| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 610979.99 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 246118.1 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 202792.01 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 108576.44 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 100454.94 | 31 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 80706.38 | 95 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 74442.02 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 73516.82 | 24 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 68722.54 | 27 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 65688.86 | 26 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 60951.31 | 29 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 57007.53 | 29 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 53917.64 | 26 |
| 14 | CESifo | München, Germany | 53672.92 | 66 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 50847.54 | 20 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 50662.21 | 12 |
| 17 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 49026.89 | 60 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 48661.16 | 29 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 47195.78 | 27 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 46753.29 | 16 |
| 20 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 45818.62 | 132 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 43732.75 | 25 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 43614.3 | 88 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 43387.29 | 36 |
| 23 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 42681.79 | 13 |
| 24 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 41905.87 | 95 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 41069.85 | 33 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 40145.29 | 30 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 39220.13 | 41 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 38106.3 | 22 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 37364.74 | 22 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 36931.66 | 16 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 36661.5 | 27 |
| (30) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 34499.83 | 30 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 34410.03 | 15 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 34366.31 | 20 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 33848.27 | 15 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 31336.88 | 42 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 31222.09 | 15 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 30867.32 | 22 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 29501.62 | 31 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 28636.03 | 27 |
| 39 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 28606.48 | 52 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 28244.24 | 33 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 27667.58 | 30 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 27554.07 | 29 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 27414.95 | 24 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 26860.14 | 21 |
| 45 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 26496.32 | 16 |
| (45) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 26014.85 | 12 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25948.32 | 11 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 25174.41 | 28 |
| 48 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 24333.76 | 18 |
| 49 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 24156.24 | 11 |
| 50 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 23862.59 | 22 |
| (50) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 23658.62 | 23 |
| 51 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 23658.62 | 23 |
| 52 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 23403.11 | 28 |
| 53 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23271.42 | 16 |
| 54 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 23174.97 | 35 |
| 55 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 22444.4 | 3 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 22353.5 | 36 |
| 57 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 21699.12 | 15 |
| 58 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 21492.35 | 10 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 20583.69 | 21 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 20504.59 | 36 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 19989.3 | 23 |
| 62 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 19462.42 | 8 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 18893.68 | 14 |
| 64 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 18887.83 | 8 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 18882.59 | 7 |
| 65 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 18842.67 | 3 |
| 66 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 18529.41 | 46 |
| 67 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 18518.92 | 29 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 18381.19 | 18 |
| 69 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 18294.35 | 9 |
| 70 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 18280.13 | 50 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 18082.59 | 28 |
| (71) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 17999.75 | 16 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17831.79 | 25 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 17504.18 | 19 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 16801.62 | 23 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 16030.28 | 12 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 16024.13 | 9 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 15787.93 | 11 |
| (76) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15745.34 | 28 |
| (76) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15456.95 | 7 |
| 77 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 15103.95 | 24 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14966.41 | 11 |
| 79 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14625.94 | 23 |
| 80 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 14599.28 | 56 |
| 81 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 14511.38 | 24 |
| (81) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14359.04 | 26 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 14340.44 | 10 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 14334.54 | 32 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 14284.6 | 16 |
| (84) | 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 | 14053.99 | 13 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 13837.25 | 17 |
| 86 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 13698.61 | 21 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13545.03 | 13 |
| 88 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 13317.98 | 25 |
| (88) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 13221.27 | 8 |
| 89 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 13118.6 | 10 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 13114.93 | 9 |
| 90 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 13072.57 | 14 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 12866.09 | 16 |
| (91) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12518.43 | 5 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 12264.24 | 11 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 12111.82 | 15 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 12047.79 | 37 |
| (94) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11816.78 | 18 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 11669.45 | 9 |
| (95) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 11553.41 | 12 |
| (95) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11470.39 | 14 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 11424.6 | 7 |
| (95) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11279.49 | 4 |
| (95) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11278.23 | 4 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 11255.2 | 32 |
| (96) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11210.11 | 6 |
| 97 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11183.81 | 11 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 11172.75 | 29 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 10943.4 | 12 |
| (99) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 10912.14 | 10 |
| 100 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10905.59 | 6 |
| 101 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 10762.75 | 18 |
| 102 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 10743.36 | 11 |
| 103 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10671.29 | 23 |
| 104 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 10664.89 | 15 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 10597.23 | 23 |
| 106 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 10582.16 | 13 |
| 107 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 10580.94 | 7 |
| 108 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 10547.57 | 35 |
| (108) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10510.85 | 2 |
| (108) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10499.11 | 7 |
| 109 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 10454.88 | 96 |
| 110 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 10397.25 | 14 |
| 111 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 10372.95 | 7 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10366.48 | 10 |
| (112) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10356.91 | 8 |
| 113 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10356.91 | 9 |
| 114 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 10200.97 | 8 |
| 115 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 10134.11 | 8 |
| 116 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 10133.14 | 17 |
| 117 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 10074.75 | 25 |
| 118 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 10001.7 | 8 |
| 119 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 9926.97 | 8 |
| (119) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9905.65 | 4 |
| 120 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 9875.35 | 30 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 9832.98 | 17 |
| (121) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9829.28 | 4 |
| 122 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9754.44 | 49 |
| (122) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9709.07 | 4 |
| 123 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9637.45 | 3 |
| 124 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 9614.04 | 6 |
| (124) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9582.11 | 5 |
| 125 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 9534.87 | 36 |
| 126 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9523.56 | 11 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 9447.04 | 6 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 9429.01 | 8 |
| 129 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9398.15 | 12 |
| 130 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 9325.03 | 10 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 9204.4 | 17 |
| 132 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9179.07 | 2 |
| (132) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 9053.88 | 12 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 8975.83 | 24 |
| (133) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8973.94 | 9 |
| 134 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 8938.69 | 9 |
| 135 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 8710.06 | 36 |
| 136 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 8697.76 | 54 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 8568.58 | 15 |
| 138 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8510.22 | 40 |
| (138) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8486.07 | 2 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 8405.92 | 14 |
| 140 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 8352.64 | 6 |
| 141 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 8192.29 | 9 |
| 142 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 8183.46 | 11 |
| 143 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 8168.03 | 16 |
| 144 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 8122.83 | 3 |
| (144) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 8062.62 | 8 |
| 145 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 8056.77 | 6 |
| (145) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8041.17 | 2 |
| (145) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 7779.8 | 3 |
| 146 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 7761.49 | 25 |
| 147 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 7712.47 | 21 |
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