| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10831.74 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3653.06 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2754.35 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1681.35 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1613.62 | 28 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1114.16 | 87 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1104.8 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1057.51 | 32 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 905.9 | 23 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 905.75 | 24 |
| 11 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 839.99 | 26 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 771.83 | 121 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 768.46 | 24 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 761.57 | 26 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 739.05 | 21 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 709.26 | 19 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 696.64 | 17 |
| 18 | CESifo | München, Germany | 692.22 | 56 |
| 19 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 659.88 | 13 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 657.99 | 35 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 652.06 | 15 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 620.97 | 30 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 614.85 | 27 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 591.64 | 28 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 589.47 | 15 |
| 23 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 581.35 | 33 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 579.91 | 24 |
| 25 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 576.37 | 11 |
| 26 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 573.52 | 59 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 562.31 | 20 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 553.05 | 22 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 541.61 | 21 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 522 | 38 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 512.41 | 29 |
| (31) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 495.64 | 13 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 480.47 | 21 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 478.38 | 28 |
| 33 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 455.24 | 84 |
| 34 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 447.25 | 22 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 430.77 | 36 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 429.21 | 14 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 415.36 | 22 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 394.95 | 19 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 388.5 | 21 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 386.85 | 22 |
| 41 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 369.94 | 19 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 364.1 | 30 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 345.09 | 15 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 337.65 | 78 |
| (44) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 321.51 | 16 |
| 45 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 321.41 | 9 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 317.51 | 22 |
| 47 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 314.05 | 11 |
| 48 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 313.8 | 24 |
| (48) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 312.13 | 17 |
| (48) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 299.66 | 4 |
| 49 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 298.89 | 15 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 296.52 | 26 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 292.87 | 38 |
| 52 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 282.56 | 9 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 276.2 | 15 |
| (53) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 273.6 | 4 |
| (53) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 269.22 | 7 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 268.76 | 29 |
| 55 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 266.46 | 31 |
| 56 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 265.73 | 14 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 264.97 | 11 |
| (57) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 259.08 | 14 |
| 58 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 254.73 | 11 |
| (58) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 253.15 | 9 |
| 59 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 250.22 | 15 |
| 60 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 249.24 | 10 |
| 61 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 248.02 | 3 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 237.31 | 21 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 233.84 | 28 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 230.99 | 19 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 230.87 | 25 |
| (64) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 229.68 | 27 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 227.37 | 26 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 224.44 | 23 |
| (66) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 219.96 | 2 |
| 67 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 216.57 | 9 |
| (67) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 216.56 | 8 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 213.95 | 22 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 212.38 | 11 |
| (69) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 210.63 | 7 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 210 | 15 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 207.5 | 20 |
| 72 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 204.92 | 44 |
| 73 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 203.79 | 22 |
| 74 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 201.03 | 10 |
| 75 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 199.89 | 19 |
| (75) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 197.55 | 9 |
| 76 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 197.03 | 33 |
| (76) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 195.02 | 2 |
| (76) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 194.87 | 21 |
| 77 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 194.87 | 21 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 194.77 | 22 |
| 79 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 194.43 | 11 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 194.38 | 8 |
| 81 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 192.59 | 17 |
| 82 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 188.96 | 5 |
| (82) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 185.86 | 21 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 184.74 | 11 |
| 84 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 183.68 | 4 |
| 85 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 178.18 | 7 |
| 86 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 177.88 | 7 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 177.4 | 10 |
| 88 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 175.66 | 49 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 174.97 | 14 |
| 90 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 174.31 | 46 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 173.2 | 9 |
| 92 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 168.19 | 34 |
| (92) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 167.47 | 9 |
| (92) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 166.4 | 2 |
| 93 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 164.7 | 14 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 164.4 | 15 |
| 95 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 164.37 | 27 |
| 96 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 164.11 | 19 |
| 97 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 163.74 | 48 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 158.31 | 7 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 154.21 | 15 |
| (99) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 154.1 | 11 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 153.9 | 30 |
| (100) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 153.7 | 4 |
| (100) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 151.96 | 5 |
| 101 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 151.62 | 7 |
| (101) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 151.58 | 6 |
| 102 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 150.28 | 9 |
| (102) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 148.61 | 15 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 145.44 | 16 |
| (103) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 143.37 | 2 |
| 104 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 143.01 | 18 |
| 105 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 142.03 | 30 |
| 106 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 141.51 | 86 |
| (106) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 141.46 | 5 |
| 107 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 139.87 | 10 |
| 108 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 138.6 | 21 |
| (108) | 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 | 135.47 | 12 |
| 109 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 135.26 | 25 |
| (109) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 135.15 | 5 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 132.5 | 13 |
| 111 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 131.97 | 30 |
| 112 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 131.58 | 44 |
| 113 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 130 | 15 |
| 114 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 128.88 | 6 |
| 115 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 127.66 | 7 |
| (115) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 127.66 | 7 |
| 116 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 126.82 | 15 |
| (116) | Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 126.54 | 3 |
| (116) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 126.39 | 2 |
| 117 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 125.79 | 8 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 124.59 | 8 |
| 119 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 123.84 | 17 |
| 120 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 123.83 | 35 |
| 121 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 123.75 | 9 |
| 122 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 123.66 | 5 |
| (122) | Business and Public Policy Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 122.58 | 5 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 122.02 | 14 |
| 124 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 118.3 | 2 |
| 125 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 116.18 | 11 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 115.8 | 10 |
| 127 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 115.72 | 22 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 115.47 | 6 |
| 129 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 114.81 | 21 |
| (129) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 114.65 | 7 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 113.74 | 18 |
| 131 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 113.33 | 10 |
| (131) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 112.54 | 1 |
| 132 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 111.63 | 7 |
| 133 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 110.41 | 10 |
| (133) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 109 | 2 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 108.67 | 17 |
| 135 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 108.54 | 12 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 107.28 | 13 |
| (136) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 107.07 | 5 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 105.4 | 9 |
| (137) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 104.76 | 1 |
| (137) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 104.76 | 1 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 103.43 | 13 |
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