| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 58824.76 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 18453.95 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 15721.45 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10729.58 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10202.04 | 31 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7586.07 | 24 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7285.08 | 13 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6702.5 | 29 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6570.33 | 31 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6369.65 | 95 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5904.54 | 26 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5680.7 | 27 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4873.16 | 26 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4825.45 | 27 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4609.58 | 29 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4348.99 | 29 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4342.15 | 132 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4255.16 | 16 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3982.2 | 27 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3873.12 | 36 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3813.23 | 30 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3665.99 | 33 |
| 21 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3516.58 | 66 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3408.75 | 16 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3384.22 | 36 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3345.19 | 30 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3253.61 | 11 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3176.99 | 20 |
| 26 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3163.16 | 6 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3162.41 | 16 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3082.75 | 15 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2914.97 | 12 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2844.94 | 88 |
| 31 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2823.73 | 15 |
| 32 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2545.78 | 28 |
| 33 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2499.19 | 95 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2443.01 | 25 |
| (34) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2390.41 | 12 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2389.07 | 20 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2377.91 | 15 |
| 37 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2359.75 | 60 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2314 | 15 |
| 39 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2223.44 | 33 |
| 40 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2164.91 | 3 |
| 41 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2144.41 | 27 |
| 42 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 2098.91 | 3 |
| 43 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2069.33 | 41 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2054.43 | 23 |
| 45 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2048.91 | 11 |
| (45) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2029.91 | 22 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2018.51 | 22 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1958.15 | 28 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1802.33 | 31 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1787.9 | 21 |
| 50 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1778.5 | 24 |
| 51 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1765.91 | 9 |
| 52 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1755.28 | 52 |
| 53 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1750.48 | 16 |
| (53) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1690.55 | 4 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1687.49 | 29 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1676.84 | 22 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1675.66 | 11 |
| (56) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1656.61 | 16 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1647.41 | 18 |
| (56) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1595.83 | 4 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1592.66 | 29 |
| (57) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1584 | 1 |
| (57) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1526.58 | 7 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1512.91 | 22 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1508.5 | 30 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1462.41 | 23 |
| 61 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1439.58 | 36 |
| 62 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1424.75 | 10 |
| (62) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1423.25 | 9 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1313.49 | 12 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1308.91 | 42 |
| 65 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1307.99 | 10 |
| 66 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 1293.16 | 8 |
| 67 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1272.58 | 9 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1263.18 | 32 |
| (68) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1236.25 | 8 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1214.33 | 13 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1214.14 | 19 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1162.16 | 9 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1154.49 | 21 |
| (71) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1132.64 | 28 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1129.38 | 21 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1114.83 | 28 |
| (73) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1095.5 | 25 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1067.16 | 8 |
| 75 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1046.96 | 24 |
| (75) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1023.74 | 14 |
| (75) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1022.33 | 5 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1011.41 | 46 |
| 77 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 996.62 | 54 |
| (77) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 987.9 | 6 |
| (77) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 981.33 | 4 |
| (77) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 977.54 | 10 |
| 78 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 975.66 | 50 |
| (78) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 969.16 | 7 |
| (78) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 966 | 4 |
| (78) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 936.01 | 26 |
| 79 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 896.64 | 18 |
| 80 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 884.16 | 14 |
| 81 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 879.01 | 9 |
| 82 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 867.08 | 6 |
| (82) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 856.99 | 12 |
| 83 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 855.56 | 25 |
| 84 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 851.84 | 96 |
| 85 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 849.91 | 4 |
| (85) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 845 | 4 |
| (85) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 833.5 | 2 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 830.49 | 11 |
| 87 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 828.91 | 8 |
| 88 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 827.44 | 23 |
| 89 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 827.14 | 35 |
| 90 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 819.99 | 7 |
| 91 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 804.5 | 8 |
| 92 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 777.96 | 25 |
| 93 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 776.25 | 8 |
| (93) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 776.25 | 7 |
| (93) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 768.91 | 2 |
| 94 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 761.91 | 10 |
| (94) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 755.4 | 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) | 755.4 | 1 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 745.24 | 15 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 744.08 | 15 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 743.99 | 18 |
| 98 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 740.08 | 36 |
| (98) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 735.16 | 2 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 734 | 32 |
| (99) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 733.83 | 3 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 728.5 | 13 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 724.99 | 14 |
| 102 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 702.49 | 8 |
| (102) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 684.5 | 1 |
| (102) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 676.22 | 5 |
| 103 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 643.08 | 36 |
| 104 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 642.16 | 16 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 638 | 6 |
| (105) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 633.63 | 23 |
| 106 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 633.63 | 23 |
| (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 | 633 | 13 |
| 107 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 626.91 | 23 |
| 108 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 620.91 | 16 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 611.56 | 16 |
| 110 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 601.56 | 13 |
| 111 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 598.35 | 15 |
| 112 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 581.5 | 16 |
| (112) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 580 | 9 |
| (112) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 579.91 | 3 |
| (112) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 568 | 1 |
| 113 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 567.11 | 21 |
| 114 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 563.58 | 2 |
| 115 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 546.74 | 37 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 546.61 | 12 |
| 117 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 544 | 18 |
| (117) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 543.58 | 2 |
| 118 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 543.41 | 11 |
| 119 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 540.65 | 6 |
| (119) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 538.25 | 16 |
| 120 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 537.33 | 2 |
| 121 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 533.01 | 10 |
| 122 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 529.66 | 11 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 522.79 | 16 |
| 124 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 514.66 | 7 |
| 125 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 512 | 10 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 509.41 | 13 |
| (126) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 507.5 | 1 |
| 127 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 504.78 | 8 |
| (127) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 504.78 | 8 |
| 128 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 504.66 | 5 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 502.33 | 10 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 501 | 9 |
| 131 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 500.7 | 13 |
| 132 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 500.58 | 11 |
| 133 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 496.51 | 40 |
| 134 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 495.72 | 17 |
| 135 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 484.66 | 24 |
| 136 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 483.76 | 62 |
| 137 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 479.56 | 11 |
| (137) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 471.49 | 8 |
| (137) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 471.25 | 8 |
| 137 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 471.25 | 9 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 461.33 | 17 |
| 140 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 460.5 | 12 |
| 141 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 459.74 | 10 |
| (141) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 459.74 | 9 |
| 142 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 455.78 | 9 |
| 143 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 454.28 | 21 |
| 144 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 453.16 | 1 |
| 145 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 451.08 | 12 |
| 146 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 450.96 | 14 |
| 147 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 448.36 | 35 |
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