| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 248263.96 | 246 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 75286.95 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 58222.47 | 256 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 45561.85 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 39057.23 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 30355.5 | 30 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 28884.67 | 23 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 27170.04 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 25490.43 | 31 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23680.76 | 25 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21689.01 | 90 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19468.81 | 127 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19414.54 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 19266.16 | 11 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17979.68 | 27 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17545.03 | 17 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17213.19 | 37 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 16410.97 | 32 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16103.28 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 15725.1 | 25 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 15582.46 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 14828.41 | 17 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14640.22 | 35 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 14626.8 | 28 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 14075.66 | 29 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13160.03 | 29 |
| (23) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 12192.8 | 13 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11988.66 | 26 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 11300.92 | 21 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10841.86 | 11 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10672.76 | 24 |
| 28 | CESifo | München, Germany | 10360.17 | 61 |
| 29 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10334.73 | 89 |
| 30 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9742.16 | 15 |
| 31 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9652.02 | 12 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 9325.9 | 21 |
| 33 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9307.1 | 16 |
| 34 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 9121.25 | 23 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9085.52 | 32 |
| 36 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8662.12 | 28 |
| 37 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 8345.17 | 58 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8176.76 | 14 |
| 39 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8113.44 | 3 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 8096.15 | 23 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8046.32 | 20 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 7979.9 | 26 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 7970.36 | 81 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7717.29 | 39 |
| 45 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7699.68 | 15 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 7623.7 | 22 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7570.42 | 22 |
| 47 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7493.84 | 10 |
| (47) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7493.42 | 9 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7418.52 | 14 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 7410.85 | 22 |
| 50 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 7272.22 | 8 |
| 51 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 7248.76 | 8 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 7186.29 | 26 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 7089.02 | 21 |
| (53) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6992.52 | 16 |
| (53) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6953.78 | 7 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6876.89 | 22 |
| (54) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6830.22 | 4 |
| 55 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6805.9 | 10 |
| (55) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6286.4 | 8 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6271.27 | 11 |
| (56) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6232.52 | 7 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 6220.27 | 30 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6186.56 | 27 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 6124.69 | 18 |
| (58) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5756.11 | 28 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5754.18 | 12 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5694.38 | 30 |
| (60) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5541.56 | 4 |
| 61 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5352.93 | 9 |
| 62 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5243.31 | 29 |
| 63 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4814.5 | 9 |
| 64 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4479.21 | 24 |
| (64) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4417.86 | 4 |
| (64) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4398.32 | 14 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 4391.96 | 18 |
| 66 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4295.52 | 34 |
| (66) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4229.11 | 5 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4155.07 | 38 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 4149.33 | 29 |
| 69 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3981.81 | 5 |
| (69) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3858.15 | 5 |
| (69) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3825.54 | 1 |
| (69) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3825.54 | 1 |
| 70 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3798.86 | 8 |
| 71 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3771.68 | 45 |
| 72 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 3760.52 | 50 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3732.95 | 28 |
| (73) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3665.82 | 25 |
| (73) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3617.08 | 5 |
| 74 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3615.37 | 17 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3555.16 | 11 |
| 76 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3499.26 | 8 |
| (76) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3472.61 | 2 |
| 77 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 3433.34 | 6 |
| 78 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3393.02 | 7 |
| (78) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3387.16 | 5 |
| (78) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3363.37 | 2 |
| 79 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3287.04 | 14 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3274.64 | 9 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 3271.64 | 8 |
| 81 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3271.03 | 51 |
| 82 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 3192 | 11 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3178.24 | 21 |
| (83) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3175.95 | 12 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 3170.05 | 30 |
| (84) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3108.49 | 7 |
| (84) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3085.93 | 3 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3033.04 | 13 |
| (85) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2992.76 | 22 |
| (85) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2977.88 | 2 |
| (85) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2917.85 | 22 |
| 86 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2917.85 | 22 |
| (86) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2900.73 | 15 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 2898.56 | 15 |
| 88 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 2881.91 | 14 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2873.97 | 14 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2830.23 | 8 |
| 91 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2815.52 | 6 |
| 92 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 2808.56 | 10 |
| 93 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 2759.58 | 9 |
| 94 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 2733.44 | 46 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2709.31 | 23 |
| 96 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 2704.7 | 16 |
| 97 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2680.82 | 88 |
| 98 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2678.2 | 8 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2671.84 | 12 |
| 100 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2670.36 | 22 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 2644.29 | 5 |
| 102 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 2616.81 | 15 |
| 103 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 2518.36 | 11 |
| 104 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2450.83 | 33 |
| 105 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2434.89 | 16 |
| 106 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2423.53 | 4 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2418.39 | 6 |
| (107) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2399.26 | 8 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2393.79 | 11 |
| 109 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2376.78 | 2 |
| (109) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2376.25 | 1 |
| 110 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2367.62 | 3 |
| 111 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2358.65 | 17 |
| 112 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2350.72 | 2 |
| (112) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2350.37 | 8 |
| 113 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2350.37 | 9 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2348.75 | 10 |
| 115 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2332.51 | 11 |
| (115) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2330.48 | 3 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2316.66 | 16 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2315.51 | 16 |
| 118 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2304.23 | 37 |
| (118) | 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 | 2255.39 | 12 |
| 119 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 2217.71 | 22 |
| 120 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2213.89 | 33 |
| 121 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 2188.96 | 8 |
| 122 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2164.19 | 7 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2164.19 | 6 |
| 123 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2153.5 | 36 |
| 124 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2126.33 | 7 |
| (124) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2126.33 | 7 |
| (124) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2108.87 | 7 |
| 125 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2076.47 | 7 |
| 126 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2056.55 | 3 |
| 127 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 2051.17 | 5 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2016.96 | 19 |
| 129 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1998.7 | 22 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1927.71 | 11 |
| (130) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1925.51 | 1 |
| 131 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1910.5 | 19 |
| 132 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1898.94 | 11 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1870.11 | 15 |
| 134 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1868.31 | 8 |
| 135 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1852.63 | 10 |
| 136 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1836.04 | 37 |
| 137 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 1797.58 | 18 |
| (137) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1792.74 | 3 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1775.91 | 14 |
| 139 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1753.79 | 22 |
| 140 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 1748.2 | 8 |
| 141 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 1742.21 | 6 |
| 142 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 1725.33 | 47 |
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