| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 250435.67 | 250 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 75055.86 | 204 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 58022.35 | 260 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 48908.45 | 31 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 38791.58 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 30001.74 | 32 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 28857.44 | 24 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 27041.2 | 26 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 25360 | 31 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23926.46 | 26 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21532.5 | 92 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19520.94 | 128 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19263.68 | 25 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 19074.27 | 11 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17845.99 | 27 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17240.44 | 17 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16860.48 | 36 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 16258.22 | 32 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16002.98 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 15695.88 | 26 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 15509.41 | 25 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 15180.39 | 16 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 14551.72 | 28 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 14452.59 | 16 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 13913.55 | 29 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13079.62 | 29 |
| (24) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12210.62 | 34 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12017.4 | 25 |
| (25) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 11980.43 | 13 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 11162.49 | 21 |
| 27 | CESifo | München, Germany | 11127.32 | 63 |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10804.8 | 11 |
| 29 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10147.19 | 92 |
| 30 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9584.36 | 15 |
| 31 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9550.43 | 12 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 9261.15 | 21 |
| 33 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9257.98 | 16 |
| 34 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9159.59 | 32 |
| 35 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 9030.29 | 24 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 8878.92 | 60 |
| 37 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8617.28 | 28 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8218.89 | 15 |
| 39 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7978.69 | 3 |
| 40 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 7912 | 26 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7910.52 | 20 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 7898.84 | 23 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 7883.2 | 85 |
| 44 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7725.93 | 15 |
| 45 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 7716.42 | 3 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7669.39 | 39 |
| 47 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 7545.3 | 30 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 7541.47 | 22 |
| (48) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7526.15 | 22 |
| 49 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7458.33 | 10 |
| (49) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7457.92 | 9 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 7334.38 | 23 |
| 51 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 7266.94 | 8 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 7214.34 | 22 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 7082.41 | 26 |
| 54 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 7075.67 | 8 |
| (54) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7060.62 | 16 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6961.98 | 13 |
| (55) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6876.98 | 8 |
| 56 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6810.78 | 10 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6803.71 | 22 |
| (57) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6672.15 | 4 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6389.74 | 29 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 6124.33 | 30 |
| (59) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6120.1 | 7 |
| 60 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6112.17 | 11 |
| (60) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5939.58 | 18 |
| (60) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5856.92 | 7 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 5845.5 | 12 |
| (61) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5831.92 | 27 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5535.32 | 32 |
| (62) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5470.94 | 4 |
| 63 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5270.68 | 9 |
| 64 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4675.74 | 9 |
| (64) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4429.77 | 14 |
| 65 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 4414.7 | 20 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4409.92 | 24 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 4404.77 | 19 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4328.35 | 35 |
| (68) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4261.16 | 4 |
| 69 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 4260.59 | 9 |
| (69) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4196.47 | 4 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4154.76 | 38 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 4134.58 | 29 |
| 72 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 4131.92 | 53 |
| 73 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3941.15 | 5 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3908.53 | 10 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3880.54 | 21 |
| (74) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3792.97 | 5 |
| (74) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3750.14 | 1 |
| (74) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3750.14 | 1 |
| 75 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3749.78 | 45 |
| 76 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3686.37 | 14 |
| (76) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3577.06 | 12 |
| (76) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3566.19 | 5 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3523.48 | 28 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3510.66 | 11 |
| 79 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3476.98 | 8 |
| (79) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3468.59 | 2 |
| (79) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3459.32 | 25 |
| 80 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3367.18 | 7 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 3320.61 | 8 |
| (81) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3313.23 | 5 |
| (81) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3269.35 | 2 |
| 82 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3239.04 | 51 |
| 83 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 3165.69 | 13 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3107.41 | 9 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 3104.32 | 32 |
| (84) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3064.53 | 3 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3047.71 | 13 |
| (85) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3033.9 | 24 |
| (85) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2968.57 | 2 |
| 86 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 2889.58 | 15 |
| (86) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2878.72 | 22 |
| 87 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2878.72 | 22 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 2878.12 | 15 |
| (88) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2842.55 | 16 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2832.41 | 14 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2822.69 | 8 |
| 91 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2766.59 | 23 |
| 92 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2764.66 | 6 |
| 93 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 2747.54 | 47 |
| 94 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 2741.48 | 10 |
| 95 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 2728.98 | 9 |
| 96 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 2694.83 | 16 |
| 97 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 2674.72 | 6 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2644.04 | 12 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2631.89 | 23 |
| 100 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2626.96 | 8 |
| 101 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2623.38 | 93 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 2591.71 | 5 |
| 103 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 2523.58 | 11 |
| 104 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2494.16 | 2 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2487.46 | 11 |
| 106 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2482.34 | 11 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2450.53 | 6 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2433.42 | 33 |
| (108) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2431.45 | 9 |
| 109 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2431.3 | 16 |
| 110 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2383.95 | 4 |
| (110) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2362.71 | 8 |
| 111 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2362.71 | 9 |
| 112 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2362.53 | 2 |
| 113 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2337.45 | 3 |
| (113) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2317.16 | 1 |
| (113) | 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 | 2312.88 | 12 |
| 114 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2307.71 | 11 |
| 115 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2300.54 | 18 |
| (115) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2290.5 | 3 |
| 116 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 2287.45 | 23 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2253.1 | 16 |
| 118 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2241.04 | 35 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2238.59 | 10 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2230.57 | 17 |
| 121 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 2217.45 | 10 |
| 122 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2179.91 | 33 |
| 123 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2097.32 | 8 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2097.32 | 7 |
| 124 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2088.91 | 7 |
| (124) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2088.91 | 7 |
| 125 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 2076.77 | 5 |
| 126 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2067.88 | 35 |
| 127 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2063.74 | 3 |
| 128 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2044.37 | 7 |
| (128) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2004.94 | 7 |
| 129 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1951.44 | 21 |
| 130 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1909.55 | 14 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1904.06 | 15 |
| 132 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1896.05 | 11 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1894.76 | 14 |
| (133) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1891.64 | 1 |
| 134 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1890.26 | 39 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1884.37 | 12 |
| 136 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1868.72 | 19 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1811.1 | 18 |
| 138 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1810.77 | 8 |
| 139 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1809.05 | 13 |
| 140 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1805.97 | 10 |
| (140) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1802.89 | 3 |
| 141 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 1755.32 | 18 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1752.74 | 14 |
| 143 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1726.95 | 22 |
| 144 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 1705.53 | 10 |
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