| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 63554.62 | 257 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 19608.83 | 211 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 16496.96 | 271 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11461.58 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11282.83 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7857.82 | 23 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7727.24 | 13 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6997.74 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6945.16 | 30 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6730.57 | 96 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6202.04 | 26 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6121.91 | 27 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5265.08 | 26 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5107.26 | 29 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4976.58 | 29 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4882.24 | 30 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4642.08 | 16 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4567.23 | 132 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4156.86 | 28 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4040.04 | 36 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3982.06 | 31 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3942.46 | 32 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3721.1 | 16 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3622.55 | 37 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3599.49 | 69 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3587.35 | 30 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3499.11 | 12 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3388.83 | 16 |
| 26 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3366.16 | 6 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3323.99 | 22 |
| 28 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3287.38 | 16 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3231.41 | 15 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3175.51 | 89 |
| 31 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3145.64 | 12 |
| 32 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2662.06 | 28 |
| 33 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2620 | 97 |
| (33) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2579.33 | 12 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2569.51 | 25 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2520.82 | 20 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2509.16 | 15 |
| 37 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2472.25 | 59 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2430 | 15 |
| 39 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2415.03 | 33 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2336.16 | 28 |
| 41 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2257.83 | 11 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2211.76 | 22 |
| 43 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2204.91 | 3 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2146.75 | 43 |
| 45 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 2127.75 | 3 |
| (45) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2103.83 | 22 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2101.18 | 23 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2076.26 | 27 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1917.25 | 32 |
| 49 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1892.5 | 25 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1882.41 | 24 |
| 51 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1870.91 | 9 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1843.74 | 21 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1824.74 | 29 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1813.15 | 22 |
| 55 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1811.31 | 16 |
| (55) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1808.19 | 16 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1803.49 | 11 |
| 57 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1787.96 | 52 |
| (57) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1742.71 | 5 |
| (57) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1724.33 | 4 |
| (57) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1676.24 | 18 |
| (57) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1672.5 | 1 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1652.41 | 28 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1609.24 | 22 |
| (59) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1601.08 | 7 |
| 60 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1569.75 | 11 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1568.25 | 10 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1554.83 | 30 |
| 62 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1463.49 | 37 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1461.41 | 45 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1407 | 11 |
| 65 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1388.33 | 10 |
| 66 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 1365.16 | 7 |
| 67 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1347.33 | 10 |
| (67) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1332.25 | 8 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1326.76 | 32 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1262.14 | 20 |
| (69) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1235.49 | 9 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1227.83 | 13 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1225.47 | 28 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1196.41 | 21 |
| 72 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1170.04 | 21 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1152.58 | 28 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1143.24 | 8 |
| (74) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1133.25 | 25 |
| (74) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1121.83 | 14 |
| 75 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1102.8 | 24 |
| (75) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1085 | 5 |
| (75) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1053 | 4 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1044.45 | 47 |
| 77 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1040.61 | 53 |
| 78 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1015.32 | 49 |
| (78) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1008.41 | 6 |
| (78) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1007.04 | 9 |
| (78) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1006.59 | 28 |
| (78) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 996.33 | 4 |
| (78) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 977 | 7 |
| 79 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 950.41 | 14 |
| (79) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 923.24 | 12 |
| 80 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 915.8 | 19 |
| 81 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 909.85 | 9 |
| (81) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 909.5 | 4 |
| 82 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 905.91 | 6 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 889.11 | 36 |
| (83) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 877.16 | 2 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 871.16 | 11 |
| 85 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 870.81 | 95 |
| 86 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 869.83 | 8 |
| 87 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 869.66 | 7 |
| (87) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 852.08 | 2 |
| 88 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 849.91 | 4 |
| 89 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 840.66 | 10 |
| 90 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 840.13 | 26 |
| 91 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 828.66 | 7 |
| (91) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 815 | 2 |
| 92 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 801.75 | 8 |
| (92) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 801.75 | 7 |
| 93 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 800.28 | 25 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 791.91 | 15 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 784.49 | 15 |
| (95) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 783.5 | 3 |
| (95) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 782.75 | 2 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 781.49 | 18 |
| 97 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 779.75 | 40 |
| (97) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 766.23 | 1 |
| (97) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 766.23 | 1 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 749.5 | 13 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 748.91 | 34 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 731.49 | 14 |
| 101 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 730.16 | 8 |
| (101) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 713.39 | 5 |
| (101) | 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 | 699.91 | 12 |
| (101) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 684 | 1 |
| 102 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 671.99 | 16 |
| 103 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 669.83 | 35 |
| (103) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 652.88 | 23 |
| 104 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 652.88 | 23 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 648.08 | 23 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 643.5 | 6 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 631.56 | 16 |
| 108 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 630.75 | 16 |
| 109 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 625.75 | 15 |
| 110 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 623.5 | 16 |
| 111 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 619.75 | 21 |
| (111) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 608 | 3 |
| 112 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 605.4 | 13 |
| (112) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 589.16 | 9 |
| 113 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 581.59 | 10 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 580.61 | 12 |
| (114) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 576.41 | 2 |
| 115 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 575.25 | 11 |
| (115) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 573.33 | 16 |
| 116 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 573.16 | 39 |
| 117 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 570.49 | 11 |
| 118 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 564.08 | 2 |
| 119 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 561.58 | 28 |
| 120 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 559.49 | 2 |
| 121 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 556.75 | 18 |
| 122 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 552.83 | 7 |
| (122) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 545.5 | 1 |
| 123 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 541.66 | 9 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 530.25 | 13 |
| 125 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 529.89 | 18 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 529.83 | 10 |
| 127 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 525.58 | 11 |
| 128 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 522.36 | 16 |
| 129 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 518.23 | 33 |
| 130 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 517.03 | 8 |
| (130) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 517.03 | 8 |
| 131 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 515.41 | 62 |
| 132 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 512.66 | 12 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 512.33 | 9 |
| 134 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 511.33 | 9 |
| (134) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 511.08 | 8 |
| (134) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 510.33 | 8 |
| 135 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 508.13 | 11 |
| 136 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 507.89 | 9 |
| 137 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 502.99 | 5 |
| 138 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 502.46 | 40 |
| 139 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 496.4 | 5 |
| 140 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 496.33 | 10 |
| (140) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 496.08 | 9 |
| 141 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 492.04 | 22 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 491.16 | 16 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 484.43 | 13 |
| 144 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 474.95 | 21 |
| 145 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 474.33 | 12 |
| 146 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 471.16 | 1 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 466.66 | 16 |
| 148 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 457.89 | 30 |
| 149 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 453.95 | 36 |
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