| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 144025.42 | 246 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 40269.96 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 34111.69 | 256 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 25274.36 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 24312.82 | 29 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 18499.7 | 23 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16024.2 | 30 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15909.72 | 31 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 15431.55 | 25 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14403.12 | 25 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 14369.94 | 11 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12812.06 | 90 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10607.92 | 24 |
| 14 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10128.49 | 27 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 9740.55 | 28 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9655.71 | 127 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9628.53 | 37 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9526.15 | 25 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9277.85 | 17 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9116.28 | 15 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8743.8 | 35 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8498.79 | 32 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8189.41 | 15 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8026.84 | 29 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7421.8 | 16 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7237.08 | 29 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7076.7 | 17 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 7037.61 | 21 |
| (25) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7037.36 | 13 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6995.64 | 24 |
| 27 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6930.63 | 11 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6462.68 | 12 |
| 29 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6179.45 | 15 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5855.11 | 32 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5802.05 | 26 |
| 32 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5749.95 | 61 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5132.77 | 20 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5030.03 | 21 |
| 35 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5017.21 | 3 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4898.24 | 14 |
| 37 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4796.07 | 58 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4781.98 | 23 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4764.27 | 81 |
| (39) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4627.67 | 16 |
| 40 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4549.15 | 89 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4468.61 | 23 |
| 42 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4460.96 | 39 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4388.74 | 22 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4373.47 | 28 |
| 44 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4137.66 | 11 |
| 45 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4122.29 | 10 |
| (45) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4122.08 | 9 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4118.01 | 22 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4059.8 | 30 |
| 48 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4051.83 | 22 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4039.99 | 21 |
| (49) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3973.76 | 4 |
| 50 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3843.65 | 26 |
| 51 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3825.89 | 9 |
| 52 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3821.86 | 10 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3721.92 | 18 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3709.58 | 26 |
| 54 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3691.17 | 15 |
| 55 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 3548.9 | 8 |
| (55) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3547.46 | 7 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3425.75 | 22 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3389.6 | 30 |
| (57) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3330.58 | 7 |
| (57) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3288.74 | 4 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3247.48 | 14 |
| 59 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3184.63 | 5 |
| 60 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 3151 | 8 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3150.06 | 12 |
| 62 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3025.3 | 29 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3024.13 | 27 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2963.91 | 18 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2845.21 | 38 |
| (65) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2739.96 | 9 |
| (65) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2630.77 | 8 |
| (65) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2597.26 | 28 |
| (65) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2536.87 | 5 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2526.81 | 28 |
| 67 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2502.84 | 9 |
| (67) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2481.32 | 25 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2476.35 | 34 |
| (68) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2386.76 | 4 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2355.6 | 29 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 2318.55 | 8 |
| (70) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2296.01 | 5 |
| (70) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2266.19 | 14 |
| 71 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2161.5 | 24 |
| 72 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2125.89 | 7 |
| 73 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2123 | 8 |
| 74 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1967.13 | 8 |
| (74) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1914.69 | 3 |
| (74) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1909.18 | 2 |
| (74) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1907.02 | 1 |
| (74) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1907.02 | 1 |
| (74) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1883.62 | 2 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1868.24 | 14 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1856.17 | 21 |
| (76) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1836.21 | 5 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1817.81 | 8 |
| 78 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1806.57 | 4 |
| 79 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1774.48 | 17 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1768.44 | 15 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1766.27 | 13 |
| 82 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1764.31 | 50 |
| 83 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1745.65 | 6 |
| 84 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1740.25 | 51 |
| 85 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1724.9 | 9 |
| (85) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1724 | 5 |
| (85) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1721.97 | 2 |
| 86 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1703.25 | 14 |
| 87 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1686.02 | 45 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1661.66 | 11 |
| (88) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1651.72 | 12 |
| 89 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1618.15 | 6 |
| (89) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1608.79 | 1 |
| 90 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1585.5 | 22 |
| 91 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1564.52 | 11 |
| 92 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1532.6 | 16 |
| 93 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1531.3 | 14 |
| 94 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1528.05 | 17 |
| (94) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1516.49 | 1 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1513.71 | 10 |
| (95) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1507.22 | 15 |
| (95) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1506.07 | 7 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1498.05 | 30 |
| 97 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1495.81 | 46 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1485.37 | 23 |
| 99 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1482.56 | 8 |
| 100 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1477.24 | 88 |
| 101 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1476.9 | 10 |
| (101) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1461.59 | 8 |
| 102 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 1459.97 | 8 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1432.26 | 33 |
| (103) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1418.71 | 22 |
| 104 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1410.1 | 15 |
| 105 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1376.55 | 7 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1376.55 | 6 |
| (105) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1369.88 | 7 |
| 106 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1361.85 | 16 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1356.27 | 5 |
| (107) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1341.77 | 2 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1339.08 | 12 |
| 109 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1315.78 | 36 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1270.46 | 11 |
| 111 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1250.58 | 11 |
| (111) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1245.14 | 8 |
| 112 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1245.14 | 9 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1243.9 | 11 |
| 114 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1240.14 | 37 |
| 115 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1233.93 | 11 |
| 116 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1228.26 | 1 |
| 117 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1214.07 | 2 |
| (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 | 1205.84 | 12 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1200.22 | 16 |
| 119 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1187.12 | 2 |
| (119) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1161.03 | 22 |
| 120 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1161.03 | 22 |
| 121 | Department of Commerce, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1148.14 | 27 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1145.79 | 16 |
| (122) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1145.03 | 3 |
| 123 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1144.55 | 10 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1130.7 | 19 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1100.89 | 6 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1094.56 | 7 |
| (126) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1094.56 | 7 |
| 127 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1085.92 | 22 |
| 128 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1079.09 | 7 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1078.08 | 15 |
| 130 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1073.64 | 11 |
| 131 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1070.83 | 9 |
| (131) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1068.55 | 7 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1067.22 | 13 |
| 133 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 1057.54 | 5 |
| 134 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1044.11 | 10 |
| 135 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1038.01 | 19 |
| 136 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1037.29 | 22 |
| 137 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1002.2 | 24 |
| 138 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1000.86 | 8 |
| 139 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 989.02 | 3 |
| 140 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 969.23 | 8 |
| 141 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 968.27 | 12 |
| 142 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 956.16 | 47 |
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