| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 46670.45 | 250 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 17894.01 | 204 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 14208.07 | 260 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7714.89 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7322.56 | 31 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5605.59 | 92 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5311.26 | 26 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5299.91 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4393.76 | 32 |
| 10 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4221.98 | 63 |
| 11 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4007.45 | 12 |
| 12 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3684.86 | 27 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3592.57 | 24 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3534.5 | 128 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3427.11 | 25 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3425.7 | 25 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3349.2 | 26 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3215.03 | 28 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3134.17 | 20 |
| 20 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3118.19 | 11 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3100.07 | 29 |
| 21 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3027.76 | 21 |
| (21) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3013.59 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2948.62 | 32 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2762.86 | 60 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2755.4 | 26 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2604.71 | 85 |
| (25) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2588.2 | 34 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2562.11 | 17 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2500.06 | 25 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2408.89 | 16 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2334.24 | 16 |
| 30 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2300.73 | 92 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2274.48 | 21 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2267.33 | 39 |
| 33 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2260.6 | 32 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2216.84 | 30 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2152.21 | 22 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2132.28 | 29 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2087.06 | 22 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2050.83 | 36 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2000.38 | 15 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1878.04 | 22 |
| (39) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1862.09 | 13 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1825.86 | 28 |
| 41 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1713.98 | 10 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1703.49 | 16 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1649.64 | 29 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1649.14 | 11 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1635.71 | 23 |
| 46 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1608.98 | 19 |
| 47 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1560.4 | 24 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1553.5 | 33 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1505.2 | 29 |
| 50 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1492.46 | 30 |
| 51 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1488.03 | 26 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1422.62 | 38 |
| (52) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1418.48 | 4 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1402.71 | 26 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1397.77 | 21 |
| 55 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1372.37 | 35 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1347 | 11 |
| 57 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1344 | 18 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1338.02 | 32 |
| (58) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1325.15 | 16 |
| 59 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1318.63 | 51 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1317.85 | 14 |
| (60) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1310.57 | 18 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1308 | 22 |
| 62 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1279.93 | 9 |
| 63 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1259.5 | 15 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1252.15 | 28 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1233.52 | 25 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1217.77 | 18 |
| (65) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1212.32 | 9 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1174.43 | 24 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1172.57 | 9 |
| 68 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1157.37 | 47 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1149.67 | 12 |
| (69) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1144.99 | 7 |
| 70 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1130.63 | 11 |
| (70) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1114.11 | 4 |
| 71 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1091.82 | 23 |
| 72 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1082.01 | 4 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1070.29 | 20 |
| 74 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1051.26 | 8 |
| (74) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1051.14 | 7 |
| 75 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1049.44 | 45 |
| 76 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1036.8 | 3 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1004.37 | 23 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 999.75 | 14 |
| (78) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 990.38 | 24 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 982.48 | 15 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 975.88 | 13 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 965.09 | 11 |
| (81) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 954 | 27 |
| 82 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 936.98 | 8 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 931.04 | 10 |
| (83) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 929.49 | 14 |
| 84 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 920.91 | 15 |
| 85 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 919.28 | 93 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 895.3 | 37 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 890.17 | 32 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 878.4 | 8 |
| (88) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 869.32 | 10 |
| 89 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 862.24 | 10 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 862.03 | 9 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 857.45 | 23 |
| 91 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 849.37 | 35 |
| 92 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 845.19 | 8 |
| (92) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 835.32 | 2 |
| 93 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 826.53 | 53 |
| (93) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 805.7 | 22 |
| 94 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 805.7 | 22 |
| (94) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 795.07 | 2 |
| 95 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 788.67 | 3 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 778.82 | 8 |
| (96) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 771.22 | 1 |
| 97 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 768.22 | 35 |
| 98 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 755.29 | 17 |
| 99 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 754.82 | 19 |
| 100 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 753.6 | 8 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 745.75 | 11 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 743.87 | 16 |
| 103 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 742.22 | 11 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 741.55 | 12 |
| 105 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 735.62 | 7 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 725.99 | 8 |
| (106) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 696.04 | 7 |
| 107 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 690.03 | 14 |
| (107) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 682.46 | 5 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 681.78 | 15 |
| 109 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 669.81 | 23 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 666.42 | 14 |
| (110) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 665.43 | 8 |
| 111 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 664.66 | 23 |
| (111) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 662.16 | 4 |
| 112 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 653.97 | 17 |
| 113 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 653.2 | 23 |
| 114 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 652.65 | 21 |
| (114) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 650.91 | 2 |
| (114) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 645.15 | 16 |
| (114) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 643.66 | 12 |
| (114) | 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 | 639.93 | 12 |
| (114) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 633.28 | 4 |
| 115 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 631.19 | 25 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 619.17 | 6 |
| 117 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 618.36 | 33 |
| 118 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 616.17 | 11 |
| 119 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 614.32 | 21 |
| 120 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 609.99 | 6 |
| 121 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 609.26 | 28 |
| 122 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 607.58 | 5 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 602.47 | 17 |
| 124 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 602.13 | 9 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 594.83 | 13 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 591.7 | 13 |
| 127 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 590.5 | 48 |
| (127) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 585.23 | 2 |
| 128 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 584.48 | 15 |
| 129 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 584 | 10 |
| 130 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 581.2 | 10 |
| 131 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 573.72 | 13 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 570.78 | 29 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 568.25 | 17 |
| (133) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 566.18 | 5 |
| 134 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 562.61 | 11 |
| 135 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 558.72 | 10 |
| 136 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 552.62 | 14 |
| 137 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 552.18 | 29 |
| 138 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 545.53 | 16 |
| 139 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 543.8 | 46 |
| 140 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 526.81 | 5 |
| 141 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 521.06 | 13 |
| 142 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 513.96 | 15 |
| 143 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 513.22 | 2 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 511.36 | 11 |
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