| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 48594.69 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 18931.93 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 14756.58 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7919.32 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7547.33 | 31 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5777.43 | 95 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5548.86 | 27 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5481.92 | 29 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4598.06 | 31 |
| 10 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4440.09 | 66 |
| 11 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4083.51 | 12 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3922.59 | 29 |
| 13 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3772.81 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3749.73 | 24 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3729.48 | 26 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3690.01 | 132 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3617.44 | 13 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3487.76 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3319.74 | 29 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3294.67 | 16 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3208.46 | 20 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3198.38 | 30 |
| 21 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3127.41 | 20 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3024.2 | 33 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2913.67 | 27 |
| 24 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2890.98 | 60 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2728.91 | 88 |
| (25) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2646.62 | 36 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2642.19 | 16 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2595.89 | 25 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2560.2 | 15 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2411 | 15 |
| 30 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2403.8 | 95 |
| 31 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2388.26 | 41 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2356.98 | 22 |
| 33 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2338.83 | 33 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2335.44 | 31 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2258.45 | 22 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2211.19 | 30 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2175.39 | 36 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2173.07 | 22 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2072.72 | 15 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1925.24 | 22 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1912.37 | 27 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1886.13 | 29 |
| (41) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1874.47 | 12 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1779.17 | 11 |
| 43 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1774.29 | 16 |
| 44 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1712.34 | 35 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1702.46 | 23 |
| 46 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1681.87 | 11 |
| 47 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1673.28 | 19 |
| 48 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1672.7 | 24 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1591.31 | 42 |
| 50 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1569.7 | 28 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1568.2 | 30 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1552.67 | 21 |
| 53 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1531.08 | 52 |
| 54 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1497.75 | 28 |
| (54) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1468.07 | 4 |
| 55 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1459.68 | 36 |
| 56 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1441.33 | 29 |
| 57 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1401.16 | 11 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1389.55 | 32 |
| 59 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1379.03 | 18 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1365.01 | 15 |
| (60) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1364.37 | 18 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1363.09 | 10 |
| (61) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1357.39 | 16 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1341.64 | 21 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1339.39 | 18 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1334.63 | 28 |
| 65 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1329.72 | 15 |
| (65) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1314.93 | 25 |
| 66 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1280.11 | 16 |
| (66) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1264.77 | 9 |
| 67 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1226.77 | 9 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1213.22 | 12 |
| 69 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1201.25 | 24 |
| (69) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1195.39 | 7 |
| 70 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1191.41 | 50 |
| 71 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1161.52 | 11 |
| (71) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1157.87 | 4 |
| 72 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1142.77 | 4 |
| 73 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1135.99 | 25 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1116.3 | 16 |
| 75 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1113.68 | 46 |
| 76 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1112.78 | 21 |
| 77 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1077.49 | 6 |
| 78 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1074.9 | 3 |
| 79 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1064.52 | 8 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1064.4 | 7 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1050.89 | 23 |
| (80) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1042.85 | 26 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1039.46 | 14 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1029.29 | 13 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1022.1 | 11 |
| (83) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 996.98 | 28 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 988.69 | 10 |
| (84) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 965.61 | 14 |
| 85 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 963.63 | 96 |
| 86 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 951.69 | 8 |
| (86) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 950.66 | 23 |
| 87 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 950.66 | 23 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 938.71 | 37 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 935.54 | 9 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 919.44 | 32 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 911.84 | 23 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 901.76 | 12 |
| (92) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 898.49 | 10 |
| 93 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 894.92 | 8 |
| 94 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 886.03 | 10 |
| (94) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 885.82 | 9 |
| (94) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 867.95 | 2 |
| 95 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 864.81 | 54 |
| 96 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 827.37 | 36 |
| (96) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 825.75 | 2 |
| 97 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 822.68 | 3 |
| (97) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 810.79 | 1 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 807.04 | 9 |
| 99 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 804.63 | 36 |
| 100 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 802.8 | 17 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 791.53 | 16 |
| 102 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 774.57 | 18 |
| 103 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 770.47 | 11 |
| 104 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 757.13 | 24 |
| 105 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 755.07 | 7 |
| 106 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 754.44 | 56 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 753.41 | 8 |
| (107) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 734.49 | 7 |
| 108 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 727.95 | 14 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 717.57 | 10 |
| (109) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 709.3 | 4 |
| (109) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 696.36 | 8 |
| (109) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 695.06 | 5 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 693.69 | 15 |
| 111 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 690.04 | 21 |
| 112 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 687.53 | 25 |
| (112) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 678.5 | 12 |
| (112) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 676.74 | 16 |
| 113 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 675.53 | 25 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 674.9 | 14 |
| 115 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 664.56 | 25 |
| 116 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 662.26 | 17 |
| (116) | 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 | 660.24 | 13 |
| (116) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 658.58 | 2 |
| 117 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 654.85 | 35 |
| 118 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 653.96 | 8 |
| 119 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 648.25 | 49 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 647.38 | 11 |
| 121 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 646.31 | 21 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 645.33 | 17 |
| (122) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 642.68 | 4 |
| 123 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 638.03 | 6 |
| 124 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 636.12 | 9 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 622.51 | 17 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 620.39 | 29 |
| 127 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 617.57 | 11 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 615.26 | 13 |
| 129 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 611.59 | 15 |
| 130 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 608.53 | 13 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 608.05 | 12 |
| (131) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 606.42 | 4 |
| 132 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 598.11 | 30 |
| 133 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 594.99 | 10 |
| (133) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 591.57 | 2 |
| 134 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 589.02 | 10 |
| 135 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 588.06 | 11 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 578.04 | 12 |
| 137 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 573.74 | 14 |
| 138 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 566.81 | 16 |
| 139 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 549.51 | 5 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 542.79 | 17 |
| 141 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 541.55 | 13 |
| 142 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 540.87 | 28 |
| 143 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 539.74 | 2 |
| 144 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 533.99 | 6 |
| (144) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 533.97 | 9 |
| 145 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 533.49 | 16 |
| 146 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 530.51 | 8 |
| 147 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 515.17 | 28 |
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