| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 45741.38 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 17340.34 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 14670.6 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9317.65 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6845.38 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6516.54 | 88 |
| 7 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6201.43 | 13 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6106.76 | 21 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5753.34 | 32 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5456.5 | 24 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4920.43 | 23 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4696.87 | 22 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4523.99 | 31 |
| (13) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4398.19 | 35 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3983.61 | 28 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3861.3 | 17 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3788.05 | 26 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3725.97 | 11 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3676.56 | 18 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3672.16 | 24 |
| 20 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3576.06 | 57 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3569.03 | 79 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3485.42 | 60 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3415.94 | 30 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3212.65 | 15 |
| (24) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3204.95 | 15 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3117.35 | 29 |
| 26 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3034.84 | 26 |
| 27 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3021.54 | 122 |
| (27) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2983.63 | 13 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2978.94 | 24 |
| (28) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2939.68 | 28 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2764.02 | 38 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2635.03 | 39 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2546.99 | 20 |
| 32 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2525.7 | 17 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2519.9 | 21 |
| (33) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2519.16 | 22 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2514.34 | 14 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2462.4 | 22 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2356.36 | 30 |
| 37 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2321.12 | 15 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2286.22 | 33 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2202.69 | 22 |
| 40 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2155.51 | 85 |
| 41 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2140.38 | 7 |
| (41) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2140.32 | 6 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2129.06 | 21 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2102.12 | 28 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2093.89 | 24 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2047.11 | 36 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1916.8 | 27 |
| 47 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1880.15 | 11 |
| 48 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1797.68 | 7 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1661.13 | 21 |
| 50 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1629.04 | 9 |
| 51 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1620.89 | 14 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1581.79 | 24 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1570.61 | 31 |
| 54 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1550.28 | 27 |
| (54) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1519.66 | 16 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1512.08 | 23 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1504.9 | 28 |
| 57 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1502.77 | 3 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1495.85 | 19 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1494.36 | 25 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1476.61 | 19 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1475.77 | 9 |
| (60) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1464.79 | 21 |
| 61 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1464.79 | 21 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1460.43 | 19 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1439.08 | 22 |
| 64 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1426.13 | 33 |
| 65 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1382.01 | 10 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1354.35 | 11 |
| 67 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1337.59 | 22 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1320.91 | 29 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1319.91 | 9 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1302.83 | 15 |
| 71 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1300.72 | 15 |
| 72 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1238.27 | 9 |
| (72) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1238.13 | 8 |
| 73 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1232.31 | 49 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1211.36 | 22 |
| (74) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1207.66 | 7 |
| (74) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1196.94 | 9 |
| 75 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1194.72 | 45 |
| 76 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1182.47 | 15 |
| (76) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1164.04 | 7 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1160.47 | 11 |
| 78 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1136.26 | 26 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1129.98 | 9 |
| 80 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1112.48 | 8 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1107.05 | 10 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1102.3 | 11 |
| (82) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1100.21 | 27 |
| 83 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1060.34 | 11 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1049.53 | 16 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1033.95 | 15 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 986.94 | 15 |
| 87 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 975.75 | 21 |
| 88 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 973.28 | 23 |
| (88) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 970.06 | 17 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 965.83 | 15 |
| (89) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 941.27 | 14 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 926.36 | 17 |
| 91 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 923.38 | 14 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 903.88 | 6 |
| 93 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 894.05 | 7 |
| 94 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 883.46 | 34 |
| 95 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 879.97 | 10 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 879.09 | 9 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 869.44 | 36 |
| (97) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 869.19 | 2 |
| 98 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 860.68 | 9 |
| 99 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 856.59 | 8 |
| 100 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 851.24 | 10 |
| (100) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 847.72 | 7 |
| 101 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 847.59 | 22 |
| 102 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 846.33 | 19 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 840.02 | 9 |
| (103) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 836.27 | 12 |
| (103) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 826.46 | 9 |
| 104 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 826.46 | 10 |
| 105 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 815.39 | 44 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 814 | 15 |
| 107 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 808.5 | 7 |
| 108 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 805.28 | 14 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 799.22 | 8 |
| 110 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 790.42 | 7 |
| 111 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 776.74 | 9 |
| 112 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 772.71 | 22 |
| 113 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 767.35 | 17 |
| (113) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 765.49 | 21 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 763.65 | 14 |
| (114) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 746.68 | 15 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 732.02 | 28 |
| (115) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 728.4 | 4 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 724.11 | 30 |
| 117 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 723.49 | 6 |
| 118 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 722.43 | 13 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 714.28 | 5 |
| (119) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 708.3 | 5 |
| (119) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 703.38 | 7 |
| (119) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 701.93 | 5 |
| (119) | 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 | 691.33 | 12 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 689.43 | 23 |
| 121 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 686.05 | 2 |
| 122 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 681.09 | 9 |
| 123 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 678.48 | 3 |
| (123) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 677.15 | 9 |
| (123) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 675.3 | 3 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 671.57 | 12 |
| 124 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 657.22 | 9 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 656.11 | 18 |
| (125) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 654.67 | 5 |
| 126 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 645.79 | 11 |
| (126) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 644.72 | 2 |
| 127 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 638.59 | 7 |
| 128 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 635.29 | 7 |
| 129 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 631.28 | 12 |
| 130 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 626.79 | 6 |
| 131 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 621.55 | 16 |
| 132 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 620.68 | 36 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 618.1 | 25 |
| 134 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 617.64 | 84 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 614.58 | 15 |
| 136 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 613.96 | 19 |
| (136) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 612.15 | 6 |
| (136) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 610.91 | 4 |
| 137 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 608.9 | 5 |
| 138 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 604.43 | 5 |
| 139 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 593.76 | 30 |
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