| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 60659.78 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 24675.56 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 19391.34 | 252 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10076.44 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9843.19 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7879.88 | 23 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7819.14 | 89 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7188.64 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6753.55 | 30 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6503.86 | 12 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6155.24 | 25 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6111.92 | 31 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6019.83 | 19 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5500.05 | 24 |
| 15 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5286.99 | 59 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5111.42 | 26 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5001.7 | 26 |
| 18 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4795.55 | 59 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4750.59 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4743.12 | 28 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4664.83 | 35 |
| 20 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4561.92 | 11 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4395.5 | 31 |
| 22 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4337.88 | 39 |
| 23 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4223.36 | 123 |
| (23) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4189.21 | 22 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4161.17 | 21 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4041.03 | 28 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4002.31 | 81 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3926.48 | 21 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3870.86 | 24 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3803.47 | 17 |
| (29) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3637.03 | 29 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3550.28 | 18 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3456.87 | 14 |
| 32 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3429.11 | 86 |
| 33 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 3284.14 | 17 |
| 34 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3174.25 | 21 |
| 35 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3123.09 | 23 |
| 36 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3118.8 | 28 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2982.87 | 30 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2871.29 | 26 |
| (38) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2800.38 | 13 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2794.4 | 37 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2765.11 | 33 |
| 41 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2715.12 | 7 |
| (41) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2714.83 | 6 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2686.1 | 16 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2633.99 | 14 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2531.25 | 23 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2522.1 | 29 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2521 | 25 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2499.9 | 10 |
| (47) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2440.43 | 21 |
| 48 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2440.43 | 21 |
| 49 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2406.37 | 11 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2405.04 | 22 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2390.55 | 21 |
| 52 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2334.47 | 8 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2145.33 | 26 |
| 54 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2110 | 50 |
| 55 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2067.35 | 14 |
| 56 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1911.91 | 9 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1897.34 | 12 |
| 58 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1868.94 | 29 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1861.94 | 23 |
| 60 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1860.01 | 3 |
| 61 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1858.95 | 34 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1826 | 22 |
| 63 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1775.54 | 16 |
| 64 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1770.79 | 8 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1760.2 | 23 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1753.36 | 36 |
| (66) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1740.7 | 16 |
| 67 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1703.32 | 15 |
| 68 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1685.86 | 7 |
| 69 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1675.32 | 44 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1641.72 | 29 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1638.17 | 19 |
| 72 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1591.41 | 46 |
| 73 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1576.33 | 8 |
| 74 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1568.38 | 22 |
| 75 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1557.61 | 34 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1537.98 | 10 |
| (76) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1505.53 | 27 |
| (76) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1493.63 | 7 |
| (76) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1470.98 | 7 |
| 77 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1431.18 | 22 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1426.47 | 14 |
| (78) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1421.92 | 5 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1409.43 | 8 |
| 80 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1407.41 | 24 |
| (80) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1405.96 | 3 |
| (80) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1402.47 | 4 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1389.41 | 19 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1380.44 | 9 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1378.45 | 10 |
| 84 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1374.23 | 11 |
| 85 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1369.99 | 3 |
| 86 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1358.03 | 10 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1357.87 | 9 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1357.24 | 11 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1341.33 | 28 |
| 89 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1319.46 | 14 |
| (89) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1312.26 | 25 |
| 90 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 1308.36 | 7 |
| (90) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1276.54 | 5 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1271.49 | 12 |
| 92 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1262 | 9 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1250.22 | 8 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1233.45 | 16 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1228.66 | 29 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1219.33 | 16 |
| (96) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1218.31 | 12 |
| (96) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1208.56 | 8 |
| 97 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1208.56 | 9 |
| (97) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1205.15 | 18 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1181.43 | 13 |
| 99 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1174.71 | 11 |
| (99) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1167.26 | 5 |
| (99) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1141.13 | 4 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1132.89 | 36 |
| 101 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1114.07 | 14 |
| 102 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1109.58 | 18 |
| (102) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1104.5 | 7 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1103.21 | 17 |
| (103) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1102.99 | 7 |
| 104 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1102.53 | 7 |
| 105 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1099.84 | 19 |
| 106 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1091.89 | 35 |
| (106) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1091.37 | 14 |
| 107 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1082.83 | 9 |
| 108 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1068.88 | 22 |
| (108) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1064.36 | 8 |
| (108) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1062.95 | 9 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1062.35 | 15 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1040.06 | 6 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1038.11 | 13 |
| 112 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1037.38 | 7 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1034.22 | 29 |
| 114 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1032.51 | 28 |
| 115 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1026.59 | 23 |
| 116 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1019.12 | 10 |
| 117 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1010.1 | 25 |
| (117) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1004.35 | 21 |
| 118 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 990.21 | 6 |
| (118) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 985.42 | 2 |
| 119 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 977.99 | 10 |
| 120 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 972.1 | 8 |
| (120) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 964.06 | 15 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 952.92 | 25 |
| 122 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 947.56 | 36 |
| 123 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 929.2 | 10 |
| 124 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 929.1 | 45 |
| 125 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 923.11 | 16 |
| 126 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 920.58 | 10 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 917.51 | 17 |
| 128 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 913.36 | 7 |
| (128) | 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 | 913.11 | 12 |
| 129 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 911.88 | 87 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 897.64 | 11 |
| 131 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 897.04 | 8 |
| 132 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 892.76 | 6 |
| 133 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 892.68 | 5 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 889.6 | 15 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 885.73 | 23 |
| (135) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 875.81 | 12 |
| (135) | Economics Department, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 870.59 | 4 |
| 136 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 865.56 | 12 |
| (136) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 852.76 | 8 |
| 137 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 845.47 | 32 |
| 138 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 845.17 | 6 |
| 139 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 832.13 | 41 |
| 140 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 828.98 | 3 |
| 141 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 820.92 | 55 |
| (141) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 820.21 | 53 |
| (141) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 808.8 | 4 |
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