| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 71725.11 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 27232.29 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 21299.94 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13026.3 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11075.11 | 31 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9208.79 | 31 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8426.44 | 95 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8292.04 | 27 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8098.53 | 26 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7779.3 | 24 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6926.62 | 29 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6402.64 | 26 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6398.48 | 29 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6295.35 | 132 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6275.72 | 29 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5641.02 | 16 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5341.71 | 12 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5331.63 | 27 |
| (17) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5049.06 | 36 |
| 18 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5042.55 | 95 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4959.13 | 20 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4915.9 | 60 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4573.51 | 33 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4513.93 | 66 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4510.99 | 25 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4466.3 | 30 |
| 25 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4256.78 | 41 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4198.21 | 22 |
| 27 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4171.36 | 13 |
| (27) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3997.24 | 22 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3885.8 | 88 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3735 | 27 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3713.73 | 16 |
| 31 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3679.1 | 16 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3524.71 | 20 |
| 33 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3485.88 | 24 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3446.43 | 22 |
| 35 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3381.97 | 27 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3379.06 | 15 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3339.31 | 15 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3321.2 | 31 |
| (38) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3315.32 | 30 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3297.01 | 15 |
| 40 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3286.91 | 16 |
| 41 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3133.36 | 15 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3127.58 | 36 |
| 43 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3103.27 | 33 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2878.61 | 11 |
| 45 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2834.99 | 28 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2747.22 | 42 |
| 47 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2727.3 | 3 |
| 48 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2723.3 | 11 |
| (48) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2713.24 | 12 |
| 49 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2619.15 | 9 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2615.01 | 29 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2571.26 | 30 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2547.38 | 21 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2459.56 | 22 |
| 54 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2351.27 | 35 |
| (54) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2307.5 | 23 |
| 55 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2307.5 | 23 |
| (55) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2279.73 | 28 |
| 56 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2271.29 | 29 |
| 57 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2261.93 | 8 |
| 58 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 2220.66 | 3 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2217.59 | 21 |
| 60 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2197.85 | 28 |
| (60) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2179.02 | 16 |
| 61 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2178.83 | 52 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2157.16 | 10 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2156.09 | 23 |
| (63) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2124.63 | 5 |
| (63) | 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 | 2000.89 | 13 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1947.9 | 28 |
| 65 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1942.04 | 46 |
| (65) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1917.03 | 25 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1866.1 | 19 |
| 67 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1852.29 | 18 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1823.28 | 18 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1785.18 | 12 |
| (69) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1706.42 | 4 |
| 70 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1705.28 | 36 |
| (70) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1688.52 | 8 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1665.77 | 17 |
| (71) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1651.68 | 26 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1641.43 | 14 |
| 73 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1637.85 | 23 |
| (73) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1615.22 | 7 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1601.74 | 11 |
| 75 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1595.37 | 24 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1595.2 | 16 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1579.8 | 11 |
| 78 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1575.76 | 7 |
| 79 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1560.15 | 14 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1552.99 | 23 |
| 81 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1541.37 | 9 |
| 82 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1537.8 | 21 |
| 83 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1494.94 | 50 |
| 84 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1470.17 | 10 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1470.07 | 9 |
| (84) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1455.77 | 4 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1444.61 | 11 |
| (85) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1440.12 | 12 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1440.12 | 32 |
| 87 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1414.76 | 56 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1408.36 | 15 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1402.13 | 9 |
| 90 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1397.19 | 8 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1397.15 | 7 |
| 91 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1370.99 | 10 |
| (91) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1356.09 | 8 |
| 92 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1356.09 | 9 |
| 93 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1347.75 | 11 |
| (93) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1323.89 | 14 |
| (93) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1318.74 | 10 |
| 94 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1311.92 | 24 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1292.69 | 17 |
| (95) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1283.18 | 8 |
| (95) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1258.86 | 1 |
| (95) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1258.86 | 1 |
| (95) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1251.54 | 4 |
| 96 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1246.83 | 11 |
| 97 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1226.75 | 15 |
| 98 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1212.01 | 8 |
| (98) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1209.54 | 18 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1188.04 | 37 |
| 100 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1174.35 | 6 |
| (100) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1173.74 | 7 |
| 101 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1172.45 | 54 |
| 102 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1163.3 | 13 |
| (102) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1156.9 | 9 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1155.75 | 16 |
| (103) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1150.37 | 3 |
| 104 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1145.59 | 25 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 1134.31 | 24 |
| (105) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1130.29 | 2 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 1127.03 | 14 |
| 107 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1119.15 | 18 |
| 108 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1118.76 | 25 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1107.33 | 8 |
| (109) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1105.08 | 4 |
| 110 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1101.01 | 6 |
| (110) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1099.75 | 5 |
| (110) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1090.16 | 2 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1082.33 | 29 |
| 112 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1068.95 | 3 |
| (112) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1049.23 | 6 |
| (112) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1046.6 | 4 |
| 113 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1040.57 | 10 |
| 114 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1007.93 | 14 |
| 115 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 998.02 | 8 |
| 116 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 994.45 | 23 |
| 117 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 989.48 | 36 |
| 118 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 986.22 | 8 |
| 119 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 967.7 | 7 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 963.82 | 15 |
| 121 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 959.99 | 12 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 957.91 | 10 |
| 123 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 940.99 | 4 |
| 124 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 940.12 | 49 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 930.42 | 32 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 929.5 | 17 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 923.77 | 12 |
| 128 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 920.45 | 35 |
| (128) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 917.6 | 20 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 916.89 | 23 |
| 130 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 911.63 | 6 |
| 131 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 889.2 | 11 |
| 132 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 886.94 | 2 |
| (132) | Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 881.97 | 3 |
| 133 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 875.89 | 16 |
| (133) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 873.29 | 2 |
| 134 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 866.33 | 21 |
| 135 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 856.86 | 9 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 845.72 | 6 |
| 137 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 842.66 | 13 |
| 138 | Paul Merage School of Business, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 841.4 | 3 |
| (138) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 838.83 | 12 |
| 139 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 837.48 | 15 |
| 140 | Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Kowloon, Hong Kong | 835.56 | 8 |
| 141 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 834.15 | 9 |
| 142 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 831.96 | 30 |
| 143 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 826.11 | 11 |
| 144 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 816.81 | 13 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 815.53 | 14 |
| 146 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 814.72 | 17 |
| 147 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 811.6 | 11 |
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