| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 46894.23 | 246 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 18099.42 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 14384.37 | 256 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7833.71 | 37 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6861.83 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5673.07 | 90 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5396.47 | 31 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5135.7 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4404.32 | 30 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4118.41 | 12 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4067.78 | 61 |
| 12 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3666.76 | 27 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3582.32 | 127 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3530.67 | 23 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3488.71 | 24 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3447.18 | 25 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3444.56 | 25 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3284.2 | 28 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3219.93 | 20 |
| 20 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3172.01 | 11 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3154.83 | 29 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3069.37 | 15 |
| 21 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3032.81 | 21 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3013.64 | 32 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2994.11 | 35 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2614.71 | 81 |
| 24 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2613.58 | 58 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2580.1 | 17 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2550.8 | 26 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2459.55 | 15 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2354.41 | 17 |
| 29 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2353.16 | 89 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2329.44 | 39 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2302.54 | 30 |
| 32 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2301.77 | 32 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2288.03 | 21 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2201.99 | 29 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2194.43 | 37 |
| (35) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2190.53 | 22 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2176.78 | 24 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2055.44 | 21 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2023.26 | 14 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1900.51 | 22 |
| (39) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1898.11 | 13 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1886.92 | 28 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1731.13 | 23 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1724.91 | 10 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1696.95 | 29 |
| 44 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1692.27 | 16 |
| 45 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1658.12 | 11 |
| 46 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1584.09 | 23 |
| 47 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1565.43 | 18 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1564.61 | 33 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1522.9 | 26 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1504.61 | 38 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1492.66 | 27 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1442.42 | 19 |
| 53 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1430.01 | 11 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1418.59 | 26 |
| (54) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1417.26 | 4 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1384.61 | 18 |
| 55 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1384.19 | 17 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1380.93 | 30 |
| 57 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1366.28 | 34 |
| (57) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1362.47 | 16 |
| 58 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1356.3 | 51 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1355.95 | 28 |
| (59) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1336.66 | 25 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1329.31 | 22 |
| 61 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1311.21 | 9 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1301.11 | 14 |
| (62) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1292.78 | 9 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1257.85 | 21 |
| 64 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1251.56 | 15 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1202.04 | 24 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1195.78 | 12 |
| (66) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1171.4 | 7 |
| 67 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1170.52 | 46 |
| 68 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1166.29 | 11 |
| 69 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1145.64 | 29 |
| 70 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1121.5 | 8 |
| (70) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1113.07 | 4 |
| 71 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1103.93 | 4 |
| 72 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1096.38 | 22 |
| 73 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1083.58 | 45 |
| 74 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1080.4 | 7 |
| (74) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1080.28 | 6 |
| 75 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1060.75 | 3 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1038.26 | 14 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1031.86 | 22 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1011.64 | 11 |
| (78) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1000.69 | 22 |
| (78) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 973.21 | 28 |
| 79 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 967.64 | 8 |
| (79) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 960.84 | 14 |
| 80 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 949.24 | 15 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 940.46 | 15 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 938.24 | 10 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 933.15 | 36 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 925.09 | 23 |
| 85 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 919.66 | 88 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 908.19 | 13 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 897.65 | 30 |
| 88 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 890.34 | 36 |
| 89 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 888.12 | 10 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 887.91 | 9 |
| 90 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 884.74 | 17 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 879.58 | 8 |
| 92 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 873.45 | 8 |
| (92) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 840.01 | 2 |
| 93 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 811.76 | 37 |
| 94 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 811.33 | 50 |
| 95 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 806.91 | 19 |
| (95) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 804.16 | 22 |
| 96 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 804.16 | 22 |
| 97 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 803.13 | 17 |
| (97) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 794.7 | 2 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 794.14 | 8 |
| (98) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 785.08 | 1 |
| 99 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 781.7 | 8 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 757.36 | 12 |
| 101 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 756.97 | 6 |
| 102 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 751.43 | 11 |
| 103 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 745.93 | 7 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 744.93 | 16 |
| 105 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 744.6 | 24 |
| (105) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 743.7 | 8 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 738.76 | 11 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 729.96 | 8 |
| 108 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 706.2 | 14 |
| 109 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 699.11 | 22 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 691.98 | 15 |
| (110) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 689.82 | 5 |
| (110) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 689.76 | 7 |
| (110) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 673.7 | 7 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 673.32 | 13 |
| 112 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 666.11 | 16 |
| 113 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 662.8 | 15 |
| (113) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 659.88 | 2 |
| (113) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 658.63 | 12 |
| (113) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 658.63 | 4 |
| (113) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 656.16 | 15 |
| 114 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 655.29 | 22 |
| 115 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 650.38 | 25 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 649.85 | 10 |
| 117 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 641.91 | 22 |
| (117) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 636.89 | 5 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 636.74 | 6 |
| 119 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 634.28 | 33 |
| 120 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 633.94 | 19 |
| 121 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 632.11 | 9 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 631.94 | 17 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 622.81 | 13 |
| 124 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 614.01 | 29 |
| 125 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 612.53 | 5 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 607.32 | 29 |
| 127 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 606.88 | 10 |
| 128 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 604.42 | 45 |
| 129 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 604.23 | 9 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 602.41 | 13 |
| (130) | 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 | 601.5 | 12 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 597.79 | 16 |
| (131) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 596.19 | 2 |
| (131) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 591.45 | 5 |
| 132 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 586.08 | 8 |
| 133 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 581.3 | 15 |
| 134 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 574.39 | 29 |
| 135 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 573.44 | 11 |
| 136 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 558.33 | 16 |
| 137 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 553.51 | 47 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 533.49 | 11 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 528.46 | 17 |
| 140 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 524.93 | 41 |
| 141 | Institutet för Näringslivsforsking (IUI) | Stockholm, Sweden | 521.45 | 15 |
| 142 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 518.03 | 2 |
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