| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 271173.97 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 79573.58 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 61434.08 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 52931.77 | 31 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 41617.58 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 33144.01 | 24 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 31212.2 | 31 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 28185.41 | 26 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 26976.6 | 29 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25268.38 | 27 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 24157.36 | 13 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 22115.41 | 95 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21438.1 | 26 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20312.44 | 132 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18918.13 | 27 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17797.52 | 16 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 17757.15 | 16 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 17571.15 | 29 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17516.44 | 36 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 17339.64 | 27 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 16680.72 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 16605.75 | 33 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 15222.24 | 29 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 14958.88 | 15 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 14324.87 | 30 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 13282.34 | 30 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12949.5 | 25 |
| (25) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12472.87 | 36 |
| (25) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 12328.01 | 12 |
| 26 | CESifo | München, Germany | 11914.59 | 66 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 11804.82 | 20 |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11716.3 | 11 |
| 29 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11341.14 | 15 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10559.01 | 22 |
| 31 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10524.09 | 95 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10511.24 | 16 |
| 33 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9992.52 | 12 |
| 34 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 9553.2 | 60 |
| 35 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9431.85 | 33 |
| 36 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 9424.32 | 24 |
| 37 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 9357.58 | 52 |
| 38 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9100.54 | 3 |
| 39 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8877.88 | 27 |
| 40 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8862.4 | 16 |
| 41 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 8834.39 | 3 |
| 42 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8762.59 | 6 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8735.14 | 15 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 8432.02 | 23 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 8420.32 | 88 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 8352.54 | 41 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8297.91 | 13 |
| (47) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 8197.19 | 22 |
| 48 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 8084.64 | 28 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 8015.46 | 21 |
| 50 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7993.86 | 20 |
| 51 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7823.54 | 11 |
| 52 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7650.71 | 10 |
| (52) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 7650.3 | 9 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 7614.47 | 23 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 7578.69 | 22 |
| 55 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 7540.14 | 28 |
| 56 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 7501.57 | 9 |
| (56) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7303.43 | 4 |
| (56) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7276.56 | 6 |
| 57 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 7249.85 | 29 |
| (57) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7208.95 | 16 |
| 58 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 7196.63 | 8 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7107.73 | 22 |
| (59) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7080.31 | 7 |
| (59) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7037.56 | 8 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6562.22 | 30 |
| (60) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6530.44 | 7 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 6455.3 | 31 |
| (61) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 6447.45 | 18 |
| (61) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6425.33 | 4 |
| 62 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6306.57 | 11 |
| (62) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6085.94 | 28 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 6076.02 | 12 |
| 64 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 5915.26 | 10 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5830.83 | 32 |
| 66 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5405.01 | 9 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 5266.63 | 29 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4834.67 | 36 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 4775.59 | 19 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4770.19 | 42 |
| (70) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4765.54 | 4 |
| 71 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 4620.09 | 21 |
| (71) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4619.7 | 1 |
| (71) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4599.18 | 14 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4546.49 | 24 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4336.2 | 21 |
| 74 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 4312.95 | 54 |
| (74) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4241.71 | 4 |
| (74) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 4072.37 | 10 |
| (74) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4050.47 | 2 |
| (74) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3994.99 | 5 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3965.26 | 11 |
| 76 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3963.12 | 14 |
| 77 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3901.81 | 46 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3891.5 | 28 |
| (78) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3840.14 | 12 |
| (78) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3826.4 | 1 |
| (78) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3826.4 | 1 |
| (78) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3822.63 | 25 |
| 79 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 3706.63 | 6 |
| (79) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3637.21 | 5 |
| (79) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3576.93 | 23 |
| 80 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3576.93 | 23 |
| 81 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3538.93 | 8 |
| (81) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3534.09 | 2 |
| 82 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3464.26 | 7 |
| (82) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3389.78 | 4 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 3388.31 | 8 |
| 84 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 3325.5 | 13 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 3255.14 | 32 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3225.69 | 9 |
| (85) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3203.49 | 26 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 3110.17 | 15 |
| (86) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3109.44 | 3 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 3091.95 | 15 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3081.53 | 13 |
| (88) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3019.05 | 2 |
| (88) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3008.64 | 16 |
| 89 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 2956.47 | 9 |
| 90 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 2948.12 | 16 |
| 91 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2935.85 | 8 |
| 92 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2910.96 | 25 |
| 93 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 2896.45 | 50 |
| 94 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 2883.21 | 16 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 2855.17 | 6 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2846.23 | 23 |
| 97 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 2819.91 | 10 |
| 98 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2799.01 | 96 |
| 99 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 2767.34 | 6 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2764.03 | 12 |
| 101 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2732.84 | 35 |
| 102 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2723.75 | 4 |
| 103 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 2721.16 | 11 |
| 104 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2684.04 | 8 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2666.29 | 16 |
| 106 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2640.7 | 11 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2626.22 | 10 |
| 108 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2605.89 | 2 |
| 109 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2587.99 | 3 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2587.44 | 18 |
| 111 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2517.44 | 2 |
| 112 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2511.36 | 16 |
| 113 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 2484.77 | 25 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2467.84 | 17 |
| (114) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2456.01 | 9 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2401.89 | 14 |
| (115) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2400.7 | 8 |
| 116 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2400.7 | 9 |
| (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 | 2399.49 | 13 |
| 117 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2367.35 | 11 |
| (117) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2364.8 | 1 |
| (117) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2352.95 | 3 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2349.63 | 16 |
| 119 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 2343.01 | 35 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2317.95 | 11 |
| 121 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2309.96 | 36 |
| 122 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2278.44 | 18 |
| 123 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 2249.84 | 10 |
| 124 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2241.67 | 8 |
| (124) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2241.67 | 8 |
| 125 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2233.95 | 3 |
| 126 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 2197.33 | 5 |
| 127 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2159.89 | 7 |
| 128 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2134.86 | 10 |
| (128) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2091.8 | 1 |
| 129 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2083.13 | 8 |
| (129) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2083.13 | 7 |
| (129) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2063.84 | 8 |
| 130 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2046.08 | 36 |
| 131 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 2032.49 | 6 |
| 132 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2022.87 | 40 |
| 133 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2006.73 | 13 |
| 134 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1963.99 | 9 |
| (134) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1963.66 | 1 |
| (134) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1962.38 | 2 |
| 135 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1961.16 | 21 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1948.12 | 13 |
| 137 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1945.74 | 15 |
| 138 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1903.89 | 11 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1902.68 | 14 |
| 140 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1889.62 | 18 |
| (140) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1852.34 | 3 |
| 141 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 1837.68 | 18 |
| 142 | Department of Commerce, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1828.3 | 27 |
| 143 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1820.3 | 22 |
| 144 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1757.58 | 12 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1757.18 | 9 |
| 146 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 1735.66 | 11 |
| (146) | ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1706.82 | 5 |
| 147 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1701.89 | 62 |
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