| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 559299.73 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 230249.95 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 185085.11 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 102392.68 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 89813.27 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 76609.85 | 88 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 69542.99 | 32 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 65472.88 | 22 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 60633.86 | 23 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 59533.9 | 24 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 58225.33 | 31 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 50853.44 | 21 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 50705.84 | 13 |
| (13) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 47456.69 | 35 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 47182.78 | 26 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 46950.65 | 24 |
| 16 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 45768.38 | 60 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 45287.87 | 26 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 45098.19 | 28 |
| 19 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 44544.13 | 122 |
| 20 | CESifo | München, Germany | 44296.47 | 57 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 40230.41 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 39896.92 | 79 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 39768.64 | 30 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 38875.75 | 29 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 38180.25 | 17 |
| 25 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 37784.82 | 11 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 37007.48 | 39 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 36173.63 | 24 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 35873.07 | 18 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 35125.25 | 22 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 34258.77 | 21 |
| 30 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 34235.58 | 85 |
| (30) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 32925.49 | 28 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 32029.89 | 15 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 29868.34 | 22 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 29516.97 | 20 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 29278.48 | 14 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 28497.88 | 30 |
| (35) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 28362.01 | 13 |
| 36 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27918.18 | 33 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 27765.44 | 38 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 27373.57 | 28 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 26418.03 | 22 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 24498.28 | 24 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 23758.75 | 24 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 23379.5 | 15 |
| 43 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 23361.95 | 9 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 23307.99 | 11 |
| 45 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 23165.29 | 17 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 23095.73 | 36 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 22598.11 | 27 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 22351.86 | 21 |
| 49 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 20772.98 | 3 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 19784.5 | 23 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 19669.55 | 21 |
| (51) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 19622.59 | 21 |
| 52 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 19622.59 | 21 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 19622.05 | 31 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 19518.96 | 19 |
| 55 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 19220.59 | 7 |
| 56 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 18916.34 | 49 |
| 57 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 18905.01 | 26 |
| 58 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18860.65 | 14 |
| 59 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 18261.96 | 9 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 18198.22 | 28 |
| 61 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 18089.61 | 7 |
| (61) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 18083.66 | 6 |
| 62 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 18061.37 | 33 |
| (62) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17967.45 | 25 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 17782.66 | 19 |
| 64 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17563.69 | 15 |
| (64) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 17487.57 | 16 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 17402.14 | 27 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 17068.05 | 19 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 16954.77 | 22 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 16625.46 | 22 |
| 69 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 15932.27 | 15 |
| 70 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 15866.09 | 45 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15807.95 | 27 |
| 71 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 15642.85 | 44 |
| 72 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15517.26 | 8 |
| (72) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15485.26 | 7 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 15174.17 | 11 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14923.73 | 22 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14575.51 | 11 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 14498.96 | 29 |
| 77 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 14224.18 | 23 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 14149.49 | 15 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 13848.53 | 9 |
| 80 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 13789.69 | 9 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 13786.21 | 8 |
| (80) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 13565.53 | 7 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 13558.36 | 9 |
| 82 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 13413 | 21 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13400.56 | 15 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 13026.75 | 16 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12799.61 | 11 |
| 86 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 12776.49 | 22 |
| 87 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 12363.07 | 9 |
| 88 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 12273.95 | 14 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 12269.2 | 15 |
| (89) | 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 | 12160.54 | 12 |
| (89) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12157.86 | 5 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 12131.43 | 6 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11944.65 | 17 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 11702.22 | 36 |
| (91) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 11682.04 | 21 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 11657.49 | 11 |
| (92) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11555.8 | 9 |
| 93 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11555.8 | 10 |
| (93) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 11385.94 | 7 |
| (93) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11338.21 | 14 |
| 94 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11296.4 | 10 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 11179.24 | 15 |
| 96 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 11130.59 | 19 |
| (96) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 10989.47 | 12 |
| (96) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10936.73 | 4 |
| 97 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 10852.12 | 34 |
| 98 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 10779.85 | 19 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 10756.34 | 23 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 10747.37 | 30 |
| 101 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 10645.85 | 10 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 10408.84 | 15 |
| (102) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10398.41 | 9 |
| (102) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10295.83 | 2 |
| 103 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10283.19 | 25 |
| 104 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 10148.45 | 17 |
| 105 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 10095.29 | 8 |
| 106 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 10054.19 | 30 |
| 107 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9978.43 | 7 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 9970.48 | 28 |
| 109 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 9938.82 | 10 |
| 110 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 9905.25 | 6 |
| 111 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 9822.99 | 14 |
| (111) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9733.84 | 4 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 9732.95 | 22 |
| 113 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 9654.72 | 9 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 9589.82 | 17 |
| (114) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9533.08 | 5 |
| 115 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 9477.6 | 7 |
| 116 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 9439.6 | 84 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 9419.03 | 9 |
| 118 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 9405.58 | 10 |
| (118) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9400.53 | 5 |
| 119 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 9336.31 | 9 |
| 120 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9292.09 | 11 |
| (120) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9285.6 | 4 |
| 121 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 9142.9 | 7 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 9139.27 | 18 |
| 123 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9137.97 | 12 |
| 124 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 9137.64 | 7 |
| (124) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9049.34 | 5 |
| 125 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8968.11 | 3 |
| 126 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 8966.44 | 28 |
| 127 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 8914.38 | 44 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 8908 | 14 |
| (128) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8817 | 9 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 8770.28 | 8 |
| (129) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 8693.71 | 12 |
| (129) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 8542.75 | 9 |
| 130 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8531.15 | 2 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 8414.3 | 25 |
| 132 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 8229.59 | 16 |
| 133 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 8219.73 | 48 |
| 134 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 8199.98 | 36 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 8185.42 | 15 |
| (135) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8037.39 | 2 |
| 136 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 8019.48 | 23 |
| 137 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 7918.27 | 9 |
| (137) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 7819.5 | 7 |
| 138 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7812.08 | 8 |
| 139 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 7747.08 | 5 |
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