| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 51877.83 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 16357.9 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 14067.62 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9587.75 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8839.13 | 29 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6599.52 | 22 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6153.06 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6036.09 | 32 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5858.27 | 88 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5451.26 | 24 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5386.74 | 11 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5021.51 | 23 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4251.16 | 24 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4230.14 | 122 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4057.58 | 28 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3924.98 | 35 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3687.8 | 26 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3674.58 | 15 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3647.91 | 26 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3596.48 | 36 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3525.53 | 28 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3459.54 | 30 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3165.61 | 29 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3151 | 17 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3006.04 | 15 |
| 23 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2898.7 | 11 |
| 24 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2796.83 | 57 |
| 25 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2675.85 | 13 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2649.5 | 15 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2518.98 | 79 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2502.83 | 20 |
| (28) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2453.66 | 13 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2436.59 | 21 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2314.29 | 21 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2254.33 | 18 |
| 32 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2243.66 | 14 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2115.58 | 14 |
| 34 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2069.69 | 33 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2054.59 | 60 |
| 36 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2046.6 | 85 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2034.74 | 24 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1970.41 | 28 |
| 39 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1926.58 | 3 |
| 40 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1887.76 | 39 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1857.53 | 22 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1851.01 | 22 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1796.2 | 24 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1709.64 | 23 |
| 44 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1698.41 | 9 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1659.93 | 22 |
| 46 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1657.01 | 22 |
| (46) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1614.88 | 4 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1610.16 | 30 |
| 48 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1609.16 | 10 |
| 49 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1587.29 | 27 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1545.24 | 26 |
| 51 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1531.75 | 9 |
| (51) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1530.25 | 8 |
| (51) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1529.44 | 16 |
| 52 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1504.66 | 5 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1487.24 | 21 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1480.58 | 17 |
| (53) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1435.75 | 7 |
| 54 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1391.93 | 15 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1339.08 | 21 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1303.41 | 38 |
| 57 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1296.16 | 8 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1251.7 | 24 |
| 59 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1236.66 | 33 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1229.33 | 19 |
| (60) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1229 | 4 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1204.49 | 11 |
| 62 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 1200.25 | 8 |
| (62) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1191.18 | 7 |
| 63 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1174.08 | 8 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1170.41 | 27 |
| (64) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1162.58 | 27 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1155.76 | 29 |
| (65) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1100.49 | 9 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1097.87 | 19 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1069.99 | 9 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1048.91 | 19 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1005.08 | 28 |
| (69) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 995.91 | 5 |
| 70 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 993.58 | 7 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 990.24 | 25 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 987.33 | 15 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 951.13 | 23 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 928.33 | 8 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 920.66 | 9 |
| 74 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 918.25 | 49 |
| (74) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 915.33 | 14 |
| (74) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 909.08 | 5 |
| (74) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 889.5 | 4 |
| 75 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 862.17 | 44 |
| 76 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 843.16 | 17 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 817.79 | 45 |
| (77) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 812 | 5 |
| 78 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 795.76 | 48 |
| (78) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 794.28 | 21 |
| (78) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 792.83 | 2 |
| (78) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 788.75 | 9 |
| 79 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 779.83 | 7 |
| 80 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 768.91 | 7 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 756.41 | 8 |
| 82 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 755.75 | 4 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 744.16 | 11 |
| 84 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 733.25 | 7 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 733.25 | 6 |
| 85 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 718.01 | 8 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 717.98 | 31 |
| 87 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 715.58 | 10 |
| (87) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 708.1 | 1 |
| (87) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 708.1 | 1 |
| (87) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 705.58 | 2 |
| 88 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 703.32 | 18 |
| 89 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 698.66 | 34 |
| (89) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 698.41 | 3 |
| 90 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 696.38 | 22 |
| 91 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 687.78 | 6 |
| 92 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 675.37 | 84 |
| 93 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 671.71 | 22 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 670.16 | 11 |
| 95 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 669.75 | 14 |
| (95) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 657.41 | 2 |
| 96 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 656.16 | 15 |
| (96) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 648.66 | 5 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 645.25 | 30 |
| (97) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 644.58 | 12 |
| 98 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 635.25 | 15 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 635.16 | 15 |
| (99) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 625.33 | 1 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 610.16 | 15 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 597.33 | 5 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 585.16 | 6 |
| 103 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 584.93 | 15 |
| 104 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 572.82 | 6 |
| 105 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 572.56 | 10 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 567.99 | 22 |
| 107 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 567.58 | 16 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 564.66 | 22 |
| 109 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 559.16 | 36 |
| 110 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 558.38 | 2 |
| (110) | 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 | 544.83 | 12 |
| 111 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 533.83 | 14 |
| 112 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 530.11 | 18 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 528.75 | 11 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 523.16 | 15 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 522.91 | 15 |
| (115) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 518.16 | 6 |
| (115) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 517.25 | 2 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 510.49 | 10 |
| (116) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 501.08 | 15 |
| 117 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 500.83 | 19 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 498.33 | 11 |
| 119 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 486.41 | 9 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 484.75 | 19 |
| 121 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 482.66 | 10 |
| 122 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 481.25 | 7 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 476.03 | 11 |
| (123) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 475 | 1 |
| 124 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 472.13 | 15 |
| (124) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 470.96 | 21 |
| 125 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 470.96 | 21 |
| (125) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 461.66 | 7 |
| (125) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 460.66 | 9 |
| 126 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 460.66 | 10 |
| (126) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 454.49 | 7 |
| 127 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 453.51 | 11 |
| 128 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 451.83 | 2 |
| 129 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 450.45 | 7 |
| (129) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 450.45 | 7 |
| 130 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 449 | 9 |
| 131 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 446.11 | 23 |
| 132 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 443.44 | 37 |
| 133 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 438.58 | 5 |
| 134 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 434.86 | 30 |
| 135 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 432.83 | 10 |
| 136 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 430.78 | 45 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 426.29 | 15 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 424 | 9 |
| 139 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 423.43 | 56 |
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