| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13147.24 | 246 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4314.46 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3230.31 | 256 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1849.2 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1703.11 | 37 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1261.42 | 25 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1164.13 | 90 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1105.56 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1071.39 | 30 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1015 | 127 |
| 11 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1009.59 | 27 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 936.5 | 24 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 862.15 | 23 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 852.25 | 25 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 811.39 | 15 |
| 15 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 804.59 | 21 |
| 16 | CESifo | München, Germany | 789.19 | 61 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 784.53 | 25 |
| 18 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 774.2 | 12 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 685.13 | 32 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 682.05 | 28 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 673.14 | 35 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 661.66 | 26 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 650.6 | 17 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 645.83 | 20 |
| 24 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 622.52 | 89 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 620.85 | 17 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 619.62 | 29 |
| 26 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 614.77 | 32 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 573.69 | 30 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 562.19 | 21 |
| 29 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 550.75 | 58 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 515.86 | 29 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 514.48 | 22 |
| 32 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 512.7 | 11 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 485.13 | 15 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 478.82 | 28 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 475.83 | 37 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 468.73 | 21 |
| (36) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 459.39 | 13 |
| 37 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 447.94 | 39 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 426.98 | 14 |
| (38) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 415.97 | 22 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 390.67 | 81 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 384.76 | 23 |
| 41 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 384.16 | 15 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 382.84 | 24 |
| 43 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 376.1 | 26 |
| (43) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 374.5 | 4 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 370.42 | 23 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 366.56 | 29 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 364.08 | 10 |
| 47 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 357.23 | 11 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 353.25 | 14 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 352.81 | 30 |
| (49) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 348.57 | 16 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 341.03 | 26 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 336.44 | 22 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 326.42 | 18 |
| 53 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 323.93 | 16 |
| 54 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 323.29 | 11 |
| (54) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 316.21 | 28 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 310.32 | 14 |
| 56 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 306.59 | 15 |
| 57 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 304.86 | 4 |
| (57) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 304.71 | 4 |
| 58 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 304.26 | 9 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 299.81 | 27 |
| (59) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 299.06 | 18 |
| 60 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 298.04 | 3 |
| 61 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 298.02 | 11 |
| (61) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 296.58 | 7 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 290.22 | 19 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 285.89 | 21 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 284.62 | 38 |
| 65 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 282.32 | 50 |
| (65) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 270.03 | 9 |
| 66 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 267.38 | 33 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 266.32 | 8 |
| (67) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 265.1 | 22 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 261.06 | 34 |
| 69 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 255.5 | 51 |
| 70 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 253.07 | 8 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 249.11 | 11 |
| 72 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 248.09 | 22 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 247.95 | 22 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 242.68 | 28 |
| (74) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 239.54 | 25 |
| 75 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 238.25 | 17 |
| (75) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 236.51 | 8 |
| 76 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 232.17 | 8 |
| 77 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 228.85 | 24 |
| (77) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 228.72 | 4 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 227.87 | 23 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 227.46 | 12 |
| (79) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 225.95 | 1 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 217.93 | 13 |
| 81 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 216.35 | 36 |
| 82 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 213.97 | 46 |
| (82) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 212.29 | 2 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 209.91 | 11 |
| (83) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 208.57 | 14 |
| 84 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 208.54 | 88 |
| 85 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 207.41 | 45 |
| 86 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 207.23 | 11 |
| 87 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 205.76 | 9 |
| 88 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 205.09 | 14 |
| (88) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 204.89 | 7 |
| 89 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 204.85 | 7 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 204.82 | 6 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 203.46 | 8 |
| 91 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 199.06 | 29 |
| (91) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 196.54 | 12 |
| (91) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 196.09 | 2 |
| (91) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 194.85 | 15 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 192.72 | 30 |
| 93 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 191.42 | 7 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 190.94 | 15 |
| 95 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 189.66 | 17 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 189.29 | 8 |
| 97 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 187 | 6 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 185.5 | 12 |
| (98) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 184.02 | 5 |
| 99 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 183.47 | 10 |
| (99) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 183.45 | 9 |
| 100 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 181.31 | 9 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 181.21 | 36 |
| (101) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 177.89 | 5 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 176.17 | 16 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 175.16 | 15 |
| (103) | 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 | 171.18 | 12 |
| (103) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 167.63 | 22 |
| 104 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 167.63 | 22 |
| (104) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 162.8 | 7 |
| (104) | Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 160.36 | 1 |
| (104) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 160 | 5 |
| 105 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 158.23 | 19 |
| 106 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 155.67 | 16 |
| 107 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 153.5 | 25 |
| 108 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 152.1 | 8 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 151.52 | 8 |
| 110 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 150.96 | 10 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 148.77 | 16 |
| 112 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 147.12 | 33 |
| 113 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 145.18 | 15 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 145.06 | 9 |
| (114) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 144.24 | 2 |
| 115 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 141.39 | 8 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 141.1 | 13 |
| 117 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 138.72 | 10 |
| 118 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 137.92 | 37 |
| 119 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 135.31 | 24 |
| 120 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 134.34 | 8 |
| (120) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 130.39 | 2 |
| 121 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 129.77 | 16 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 129.74 | 13 |
| 123 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 128.96 | 17 |
| (123) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 128.57 | 2 |
| (123) | Center for Economic Studies (CES), Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 125.77 | 5 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 124.89 | 19 |
| (124) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 123.39 | 1 |
| (124) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 123.39 | 1 |
| (124) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 123.21 | 5 |
| 125 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 123.02 | 5 |
| 126 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 122.77 | 12 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 122.12 | 3 |
| 128 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 120.66 | 25 |
| 129 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 120.34 | 14 |
| 130 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 120.29 | 9 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 119.62 | 11 |
| 132 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 119.55 | 9 |
| 133 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 119.39 | 45 |
| 134 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 117.73 | 16 |
| 135 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 116.22 | 11 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Oregon | Eugene, Oregon (USA) | 114.8 | 8 |
| (136) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 114.26 | 7 |
| 137 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 113.68 | 22 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 113.54 | 14 |
| 139 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 113.11 | 6 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 112.9 | 6 |
| 141 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 112.47 | 11 |
| 142 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 111.89 | 22 |
| (142) | Pension Research Council, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 111.5 | 2 |
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