| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 26251.11 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 7047.84 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 5659.04 | 252 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4373.19 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4134.24 | 36 |
| 6 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3090.25 | 25 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3022.27 | 30 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2721.85 | 23 |
| 9 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2638.48 | 11 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2612.33 | 31 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2530.51 | 25 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2168.54 | 89 |
| 13 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2013.52 | 17 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1992.41 | 24 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1896.93 | 36 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1789.19 | 26 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1690.09 | 123 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1684.36 | 15 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1641.32 | 26 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1567.74 | 35 |
| (18) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1553.56 | 13 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1506.16 | 31 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1505.8 | 28 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1432.08 | 14 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1393.91 | 18 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1373.81 | 16 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1341.05 | 29 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1301.83 | 23 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1268.81 | 11 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1243.3 | 28 |
| 27 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1232.52 | 12 |
| 28 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1182.64 | 33 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1168.38 | 21 |
| 30 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1123.03 | 14 |
| 31 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1046.67 | 10 |
| (31) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1046.65 | 9 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 985.64 | 24 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 938.72 | 14 |
| (33) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 927.35 | 16 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 920.59 | 21 |
| 35 | CESifo | München, Germany | 919.23 | 59 |
| 36 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 865.46 | 23 |
| 37 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 852.09 | 11 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 840.21 | 19 |
| 39 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 799.02 | 86 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 794.07 | 23 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 791.06 | 23 |
| 42 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 777.25 | 28 |
| 43 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 770.37 | 16 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 744.22 | 30 |
| 45 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 723.71 | 21 |
| (45) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 715.53 | 4 |
| 46 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 694.75 | 8 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 691.18 | 22 |
| (47) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 679.75 | 7 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 677.3 | 81 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 674.73 | 25 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 673.5 | 26 |
| (50) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 672.83 | 7 |
| 51 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 671.42 | 59 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 667.4 | 21 |
| 53 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 643.48 | 5 |
| 54 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 632.32 | 8 |
| 55 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 630.72 | 9 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 620.34 | 12 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 606.92 | 29 |
| 58 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 596.9 | 3 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 594.46 | 19 |
| 60 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 585.47 | 10 |
| (60) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 572.66 | 18 |
| 61 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 568.63 | 39 |
| (61) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 557.63 | 4 |
| (61) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 556.87 | 22 |
| (61) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 544.1 | 9 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 498.79 | 14 |
| 63 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 463.97 | 29 |
| (63) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 460.18 | 14 |
| (63) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 459.98 | 27 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 449.82 | 37 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 442.64 | 26 |
| (65) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 441.48 | 5 |
| 66 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 434.98 | 7 |
| 67 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 426.64 | 8 |
| (67) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 411.2 | 3 |
| (67) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 402.16 | 5 |
| 68 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 396.13 | 8 |
| (68) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 396.02 | 1 |
| (68) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 396.02 | 1 |
| (68) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 395.92 | 4 |
| (68) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 386.54 | 2 |
| (68) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 380.59 | 2 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 373.61 | 8 |
| (69) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 369.95 | 8 |
| 70 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 366.39 | 8 |
| 71 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 360.84 | 24 |
| 72 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 357.83 | 6 |
| 73 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 350.14 | 34 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 347.12 | 13 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 346.19 | 8 |
| (75) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 339.73 | 1 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 337.55 | 28 |
| (76) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 331 | 2 |
| (76) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 330.94 | 25 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 322.94 | 11 |
| 78 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 315.37 | 10 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 309.51 | 29 |
| 80 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 306.11 | 14 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 303.73 | 10 |
| 82 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 302.87 | 49 |
| (82) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 301.74 | 5 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 299.8 | 22 |
| (83) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 294.23 | 12 |
| 84 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 291.36 | 4 |
| (84) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 286.56 | 7 |
| 85 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 285.22 | 44 |
| 86 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 282.44 | 18 |
| 87 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 276.57 | 16 |
| 88 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 274.58 | 6 |
| (88) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 271.78 | 8 |
| 89 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 271.78 | 9 |
| 90 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 268.37 | 10 |
| 91 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 266.25 | 8 |
| 92 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 264.69 | 50 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 262.34 | 11 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 261.44 | 12 |
| 95 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 260.5 | 14 |
| 96 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 260.14 | 87 |
| (96) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 251.07 | 15 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 250.52 | 22 |
| 98 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 247.49 | 10 |
| (98) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 242.42 | 5 |
| (98) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 242.17 | 8 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 241.16 | 7 |
| (99) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 241.16 | 7 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 240.71 | 13 |
| 101 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 239.11 | 22 |
| (101) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 235.72 | 1 |
| 102 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 234.63 | 15 |
| (102) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 233.71 | 3 |
| 103 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 233.34 | 11 |
| 104 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 232.43 | 35 |
| (104) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 231.58 | 2 |
| (104) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 230.66 | 21 |
| 105 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 224.93 | 2 |
| (105) | 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 | 224.64 | 12 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 220.99 | 15 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 220.18 | 15 |
| 108 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 219.1 | 16 |
| 109 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 212.05 | 7 |
| 110 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 208.44 | 17 |
| 111 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 208.05 | 10 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 206.5 | 19 |
| 113 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 204.32 | 34 |
| 114 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 202.49 | 9 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 202.3 | 29 |
| 116 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 202.05 | 3 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 201.86 | 16 |
| (117) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 201.79 | 21 |
| 118 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 201.79 | 21 |
| 119 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 196.43 | 8 |
| 120 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 195.15 | 7 |
| 121 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 192.94 | 46 |
| 122 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 189.62 | 21 |
| 123 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 189.5 | 10 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 188.41 | 16 |
| 125 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 185.07 | 7 |
| (125) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 185.07 | 6 |
| 126 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 183.21 | 9 |
| 127 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 182.95 | 6 |
| 128 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 182.21 | 36 |
| (128) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 181.7 | 7 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 179.02 | 5 |
| 130 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 178.04 | 11 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 176.88 | 15 |
| 132 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 176.42 | 1 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 173.97 | 11 |
| 134 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 173.03 | 3 |
| (134) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 169.14 | 8 |
| (134) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 168.69 | 6 |
| 135 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 167.42 | 7 |
| 136 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 167.4 | 9 |
| (136) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 167.24 | 6 |
| 137 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 163.53 | 23 |
| 138 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 161.54 | 7 |
| 139 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 160.63 | 3 |
| 140 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 158.31 | 22 |
| 141 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 156.22 | 19 |
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