| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 45203.55 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 13243.92 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 9547.43 | 252 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8284.6 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6445.93 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5726.3 | 30 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5431.9 | 25 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4333.47 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4185.43 | 31 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4106.54 | 25 |
| 11 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3692.83 | 17 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3643.28 | 24 |
| 13 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3631.6 | 89 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3533.06 | 11 |
| 15 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3445.43 | 123 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3399.4 | 36 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3125.91 | 26 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2974.58 | 18 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2955.67 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2869.06 | 31 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2698.17 | 26 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2648.18 | 14 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2621.28 | 35 |
| (21) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2609.29 | 13 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2471.97 | 28 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2352.41 | 28 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2147.23 | 29 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2017.77 | 24 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1961.51 | 23 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1918.2 | 11 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1872.3 | 21 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1856.06 | 12 |
| 29 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1853.86 | 33 |
| 30 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1821.57 | 86 |
| 31 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1796.35 | 14 |
| 32 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1777.89 | 10 |
| (32) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1777.86 | 9 |
| 33 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1775.75 | 23 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1714.1 | 21 |
| 35 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1703.77 | 16 |
| 36 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1662.78 | 59 |
| 37 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1601.74 | 16 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1582.89 | 28 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1573.12 | 14 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1499.59 | 22 |
| 41 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 1473.49 | 8 |
| 42 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1451.91 | 8 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1449.02 | 23 |
| (43) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1415.38 | 16 |
| (43) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1410.98 | 7 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1379.41 | 23 |
| 45 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1376.84 | 25 |
| 46 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1314.57 | 11 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1296.51 | 19 |
| 48 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1293.24 | 26 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1237.39 | 21 |
| (49) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1225.4 | 4 |
| (49) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1200.57 | 7 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1160.6 | 21 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1149.72 | 12 |
| 52 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1146.1 | 59 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1143.08 | 81 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1129.48 | 30 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1086.79 | 14 |
| 56 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1045.54 | 10 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1034.55 | 27 |
| 57 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1000.75 | 39 |
| (57) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 977.08 | 22 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 968.29 | 18 |
| (57) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 968.06 | 4 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 956.9 | 29 |
| 59 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 952.85 | 3 |
| (59) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 926.28 | 14 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 905.62 | 26 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 886.01 | 19 |
| 62 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 882.45 | 9 |
| (62) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 848.6 | 8 |
| 63 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 840.6 | 8 |
| 64 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 809.89 | 5 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 806.97 | 29 |
| (65) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 796.41 | 1 |
| (65) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 796.41 | 1 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 752.51 | 24 |
| (66) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 748.11 | 5 |
| (66) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 740.73 | 4 |
| 67 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 716.36 | 8 |
| 68 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 713.36 | 7 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 705.33 | 11 |
| (69) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 678.76 | 3 |
| (69) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 668.37 | 2 |
| (69) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 667.19 | 2 |
| 70 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 654.11 | 49 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 651.57 | 9 |
| 71 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 648.23 | 8 |
| 72 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 646.97 | 44 |
| 73 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 646.56 | 10 |
| (73) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 643.82 | 5 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 638.31 | 37 |
| (74) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 630.72 | 5 |
| 75 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 596.07 | 34 |
| 76 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 590.95 | 14 |
| (76) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 587.73 | 2 |
| 77 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 585.46 | 6 |
| 78 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 580.66 | 18 |
| (78) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 565.69 | 12 |
| 79 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 564.31 | 6 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 561.23 | 8 |
| 81 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 556.03 | 22 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 544.98 | 29 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 528.82 | 12 |
| 84 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 523.9 | 50 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 523.32 | 8 |
| (85) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 522.16 | 8 |
| 86 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 522.16 | 9 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 520.3 | 13 |
| (87) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 517.91 | 21 |
| 88 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 517.91 | 21 |
| 89 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 515.38 | 10 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 506.44 | 11 |
| 91 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 504.65 | 14 |
| (91) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 501.69 | 8 |
| (91) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 500.69 | 1 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 500.43 | 28 |
| 93 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 496.36 | 10 |
| (93) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 491.62 | 25 |
| (93) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 485.59 | 5 |
| (93) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 483.17 | 21 |
| (93) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 479.97 | 3 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 471.14 | 7 |
| (94) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 471.14 | 7 |
| 95 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 466.91 | 87 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 464.6 | 10 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 461.97 | 22 |
| (97) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 450.99 | 15 |
| 98 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 443.99 | 8 |
| 99 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 443.65 | 11 |
| 100 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 441.85 | 16 |
| 101 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 441.13 | 2 |
| (101) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 438.15 | 7 |
| 102 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 436.02 | 15 |
| 103 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 431.32 | 16 |
| 104 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 430.48 | 13 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 428.61 | 29 |
| 106 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 422.86 | 3 |
| 107 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 418.96 | 22 |
| 108 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 418.34 | 3 |
| (108) | 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 | 406.7 | 12 |
| 109 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 402.2 | 32 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 395.7 | 15 |
| 111 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 393.54 | 4 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 389.35 | 15 |
| 113 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 389.3 | 35 |
| 114 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 384.58 | 9 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 380.04 | 16 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 377.71 | 16 |
| 117 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 370.36 | 7 |
| 118 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 368.67 | 10 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 363.86 | 19 |
| 120 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 358.17 | 46 |
| 121 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 356.5 | 8 |
| 122 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 354.91 | 21 |
| 123 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 344.65 | 22 |
| 124 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 344.1 | 34 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 343.68 | 5 |
| 126 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 337.96 | 7 |
| 127 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 336.72 | 36 |
| 128 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 328.05 | 10 |
| 129 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 326.28 | 7 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 325.43 | 6 |
| (130) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 321.4 | 6 |
| 131 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 319.84 | 17 |
| 132 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 317.3 | 9 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 316.88 | 14 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 310.93 | 15 |
| 135 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 299.15 | 7 |
| (135) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 299.15 | 6 |
| 136 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 298.31 | 6 |
| (136) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 298.04 | 1 |
| 137 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 297.87 | 9 |
| (137) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 293.05 | 3 |
| 138 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 288.35 | 19 |
| (138) | ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 287.73 | 4 |
| (138) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 287.66 | 2 |
| 139 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 286.44 | 11 |
| 140 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 285.23 | 5 |
| 141 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 283.74 | 37 |
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