| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 367050.07 | 246 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 135417.66 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 121234.34 | 256 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 67777.59 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 57814.71 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 49856.82 | 90 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44231.33 | 25 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 43423.56 | 30 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 43007.34 | 23 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 38839.42 | 31 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 38723.07 | 25 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 36755.89 | 12 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 35381.59 | 20 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 32055.03 | 28 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 31566.39 | 25 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 30654.23 | 35 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 30472.99 | 24 |
| 17 | CESifo | München, Germany | 30053.98 | 61 |
| 18 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 29442.26 | 11 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 28503.93 | 27 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 27895.07 | 58 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 27201.47 | 81 |
| (21) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 26567.15 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 25536.5 | 32 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 24077.23 | 29 |
| 24 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 23897.51 | 127 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 23084.98 | 26 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 22899.71 | 29 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 22052.41 | 39 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 21463.7 | 15 |
| (27) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 21151.18 | 22 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 21034.23 | 21 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 20550.74 | 17 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 20549.59 | 21 |
| 31 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 19329.76 | 14 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19240.57 | 17 |
| 33 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19039.21 | 89 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 18862.53 | 38 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 18656.38 | 30 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18512.57 | 16 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 17626.61 | 21 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 17324.08 | 32 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 17113.51 | 24 |
| 40 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16718.65 | 10 |
| 41 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 16177.75 | 17 |
| (41) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 15953.35 | 13 |
| 42 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14866.15 | 28 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 14779.49 | 23 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 14695.18 | 29 |
| 45 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14471.55 | 11 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14455.03 | 27 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14004.36 | 37 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 13851.84 | 33 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 13647.26 | 22 |
| 50 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13343.14 | 3 |
| 51 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13257.13 | 9 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 13250.98 | 21 |
| 53 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 12984.32 | 7 |
| (53) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 12983.44 | 6 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 12581.34 | 19 |
| 55 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12520.8 | 51 |
| 56 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12453.75 | 8 |
| 57 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 12422.22 | 26 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 12184.93 | 22 |
| 59 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12170.35 | 15 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12065.52 | 28 |
| 61 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 11985.72 | 34 |
| (61) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11911.41 | 25 |
| (61) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11572.68 | 16 |
| 62 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 11370.73 | 29 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 11304.1 | 22 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 11093.94 | 18 |
| 65 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 10997.93 | 46 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 10315.01 | 12 |
| 67 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10220.39 | 26 |
| 68 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9728.26 | 15 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 9650.09 | 23 |
| (69) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 9565.86 | 22 |
| 70 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 9565.86 | 22 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 9558.28 | 13 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 9495.19 | 8 |
| 73 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 9255.81 | 8 |
| 74 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 9095.67 | 45 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9070.25 | 30 |
| (75) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9065.52 | 5 |
| (75) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9053.87 | 7 |
| 76 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8899.16 | 11 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 8818.9 | 11 |
| 78 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 8758.45 | 15 |
| 79 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8608.78 | 23 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 8281.15 | 10 |
| 81 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 8160.59 | 24 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7901.33 | 9 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 7722.71 | 14 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 7639.2 | 10 |
| (83) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7596.8 | 28 |
| 84 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7572.98 | 10 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7571.16 | 9 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7474.93 | 16 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 7447.11 | 15 |
| 87 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 7350.49 | 22 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7332.49 | 14 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 7256.92 | 16 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 7135.33 | 6 |
| 91 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7129.6 | 11 |
| 92 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7119.72 | 7 |
| (92) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 7105.76 | 18 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 7076.51 | 36 |
| (93) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7042.12 | 4 |
| (93) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7013.93 | 22 |
| (93) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7010.44 | 7 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 6965.75 | 17 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 6924.38 | 9 |
| (95) | 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 | 6869.37 | 12 |
| 96 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 6704.11 | 19 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 6679.86 | 8 |
| 98 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 6620.49 | 9 |
| 99 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 6612.46 | 14 |
| 100 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 6608.11 | 22 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6570.6 | 12 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 6520.87 | 29 |
| 103 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6463.21 | 25 |
| (103) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6453.86 | 2 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 6450.87 | 11 |
| 105 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 6200.85 | 36 |
| (105) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6194.12 | 14 |
| 106 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 6121.04 | 17 |
| 107 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 6118.08 | 88 |
| 108 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 6105.84 | 7 |
| 109 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 6086.07 | 8 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 6085.11 | 30 |
| 111 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 6076.66 | 22 |
| 112 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 6053.89 | 8 |
| 113 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 6006.39 | 8 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 5995.05 | 23 |
| 115 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 5911.21 | 14 |
| 116 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 5910.09 | 11 |
| (116) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5897.7 | 12 |
| (116) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 5871.32 | 7 |
| (116) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 5837.93 | 7 |
| (116) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5777.41 | 8 |
| 117 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5777.41 | 9 |
| (117) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5679.27 | 5 |
| 118 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 5629.48 | 33 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 5590.18 | 17 |
| (119) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5584.66 | 4 |
| 120 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 5578.57 | 10 |
| 121 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 5449.62 | 6 |
| 122 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5424.5 | 11 |
| 123 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5409.77 | 17 |
| 124 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5286.44 | 13 |
| (124) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5254.85 | 8 |
| 125 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 5240.07 | 16 |
| 126 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 5213.76 | 8 |
| (126) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5207.76 | 2 |
| 127 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 5207.6 | 9 |
| 128 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 5193.29 | 8 |
| 129 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 5178.81 | 37 |
| (129) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 5170.41 | 12 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 5165.8 | 15 |
| (130) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5116.35 | 5 |
| (130) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5076.19 | 4 |
| 131 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 5064.45 | 13 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 5007.19 | 5 |
| 133 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4984.27 | 29 |
| 134 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 4922.88 | 11 |
| 135 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4922.6 | 7 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 4909.55 | 25 |
| 137 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4896.4 | 3 |
| (137) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4871.63 | 5 |
| 138 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4870.5 | 5 |
| 139 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4825.62 | 4 |
| 140 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 4808.17 | 6 |
| 141 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 4805.27 | 24 |
| 142 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4752.26 | 5 |
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