| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 137856.26 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 38275.76 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 32652.03 | 252 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 24192.63 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23622.13 | 28 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17864.56 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15328.37 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 15280.08 | 30 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 15000.29 | 25 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13805.78 | 25 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 13751.36 | 11 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12299.26 | 89 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10216.66 | 24 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9653.86 | 17 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9578.06 | 26 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9245.46 | 36 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9076.59 | 26 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 9071.09 | 28 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8755.78 | 15 |
| 19 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8493.94 | 123 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8338.26 | 35 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8188.19 | 31 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7688.38 | 29 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7572.48 | 14 |
| (21) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7524.8 | 13 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7181.89 | 16 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6921.08 | 28 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6856.25 | 18 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6730.86 | 23 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 6699.89 | 21 |
| 27 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6684.17 | 11 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6238.69 | 12 |
| 29 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5943.06 | 14 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5771.64 | 33 |
| 31 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5402.23 | 59 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5249.4 | 24 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4904.91 | 21 |
| 34 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4772.94 | 3 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4743.11 | 14 |
| 36 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4738.8 | 10 |
| (36) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4738.6 | 9 |
| 37 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4589.66 | 59 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4556.11 | 19 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4541.72 | 23 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4475.44 | 81 |
| (40) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4429.7 | 16 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4336.2 | 23 |
| 42 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4280.34 | 39 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4211.38 | 22 |
| 43 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4113.91 | 86 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4112.15 | 28 |
| 45 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4054.68 | 11 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3977.81 | 23 |
| (46) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3867.74 | 4 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3859.26 | 30 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3853.24 | 21 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3809.58 | 21 |
| 50 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3716.3 | 9 |
| 51 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3654.71 | 10 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3624.42 | 25 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3535.07 | 18 |
| 53 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3523.12 | 16 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3518.05 | 26 |
| (54) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3444.11 | 7 |
| 55 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 3391.65 | 8 |
| (55) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3235.17 | 7 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3222.46 | 29 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3213.73 | 22 |
| (57) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3168.93 | 4 |
| 58 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3128.87 | 5 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3053.36 | 12 |
| 60 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 3016.15 | 8 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2923.19 | 14 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2859.19 | 19 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2843.55 | 26 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2839.89 | 29 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2662.75 | 9 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2662.34 | 37 |
| (65) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2477.21 | 5 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2445.29 | 28 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2399.09 | 25 |
| 67 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2393.2 | 8 |
| (67) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2367.11 | 27 |
| (67) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2361.68 | 8 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2335.67 | 34 |
| (68) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2262.97 | 4 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 2260.45 | 8 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2250.44 | 29 |
| (70) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2239.32 | 5 |
| (70) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2140.47 | 14 |
| 71 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2036 | 8 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2033.7 | 24 |
| 73 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2000.3 | 7 |
| (73) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1895.36 | 2 |
| 74 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1879.34 | 8 |
| (74) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1837.63 | 3 |
| (74) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1830.22 | 2 |
| (74) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1799.89 | 1 |
| (74) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1799.89 | 1 |
| (74) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1792.69 | 5 |
| 75 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1778.55 | 18 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1749.42 | 8 |
| 77 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1709.32 | 6 |
| 78 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1707.91 | 4 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1704.13 | 13 |
| (79) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1691.57 | 2 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1621.77 | 13 |
| 81 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1613.17 | 49 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1610.11 | 11 |
| (82) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1597.4 | 5 |
| 83 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1573.63 | 50 |
| 84 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1565.74 | 14 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1556.38 | 22 |
| 86 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1541.7 | 10 |
| (86) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1541.5 | 1 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1538.4 | 15 |
| (87) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1518.95 | 8 |
| (87) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1515.34 | 12 |
| 88 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1512.32 | 22 |
| 89 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1512.23 | 6 |
| 90 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1509.52 | 44 |
| 91 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1481.11 | 14 |
| (91) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1454.54 | 15 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1449.27 | 10 |
| (92) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1430.99 | 1 |
| 93 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1421.22 | 46 |
| 94 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1404.21 | 10 |
| 95 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1401.05 | 87 |
| 96 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1398.96 | 16 |
| 97 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1394.47 | 22 |
| 98 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1394.13 | 17 |
| (98) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1393.6 | 8 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1388.31 | 12 |
| 100 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1388.03 | 8 |
| 101 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1355.23 | 34 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1353.18 | 29 |
| 103 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1348.9 | 15 |
| (103) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1314.7 | 2 |
| (103) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1309.29 | 7 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1306.84 | 5 |
| 105 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1277.99 | 16 |
| 106 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1268.17 | 35 |
| 107 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1247.66 | 7 |
| (107) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1247.66 | 6 |
| (107) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1242.42 | 8 |
| 108 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1242.42 | 9 |
| 109 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1237.66 | 7 |
| 110 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1226.58 | 11 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1218.5 | 11 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1211.13 | 11 |
| 113 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1200.89 | 2 |
| (113) | 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 | 1181.76 | 12 |
| 114 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1177.49 | 10 |
| 115 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1174.7 | 2 |
| (115) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1166.78 | 21 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1147.04 | 16 |
| 117 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1146.33 | 36 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1102.9 | 16 |
| 119 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1087.99 | 10 |
| (119) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1087.98 | 3 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1077.26 | 19 |
| (120) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1077.25 | 21 |
| 121 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1077.25 | 21 |
| 122 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1042.63 | 7 |
| 123 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1038.64 | 10 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1035.97 | 6 |
| 125 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1034.88 | 7 |
| (125) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1034.88 | 7 |
| 126 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1026.27 | 9 |
| 127 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1024.38 | 1 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1023.96 | 15 |
| 129 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 1011.35 | 5 |
| 130 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1001.28 | 21 |
| 131 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 998.4 | 10 |
| 132 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 994.11 | 22 |
| 133 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 974.78 | 9 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 974.73 | 13 |
| 135 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 958.56 | 3 |
| 136 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 945.62 | 23 |
| 137 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 940.26 | 19 |
| 138 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 940.08 | 7 |
| (138) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 937.19 | 7 |
| 139 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 922.91 | 14 |
| 140 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 920.63 | 8 |
| 141 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 915.82 | 6 |
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