| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 31720.74 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8946.58 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 7030.51 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6196.65 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4747.46 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4325 | 22 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3833.4 | 32 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3448.17 | 24 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3256.86 | 31 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3067.45 | 23 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2721.19 | 24 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2604.97 | 122 |
| 13 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2579.72 | 11 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2495.06 | 17 |
| 15 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2474.17 | 88 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2199.17 | 15 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2176.27 | 26 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2168.15 | 26 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2097.19 | 30 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2078.7 | 36 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2020.4 | 18 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1865.89 | 15 |
| (21) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1796.44 | 13 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1787.47 | 29 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1708.31 | 28 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1637.05 | 35 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1476.59 | 28 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1461.38 | 24 |
| 25 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1407.37 | 14 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1322.91 | 11 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1285.25 | 22 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1248.3 | 21 |
| 29 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1245.45 | 3 |
| 30 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1222.07 | 60 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1206.13 | 20 |
| 32 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1205.31 | 22 |
| 33 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1189.47 | 57 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1165.39 | 15 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1155.81 | 33 |
| 36 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1131.82 | 13 |
| 37 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1131.62 | 85 |
| 38 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1126.77 | 39 |
| 39 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1125.33 | 9 |
| (39) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1125.3 | 8 |
| (39) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1110.28 | 22 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1089.22 | 28 |
| 41 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1066.88 | 9 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1057.66 | 23 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1028.22 | 14 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 989.44 | 22 |
| 45 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 964.87 | 15 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 936.19 | 24 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 934.05 | 21 |
| (47) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 912.86 | 4 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 892.92 | 21 |
| (48) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 891.15 | 7 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 885.22 | 79 |
| (49) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 880.61 | 16 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 877.56 | 15 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 877.04 | 21 |
| 52 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 858.13 | 8 |
| (52) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 828.17 | 27 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 821.57 | 26 |
| 54 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 819.89 | 7 |
| 55 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 818.16 | 10 |
| (55) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 790.84 | 7 |
| (55) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 790.3 | 4 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 766.24 | 30 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 765.89 | 17 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 765.86 | 11 |
| (57) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 755.6 | 9 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 741.46 | 19 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 730.69 | 24 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 687 | 29 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 660.44 | 19 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 655.87 | 9 |
| 63 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 638.53 | 8 |
| 64 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 616.47 | 8 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 606.14 | 38 |
| 66 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 564.11 | 27 |
| (66) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 563.49 | 14 |
| (66) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 549.68 | 4 |
| (66) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 526.88 | 5 |
| (66) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 524.75 | 5 |
| (66) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 516.98 | 5 |
| 67 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 498.09 | 5 |
| 68 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 494.36 | 23 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 479.86 | 33 |
| 70 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 457.43 | 7 |
| (70) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 455.98 | 2 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 454.58 | 11 |
| (71) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 454.44 | 1 |
| (71) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 454.44 | 1 |
| 72 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 454.29 | 10 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 446.14 | 27 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 444.28 | 28 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 440.61 | 8 |
| 76 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 439.24 | 19 |
| (76) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 438.32 | 25 |
| (76) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 422.75 | 2 |
| (76) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 415.42 | 5 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 408.32 | 9 |
| 77 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 403.42 | 7 |
| 78 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 389.78 | 44 |
| (78) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 389.19 | 9 |
| (78) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 383.48 | 2 |
| 79 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 379.94 | 14 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 372.64 | 11 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 372.16 | 8 |
| 82 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 371.9 | 6 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 369.13 | 30 |
| (83) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 368.13 | 3 |
| (83) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 366.5 | 12 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 362.8 | 11 |
| (84) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 361.36 | 21 |
| 85 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 360.68 | 48 |
| (85) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 357.18 | 15 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 351.75 | 15 |
| 87 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 351.31 | 15 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 349.36 | 15 |
| 89 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 345.95 | 14 |
| 90 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 337.17 | 15 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 331.47 | 22 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 330.34 | 22 |
| 93 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 327.5 | 49 |
| 94 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 325.92 | 16 |
| (94) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 324.85 | 1 |
| 95 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 324.09 | 2 |
| 96 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 316.59 | 7 |
| 97 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 316.58 | 3 |
| 98 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 316.13 | 10 |
| 99 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 313.85 | 6 |
| (99) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 310.76 | 21 |
| 100 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 310.76 | 21 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 310.6 | 15 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 309.44 | 5 |
| (102) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 307.38 | 9 |
| 103 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 307.38 | 10 |
| 104 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 307.19 | 11 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 306.04 | 16 |
| 106 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 302.32 | 45 |
| 107 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 301.36 | 2 |
| 108 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 301.16 | 4 |
| 109 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 299.63 | 9 |
| 110 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 292.72 | 10 |
| 111 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 287.24 | 84 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 286.7 | 11 |
| 113 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 285.35 | 8 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 284.06 | 11 |
| (114) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 279.13 | 6 |
| (114) | 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 | 278.29 | 12 |
| 115 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 273.19 | 31 |
| (115) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 265.87 | 7 |
| 116 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 263.88 | 22 |
| 117 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 262.59 | 3 |
| 118 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 259.94 | 7 |
| (118) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 259.94 | 7 |
| 119 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 257.63 | 34 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 252.84 | 19 |
| 121 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 251.54 | 30 |
| 122 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 250.35 | 9 |
| (122) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 246.41 | 1 |
| (122) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 243.29 | 2 |
| 123 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 242.48 | 9 |
| (123) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 240.94 | 7 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 237.68 | 6 |
| (124) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 233.73 | 4 |
| 125 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 232.91 | 9 |
| 126 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 231.29 | 11 |
| 127 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 226.67 | 17 |
| (127) | ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 226.28 | 4 |
| 128 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 225.59 | 22 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 219.06 | 15 |
| (129) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 217.62 | 1 |
| 130 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 217.62 | 36 |
| 131 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 216.53 | 9 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 216.15 | 14 |
| (132) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 212.38 | 3 |
| 133 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 209.8 | 5 |
| 134 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 208.78 | 7 |
| (134) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 208.78 | 6 |
| 135 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 207.5 | 8 |
| 136 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 205.9 | 5 |
| (136) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 205.73 | 2 |
| 137 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 203.87 | 37 |
| 138 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 203.37 | 9 |
| 139 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 202.65 | 7 |
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