| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6613.26 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2238.78 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1791.79 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1118.74 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 955.34 | 29 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 824.78 | 31 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 718.02 | 88 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 704.37 | 32 |
| 9 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 653.41 | 13 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 636.5 | 23 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 622.04 | 24 |
| 12 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 535.02 | 26 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 520.25 | 21 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 514.97 | 122 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 497.79 | 26 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 494.83 | 24 |
| 17 | CESifo | München, Germany | 486.9 | 57 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 479.23 | 22 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 449.79 | 60 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 435.45 | 17 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 427.39 | 15 |
| 21 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 415.44 | 11 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 407.34 | 18 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 404.94 | 35 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 404.33 | 15 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 402.01 | 24 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 398.56 | 30 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 394.31 | 28 |
| (26) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 390.93 | 28 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 381.59 | 39 |
| (27) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 366.43 | 22 |
| 28 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 360.07 | 33 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 356.98 | 22 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 352.12 | 20 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 336.79 | 30 |
| (31) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 331.52 | 13 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 320.87 | 28 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 317.95 | 29 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 305.38 | 79 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 293.19 | 14 |
| 36 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 292.14 | 85 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 290.24 | 36 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 289.61 | 21 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 269.26 | 19 |
| 40 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 269.11 | 22 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 249.08 | 21 |
| (41) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 237.67 | 4 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 234.49 | 9 |
| 43 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 227.81 | 19 |
| 44 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 223.97 | 15 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 223.94 | 22 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 223.13 | 38 |
| (46) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 219.72 | 16 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 218.67 | 31 |
| 48 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 217.99 | 11 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 217.92 | 24 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 208.14 | 26 |
| 51 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 207.67 | 10 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 202.48 | 15 |
| 53 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 201.76 | 17 |
| (53) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 201.59 | 4 |
| 54 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 198.49 | 9 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 197.11 | 23 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 195.56 | 27 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 195.29 | 24 |
| 58 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 189.71 | 11 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 189.31 | 29 |
| (59) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 185.15 | 17 |
| (59) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 182.88 | 9 |
| (59) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 181.24 | 7 |
| 60 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 174.46 | 14 |
| 61 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 173.79 | 15 |
| (61) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 171.16 | 14 |
| 62 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 168.01 | 7 |
| (62) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 168 | 6 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 167.91 | 11 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 167.01 | 19 |
| 65 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 164.62 | 33 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 163.94 | 15 |
| 67 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 154.86 | 45 |
| 68 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 153.35 | 3 |
| (68) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 150.82 | 27 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 148.42 | 28 |
| (69) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 147.22 | 25 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 146.69 | 22 |
| (70) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 145.58 | 9 |
| 71 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 144.4 | 22 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 144.21 | 11 |
| 73 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 142.7 | 9 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 142.68 | 8 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 140.72 | 21 |
| 75 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 139.87 | 7 |
| 76 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 138.99 | 4 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 136.37 | 11 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 134.23 | 15 |
| 79 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 133.16 | 22 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 130.69 | 15 |
| 81 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 127.83 | 23 |
| 82 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 126.62 | 34 |
| 83 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 125.3 | 49 |
| 84 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 123.7 | 27 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 122.27 | 9 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 121.89 | 8 |
| (86) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 120.6 | 21 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 113.94 | 9 |
| (87) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 112.72 | 7 |
| 88 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 111.65 | 7 |
| 89 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 110.5 | 19 |
| (89) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 110.29 | 21 |
| 90 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 110.29 | 21 |
| (90) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 109.58 | 2 |
| (90) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 107.17 | 5 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 106.18 | 15 |
| 92 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 105.2 | 17 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 105.03 | 36 |
| (93) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 104.51 | 2 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 103.73 | 15 |
| 95 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 101.9 | 14 |
| 96 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 100.6 | 7 |
| 97 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 98.06 | 36 |
| (97) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 97.6 | 1 |
| (97) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 97.1 | 15 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 96.92 | 11 |
| (98) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 96.65 | 4 |
| 99 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 96.55 | 8 |
| (99) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 96.43 | 12 |
| 100 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 96.05 | 15 |
| (100) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 95.18 | 2 |
| 101 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 95.08 | 44 |
| 102 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 94.85 | 21 |
| 103 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 94.33 | 6 |
| 104 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 93.79 | 11 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 92.23 | 30 |
| 106 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 91.64 | 84 |
| 107 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 91.27 | 10 |
| 108 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 90.24 | 9 |
| (108) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 89.9 | 2 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 89.4 | 16 |
| (109) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 87.33 | 5 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 86.19 | 14 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 86.15 | 8 |
| (111) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 84.75 | 1 |
| (111) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 84.75 | 1 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 83.64 | 7 |
| (112) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 83.64 | 7 |
| 113 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 82.88 | 9 |
| 114 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 82.73 | 5 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 82.26 | 13 |
| (115) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 80.76 | 5 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 80.45 | 17 |
| (116) | Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 80.45 | 3 |
| 117 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 79.43 | 6 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 79.29 | 9 |
| 119 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 79.28 | 10 |
| (119) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 78.47 | 5 |
| 120 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 78.19 | 22 |
| 121 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 77.41 | 20 |
| 122 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 77.01 | 48 |
| 123 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 76.47 | 19 |
| 124 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 75.2 | 25 |
| 125 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 74.85 | 16 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 74.8 | 6 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 74.66 | 28 |
| 128 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 74.56 | 12 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 73.87 | 13 |
| 130 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 72.53 | 23 |
| 131 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 72.04 | 9 |
| 132 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 71.95 | 30 |
| (132) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 70.49 | 7 |
| 133 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 70.37 | 10 |
| 134 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 70.26 | 18 |
| (134) | 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 | 69.3 | 12 |
| 135 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 68.47 | 30 |
| 136 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 68.2 | 10 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 67.44 | 5 |
| 138 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 67 | 14 |
| 139 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 66.99 | 10 |
| (139) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 66.92 | 9 |
| (139) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 66.12 | 6 |
| (139) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 65.55 | 5 |
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