| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 72736.1 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 29513.49 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 23693.37 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14582.71 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10832.36 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10127.2 | 88 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9437.04 | 32 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8759.11 | 24 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8565.62 | 21 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8530.29 | 13 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7429.36 | 22 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7162.93 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6945.35 | 31 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6674.68 | 17 |
| (14) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6672.39 | 35 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6305.61 | 18 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6128.96 | 24 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6017.56 | 26 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5742.77 | 60 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5726.6 | 28 |
| 20 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5657.77 | 122 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5657.26 | 79 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5616.81 | 24 |
| 23 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5599.65 | 57 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5469.96 | 30 |
| (24) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5255.79 | 15 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 5078.05 | 29 |
| 26 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4970.29 | 11 |
| 27 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4917.99 | 26 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4908.12 | 15 |
| (28) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4878.23 | 13 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4555.59 | 39 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4336.08 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4309.65 | 22 |
| (30) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4270.53 | 28 |
| 31 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4261.25 | 85 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4239.62 | 21 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4197.87 | 38 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4122.11 | 28 |
| 35 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4080.55 | 22 |
| 36 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4006.76 | 20 |
| 37 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 3777.22 | 17 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3674.57 | 33 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3649.87 | 30 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3637.82 | 24 |
| 41 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3637.67 | 14 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3304.52 | 36 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3176.36 | 21 |
| 44 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3153.09 | 7 |
| (44) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3152.77 | 6 |
| 45 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3124.8 | 15 |
| (45) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3098.24 | 21 |
| 46 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3098.24 | 21 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 3077.74 | 27 |
| 48 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3066.27 | 11 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3057.55 | 24 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2897.52 | 21 |
| 51 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2895.04 | 7 |
| 52 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2580.04 | 9 |
| 53 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2537.87 | 27 |
| 54 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2509.87 | 3 |
| 55 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2502.39 | 14 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2499.63 | 23 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2497.79 | 19 |
| 58 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2426.68 | 9 |
| (58) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2420.31 | 16 |
| 59 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2382.24 | 31 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2324.35 | 28 |
| 61 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2321.17 | 22 |
| (61) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2306.64 | 25 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2298.81 | 22 |
| 63 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2297.78 | 15 |
| (63) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2243.08 | 7 |
| 64 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2238.74 | 33 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2229.17 | 19 |
| 66 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 2220.89 | 15 |
| (66) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2207.39 | 27 |
| 67 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2163.26 | 49 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2152.81 | 9 |
| 69 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2141.51 | 9 |
| (69) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2141.23 | 8 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2100.28 | 22 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2087.41 | 19 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2067.95 | 11 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2048.6 | 29 |
| 74 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1996.92 | 26 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1971.53 | 11 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1964.57 | 16 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1938.07 | 15 |
| 78 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1932.22 | 45 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1920.69 | 11 |
| 80 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1901.52 | 21 |
| (80) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1894.54 | 7 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1850.21 | 15 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1823.05 | 15 |
| 83 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1813.79 | 10 |
| 84 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1794.32 | 11 |
| (84) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1778.54 | 14 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1765.24 | 9 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1725.26 | 9 |
| 87 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1690.29 | 23 |
| 88 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1684.42 | 14 |
| 89 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1662.94 | 44 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1661.12 | 6 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1610.25 | 17 |
| 91 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1589.16 | 22 |
| 92 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1578.79 | 7 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1569.44 | 10 |
| 94 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1554.75 | 34 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1549.98 | 7 |
| (95) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1501.49 | 12 |
| (95) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1493.89 | 9 |
| 96 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1493.89 | 10 |
| 97 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1491.65 | 10 |
| 98 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1486.19 | 10 |
| 99 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1482.64 | 8 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1449.71 | 30 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1413.15 | 36 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1406.66 | 14 |
| 103 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1406.18 | 2 |
| (103) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1397.22 | 2 |
| (103) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1396.49 | 7 |
| 104 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1388.33 | 19 |
| (104) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1383.55 | 5 |
| (104) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1381.14 | 9 |
| (104) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1378.35 | 21 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1377.53 | 15 |
| (105) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1376.06 | 9 |
| 106 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1359.64 | 8 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1351.53 | 15 |
| 108 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1340.19 | 14 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 1328.13 | 9 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1326.51 | 17 |
| 111 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1325.51 | 3 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1320.47 | 22 |
| 113 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1319.22 | 9 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1318.29 | 28 |
| (114) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1301.82 | 5 |
| 115 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1294.11 | 9 |
| 116 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 1283.8 | 7 |
| (116) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1281.91 | 4 |
| 117 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1220.31 | 6 |
| 118 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1218.39 | 7 |
| (118) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1211.11 | 3 |
| 119 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1209.28 | 9 |
| (119) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1202.07 | 15 |
| (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 | 1193.19 | 12 |
| 120 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1186.21 | 17 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 1185.31 | 23 |
| 122 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1166.43 | 30 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1165.08 | 18 |
| 124 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1161.38 | 19 |
| (124) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1145.25 | 7 |
| (124) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1141.59 | 12 |
| 125 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1111.93 | 11 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1108.85 | 8 |
| 127 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1094.62 | 13 |
| (127) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1091.51 | 4 |
| (127) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1087.14 | 2 |
| 128 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1084.71 | 12 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 1084.54 | 25 |
| 130 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1081.31 | 6 |
| 131 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1044.93 | 44 |
| 132 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1043.28 | 8 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1037.5 | 15 |
| (133) | Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1034.48 | 3 |
| 134 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1028.1 | 36 |
| 135 | Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1017.38 | 3 |
| 136 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1016.84 | 5 |
| (136) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1009.49 | 5 |
| 137 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1008.86 | 84 |
| 138 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 991.85 | 28 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 990.56 | 5 |
| (139) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 970.79 | 5 |
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