| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44604.02 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 15660.16 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 13288.86 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8124.54 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7129.24 | 31 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5440.92 | 31 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5433.27 | 27 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5046.83 | 95 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4925.27 | 24 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4858.98 | 26 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4568.54 | 29 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4408.7 | 29 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4014.34 | 12 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4012.1 | 29 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3910.54 | 26 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3617.06 | 20 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3499.26 | 16 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3180.43 | 132 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3162.2 | 27 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3057.97 | 60 |
| 20 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3041.27 | 13 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3027.33 | 36 |
| 21 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2901.8 | 66 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2843.76 | 33 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2698.02 | 30 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2536.67 | 88 |
| 25 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2526.41 | 41 |
| 26 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2480.88 | 95 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2439.32 | 25 |
| 28 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2409.55 | 16 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2395.74 | 22 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2371.02 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2331.88 | 27 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2255.93 | 20 |
| 32 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2238.97 | 16 |
| (32) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2205.93 | 30 |
| 33 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2195.14 | 15 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2184.46 | 31 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2085.63 | 22 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2080.04 | 15 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2071.88 | 15 |
| 38 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2039.37 | 16 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1937.02 | 24 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1915.76 | 36 |
| 41 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1906.62 | 9 |
| 42 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1859.72 | 33 |
| 43 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1813.84 | 11 |
| 44 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1791.21 | 15 |
| 45 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1731.04 | 27 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1700.23 | 42 |
| 47 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1696.66 | 3 |
| (47) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1670.7 | 12 |
| 48 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1662.98 | 11 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1628.34 | 29 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1619.44 | 21 |
| (50) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1559.34 | 5 |
| 51 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1486.24 | 28 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1476.19 | 35 |
| 53 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1427.17 | 28 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1418.56 | 30 |
| 55 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1397.25 | 8 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1343.5 | 21 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1331.32 | 22 |
| 58 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1325.39 | 3 |
| (58) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1324.86 | 16 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1268.31 | 19 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1261.96 | 28 |
| (60) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1243.52 | 25 |
| 61 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1229.39 | 29 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1218.12 | 18 |
| 63 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1212.4 | 18 |
| 64 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1206.42 | 52 |
| 65 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1154.06 | 10 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1153.4 | 23 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1122.14 | 12 |
| 68 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1080.91 | 11 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1048.77 | 36 |
| (69) | 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 | 1031.81 | 13 |
| (69) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1023.99 | 28 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1022.03 | 11 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1020.2 | 15 |
| (71) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1018.17 | 23 |
| 72 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1018.17 | 23 |
| (72) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 994.69 | 7 |
| (72) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 992.57 | 9 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 989.88 | 32 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 964.06 | 14 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 958.02 | 16 |
| 76 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 956.88 | 8 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 956.87 | 7 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 950.24 | 50 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 930.54 | 23 |
| 79 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 923.27 | 14 |
| 80 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 914.38 | 46 |
| (80) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 914.31 | 4 |
| (80) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 910.48 | 8 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 905.24 | 8 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 904.19 | 10 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 891.26 | 17 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 885.57 | 9 |
| (84) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 872.14 | 4 |
| (84) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 871.2 | 12 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 866.87 | 11 |
| 86 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 853.68 | 7 |
| (86) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 849.1 | 8 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 840.89 | 23 |
| (87) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 833.03 | 26 |
| 88 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 825.38 | 9 |
| 89 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 819.25 | 10 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 819.2 | 9 |
| 90 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 813.51 | 24 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 804.66 | 16 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 800.16 | 11 |
| 93 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 793.7 | 21 |
| 94 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 792.28 | 4 |
| 95 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 784.67 | 8 |
| 96 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 777.02 | 6 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 774.48 | 17 |
| (97) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 740.82 | 4 |
| 98 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 731.41 | 7 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 709.98 | 37 |
| 100 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 708.22 | 15 |
| 101 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 707.01 | 11 |
| (101) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 697.4 | 8 |
| 102 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 697.4 | 9 |
| (102) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 695.51 | 1 |
| (102) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 695.51 | 1 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 691.47 | 13 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 691.31 | 15 |
| 105 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 687.62 | 24 |
| 106 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 686.41 | 18 |
| 107 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 676.43 | 56 |
| (107) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 674.58 | 18 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 670.04 | 17 |
| (108) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 668.71 | 10 |
| (108) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 668.04 | 14 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 667.65 | 25 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 662.37 | 29 |
| (110) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 653.21 | 4 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 646.38 | 24 |
| (111) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 645.68 | 2 |
| 112 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 638.2 | 8 |
| 113 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 635.89 | 10 |
| 114 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 630.14 | 23 |
| 115 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 627.51 | 13 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 622.89 | 12 |
| 117 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 619.4 | 8 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 618.21 | 14 |
| 119 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 610.79 | 6 |
| 120 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 610.45 | 9 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 608.91 | 14 |
| 122 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 601.37 | 11 |
| (122) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 594.12 | 3 |
| (122) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 586.47 | 7 |
| (122) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 583.23 | 2 |
| 123 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 579.53 | 14 |
| 124 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 577.83 | 15 |
| (124) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 566.72 | 2 |
| 125 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 565.29 | 25 |
| (125) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 557.22 | 4 |
| 126 | Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Kowloon, Hong Kong | 555.93 | 8 |
| (126) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 554.12 | 20 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 548.37 | 10 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 540.12 | 23 |
| 129 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 537.34 | 36 |
| (129) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 535.91 | 9 |
| 130 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 535.58 | 3 |
| 131 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 535.49 | 54 |
| (131) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 535.37 | 5 |
| 132 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 533.11 | 12 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 518.27 | 5 |
| 134 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 517.93 | 17 |
| 135 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 508.06 | 11 |
| 136 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 507.58 | 6 |
| 137 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 505.66 | 13 |
| 138 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 500.28 | 13 |
| 139 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 493.84 | 1 |
| 140 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 493.13 | 21 |
| (140) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 489.16 | 6 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 487.64 | 32 |
| 142 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 486.67 | 9 |
| 143 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 485.58 | 16 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 482.71 | 6 |
| 145 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 481.13 | 11 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, North Carolina State University | Raleigh, North Carolina (USA) | 476.03 | 7 |
| 147 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 475.05 | 35 |
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