| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 74525.04 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 30479.8 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 23530.27 | 252 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11589.76 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11057.69 | 28 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8966.47 | 89 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7767.04 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7371.19 | 30 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7302.85 | 25 |
| 10 | CESifo | München, Germany | 6265.26 | 59 |
| 11 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5808.72 | 26 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5722.11 | 123 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5715.84 | 25 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5666.38 | 12 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5530.41 | 23 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5476.35 | 26 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5412.67 | 24 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4904.16 | 29 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4893.34 | 28 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4824.9 | 31 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4762.09 | 35 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4635.48 | 17 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4629.11 | 15 |
| 21 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4576.46 | 21 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4440.87 | 59 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4354.35 | 18 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4317.23 | 24 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4309.97 | 19 |
| 26 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4081.29 | 11 |
| 27 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3972.11 | 33 |
| 28 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3952.12 | 86 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3945.41 | 39 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3895.75 | 21 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3877.09 | 81 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3792.49 | 14 |
| (32) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3664.76 | 22 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3660.86 | 28 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3514.16 | 30 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3479.08 | 36 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3345.25 | 21 |
| 37 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3317.57 | 28 |
| (37) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3268.28 | 13 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3085.5 | 23 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3046.86 | 21 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2982.92 | 14 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2882.84 | 23 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2857.41 | 25 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2807.26 | 23 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2739.08 | 29 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2671.89 | 26 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2500.1 | 10 |
| 47 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2490.21 | 26 |
| 48 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2469.25 | 11 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2366.52 | 19 |
| 50 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2316.59 | 34 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2281.16 | 23 |
| 52 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2279.69 | 16 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2254.63 | 37 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2175.62 | 18 |
| (53) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2171.34 | 16 |
| 54 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2160.29 | 34 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2149.39 | 29 |
| 56 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2140.63 | 50 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2114.06 | 19 |
| 58 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2078.1 | 24 |
| 59 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2066.56 | 14 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2065.04 | 28 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2041.88 | 22 |
| (61) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2033 | 25 |
| (61) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1993.09 | 4 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1933.24 | 8 |
| 63 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1931.58 | 46 |
| 64 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1928.19 | 11 |
| 65 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1924.21 | 44 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1913.7 | 14 |
| 67 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1905.45 | 17 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1855.35 | 13 |
| 69 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1834.81 | 11 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1831.57 | 22 |
| 71 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1822.5 | 9 |
| (71) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1818.31 | 7 |
| (71) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1794.03 | 27 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1790.58 | 12 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1752.07 | 11 |
| 74 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1738.99 | 29 |
| 75 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1717.78 | 16 |
| (75) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1701.45 | 4 |
| 76 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1693.92 | 3 |
| 77 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1640.75 | 18 |
| (77) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1622.13 | 14 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1616.3 | 36 |
| 79 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1605.73 | 22 |
| 80 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1605.05 | 10 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1604.6 | 9 |
| (80) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1603.49 | 21 |
| 81 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1603.49 | 21 |
| 82 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1544.16 | 87 |
| (82) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1540.46 | 21 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1536.5 | 9 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1507.28 | 22 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1489.02 | 29 |
| 85 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1486.86 | 8 |
| 86 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1484.07 | 35 |
| 87 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1483.49 | 49 |
| 88 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1467.1 | 7 |
| (88) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1466.56 | 6 |
| 89 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1426.76 | 8 |
| (89) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1424.89 | 8 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1415.47 | 13 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1413.51 | 12 |
| 92 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1406.05 | 8 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1403.26 | 15 |
| 94 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1400.58 | 19 |
| (94) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1372.86 | 7 |
| 95 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1339.55 | 6 |
| 96 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1331.52 | 17 |
| 97 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1329.35 | 4 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1326.47 | 11 |
| 99 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1323.22 | 10 |
| 100 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1317.48 | 36 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1301.79 | 16 |
| (101) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1291.72 | 8 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1291.1 | 8 |
| 103 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1266.77 | 22 |
| 104 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1250.59 | 10 |
| (104) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1246.46 | 2 |
| 105 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1209.63 | 7 |
| 106 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1199.88 | 45 |
| 107 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1195.25 | 15 |
| 108 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1191.99 | 25 |
| 109 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1191.54 | 23 |
| 110 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1187.88 | 14 |
| 111 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1167.6 | 32 |
| (111) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1156.04 | 4 |
| 112 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1154.95 | 22 |
| (112) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1149.51 | 2 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1135.76 | 15 |
| (113) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1121.21 | 2 |
| (113) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1120.04 | 15 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1108.15 | 9 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1099.95 | 6 |
| (115) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1096.83 | 12 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1091.13 | 16 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 1082.69 | 13 |
| (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 | 1078.67 | 12 |
| 118 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1065.64 | 28 |
| (118) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1060.33 | 5 |
| 119 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1034.72 | 21 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1034.33 | 29 |
| (120) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1021.31 | 5 |
| (120) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1016.28 | 5 |
| 121 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1015.94 | 19 |
| 122 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 1010.67 | 29 |
| (122) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1008.06 | 5 |
| 123 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1006.02 | 16 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 999.95 | 13 |
| (124) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 999.65 | 2 |
| 125 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 990.99 | 37 |
| 126 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 975.97 | 7 |
| 127 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 952.33 | 10 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 951.99 | 8 |
| 129 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 948.42 | 10 |
| 130 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 942.42 | 10 |
| 131 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 937.83 | 41 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 924.99 | 13 |
| 133 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 918.99 | 25 |
| 134 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 913.61 | 14 |
| 135 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 906.86 | 45 |
| 136 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 903.55 | 12 |
| 137 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 900.52 | 5 |
| 138 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 895.54 | 5 |
| (138) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 881.75 | 1 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 880.35 | 17 |
| 140 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 879.05 | 10 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 868.86 | 11 |
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