| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 156047.78 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 42516.74 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 36022.77 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 27964.36 | 31 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 27144.54 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 21395.19 | 24 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 19040.35 | 13 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 16960.73 | 29 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16511.5 | 31 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16023.6 | 26 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15378.12 | 27 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13115.49 | 95 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12610.85 | 27 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11828.65 | 26 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10698.67 | 29 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10671.43 | 27 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10184.56 | 16 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 10173.99 | 29 |
| 18 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10047.36 | 132 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9848.8 | 36 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 9438.2 | 16 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8773.76 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8612.38 | 33 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8135.61 | 30 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8009.04 | 16 |
| 24 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7741.65 | 6 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7435.16 | 11 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 7415.65 | 20 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7375.56 | 30 |
| 28 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7322.54 | 15 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7154.85 | 15 |
| (29) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7120.07 | 12 |
| (29) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7104.47 | 36 |
| 30 | CESifo | München, Germany | 6784.88 | 66 |
| 31 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 6663.75 | 12 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6311.07 | 25 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6081.02 | 22 |
| 34 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6047.68 | 33 |
| 35 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5661.82 | 3 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5447.9 | 60 |
| 37 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 5379.92 | 3 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5250.35 | 15 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5089.97 | 20 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5062.21 | 88 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4969.78 | 23 |
| 42 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4848.76 | 41 |
| 43 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4797 | 28 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4774.48 | 22 |
| (43) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4757.36 | 16 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4647.7 | 24 |
| 45 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4605.33 | 95 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4491.03 | 11 |
| 47 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4486.15 | 27 |
| (47) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4463.25 | 1 |
| 48 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4377.73 | 16 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4328.04 | 21 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4314.55 | 22 |
| (50) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4302 | 4 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4223.43 | 31 |
| 52 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4223.28 | 10 |
| (52) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4223.08 | 9 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4221.69 | 22 |
| 54 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4137.75 | 11 |
| (54) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4079.87 | 4 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3902.02 | 18 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3890.67 | 28 |
| 56 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3871.19 | 9 |
| (56) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3759.09 | 7 |
| 57 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3755.42 | 29 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3683.57 | 13 |
| 59 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 3667.21 | 9 |
| 60 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3636.5 | 52 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3533.59 | 23 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3456.5 | 32 |
| (62) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3370.97 | 8 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3330.6 | 12 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3240.69 | 42 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3230.85 | 19 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3197.67 | 30 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3179.74 | 10 |
| 68 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 3131.32 | 8 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 3035.76 | 29 |
| (69) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3019.96 | 7 |
| 70 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2791.71 | 36 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2741.45 | 28 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2700.33 | 9 |
| (70) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2657.89 | 4 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2627.91 | 28 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2582.57 | 25 |
| (71) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2550.47 | 5 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2520.62 | 21 |
| (72) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2437.59 | 6 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 2437.17 | 8 |
| (73) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2374.27 | 14 |
| (73) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2301.53 | 4 |
| (73) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2261.73 | 2 |
| 74 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2237.13 | 21 |
| 75 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2233.23 | 6 |
| 76 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2201.95 | 24 |
| 77 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2169.57 | 7 |
| 78 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2097.8 | 14 |
| 79 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2047.52 | 4 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2041.51 | 15 |
| (80) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2040.45 | 12 |
| 81 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2029.84 | 54 |
| 82 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1990.05 | 8 |
| (82) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1946.73 | 10 |
| (82) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1941.15 | 2 |
| (82) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1928.54 | 3 |
| (82) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1907.24 | 1 |
| (82) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1907.24 | 1 |
| (82) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1901.25 | 5 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1887.46 | 15 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1883.66 | 8 |
| 85 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1859.11 | 9 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1845.29 | 11 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1812.77 | 13 |
| (87) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1757.59 | 2 |
| 88 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1743.04 | 46 |
| 89 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1734.45 | 25 |
| (89) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1723.81 | 4 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1711.98 | 18 |
| (90) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1655.24 | 1 |
| 91 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1630.26 | 13 |
| (91) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1597.34 | 1 |
| 92 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1584.86 | 16 |
| 93 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1579.85 | 50 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1579.81 | 35 |
| 95 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1575.69 | 16 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1571.53 | 23 |
| (96) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1563.1 | 16 |
| 97 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1546.31 | 96 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1539.51 | 32 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1525.6 | 14 |
| (99) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1511.7 | 9 |
| (99) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1500.06 | 26 |
| 100 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 1495.31 | 10 |
| 101 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1485.17 | 8 |
| 102 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1479.91 | 18 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1477.78 | 11 |
| 104 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1474.01 | 10 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1466.4 | 6 |
| 106 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1459.29 | 16 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1429.58 | 12 |
| (107) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1413.95 | 23 |
| 108 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1413.95 | 23 |
| 109 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1396.49 | 2 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1373.67 | 16 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1360.9 | 16 |
| (111) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1358.61 | 2 |
| 112 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1336.19 | 11 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1333.34 | 10 |
| 114 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1328.55 | 6 |
| (114) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1328.22 | 8 |
| 115 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1327.31 | 8 |
| (115) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1327.31 | 7 |
| (115) | 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 | 1300.13 | 13 |
| 116 | Department of Commerce, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1298.84 | 27 |
| (116) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1285.59 | 1 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1281.17 | 13 |
| 118 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1267.25 | 11 |
| 119 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1266.76 | 2 |
| 120 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1264.01 | 36 |
| (120) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1261.07 | 8 |
| 121 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1261.07 | 9 |
| 122 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1254.51 | 13 |
| 123 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1254.46 | 10 |
| 124 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1243.9 | 36 |
| 125 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1243.28 | 1 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1225.26 | 17 |
| 127 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1219.51 | 11 |
| 128 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1190.63 | 25 |
| 129 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1185.38 | 8 |
| (129) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1185.38 | 8 |
| 130 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1178.11 | 12 |
| (130) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1155.15 | 3 |
| 131 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1140.23 | 7 |
| 132 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 1133.58 | 5 |
| 133 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1118.52 | 3 |
| (133) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1109.34 | 7 |
| 134 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1102.58 | 9 |
| 135 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1080.12 | 11 |
| 136 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1064.57 | 21 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1051.68 | 9 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1051.42 | 9 |
| 138 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1050.24 | 5 |
| 139 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 1017.16 | 6 |
| 140 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1011.63 | 18 |
| 141 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1007.78 | 3 |
| 142 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 1007.26 | 17 |
| 143 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 970.55 | 15 |
| (143) | Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 963.33 | 7 |
| 144 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 961.26 | 11 |
| (144) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 948.35 | 2 |
| 145 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 945.35 | 10 |
| (145) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 945.35 | 9 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 944.45 | 14 |
| (146) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 944.38 | 3 |
| 147 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 943.13 | 3 |
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