| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 355756.92 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 131637.1 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 117533.71 | 252 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 65136.8 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 56954.79 | 28 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 48175.46 | 89 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 42626.9 | 30 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 42416.99 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 42069.4 | 23 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 37726.37 | 25 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 37562.31 | 31 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 36517.91 | 12 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 33041.29 | 19 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 30796.61 | 26 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 30483.38 | 28 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 29672.43 | 24 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 29562.44 | 35 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 28671.11 | 11 |
| 18 | CESifo | München, Germany | 28515.63 | 59 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 27305.72 | 26 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 26962.64 | 59 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25827.17 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 25782.63 | 81 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 24677.96 | 31 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 23477.77 | 28 |
| 24 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 22864.98 | 123 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 22724.56 | 17 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 22407.81 | 29 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 21646.42 | 18 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 21377.5 | 14 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 21234.53 | 39 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 20552.73 | 21 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 20382.35 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 19913.26 | 24 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 19697.3 | 21 |
| 32 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 18962.87 | 14 |
| 33 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18262.31 | 16 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 17906.4 | 30 |
| (34) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17786.96 | 13 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 17777.54 | 33 |
| 36 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17769.97 | 86 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 17746.65 | 37 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 17606.09 | 21 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 16481.88 | 23 |
| 40 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16111.45 | 10 |
| 41 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 15102.65 | 17 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 14713.23 | 23 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14245.87 | 28 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 14216.55 | 29 |
| 45 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14066.92 | 11 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13685.18 | 36 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13600.09 | 26 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 13342.81 | 34 |
| 49 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13045.13 | 9 |
| 50 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12948.14 | 3 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 12921.22 | 22 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 12649.65 | 21 |
| 53 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12195.4 | 8 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 12072.46 | 23 |
| 55 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 12061.8 | 7 |
| (55) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 12061.17 | 6 |
| 56 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11945.94 | 14 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11944.43 | 28 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 11930.72 | 19 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11801.33 | 25 |
| 59 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 11578.84 | 25 |
| (59) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11369.11 | 16 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 11331.68 | 34 |
| 61 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11061 | 50 |
| 62 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 11048 | 29 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 10933.03 | 19 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 10924.38 | 22 |
| 65 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 10571.54 | 46 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 10133.83 | 12 |
| 67 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10034.74 | 26 |
| 68 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9473.98 | 16 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 9409.32 | 23 |
| 70 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 9058.58 | 8 |
| (70) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8998.13 | 21 |
| 71 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8998.13 | 21 |
| (71) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8982.57 | 5 |
| 72 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8943.83 | 11 |
| (72) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8913.84 | 7 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8830.18 | 29 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 8676.02 | 13 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 8623.02 | 11 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 8613.33 | 8 |
| 77 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 8580.75 | 15 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8350.54 | 22 |
| 79 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7977.08 | 10 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7975.27 | 9 |
| 80 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7906.99 | 24 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7841.88 | 9 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 7740.09 | 10 |
| 82 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7728.76 | 44 |
| (82) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7447.43 | 27 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 7307.59 | 15 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 7296.19 | 10 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7245.46 | 14 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7167.05 | 16 |
| (86) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7091.72 | 7 |
| 87 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7000.76 | 11 |
| 88 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6977.37 | 7 |
| 89 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 6971.35 | 22 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 6936.96 | 16 |
| (90) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6923.79 | 4 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6921.04 | 12 |
| (91) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 6892.36 | 18 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 6803.4 | 17 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 6790.48 | 13 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6788.48 | 36 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 6787.63 | 9 |
| (95) | 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 | 6721.78 | 12 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6572 | 6 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 6547.87 | 8 |
| 98 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 6454.15 | 9 |
| 99 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 6453.47 | 19 |
| (99) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6346.73 | 21 |
| 100 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6344.6 | 25 |
| (100) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6309.59 | 2 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 6307.99 | 11 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 6275.55 | 29 |
| 103 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 6233.36 | 22 |
| 104 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 6084.37 | 14 |
| (104) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6011.42 | 14 |
| (104) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5909.83 | 8 |
| 105 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5909.83 | 9 |
| 106 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 5906.15 | 8 |
| 107 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 5905.54 | 22 |
| 108 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 5885.53 | 35 |
| 109 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 5855.65 | 17 |
| 110 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 5849.32 | 87 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 5840.78 | 23 |
| 112 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 5791.42 | 8 |
| 113 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5773.76 | 7 |
| (113) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 5756.26 | 7 |
| 114 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 5667.3 | 10 |
| (114) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5591.46 | 5 |
| 115 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 5551.2 | 14 |
| (115) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 5550.02 | 7 |
| (115) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5467.69 | 4 |
| (115) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5431.91 | 12 |
| 116 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 5409 | 9 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 5357.98 | 29 |
| 118 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5348.6 | 18 |
| 119 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 5313.62 | 10 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 5312.41 | 17 |
| 121 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 5249.02 | 32 |
| 122 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5237.92 | 10 |
| (122) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5217.52 | 8 |
| (122) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5059.22 | 2 |
| 123 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 5030.28 | 6 |
| (123) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5007.75 | 4 |
| 124 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 4938.21 | 16 |
| 125 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 4892.64 | 10 |
| (125) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4829.37 | 12 |
| (125) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4818.08 | 5 |
| 126 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 4817.88 | 36 |
| (126) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4787.94 | 5 |
| 127 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4770.26 | 3 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 4765.58 | 25 |
| 129 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4730.09 | 5 |
| 130 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4728.75 | 7 |
| 131 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 4716.84 | 7 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 4710.14 | 5 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 4707.93 | 15 |
| 134 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 4689.54 | 13 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 4686.91 | 14 |
| 136 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4678.69 | 5 |
| 137 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4664.56 | 12 |
| 138 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4639.25 | 28 |
| 139 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 4637.56 | 23 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4622.52 | 15 |
| 141 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4527.31 | 2 |
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