| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 56260.86 | 250 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 17603.1 | 204 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 15172.22 | 260 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10327.08 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9788.88 | 31 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6911.02 | 24 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6489.75 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6429.86 | 32 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6283.52 | 92 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5820.13 | 26 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5652.58 | 11 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5488.45 | 26 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4567.44 | 26 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4516.83 | 28 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4453.58 | 25 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4243.98 | 128 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3880.36 | 27 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3869.16 | 15 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3857.83 | 25 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3826.63 | 36 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3772.8 | 29 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3636.82 | 32 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3378.88 | 34 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3335.45 | 29 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3329.24 | 63 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3213 | 16 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3156.75 | 17 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3089.7 | 11 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3064.66 | 21 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2963.75 | 16 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2826.55 | 12 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2711.94 | 85 |
| 30 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2546.44 | 30 |
| 31 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2449.59 | 92 |
| (31) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2400.83 | 13 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2384.65 | 20 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2370.91 | 16 |
| 34 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2337.58 | 15 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2337.43 | 25 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2267.3 | 60 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2254.83 | 15 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2172.61 | 32 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2113.33 | 28 |
| 40 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2026.25 | 3 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1977.51 | 39 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1963.93 | 23 |
| 43 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1960.25 | 3 |
| 44 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1940.75 | 26 |
| (44) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1940.26 | 22 |
| 45 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1785.91 | 10 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1758.41 | 30 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1749.01 | 22 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1738.26 | 21 |
| 49 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1732.91 | 9 |
| 50 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1716.83 | 24 |
| 51 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1674.66 | 11 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1667.08 | 26 |
| (52) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1651.28 | 16 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1630.31 | 22 |
| (53) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1615.71 | 4 |
| 54 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1561.66 | 5 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1556.75 | 18 |
| (54) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1484.41 | 7 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1483.93 | 29 |
| 56 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1483.55 | 15 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1469.41 | 22 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1436.58 | 23 |
| 59 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1419.91 | 10 |
| (59) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1418.41 | 9 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1336.33 | 35 |
| 61 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 1293.5 | 8 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1283.24 | 12 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1283.16 | 29 |
| (63) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1280.5 | 4 |
| 64 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1256.08 | 8 |
| (64) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1236.75 | 8 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1236.68 | 32 |
| 66 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1205.25 | 9 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1191.58 | 38 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1161.86 | 19 |
| (68) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1160.66 | 9 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1098.66 | 13 |
| 70 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1088.96 | 20 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1087.14 | 27 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1057.91 | 28 |
| 72 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1046.58 | 9 |
| 73 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1041.89 | 51 |
| (73) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1038.58 | 25 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1034.16 | 8 |
| 75 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1021.96 | 24 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1018.16 | 21 |
| (76) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1013.33 | 5 |
| (76) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1006.91 | 14 |
| 77 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 980.8 | 45 |
| 78 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 961.66 | 53 |
| (78) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 952.25 | 5 |
| (78) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 941.71 | 10 |
| 79 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 926.7 | 47 |
| (79) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 914 | 4 |
| (79) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 906.39 | 24 |
| 80 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 893.47 | 18 |
| (80) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 872.5 | 7 |
| 81 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 848.35 | 9 |
| (81) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 845 | 4 |
| 82 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 843.83 | 14 |
| (82) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 834 | 2 |
| 83 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 831.41 | 8 |
| 84 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 822.73 | 23 |
| 85 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 818.33 | 7 |
| (85) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 818.16 | 12 |
| 86 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 817.6 | 23 |
| 87 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 791.91 | 8 |
| 88 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 790.38 | 93 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 788.99 | 11 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 786.98 | 33 |
| 91 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 785.25 | 4 |
| 92 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 771.91 | 8 |
| (92) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 771.91 | 7 |
| 93 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 758.25 | 35 |
| 94 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 747.24 | 10 |
| (94) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 743.8 | 1 |
| (94) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 743.8 | 1 |
| 95 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 734.46 | 23 |
| (95) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 733.83 | 3 |
| (95) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 729.91 | 2 |
| 96 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 727.75 | 6 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 721.58 | 14 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 718.66 | 13 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 715.66 | 32 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 712.58 | 15 |
| 101 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 695.16 | 8 |
| (101) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 686.08 | 2 |
| (101) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 663.91 | 5 |
| (101) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 645.83 | 1 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 637.16 | 6 |
| 103 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 635.99 | 16 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 631.91 | 14 |
| 105 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 624.74 | 35 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 616.66 | 5 |
| (106) | 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 | 611.83 | 12 |
| 107 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 609.41 | 16 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 602.91 | 23 |
| 109 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 598.18 | 15 |
| 110 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 594.73 | 13 |
| 111 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 576.16 | 15 |
| (111) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 573.41 | 3 |
| (111) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 570.16 | 9 |
| 112 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 562.61 | 21 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 549.06 | 16 |
| 114 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 548.16 | 19 |
| 115 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 539.91 | 2 |
| (115) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 537.91 | 2 |
| 116 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 533.15 | 6 |
| 117 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 529.66 | 10 |
| 118 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 528.08 | 11 |
| 119 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 528.01 | 10 |
| (119) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 524.91 | 16 |
| 120 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 524.16 | 2 |
| (120) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 513.79 | 22 |
| 121 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 513.79 | 22 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 512 | 12 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 510.36 | 11 |
| (123) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 508.5 | 1 |
| 124 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 501.08 | 31 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 500.91 | 12 |
| 126 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 499.33 | 7 |
| 127 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 490 | 11 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 486.16 | 18 |
| 129 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 479.23 | 11 |
| 130 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 474.78 | 7 |
| (130) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 474.78 | 7 |
| 131 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 474.35 | 39 |
| (131) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 472.99 | 7 |
| 132 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 471.61 | 13 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 471.5 | 8 |
| (133) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 471.25 | 8 |
| 133 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 471.25 | 9 |
| 135 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 471.03 | 28 |
| 136 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 469.49 | 5 |
| 137 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 468.16 | 12 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 463.13 | 15 |
| 139 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 461.83 | 23 |
| 140 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 459.7 | 61 |
| 141 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 453.16 | 1 |
| 142 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 448.63 | 46 |
| 143 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 445.58 | 12 |
| 144 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 444.8 | 15 |
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