 | 15 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2759.15 | 21 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2624.52 | 21 |
| 43 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2594.55 | 84 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2509.07 | 11 |
| 45 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2450.18 | 24 |
| 46 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2439.47 | 7 |
| (46) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2439.21 | 6 |
| 47 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2353.56 | 3 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2294.48 | 36 |
| 49 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2251.48 | 7 |
| (49) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2235.25 | 21 |
| 50 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2235.25 | 21 |
| (50) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2140.29 | 16 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2130.5 | 19 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2098.35 | 28 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2082.37 | 25 |
| 53 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2079.1 | 9 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2075.36 | 22 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2039.88 | 19 |
| 56 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2015.3 | 14 |
| 57 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1935.49 | 9 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1929.65 | 19 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1915.34 | 11 |
| 60 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1867.77 | 31 |
| 61 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1841.08 | 9 |
| (61) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1841.07 | 8 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1766.05 | 26 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1758.81 | 22 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1753.64 | 20 |
| 65 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1726.05 | 15 |
| (65) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1713.76 | 7 |
| 66 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1707.89 | 27 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1705.62 | 29 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1670.63 | 15 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1644.44 | 33 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1639.83 | 22 |
| 71 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1637.49 | 26 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1632.68 | 22 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1631.14 | 15 |
| (73) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1616.04 | 27 |
| 74 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1541.52 | 49 |
| 75 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1525.64 | 15 |
| 76 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1499.04 | 23 |
| 77 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1498.9 | 10 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1497.98 | 16 |
| 79 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1466.56 | 11 |
| 80 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1447.32 | 21 |
| 81 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1419.07 | 14 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1414.23 | 10 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1345.16 | 15 |
| (83) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1344.33 | 7 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1338.84 | 10 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1338.68 | 9 |
| (85) | 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 | 1327.76 | 12 |
| 86 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1320.97 | 46 |
| (86) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1314.53 | 14 |
| 87 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1290.61 | 22 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1287.21 | 11 |
| 89 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1267.12 | 44 |
| (89) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1244.07 | 11 |
| 90 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1236.62 | 34 |
| (90) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1215.58 | 9 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1214.9 | 15 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1198.08 | 6 |
| 93 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1193.72 | 10 |
| (93) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1184.82 | 17 |
| (93) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1164.99 | 2 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1160.17 | 9 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1154.06 | 10 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1126.46 | 14 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1117.67 | 14 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1116.84 | 7 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1105.18 | 17 |
| (99) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1096.37 | 5 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1089.47 | 18 |
| (100) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1087.94 | 9 |
| 101 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1084.43 | 7 |
| 102 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1083.03 | 8 |
| 103 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1077.06 | 8 |
| (103) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1070.04 | 7 |
| 104 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1063.23 | 7 |
| 105 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1051.67 | 3 |
| (105) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1050.8 | 21 |
| 106 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1049.87 | 19 |
| 107 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1023.71 | 7 |
| 108 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1015.91 | 14 |
| 109 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 989.03 | 7 |
| (109) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 976.58 | 5 |
| 110 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 975 | 5 |
| (110) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 974.53 | 4 |
| (110) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 972.36 | 15 |
| 111 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 970.48 | 9 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 955.02 | 9 |
| 113 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 945.28 | 30 |
| 114 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 937.78 | 7 |
| (114) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 936.21 | 4 |
| (114) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 929.49 | 5 |
| 115 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 919.18 | 2 |
| (115) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 918.72 | 12 |
| (115) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 916.05 | 9 |
| 116 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 916.05 | 10 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 915.86 | 30 |
| 118 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 915.51 | 22 |
| 119 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 911.9 | 11 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 892.53 | 11 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 888.2 | 23 |
| (121) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 887.03 | 5 |
| (121) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 864.98 | 2 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 849.74 | 8 |
| 123 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 846.04 | 6 |
| 124 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 844.29 | 19 |
| 125 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 839.43 | 17 |
| (125) | Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 830.14 | 3 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 829.66 | 27 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 825.77 | 15 |
| 128 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 804.21 | 5 |
| 129 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 800.86 | 44 |
| 130 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 796.43 | 13 |
| 131 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 792.8 | 2 |
| 132 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 786.85 | 10 |
| 133 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 768.31 | 2 |
| (133) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 763.35 | 4 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 761.6 | 12 |
| (134) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 758.91 | 7 |
| 135 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 755.6 | 9 |
| 136 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 747.26 | 9 |
| 137 | Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 744.54 | 3 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 738.85 | 29 |
| (138) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 734.03 | 3 |
| (138) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 733.97 | 2 |
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