| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 37874.64 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 14333.99 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 11747.15 | 252 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6293.03 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6102.74 | 28 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5019.71 | 23 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4904.11 | 89 |
| 8 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4642.81 | 12 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4463.99 | 25 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4278.63 | 25 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4251.26 | 19 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4097.32 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4090.57 | 31 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3442.24 | 24 |
| 15 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3332.3 | 11 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3289.46 | 28 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3208.52 | 26 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3050.2 | 15 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3040.83 | 26 |
| 19 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3014.5 | 59 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3013.98 | 59 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3011.85 | 35 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2646.67 | 31 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2582.84 | 81 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2486.14 | 28 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2434.34 | 21 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2393.82 | 29 |
| 25 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2372.53 | 39 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2305.02 | 21 |
| (26) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2300.9 | 22 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2248.6 | 14 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2223.25 | 17 |
| 29 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2220.56 | 17 |
| 30 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2211.13 | 123 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2089.54 | 24 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2084.07 | 18 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2038.96 | 21 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2003.47 | 16 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1926.08 | 30 |
| 36 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1887.44 | 7 |
| (36) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1887.4 | 6 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1784.61 | 37 |
| 38 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1759.26 | 23 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1756.27 | 10 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1751.79 | 33 |
| 41 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1740.27 | 86 |
| (41) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1737.17 | 13 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1734.84 | 14 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1682.77 | 23 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1619.64 | 28 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1557.5 | 29 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1511.44 | 26 |
| 47 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1483.94 | 11 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1474.27 | 22 |
| 49 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1421.35 | 8 |
| 50 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1321.98 | 9 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1307.7 | 12 |
| 52 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1297.95 | 14 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1284.26 | 21 |
| 54 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1250.76 | 25 |
| 55 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1232.87 | 26 |
| 56 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1217.24 | 50 |
| (56) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1206.19 | 21 |
| 57 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1206.19 | 21 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1199.84 | 34 |
| 59 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1161.77 | 29 |
| (59) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1152.7 | 16 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1145.26 | 23 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1108.17 | 36 |
| 62 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1105.83 | 3 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1104.33 | 10 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1078.27 | 8 |
| 65 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1060.04 | 11 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1056.28 | 19 |
| 67 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1037.71 | 34 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1024.73 | 23 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1014.29 | 29 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 995.96 | 22 |
| 71 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 995.12 | 8 |
| 72 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 980.35 | 46 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 958.98 | 19 |
| 74 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 932.97 | 16 |
| (74) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 923.67 | 9 |
| (74) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 892.21 | 7 |
| 75 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 883.3 | 15 |
| 76 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 874.82 | 7 |
| (76) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 860.83 | 4 |
| (76) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 859.08 | 5 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 848.49 | 10 |
| (77) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 842.46 | 7 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 838.04 | 22 |
| 79 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 836.04 | 8 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 834.86 | 28 |
| 81 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 833.13 | 22 |
| (81) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 823.87 | 7 |
| (81) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 819.04 | 25 |
| 82 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 800.05 | 10 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 799.97 | 9 |
| 83 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 797.46 | 44 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 796.46 | 11 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 778.05 | 8 |
| (85) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 774.91 | 27 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 769.72 | 14 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 768.78 | 13 |
| 88 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 767.78 | 24 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 758.85 | 17 |
| (89) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 758.5 | 5 |
| (89) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 744.18 | 18 |
| 90 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 736.72 | 14 |
| 91 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 728.36 | 7 |
| 92 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 726.02 | 9 |
| 93 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 715.53 | 3 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 707.84 | 36 |
| (94) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 702.44 | 3 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 701.68 | 15 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 699.76 | 12 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 697.73 | 16 |
| (97) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 687.3 | 12 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 679.8 | 9 |
| 99 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 679.53 | 11 |
| 100 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 679.27 | 19 |
| 101 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 671.26 | 7 |
| 102 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 664.15 | 9 |
| 103 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 663.65 | 14 |
| (103) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 655.99 | 8 |
| 104 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 655.99 | 9 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 651.78 | 16 |
| (105) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 633.26 | 4 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 628.82 | 29 |
| 107 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 628.17 | 25 |
| 108 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 626.72 | 6 |
| 109 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 624.99 | 18 |
| (109) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 623.01 | 5 |
| 110 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 610.44 | 7 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 610.38 | 13 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 608.55 | 15 |
| (112) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 605.89 | 2 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 589.63 | 29 |
| 114 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 587.95 | 8 |
| (114) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 584.43 | 15 |
| 115 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 582.47 | 35 |
| (115) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 579.56 | 14 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 578.84 | 17 |
| 117 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 577.97 | 23 |
| 118 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 563.92 | 28 |
| 119 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 562.96 | 10 |
| (119) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 558.22 | 7 |
| 120 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 556.06 | 10 |
| 121 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 550.98 | 5 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 550.01 | 6 |
| 123 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 548.59 | 16 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 542.99 | 8 |
| (124) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 542.1 | 21 |
| 125 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 541.57 | 10 |
| 126 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 540.45 | 10 |
| 127 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 537.07 | 22 |
| (127) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 534.59 | 8 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 533.39 | 5 |
| 129 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 532.87 | 36 |
| 130 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 530.05 | 6 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 527.8 | 11 |
| 132 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 527.05 | 4 |
| 133 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 526.17 | 87 |
| 134 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 523.77 | 2 |
| 135 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 522.59 | 7 |
| 136 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 521.57 | 13 |
| 137 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 518.61 | 22 |
| (137) | 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 | 515.39 | 12 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 510.28 | 23 |
| 139 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 506.34 | 17 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 504.08 | 25 |
| 141 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 494.26 | 12 |
| (141) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 493.8 | 12 |
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