| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44426.14 | 250 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 13244.41 | 204 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 9600.17 | 260 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9327.32 | 31 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6413.45 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5061.69 | 32 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4946.83 | 24 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4620.23 | 26 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4124.83 | 31 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4021.42 | 26 |
| 11 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3576.3 | 92 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3391.23 | 128 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3274.9 | 27 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3262.8 | 25 |
| 15 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3245.76 | 11 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2980.66 | 17 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2882.78 | 36 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2667.71 | 26 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2602.93 | 15 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2595.05 | 16 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2555.5 | 32 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2512.99 | 29 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2491.91 | 16 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2418.76 | 25 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2275.81 | 28 |
| (24) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2243.15 | 34 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2146.75 | 29 |
| (24) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2042.05 | 13 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1902.21 | 25 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1865.7 | 21 |
| 27 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1845.33 | 11 |
| 28 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1739.42 | 92 |
| 29 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1729.99 | 63 |
| 30 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1677.78 | 15 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1657.67 | 16 |
| 32 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1561.86 | 60 |
| 33 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1546.18 | 3 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1535.23 | 21 |
| 35 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1509.44 | 24 |
| 36 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1508.17 | 32 |
| 37 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1494.61 | 3 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1456.22 | 15 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1429.87 | 28 |
| 40 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1424.1 | 12 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1379.06 | 8 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1378.96 | 13 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1330.33 | 23 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1330.33 | 39 |
| 45 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1311.74 | 15 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1310.87 | 26 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1308.42 | 23 |
| (47) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1303.35 | 22 |
| 48 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1298.18 | 10 |
| (48) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1298.15 | 9 |
| 49 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1284.08 | 26 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1260.17 | 22 |
| 51 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 1231.91 | 8 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1215.82 | 85 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1205.59 | 22 |
| 54 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1189.2 | 20 |
| (54) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1188.16 | 8 |
| (54) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1179.21 | 16 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1176 | 22 |
| 56 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1172.19 | 30 |
| (56) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1152.14 | 7 |
| (56) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1139 | 4 |
| (56) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1112.3 | 7 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1080.12 | 27 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1063.05 | 12 |
| 58 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1048.45 | 11 |
| 59 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1037.02 | 10 |
| (59) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1024.69 | 18 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 989.12 | 29 |
| 61 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 934.85 | 9 |
| (61) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 927.59 | 4 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 910.18 | 30 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 856.45 | 32 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 836.51 | 19 |
| 65 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 836.1 | 9 |
| (65) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 761.77 | 14 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 722.96 | 24 |
| (66) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 721.7 | 4 |
| 67 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 719.67 | 20 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 702.71 | 38 |
| 69 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 695.52 | 5 |
| 70 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 692.8 | 53 |
| (70) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 685.67 | 4 |
| (70) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 685.27 | 5 |
| 71 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 681.56 | 9 |
| 72 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 640.58 | 7 |
| (72) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 628.58 | 2 |
| (72) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 626.71 | 10 |
| 73 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 624.3 | 14 |
| 74 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 613.73 | 45 |
| (74) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 601.77 | 3 |
| (74) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 600.13 | 12 |
| (74) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 598.72 | 5 |
| (74) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 592.28 | 2 |
| 75 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 586.89 | 13 |
| 76 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 578.1 | 35 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 570.62 | 11 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 567.17 | 15 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 560.44 | 21 |
| 80 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 537.7 | 8 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 533.36 | 29 |
| (81) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 532.76 | 1 |
| (81) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 532.76 | 1 |
| (81) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 529.97 | 24 |
| 82 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 528.18 | 6 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 518.27 | 8 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 515.03 | 28 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 513.37 | 9 |
| 85 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 513.25 | 15 |
| (85) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 512.66 | 5 |
| (85) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 508.8 | 25 |
| (85) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 503.44 | 2 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 484.04 | 32 |
| 87 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 483.5 | 10 |
| 88 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 467.99 | 51 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 463.97 | 11 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 460.47 | 11 |
| 91 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 453.15 | 6 |
| 92 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 451.88 | 23 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 451.36 | 14 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 448.35 | 8 |
| 95 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 447.72 | 3 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 442.55 | 12 |
| 97 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 442.2 | 11 |
| (97) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 441.81 | 16 |
| 98 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 438.69 | 16 |
| 99 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 435.91 | 4 |
| (99) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 434.85 | 8 |
| 100 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 434.85 | 9 |
| (100) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 434.27 | 3 |
| (100) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 430.69 | 22 |
| 101 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 430.69 | 22 |
| 102 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 426.95 | 23 |
| 103 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 419.1 | 11 |
| 104 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 417.46 | 13 |
| 105 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 409.54 | 3 |
| (105) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 404.56 | 1 |
| (105) | 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 | 396.2 | 12 |
| 106 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 394.24 | 7 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 393.18 | 17 |
| 108 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 388.62 | 33 |
| 109 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 388.1 | 93 |
| 110 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 387.26 | 9 |
| 111 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 384.54 | 33 |
| 112 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 383.71 | 47 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 381.38 | 16 |
| 114 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 380.66 | 10 |
| 115 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 379.35 | 16 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 373.18 | 10 |
| 117 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 370.27 | 21 |
| 118 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 365.07 | 35 |
| (118) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 359.18 | 1 |
| 119 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 353.64 | 23 |
| 120 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 351.98 | 2 |
| 121 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 346.61 | 6 |
| 122 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 341.26 | 8 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 340.86 | 5 |
| (123) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 340.29 | 7 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 333.87 | 15 |
| 125 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 324.82 | 10 |
| (125) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 323.01 | 9 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 315.61 | 39 |
| 127 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 311.05 | 11 |
| (127) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 310.54 | 2 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 308.44 | 6 |
| 129 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 307.31 | 13 |
| (129) | ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 304.52 | 4 |
| 130 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 300.56 | 35 |
| 131 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 298.21 | 18 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 295.55 | 12 |
| 133 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 294.37 | 14 |
| 134 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 289.7 | 7 |
| (134) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 289.7 | 7 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 288.48 | 18 |
| 136 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 286.46 | 10 |
| 137 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 286.04 | 6 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 283.12 | 15 |
| 139 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 283.03 | 6 |
| 140 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 282.34 | 8 |
| (140) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 280.88 | 7 |
| 141 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 277.19 | 5 |
| (141) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 272.3 | 9 |
| 142 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 270.18 | 12 |
| 143 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 269.41 | 28 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 266.23 | 13 |
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