| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8238.56 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2734.05 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2166.73 | 252 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1176.98 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1098.54 | 36 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 917.71 | 25 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 892.26 | 31 |
| 8 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 814.18 | 12 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 785.81 | 89 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 666.46 | 30 |
| 11 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 604.77 | 26 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 595.7 | 24 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 592.68 | 59 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 591.23 | 17 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 586.31 | 19 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 573.16 | 25 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 527.81 | 123 |
| 18 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 520.03 | 11 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 516.95 | 18 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 511.73 | 15 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 498.77 | 23 |
| 21 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 485.3 | 21 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 481.91 | 30 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 477.54 | 26 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 460.84 | 29 |
| 24 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 441.01 | 33 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 430.63 | 28 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 426.92 | 31 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 424.23 | 21 |
| (27) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 418.59 | 35 |
| (27) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 411.07 | 13 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 385.75 | 36 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 378.31 | 14 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 369.73 | 24 |
| 31 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 364.56 | 86 |
| 32 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 329.5 | 59 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 320.86 | 21 |
| 34 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 320.4 | 21 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 309.12 | 28 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 299.82 | 14 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 294.3 | 23 |
| 38 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 290.01 | 11 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 287.95 | 28 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 275.7 | 81 |
| (40) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 267.14 | 4 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 266.85 | 23 |
| 42 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 265.36 | 39 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 262.48 | 29 |
| (43) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 260.52 | 9 |
| 44 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 258.22 | 16 |
| 45 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 257.18 | 17 |
| 46 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 252.64 | 11 |
| 47 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 250.96 | 11 |
| (47) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 247.85 | 22 |
| 48 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 247.11 | 19 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 239.75 | 23 |
| 50 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 237.99 | 10 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 236.6 | 26 |
| (51) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 234.54 | 16 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 233.87 | 13 |
| 53 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 225.87 | 7 |
| (53) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 225.87 | 6 |
| 54 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 223.55 | 14 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 220.79 | 23 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 211.84 | 29 |
| (56) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 197.32 | 7 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 194.05 | 14 |
| (57) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 194.03 | 4 |
| 58 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 190.65 | 25 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 189.85 | 18 |
| 59 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 185.02 | 4 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 182.53 | 37 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 181.28 | 26 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 180.19 | 22 |
| 63 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 178.24 | 10 |
| (63) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 178.23 | 9 |
| (63) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 174.85 | 2 |
| 64 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 169.13 | 16 |
| (64) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 167.55 | 2 |
| 65 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 163.72 | 22 |
| 66 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 162.9 | 34 |
| 67 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 161.78 | 50 |
| 68 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 161.51 | 35 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 159.07 | 10 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 157.99 | 12 |
| (70) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 157.7 | 14 |
| 71 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 155.92 | 24 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 155.29 | 22 |
| 73 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 154.26 | 9 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 152.91 | 8 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 151.86 | 19 |
| 76 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 150.55 | 8 |
| 77 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 150.19 | 49 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 149.6 | 34 |
| (78) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 148.22 | 27 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 147.92 | 11 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 144.48 | 11 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 143.18 | 8 |
| 82 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 143.08 | 22 |
| (82) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 139.61 | 21 |
| (82) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 138.9 | 7 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 137.19 | 15 |
| 84 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 137.06 | 3 |
| (84) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 134.08 | 8 |
| 85 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 132.55 | 44 |
| (85) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 132.19 | 15 |
| 86 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 131.37 | 10 |
| 87 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 128.13 | 46 |
| (87) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 126.51 | 1 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 126.24 | 8 |
| 89 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 124.93 | 87 |
| 90 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 124.75 | 29 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 124.35 | 10 |
| 92 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 122.55 | 7 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 120.97 | 16 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 120.31 | 28 |
| 95 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 120.07 | 8 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 118.38 | 8 |
| (96) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 118.33 | 25 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 117.46 | 12 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 116.74 | 29 |
| (98) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 116.13 | 5 |
| 99 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 114.33 | 14 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 113.16 | 15 |
| (100) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 111.92 | 21 |
| 101 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 111.92 | 21 |
| (101) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 111.4 | 4 |
| 102 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 110.47 | 18 |
| (102) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 109.96 | 12 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 104.43 | 7 |
| (103) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 104.43 | 7 |
| 104 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 102.65 | 8 |
| 105 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 102.49 | 6 |
| 106 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 102.48 | 10 |
| (106) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 102.06 | 7 |
| 107 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 101.77 | 23 |
| 108 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 100.85 | 9 |
| 109 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 100.04 | 2 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 99.69 | 13 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 99.56 | 36 |
| 112 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 98.3 | 11 |
| (112) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 96.28 | 2 |
| 113 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 95.49 | 5 |
| 114 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 94.13 | 10 |
| 115 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 93.14 | 19 |
| 116 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 93.1 | 36 |
| 117 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 92.28 | 16 |
| (117) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 92.1 | 5 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 90.84 | 13 |
| (118) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 90.28 | 5 |
| (118) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 89.97 | 5 |
| 119 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 89.59 | 16 |
| (119) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 88.06 | 2 |
| 120 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 86.99 | 21 |
| (120) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 86.87 | 2 |
| (120) | Business and Public Policy Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 86.51 | 5 |
| 121 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 86.48 | 25 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 86.22 | 13 |
| 123 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 85.6 | 59 |
| 124 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 83.11 | 22 |
| 125 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 82.58 | 12 |
| 126 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 81.69 | 32 |
| 127 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 80.9 | 6 |
| (127) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 80.75 | 8 |
| 128 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 79.69 | 10 |
| (128) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 79.33 | 7 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 77.89 | 17 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 77.8 | 13 |
| 131 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 77.78 | 14 |
| 132 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 77.43 | 9 |
| 133 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 77.14 | 14 |
| 134 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 76.48 | 55 |
| (134) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 76.4 | 53 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 76.11 | 14 |
| (135) | Pension Research Council, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 75.89 | 2 |
| 136 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 75.88 | 29 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 75.67 | 3 |
| 138 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 75.19 | 15 |
| 139 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 75.05 | 9 |
| 140 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 73.9 | 19 |
| (140) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 73.25 | 5 |
| (140) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 73.18 | 1 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 73.04 | 16 |
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