| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18339.72 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4780.3 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4124.33 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3259.58 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3089.11 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2805.88 | 22 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2048.47 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2048.27 | 32 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1978.85 | 24 |
| 10 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1887.8 | 11 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1876.06 | 23 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1475.12 | 24 |
| 13 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1461.02 | 88 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1376.88 | 17 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1304.55 | 26 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1257.84 | 122 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1242.44 | 15 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1212.98 | 26 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1173.34 | 36 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1139.6 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1090.27 | 30 |
| (20) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1080.4 | 13 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 984.42 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 984.39 | 18 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 978.08 | 35 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 927.97 | 15 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 912.16 | 29 |
| 25 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 907.4 | 14 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 906.21 | 28 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 837.13 | 11 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 828.68 | 21 |
| 28 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 776.14 | 3 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 757.04 | 13 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 752.94 | 33 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 752.2 | 20 |
| 32 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 709.38 | 60 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 704.68 | 24 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 700.05 | 22 |
| 35 | CESifo | München, Germany | 671.51 | 57 |
| 36 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 664.65 | 39 |
| 37 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 664.37 | 9 |
| (37) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 664.36 | 8 |
| (37) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 656.18 | 22 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 608.1 | 14 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 605.31 | 9 |
| 40 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 598.01 | 22 |
| (40) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 592.34 | 16 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 587.75 | 21 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 575.51 | 22 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 563.92 | 23 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 543.06 | 28 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 535.05 | 79 |
| 46 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 533.35 | 10 |
| (46) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 523.63 | 4 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 511.1 | 30 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 510.66 | 21 |
| 49 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 493.28 | 85 |
| (49) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 482.52 | 4 |
| 50 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 477.46 | 19 |
| 51 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 458.96 | 8 |
| (51) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 457.75 | 17 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 454.87 | 24 |
| 53 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 450.16 | 15 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 446.25 | 19 |
| (54) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 443.97 | 7 |
| (54) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 433.74 | 7 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 424.67 | 38 |
| 56 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 422.8 | 26 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 414 | 11 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 412.55 | 29 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 402.76 | 21 |
| 60 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 397.71 | 5 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 395.72 | 15 |
| 62 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 383.76 | 7 |
| (62) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 373.75 | 5 |
| 63 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 370.15 | 8 |
| (63) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 368.38 | 27 |
| 64 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 356.21 | 9 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 352.19 | 24 |
| (65) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 341.92 | 9 |
| (65) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 332.82 | 9 |
| 66 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 331.85 | 27 |
| 67 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 328.14 | 8 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 320.9 | 8 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 302.52 | 28 |
| (69) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 298.11 | 25 |
| (69) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 297.34 | 4 |
| 70 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 290.42 | 33 |
| (70) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 285.73 | 5 |
| (70) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 284.16 | 14 |
| 71 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 256.85 | 7 |
| 72 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 252.92 | 7 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 252.13 | 27 |
| (73) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 250.46 | 2 |
| (73) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 243.71 | 5 |
| (73) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 241.71 | 2 |
| 74 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 239.44 | 8 |
| 75 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 237.78 | 23 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 230.21 | 15 |
| (76) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 229.54 | 3 |
| 77 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 227.17 | 4 |
| (77) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 224.28 | 2 |
| (77) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 222.66 | 1 |
| (77) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 222.66 | 1 |
| 78 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 222.32 | 10 |
| (78) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 219.58 | 1 |
| 79 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 217.25 | 19 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 216.58 | 11 |
| 81 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 214.36 | 15 |
| (81) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 210.8 | 5 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 209.31 | 11 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 196.77 | 11 |
| 84 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 196.38 | 14 |
| 85 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 196.02 | 6 |
| (85) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 193.82 | 1 |
| 86 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 193.31 | 14 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 193.16 | 10 |
| (87) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 190.76 | 9 |
| (87) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 190.16 | 12 |
| (87) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 188.76 | 15 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 188.23 | 11 |
| 89 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 185.35 | 15 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 183.67 | 22 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 182.96 | 15 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 180.64 | 15 |
| (92) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 177.13 | 7 |
| 93 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 174.99 | 6 |
| 94 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 171.9 | 44 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 171.3 | 22 |
| 96 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 170.79 | 9 |
| (96) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 170.46 | 21 |
| 97 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 170.27 | 48 |
| (97) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 169.15 | 6 |
| 98 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 168.57 | 49 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 167.6 | 30 |
| (99) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 167.53 | 2 |
| 100 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 165.87 | 8 |
| 101 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 165.73 | 7 |
| 102 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 164.8 | 2 |
| (102) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 163.81 | 9 |
| 103 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 163.81 | 10 |
| 104 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 163.24 | 11 |
| 105 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 162.86 | 10 |
| (105) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 162.83 | 7 |
| 106 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 162.71 | 16 |
| 107 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 162.65 | 45 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 161.59 | 31 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 158.72 | 5 |
| 110 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 157.3 | 84 |
| (110) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 157.06 | 1 |
| 111 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 156.28 | 22 |
| 112 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 153.69 | 34 |
| 113 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 153.55 | 2 |
| (113) | 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 | 152.73 | 12 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 152.68 | 16 |
| 115 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 149.86 | 9 |
| 116 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 149.58 | 17 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 146.65 | 11 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 145.98 | 19 |
| 119 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 139.96 | 9 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 137.85 | 7 |
| (120) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 137.85 | 7 |
| 121 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 136.5 | 11 |
| 122 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 133.5 | 7 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 133.5 | 6 |
| 123 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 132.14 | 9 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 128.83 | 15 |
| 125 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 128.16 | 7 |
| 126 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 126.21 | 3 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 125.14 | 15 |
| 128 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 125.03 | 9 |
| 129 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 124.59 | 6 |
| 130 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 122.04 | 3 |
| (130) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 121.71 | 21 |
| 131 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 121.71 | 21 |
| 132 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 119.31 | 10 |
| 133 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 117.61 | 36 |
| (133) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 117.26 | 2 |
| 134 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 116.51 | 2 |
| (134) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 115.61 | 4 |
| 135 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 115.02 | 23 |
| 136 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 114.12 | 8 |
| 137 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 110.19 | 5 |
| 138 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 109.88 | 1 |
| 139 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 108.83 | 13 |
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