| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 237550.6 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 71493.66 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 55602.87 | 252 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44249.5 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 37221.01 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 28906.04 | 30 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 27826.37 | 23 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 26526.4 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 24535.3 | 31 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22653.7 | 25 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 20710.14 | 89 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18665.94 | 24 |
| 13 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18472.24 | 11 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17602.45 | 17 |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17368.96 | 123 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17051.51 | 26 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16515.14 | 36 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 15766.2 | 31 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 15430.6 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 15016 | 26 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 14227.39 | 18 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 14149.81 | 14 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13871.47 | 35 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 13625.53 | 28 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 13544.44 | 28 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12553.12 | 29 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 12535.42 | 13 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10806.67 | 24 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 10735.14 | 21 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10392.58 | 11 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10275.09 | 23 |
| 28 | CESifo | München, Germany | 9723.4 | 59 |
| 29 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9415.05 | 14 |
| 30 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9337.87 | 86 |
| 31 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9328.06 | 12 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 9064.39 | 21 |
| 33 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8987.58 | 33 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8952.48 | 16 |
| 35 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8818.15 | 23 |
| 36 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8173.89 | 28 |
| 37 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 8049.27 | 10 |
| (37) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 8048.87 | 9 |
| 38 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 7957.82 | 59 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7888.91 | 14 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 7692.48 | 23 |
| 41 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7656.62 | 3 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 7433.17 | 81 |
| 43 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 7414.03 | 25 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7377.11 | 39 |
| 45 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7351.36 | 16 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 7322.73 | 23 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7236.69 | 22 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7000.15 | 19 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 6989.69 | 8 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 6980.78 | 22 |
| 50 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 6964.02 | 8 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 6762.56 | 26 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 6758.31 | 21 |
| (52) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6726.95 | 7 |
| (52) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6701.91 | 4 |
| (52) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6676.34 | 16 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6550.19 | 14 |
| 54 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6485.49 | 10 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6484.28 | 21 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6159.23 | 11 |
| (56) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6021.63 | 7 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 5893.28 | 30 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5821.58 | 18 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5806.43 | 26 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5596.31 | 12 |
| (59) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5509.29 | 8 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5396.64 | 29 |
| (60) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5379.66 | 4 |
| (60) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5363.32 | 27 |
| 61 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5162.64 | 9 |
| 62 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4904.21 | 29 |
| 63 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4646.9 | 8 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 4241.43 | 19 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4212.12 | 24 |
| (65) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4195.74 | 4 |
| (65) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4191.81 | 14 |
| (65) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4132.84 | 5 |
| 66 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4026.51 | 34 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 3973.5 | 29 |
| 68 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3910.12 | 5 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3848.49 | 37 |
| (69) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3768.66 | 5 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3659.18 | 28 |
| 71 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3657.54 | 18 |
| 72 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3648.09 | 8 |
| (72) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3630.46 | 1 |
| (72) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3630.46 | 1 |
| (72) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3590.33 | 25 |
| (72) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3523.4 | 5 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3449.7 | 11 |
| 74 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 3431.89 | 49 |
| (74) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3417.22 | 2 |
| 75 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3385.43 | 44 |
| 76 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3334.13 | 8 |
| (76) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3249.22 | 2 |
| 77 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3214.36 | 7 |
| 78 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 3204.49 | 6 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 3187.14 | 8 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3176.39 | 9 |
| (79) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3165.69 | 8 |
| 80 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 3149.66 | 10 |
| (80) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3126.21 | 5 |
| 81 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3025.62 | 50 |
| 82 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3017.91 | 14 |
| (82) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2974.55 | 3 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2940.3 | 13 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2938.41 | 29 |
| (84) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2909.31 | 12 |
| (84) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2906.49 | 2 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2828.57 | 22 |
| (85) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2790.84 | 15 |
| 86 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 2763.9 | 14 |
| (86) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2728.36 | 21 |
| 87 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2728.36 | 21 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2717.44 | 8 |
| 89 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2711.24 | 6 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2682.08 | 12 |
| 91 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 2671.58 | 10 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 2619.6 | 15 |
| 93 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 2589.02 | 46 |
| 94 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 2560.56 | 16 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 2546.82 | 5 |
| 96 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2544.88 | 22 |
| 97 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2541.01 | 87 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2536.38 | 22 |
| 99 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 2505.43 | 15 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2455.59 | 13 |
| (100) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2444.75 | 21 |
| 101 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 2387.47 | 10 |
| (101) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2370.56 | 8 |
| 102 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2370.56 | 9 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2353.7 | 11 |
| 104 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 2352.28 | 8 |
| 105 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2335.61 | 2 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2305.99 | 34 |
| 107 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2304.22 | 4 |
| 108 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2298.19 | 2 |
| (108) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2293.2 | 8 |
| 109 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2287.02 | 11 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2278.86 | 6 |
| (110) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2277.57 | 1 |
| 111 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2264.78 | 3 |
| 112 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2232.14 | 16 |
| 113 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2231.78 | 10 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2229.36 | 16 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2212.78 | 16 |
| (115) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2207.3 | 3 |
| 116 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2164.24 | 17 |
| 117 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2156.32 | 7 |
| (117) | 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 | 2136.65 | 12 |
| 118 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2128.9 | 36 |
| 119 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 2125.89 | 22 |
| 120 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2106.71 | 35 |
| 121 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2006.67 | 32 |
| 122 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2001.03 | 7 |
| (122) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1995.68 | 7 |
| 123 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1987.49 | 7 |
| (123) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1987.49 | 7 |
| 124 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1983.18 | 3 |
| 125 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1978.46 | 7 |
| (125) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1978.46 | 6 |
| 126 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 1969.17 | 5 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1908.92 | 19 |
| 128 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1862.67 | 21 |
| 129 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1838.91 | 10 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1825.43 | 11 |
| (130) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1824.3 | 1 |
| 131 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1820.07 | 9 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1780.04 | 15 |
| 133 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1779.3 | 10 |
| 134 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1751.01 | 37 |
| 135 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1718.98 | 19 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1700.58 | 14 |
| 137 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 1683.88 | 6 |
| 138 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1669.81 | 22 |
| (138) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1668.94 | 3 |
| 139 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 1666.37 | 8 |
| 140 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1638.38 | 9 |
| 141 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 1637.13 | 45 |
| (141) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1613.73 | 2 |
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