| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 134046.82 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 37633.1 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 31313.46 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 23620.55 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23269.07 | 29 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17581.51 | 22 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15132.99 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14933.57 | 32 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14332.47 | 24 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 13483.26 | 11 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13420.19 | 23 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11956.15 | 88 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10110.34 | 24 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9480.84 | 17 |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9425.45 | 122 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9399.61 | 26 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9109.64 | 36 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8958.02 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 8836.05 | 28 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8657.53 | 15 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8163.15 | 35 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8091.82 | 30 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7476.82 | 28 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7405.21 | 15 |
| (21) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7356.74 | 13 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6832.09 | 29 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6776.62 | 18 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6771.14 | 15 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6546.86 | 11 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6117.29 | 21 |
| 27 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6080.39 | 13 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 6006.61 | 20 |
| 29 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5834.77 | 14 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5594.2 | 33 |
| 31 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5181.32 | 57 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5175.85 | 24 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4900.3 | 21 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4817.21 | 22 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4709.63 | 14 |
| 36 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4642.96 | 3 |
| 37 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4628.12 | 9 |
| (37) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4627.94 | 8 |
| 38 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4491.06 | 60 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4454.36 | 22 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4357.28 | 79 |
| (40) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4290.29 | 16 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4275.03 | 22 |
| 42 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4187.05 | 39 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4120.64 | 22 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4070.44 | 28 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4021.71 | 23 |
| 45 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4016.66 | 10 |
| (45) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3893.46 | 4 |
| 46 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3800.8 | 85 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3784.37 | 30 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3761.8 | 21 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3643.38 | 9 |
| 50 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3521.07 | 24 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3495.33 | 26 |
| (51) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3480.49 | 17 |
| (51) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3447.71 | 7 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3433.01 | 19 |
| 53 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3418.71 | 15 |
| (53) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3216.07 | 7 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3202.46 | 29 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3191.98 | 21 |
| (55) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3106.32 | 4 |
| 56 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3064.58 | 5 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3051.2 | 38 |
| 58 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3018.18 | 8 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3000.62 | 11 |
| 60 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 2970.7 | 8 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2900.17 | 15 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2825.93 | 19 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2759.51 | 7 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2754.91 | 27 |
| (64) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2721.16 | 27 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2678.9 | 24 |
| (65) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2645.81 | 9 |
| 66 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2503.63 | 9 |
| (66) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2454.19 | 5 |
| 67 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2401.32 | 8 |
| (67) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2360.79 | 9 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2337.15 | 28 |
| (68) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2305.42 | 25 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2283.58 | 33 |
| (69) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2269.45 | 4 |
| (69) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2190.91 | 5 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 2189.52 | 8 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2130.6 | 27 |
| (71) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2095.35 | 14 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2003.95 | 23 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2001.97 | 19 |
| 74 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1950.73 | 7 |
| 75 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1846.55 | 7 |
| (75) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1839.49 | 2 |
| (75) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1789.82 | 3 |
| (75) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1789.77 | 2 |
| (75) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1770.01 | 9 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1768.29 | 8 |
| (76) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1746.51 | 5 |
| (76) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1739.15 | 1 |
| (76) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1739.15 | 1 |
| 77 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1707.27 | 4 |
| (77) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1666.58 | 2 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1666.54 | 11 |
| 79 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1653.86 | 6 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1634.25 | 15 |
| (80) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1607.2 | 5 |
| 81 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1570.7 | 15 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1564 | 11 |
| 83 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1559.7 | 48 |
| 84 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1523.31 | 14 |
| 85 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1520.3 | 49 |
| (85) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1514.91 | 1 |
| 86 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1512.93 | 10 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1509.59 | 15 |
| 88 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1482.33 | 44 |
| 89 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1482.02 | 6 |
| (89) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1474.93 | 15 |
| (89) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1473.75 | 12 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1465.08 | 10 |
| 91 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1455.96 | 14 |
| (91) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1439.08 | 1 |
| 92 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1403.9 | 22 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1376.07 | 22 |
| 94 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1358.48 | 8 |
| 95 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1357.33 | 17 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1355.45 | 6 |
| 96 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1354.86 | 10 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1347.61 | 30 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1333.29 | 11 |
| (98) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1325.48 | 7 |
| 99 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1316.41 | 15 |
| 100 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1303.28 | 84 |
| 101 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1288.65 | 45 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1287.61 | 5 |
| (102) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1278.81 | 2 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1277.49 | 31 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1270.24 | 11 |
| (104) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1265.07 | 21 |
| 105 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1259.32 | 16 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1249.44 | 22 |
| 107 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1242.63 | 34 |
| 108 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1231.29 | 2 |
| 109 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1216.7 | 7 |
| (109) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1216.7 | 6 |
| (109) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1213.49 | 9 |
| 110 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1213.49 | 10 |
| 111 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1193.36 | 11 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1184.13 | 11 |
| 113 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1144.76 | 9 |
| (113) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1137.14 | 7 |
| 114 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1131.13 | 2 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1127.57 | 15 |
| (115) | 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 | 1122.48 | 12 |
| 116 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1118.84 | 9 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1082.84 | 16 |
| 118 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1068.23 | 36 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1054.18 | 19 |
| 120 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1028.23 | 7 |
| (120) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1020.98 | 21 |
| 121 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1020.98 | 21 |
| 122 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1019.01 | 7 |
| (122) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1019.01 | 7 |
| 123 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 1015.73 | 10 |
| 124 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1015.7 | 11 |
| 125 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1010.3 | 18 |
| 126 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1003.88 | 9 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1001.11 | 6 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1000.15 | 15 |
| 129 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 983.15 | 9 |
| 130 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 978.95 | 1 |
| 131 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 977.36 | 22 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 975.9 | 15 |
| 133 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 969.39 | 5 |
| 134 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 954.53 | 9 |
| 135 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 951.04 | 3 |
| 136 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 945.44 | 19 |
| 137 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 918.06 | 7 |
| 138 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 912.75 | 45 |
| 139 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 908.73 | 8 |
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