| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 35594.42 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 11004.6 | 209 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7926.8 | 31 |
| 4 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 7581.81 | 264 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5906.23 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4331.21 | 31 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4082.29 | 26 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3975.39 | 24 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3613.01 | 29 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3545.02 | 27 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3014.61 | 13 |
| 12 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2951.68 | 95 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2821.96 | 132 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2451.33 | 26 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2443.7 | 16 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2426.54 | 27 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2417.83 | 27 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2220.94 | 33 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2218.36 | 15 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2155.09 | 15 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2121.19 | 36 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2090.95 | 29 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2054.55 | 16 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2005.97 | 30 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1881.34 | 29 |
| (24) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1823.27 | 30 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1706.02 | 20 |
| (25) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1665.83 | 36 |
| (25) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1575.53 | 12 |
| 26 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1549.8 | 95 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1513.61 | 25 |
| 28 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1486.68 | 15 |
| 29 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1476.64 | 11 |
| 30 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1426.3 | 66 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1410.41 | 22 |
| 32 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1348.44 | 52 |
| 33 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1344.83 | 16 |
| 34 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1257.92 | 12 |
| 35 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1221.58 | 16 |
| 36 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1213.21 | 6 |
| 37 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1198.85 | 24 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1188.17 | 33 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1138.08 | 88 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1126.28 | 23 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1124.3 | 13 |
| 42 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1089.57 | 28 |
| (42) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1084.72 | 6 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1083.31 | 15 |
| 44 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1083.03 | 20 |
| 45 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1056.83 | 29 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1056.55 | 28 |
| 47 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1052.75 | 60 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1050.55 | 22 |
| 49 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1020.48 | 27 |
| 50 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 994.07 | 9 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 976.68 | 22 |
| 52 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 957.88 | 41 |
| (52) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 951.12 | 7 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 945.1 | 23 |
| (53) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 937.78 | 22 |
| 54 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 913 | 3 |
| 55 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 896.05 | 8 |
| 56 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 893.63 | 10 |
| (56) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 893.61 | 9 |
| (56) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 887.5 | 16 |
| 57 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 887 | 3 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 885.49 | 18 |
| (57) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 869.03 | 8 |
| (57) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 862.46 | 4 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 845.7 | 30 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 840.64 | 21 |
| 60 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 837.9 | 11 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 830.47 | 31 |
| (61) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 826.49 | 28 |
| (61) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 806.11 | 7 |
| (61) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 788.72 | 4 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 756.34 | 10 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 749.61 | 32 |
| 64 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 746.15 | 11 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 736.86 | 12 |
| (65) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 719.53 | 1 |
| 66 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 695.2 | 9 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 691.72 | 29 |
| 68 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 682.71 | 54 |
| (68) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 660.92 | 2 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 659.57 | 21 |
| (69) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 640.27 | 5 |
| 70 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 622.14 | 14 |
| (70) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 621.07 | 1 |
| (70) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 621.07 | 1 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 619.33 | 19 |
| (71) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 602.15 | 12 |
| (71) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 592.5 | 10 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 588.4 | 24 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 578.97 | 42 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 564.47 | 21 |
| (74) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 549.87 | 14 |
| 75 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 548.27 | 36 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 546.75 | 8 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 544.16 | 28 |
| (77) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 540.68 | 26 |
| 78 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 538.88 | 4 |
| (78) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 534.5 | 25 |
| (78) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 526.1 | 4 |
| 79 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 519.27 | 46 |
| (79) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 502.06 | 4 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 500.29 | 32 |
| 81 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 473.8 | 7 |
| (81) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 465.32 | 2 |
| 82 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 465.32 | 8 |
| 83 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 464.39 | 6 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 452.53 | 11 |
| 85 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 445.68 | 16 |
| 86 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 441.55 | 13 |
| (86) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 439.16 | 5 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 438.78 | 13 |
| (87) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 435.74 | 1 |
| (87) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 435.25 | 23 |
| 88 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 435.25 | 23 |
| (88) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 424.37 | 3 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 419.69 | 15 |
| 90 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 407.31 | 2 |
| 91 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 397.57 | 10 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 395.95 | 9 |
| 92 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 395.79 | 8 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 395.05 | 23 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 391.03 | 12 |
| 95 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 388.62 | 6 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 384.61 | 35 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 380.46 | 16 |
| 98 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 372.52 | 8 |
| 99 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 371.9 | 50 |
| 100 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 371.45 | 25 |
| (100) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 370.74 | 9 |
| 101 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 369.98 | 3 |
| 102 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 365.61 | 96 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 362.46 | 17 |
| 104 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 362.06 | 35 |
| (104) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 361.3 | 2 |
| (104) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 361.11 | 16 |
| (104) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 360.08 | 4 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 357.35 | 13 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 351.2 | 15 |
| (106) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 345.63 | 3 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 345.53 | 18 |
| 108 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 345.19 | 12 |
| 109 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 343.76 | 7 |
| 110 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 340.05 | 3 |
| 111 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 319.87 | 18 |
| 112 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 315.17 | 11 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 313.65 | 10 |
| (113) | 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 | 313.02 | 13 |
| 114 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 308.33 | 16 |
| 115 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 302.95 | 11 |
| (115) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 302.88 | 8 |
| 116 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 302.88 | 9 |
| 117 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 302.08 | 9 |
| (117) | Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 301.44 | 9 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 299.7 | 16 |
| 119 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 299.53 | 16 |
| 120 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 299.53 | 11 |
| (120) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 296.13 | 1 |
| 121 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 294.03 | 11 |
| 122 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 291.19 | 10 |
| 123 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 287.18 | 25 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 286.9 | 6 |
| 125 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 286.48 | 21 |
| 126 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 285.69 | 13 |
| 127 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 283.82 | 6 |
| 128 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 279.48 | 36 |
| 129 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 275.93 | 18 |
| 130 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 270.22 | 10 |
| (130) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 268.5 | 8 |
| 131 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 268.33 | 5 |
| 132 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 261.04 | 11 |
| (132) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 259.99 | 2 |
| 133 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 256.31 | 11 |
| 134 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 253.36 | 9 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 252.52 | 14 |
| 136 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 251.31 | 15 |
| 137 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 248.95 | 15 |
| (137) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 247.62 | 1 |
| (137) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 247.51 | 3 |
| (137) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 246.04 | 3 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 243.02 | 9 |
| 138 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 241.71 | 6 |
| 139 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 241.48 | 8 |
| (139) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 241.48 | 7 |
| 140 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 240.62 | 40 |
| 141 | Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) | Bern/Zürich, Switzerland | 240.08 | 12 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 237.68 | 14 |
| 143 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 236.51 | 2 |
| 144 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent | Gent, Belgium | 233.68 | 16 |
| (144) | Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 232.03 | 6 |
| 145 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 231.11 | 8 |
| (145) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 231.11 | 8 |
| 146 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 230.7 | 5 |
| 147 | Paul Merage School of Business, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 228.85 | 3 |
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