| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 53125.74 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 16598.93 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 14519.52 | 252 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9797.08 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8872.18 | 28 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6634.44 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6242.13 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6120.51 | 30 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6012.17 | 89 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5643.18 | 25 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5435.24 | 11 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5120.88 | 25 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4259.74 | 24 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4149.33 | 28 |
| (14) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4005.23 | 35 |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3781.24 | 123 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3729.53 | 26 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3684.83 | 15 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3656.99 | 26 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3652.3 | 36 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3623.1 | 29 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3521.95 | 31 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3226.01 | 28 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3189.49 | 17 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3109.37 | 16 |
| 23 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2946.45 | 11 |
| 24 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2902.16 | 59 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2892.99 | 21 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2716.83 | 12 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2704.66 | 14 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2663.32 | 23 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2567.4 | 81 |
| (29) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2492.41 | 13 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2271.66 | 18 |
| 31 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2253.75 | 14 |
| 32 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2228.75 | 86 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2156.41 | 14 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2145.93 | 19 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2125.53 | 33 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2076.92 | 59 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2056.24 | 24 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1998.08 | 28 |
| 39 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1952.08 | 3 |
| 40 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1909.26 | 39 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1881.39 | 23 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1871.01 | 22 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1849.85 | 25 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1718.89 | 23 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1680.43 | 21 |
| 45 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1678.74 | 10 |
| 46 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1673.83 | 9 |
| 47 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1664.18 | 23 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1650.66 | 30 |
| 49 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1631.66 | 11 |
| 50 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1619.96 | 29 |
| (50) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1604.88 | 4 |
| (50) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1572.36 | 16 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1561.83 | 26 |
| 52 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1554.24 | 10 |
| (52) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1552.74 | 9 |
| 53 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1522.16 | 5 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1505.28 | 21 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1496.41 | 18 |
| (54) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1456.58 | 7 |
| 55 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1413.18 | 16 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1384.49 | 21 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1345.66 | 22 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1333.43 | 26 |
| 59 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1257.99 | 34 |
| (59) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1232 | 4 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1226.49 | 29 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1220.58 | 12 |
| 62 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 1214.08 | 8 |
| 63 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1205.08 | 8 |
| (63) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1193.93 | 7 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1188.91 | 8 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1173.76 | 29 |
| (65) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1114.33 | 9 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1100.45 | 19 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1070.16 | 37 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1044.16 | 28 |
| (68) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1025.83 | 25 |
| (68) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 994.91 | 5 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 993.58 | 14 |
| (69) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 992.98 | 27 |
| 70 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 974.55 | 24 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 958.16 | 8 |
| 72 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 952.9 | 50 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 948.24 | 18 |
| (73) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 938.99 | 14 |
| 74 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 930.16 | 8 |
| (74) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 908.41 | 5 |
| (74) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 885 | 4 |
| 75 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 877.87 | 44 |
| 76 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 870.85 | 46 |
| 77 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 850.16 | 17 |
| (77) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 827.83 | 5 |
| (77) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 817 | 2 |
| 78 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 811.76 | 49 |
| (78) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 805.49 | 8 |
| (78) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 787.25 | 8 |
| 79 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 787.16 | 8 |
| 80 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 771.16 | 7 |
| 81 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 764.4 | 22 |
| 82 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 763.58 | 4 |
| (82) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 761.53 | 21 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 756.24 | 11 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 755.08 | 8 |
| 85 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 753.33 | 87 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 751.24 | 22 |
| 87 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 747.14 | 34 |
| 88 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 740.08 | 7 |
| (88) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 740.08 | 6 |
| 89 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 728.1 | 8 |
| 90 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 727.41 | 10 |
| (90) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 715.43 | 1 |
| (90) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 715.43 | 1 |
| (90) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 713.5 | 2 |
| 91 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 713.16 | 35 |
| 92 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 709.99 | 18 |
| 93 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 705.28 | 6 |
| (93) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 700.33 | 3 |
| 94 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 689.13 | 22 |
| 95 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 684.25 | 14 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 683.33 | 13 |
| (96) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 669.08 | 2 |
| (96) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 661.49 | 5 |
| (96) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 659.08 | 12 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 658.5 | 29 |
| 98 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 645.84 | 15 |
| (98) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 630.83 | 1 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 625.99 | 13 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 620.83 | 15 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 613.66 | 5 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 603.16 | 6 |
| 103 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 599.18 | 15 |
| 104 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 591.83 | 36 |
| 105 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 581.65 | 6 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 578.83 | 22 |
| 107 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 578.73 | 10 |
| 108 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 578.49 | 2 |
| 109 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 577.08 | 7 |
| 110 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 574.41 | 16 |
| (110) | 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 | 573.41 | 12 |
| 111 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 571.75 | 16 |
| (111) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 543.33 | 3 |
| 112 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 542.66 | 14 |
| (112) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 531.66 | 8 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 530.33 | 16 |
| (113) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 530.25 | 2 |
| 114 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 522.78 | 21 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 516.83 | 13 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 506.5 | 12 |
| (116) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 505.08 | 15 |
| 117 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 504.49 | 10 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 502.75 | 19 |
| 119 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 496.16 | 19 |
| 120 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 495.91 | 10 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 486.66 | 11 |
| (121) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 485.21 | 21 |
| 122 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 485.21 | 21 |
| 123 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 484.38 | 15 |
| 124 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 483.83 | 7 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 482.53 | 11 |
| (125) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 480.83 | 1 |
| (125) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 467.66 | 8 |
| 126 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 467.66 | 9 |
| 127 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 464.16 | 2 |
| 128 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 460.23 | 11 |
| 129 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 455.78 | 7 |
| (129) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 455.78 | 7 |
| (129) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 448.49 | 7 |
| 130 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 448.44 | 37 |
| 131 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 446.53 | 23 |
| 132 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 443 | 11 |
| 133 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 441.19 | 29 |
| 134 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 439.33 | 5 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 439 | 8 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 437.63 | 15 |
| 137 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 434.36 | 45 |
| 138 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 427.6 | 59 |
| 139 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 426.91 | 14 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 425.16 | 16 |
| 141 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 423.66 | 6 |
| (141) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 423.66 | 5 |
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