| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 351685.05 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 135211.52 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 113020.46 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 65481.05 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 56388.17 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 48004.14 | 88 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 42098.15 | 32 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 41783.68 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 41326.1 | 22 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 37521.77 | 31 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 36508.07 | 24 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 36317.87 | 13 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 35108.89 | 21 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 30559.17 | 28 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 30079.32 | 26 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 29976.19 | 35 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 29459.12 | 24 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 28415.63 | 11 |
| 18 | CESifo | München, Germany | 27734.83 | 57 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 27568.73 | 60 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 27333.53 | 26 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25692.36 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 25612.54 | 79 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 24835.28 | 30 |
| 23 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 24081.31 | 122 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 23255.05 | 29 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 22168.43 | 17 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 22153 | 28 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 21610 | 39 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 21085.71 | 18 |
| (27) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 20624.46 | 22 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 20476.2 | 15 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 20161.86 | 21 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 19782.86 | 24 |
| 31 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 19237.67 | 14 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 18567.52 | 20 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 18274.5 | 38 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 18005.43 | 30 |
| 35 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17504.58 | 85 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 17488.11 | 22 |
| 37 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 17413.56 | 15 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 17317.69 | 33 |
| (38) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17284.92 | 13 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16038.65 | 9 |
| 40 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 15221.23 | 17 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 14821.73 | 21 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 14781.62 | 22 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14456.49 | 28 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14229.34 | 11 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14126.48 | 36 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 13723.84 | 27 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13520.62 | 24 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 12593.24 | 31 |
| 49 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12547.96 | 3 |
| 50 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 12119.58 | 7 |
| (50) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 12118.59 | 6 |
| 51 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12044.91 | 7 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 11971.24 | 24 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 11837.78 | 19 |
| 54 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11800.95 | 14 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 11644.71 | 23 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11628.66 | 28 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 11605.96 | 19 |
| 58 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 11561.43 | 8 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11491.71 | 25 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 11391.06 | 19 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 11146.41 | 21 |
| 61 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 11006.32 | 27 |
| (61) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11003.1 | 16 |
| 62 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 10957.02 | 33 |
| 63 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10851.29 | 49 |
| 64 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10547.32 | 26 |
| 65 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 10159.16 | 9 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 10015.1 | 11 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 10010.04 | 22 |
| 68 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9648.52 | 15 |
| 69 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 9632 | 45 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 9554.47 | 22 |
| (70) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 9387.5 | 21 |
| 71 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 9387.5 | 21 |
| (71) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9285.94 | 7 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 9280.66 | 15 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9153.72 | 29 |
| (73) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8843.83 | 5 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 8787.92 | 9 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 8584.61 | 11 |
| 76 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8539.3 | 10 |
| 77 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 8524.55 | 15 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8510.07 | 22 |
| 79 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7999.35 | 23 |
| 80 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7963.74 | 9 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7962 | 8 |
| (80) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7916.19 | 27 |
| 81 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7833.08 | 44 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 7675.75 | 9 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7428.39 | 9 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 7290.87 | 10 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 7260.05 | 15 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 7121.32 | 15 |
| (85) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7102.02 | 7 |
| (85) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7101.44 | 4 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7091.11 | 11 |
| (86) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 7068.68 | 17 |
| 87 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 7045.06 | 21 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7010.82 | 15 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6989.18 | 15 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 6919.34 | 16 |
| 91 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6898.42 | 7 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 6894.41 | 17 |
| 93 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6855.31 | 11 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6811.34 | 36 |
| (94) | 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 | 6751.83 | 12 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 6699.74 | 9 |
| 96 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 6617.66 | 14 |
| 97 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 6593.32 | 22 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 6541.07 | 8 |
| 99 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 6539.69 | 19 |
| (99) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6476.17 | 21 |
| 100 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 6431.99 | 9 |
| (100) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6382.71 | 9 |
| 101 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6382.71 | 10 |
| 102 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 6303.54 | 34 |
| (102) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6264.21 | 2 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6259.39 | 6 |
| 104 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6229.72 | 25 |
| (104) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6195.05 | 14 |
| 105 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 6167.22 | 22 |
| 106 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 6156.17 | 17 |
| 107 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 6099.64 | 8 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 6074.35 | 23 |
| (108) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 6015.4 | 12 |
| 109 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5967.25 | 19 |
| 110 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 5764.83 | 10 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 5741.65 | 9 |
| 112 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 5727.89 | 84 |
| (112) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 5675.48 | 7 |
| 113 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 5667.79 | 14 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 5643 | 30 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 5618.79 | 28 |
| (115) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5573.02 | 5 |
| 116 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5539.83 | 7 |
| (116) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 5524.16 | 7 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 5511.97 | 18 |
| 118 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 5505.13 | 10 |
| (118) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5401.22 | 4 |
| 119 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 5391.79 | 9 |
| 120 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 5351.76 | 30 |
| 121 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5235.22 | 11 |
| 122 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 5164 | 6 |
| 123 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 5158.49 | 16 |
| 124 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 5112.01 | 13 |
| 125 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5095.4 | 12 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 5026.32 | 15 |
| (126) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4961.05 | 12 |
| (126) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4960.49 | 2 |
| (126) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4957.01 | 9 |
| (126) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4932.32 | 4 |
| 127 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 4902.36 | 9 |
| 128 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 4889.16 | 7 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 4864.58 | 14 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 4864.17 | 5 |
| 131 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 4841.21 | 36 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 4816 | 25 |
| 133 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4794.17 | 28 |
| (133) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4770.96 | 5 |
| 134 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4745.38 | 3 |
| (134) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4742.66 | 5 |
| 135 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4740.33 | 5 |
| 136 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 4717.56 | 23 |
| 137 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4703.45 | 7 |
| 138 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4666.64 | 5 |
| 139 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 4664.51 | 7 |
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