| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 356903.3 | 250 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 131527.27 | 204 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 119316 | 260 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 65523.41 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 59086.1 | 31 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 49081.78 | 92 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 45373.5 | 26 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 44457.53 | 24 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 42045.82 | 32 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 37850.62 | 31 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 36524.86 | 26 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 35497.61 | 12 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 34111.2 | 20 |
| 14 | CESifo | München, Germany | 32171.07 | 63 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 31770.28 | 28 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 31152.64 | 25 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 29518.08 | 25 |
| 18 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 28618.55 | 11 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 27897.15 | 27 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 27737.58 | 60 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 26665.24 | 85 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 26332 | 34 |
| (21) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25794.99 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 24594.67 | 32 |
| 23 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 22800.16 | 128 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 22723.71 | 29 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 22524.89 | 26 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 22380.55 | 29 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 22255.87 | 25 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 21502.1 | 22 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 21075.99 | 39 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 20625.1 | 16 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 20345.82 | 22 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 19865.96 | 21 |
| 31 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19812.63 | 17 |
| 32 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19605.7 | 92 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 19212.26 | 15 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18615.86 | 16 |
| 35 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18357.86 | 16 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 17483.33 | 38 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 17263.34 | 30 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 17182.46 | 21 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16885.87 | 10 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 16376.56 | 32 |
| 41 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 15645.02 | 18 |
| (41) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 15179.91 | 13 |
| 42 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 15075.91 | 30 |
| 43 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14259.94 | 11 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14215.99 | 29 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 14201.39 | 21 |
| 46 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 14094.01 | 24 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 14003.08 | 29 |
| 48 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13857.68 | 28 |
| 49 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 13719.81 | 33 |
| 50 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 13141.79 | 22 |
| 51 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12975.08 | 9 |
| 52 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12952.43 | 3 |
| 53 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 12620.67 | 8 |
| (53) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 12619.79 | 7 |
| 54 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 12235.8 | 35 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12220.77 | 36 |
| 56 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12141.92 | 15 |
| 57 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12101.02 | 51 |
| 58 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 11981.78 | 26 |
| 59 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11957.69 | 8 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 11857.62 | 22 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 11187.65 | 14 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 11018.18 | 19 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 10876.12 | 18 |
| 64 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 10787.1 | 47 |
| (64) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10718.15 | 16 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10492.04 | 28 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 10357.04 | 23 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10347.4 | 25 |
| 67 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 10242.59 | 3 |
| 68 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 10181.96 | 9 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 9799.33 | 12 |
| 70 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9758.84 | 26 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 9666.59 | 8 |
| (71) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 9433 | 22 |
| 72 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 9433 | 22 |
| 73 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9097.02 | 15 |
| (73) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8928.94 | 5 |
| 74 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8878.03 | 45 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 8685.14 | 23 |
| (75) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8610.6 | 7 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 8248.88 | 10 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 8038.75 | 11 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8013.88 | 32 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 7904.04 | 15 |
| 80 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7859.58 | 24 |
| 81 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7793.65 | 11 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 7607.55 | 14 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7482.73 | 23 |
| (83) | 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 | 7460.83 | 12 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7348.19 | 16 |
| (84) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7263.96 | 27 |
| (84) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7202.14 | 4 |
| 85 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7160.45 | 10 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7158.63 | 9 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 7016.36 | 11 |
| 87 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7010.6 | 7 |
| 88 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 6932.57 | 20 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6876.13 | 6 |
| 90 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 6857.64 | 23 |
| (90) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6854.07 | 24 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6814.04 | 9 |
| 91 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6811.73 | 11 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 6718.99 | 17 |
| 93 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 6612.52 | 23 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 6600.51 | 8 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6597.43 | 13 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6578.3 | 37 |
| 97 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 6549.16 | 14 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 6507.72 | 17 |
| 99 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 6448.58 | 8 |
| (99) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6444.61 | 8 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 6332.38 | 10 |
| (100) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6300.1 | 2 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6299.83 | 12 |
| (101) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 6295.17 | 18 |
| 102 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 6096.36 | 19 |
| 103 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 6087.43 | 13 |
| 104 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 6037.12 | 93 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 6023.54 | 11 |
| 106 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 5963.76 | 8 |
| 107 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5958.18 | 24 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 5955.13 | 29 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 5889.02 | 23 |
| (109) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5869.82 | 12 |
| 110 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5828.4 | 8 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 5732.03 | 32 |
| (111) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5725.12 | 14 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 5713.62 | 23 |
| 113 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 5709.61 | 8 |
| 114 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 5600.67 | 17 |
| (114) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5570.6 | 4 |
| (114) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5554.66 | 4 |
| 115 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5487 | 7 |
| 116 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 5480.13 | 8 |
| 117 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 5459.36 | 14 |
| 118 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 5449.42 | 14 |
| (118) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5442.72 | 10 |
| 119 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 5419.3 | 35 |
| (119) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 5378.86 | 7 |
| (119) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5331.26 | 8 |
| 120 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5331.26 | 9 |
| 121 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 5292.17 | 33 |
| 122 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5289.41 | 13 |
| 123 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 5268.78 | 10 |
| (123) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5268.62 | 2 |
| 124 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5184.8 | 11 |
| (124) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5179.63 | 4 |
| 125 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 5147.55 | 17 |
| 126 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 5135.75 | 10 |
| 127 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5050.91 | 12 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 5043.38 | 15 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 5038.74 | 17 |
| 130 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 4926.62 | 3 |
| 131 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 4896.11 | 8 |
| (131) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4895.03 | 12 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 4826.32 | 5 |
| (132) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 4814.29 | 7 |
| 133 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4787.78 | 3 |
| 134 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 4787.57 | 11 |
| (134) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4787.06 | 7 |
| 135 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 4787.05 | 35 |
| 136 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4767.31 | 29 |
| 137 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4761.49 | 4 |
| 138 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4754.88 | 4 |
| 139 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 4706.88 | 9 |
| (139) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4703.84 | 5 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 4703.56 | 25 |
| (140) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4614.82 | 5 |
| 141 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4593.47 | 5 |
| 142 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 4572.97 | 13 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4543.21 | 15 |
| 144 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4535.21 | 16 |
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