| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 72454.65 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 30155.1 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 22696.86 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11445.53 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10881.56 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8757.6 | 88 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7659.18 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7286.6 | 32 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7110.82 | 23 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6610.65 | 122 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 6136.95 | 57 |
| 12 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5736.3 | 26 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5604.21 | 13 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5454.72 | 24 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5434.2 | 26 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5410.65 | 22 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5340.63 | 24 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4767.81 | 28 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4765.68 | 30 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4748.46 | 35 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4687.25 | 28 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4586.42 | 21 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4586.03 | 17 |
| (21) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4569.22 | 15 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4487.48 | 60 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4305.49 | 18 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4253.5 | 24 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4201.5 | 20 |
| 26 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4024.61 | 11 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3921.53 | 39 |
| 28 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3888.46 | 33 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3845.47 | 22 |
| 30 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3802.86 | 85 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3781.97 | 79 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3741.47 | 15 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3711.18 | 29 |
| (33) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3637.69 | 22 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3493.81 | 36 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3477.71 | 30 |
| 36 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3299.44 | 28 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3273.24 | 21 |
| (37) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3260.49 | 13 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2974.7 | 14 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2866 | 21 |
| 40 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2828.14 | 22 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2821.41 | 24 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2787.59 | 19 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2746.2 | 22 |
| 44 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2533.02 | 26 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2480.33 | 27 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2457.02 | 9 |
| 47 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2438.59 | 11 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2437.5 | 24 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2357.1 | 38 |
| 50 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2346 | 19 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2257.77 | 23 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2146.94 | 31 |
| 53 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2142.89 | 15 |
| 54 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2142.15 | 9 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2132.72 | 29 |
| (55) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2127.81 | 16 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2127.76 | 17 |
| 56 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2126.7 | 33 |
| 57 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2118.08 | 49 |
| (57) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2096.71 | 27 |
| 58 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2070.43 | 23 |
| 59 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2018.98 | 14 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2014.03 | 19 |
| (60) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1971.58 | 4 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1957.22 | 28 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1939.78 | 15 |
| (62) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1927.94 | 25 |
| 63 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1921 | 44 |
| 64 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1902.26 | 17 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1897.79 | 15 |
| 66 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1880.42 | 11 |
| 67 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1853.62 | 45 |
| (67) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1825.6 | 7 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1820.8 | 19 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1815.74 | 21 |
| 70 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1789.89 | 10 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1744.9 | 11 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1740.9 | 11 |
| 73 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1694.97 | 15 |
| (73) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1676.23 | 4 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1674.18 | 22 |
| 75 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1662.79 | 27 |
| 76 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1656.98 | 3 |
| (76) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1628.97 | 21 |
| 77 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1628.97 | 21 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1615.98 | 36 |
| (78) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1615.1 | 14 |
| 79 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1596.61 | 22 |
| 80 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1591.04 | 9 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1590.61 | 8 |
| (80) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1517.09 | 21 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1508.31 | 30 |
| 82 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1501.86 | 22 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1492.91 | 9 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1486.25 | 15 |
| (83) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1476.05 | 9 |
| 84 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1465.26 | 7 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1464.41 | 6 |
| 85 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1464.37 | 34 |
| (85) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1461.59 | 9 |
| 86 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1461.42 | 7 |
| 87 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1451.47 | 8 |
| 88 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1445.01 | 84 |
| 89 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1444.58 | 48 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1406.05 | 11 |
| 91 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1394.28 | 19 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1385.67 | 15 |
| 93 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1361.71 | 17 |
| (93) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1356.5 | 7 |
| 94 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1325.45 | 4 |
| 95 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1315.09 | 6 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1308.65 | 11 |
| 97 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1297.32 | 36 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1295.21 | 9 |
| 99 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1284.26 | 9 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1267.37 | 15 |
| 101 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1257.28 | 8 |
| 102 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1250.17 | 11 |
| 103 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1236.88 | 21 |
| (103) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1224.37 | 2 |
| 104 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1198.23 | 25 |
| 105 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1197.16 | 22 |
| 106 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1195.27 | 7 |
| 107 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1191.83 | 14 |
| 108 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1184.4 | 44 |
| 109 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1179.03 | 15 |
| 110 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1178.1 | 7 |
| 111 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1153.37 | 30 |
| 112 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1140.69 | 23 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1136.16 | 15 |
| (113) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1134.27 | 4 |
| (113) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1111.19 | 15 |
| (113) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1108.63 | 12 |
| (113) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1104.4 | 2 |
| (113) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1103.77 | 2 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1093.71 | 6 |
| 115 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1090.07 | 28 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1089.89 | 9 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1083.07 | 16 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 1078.76 | 13 |
| (118) | 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 | 1077.09 | 12 |
| (118) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1043.74 | 5 |
| 119 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1020.68 | 18 |
| 120 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 1012.81 | 30 |
| (120) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1010.7 | 5 |
| 121 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1008.39 | 16 |
| 122 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 998.76 | 37 |
| (122) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 993.89 | 5 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 988.51 | 13 |
| (123) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 985.44 | 5 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 980.49 | 20 |
| (124) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 977.81 | 2 |
| 125 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 962.33 | 40 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 952.36 | 28 |
| 127 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 947.7 | 10 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 944.89 | 8 |
| 129 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 940.51 | 10 |
| 130 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 932.46 | 10 |
| 131 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 930.75 | 14 |
| 132 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 923.94 | 45 |
| 133 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 915.66 | 12 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 912.04 | 13 |
| 135 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 886.75 | 5 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 885.99 | 18 |
| (136) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 885.52 | 1 |
| 137 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 880.97 | 5 |
| 138 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 879.47 | 25 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 878.17 | 14 |
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