| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 43261.04 | 257 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 15430.38 | 211 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 11327.01 | 271 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7508.27 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7230.62 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5678.57 | 31 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5483.22 | 23 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4793.85 | 26 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4783.66 | 96 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4613.43 | 27 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4562.47 | 30 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3972.08 | 30 |
| 13 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3473.38 | 13 |
| 14 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3356.95 | 28 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3209.66 | 26 |
| 16 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2988.59 | 132 |
| 17 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2918.58 | 69 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2858.74 | 16 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2853.92 | 25 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 2852.74 | 29 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2764.48 | 37 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2620.52 | 89 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2547.64 | 30 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2488.23 | 45 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2458.68 | 32 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2351.58 | 31 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2343.65 | 29 |
| 25 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2289.53 | 59 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2280.05 | 43 |
| 27 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2221.36 | 16 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2176.59 | 22 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2156.65 | 16 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2129.94 | 15 |
| (30) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2112.3 | 22 |
| 31 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2014.59 | 3 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1957.14 | 15 |
| 33 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1935.61 | 16 |
| 34 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1926.64 | 11 |
| 35 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1872.12 | 12 |
| 36 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1841.58 | 22 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1813.08 | 15 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1765.39 | 20 |
| 39 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1722.16 | 33 |
| (39) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1720.96 | 12 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1644.9 | 32 |
| 41 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1623.8 | 3 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1606.86 | 22 |
| 43 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1588.8 | 16 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1582.32 | 28 |
| 45 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1555.04 | 97 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1540.83 | 21 |
| 47 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1526.87 | 25 |
| 48 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1524.4 | 12 |
| 49 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1460.94 | 36 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1444.67 | 24 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1409.14 | 22 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1402.01 | 36 |
| 53 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1348.24 | 8 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1312.15 | 28 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1306.75 | 28 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1302.38 | 18 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1298.41 | 25 |
| 57 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1295.6 | 52 |
| 58 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1283.07 | 29 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1261.33 | 20 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1250.64 | 30 |
| 61 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1247.98 | 9 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1226.76 | 23 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1226.37 | 14 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1190.12 | 28 |
| 65 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1177.61 | 27 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1143.61 | 11 |
| (66) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1113.86 | 5 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1103.87 | 21 |
| 68 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1049.09 | 10 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1036.98 | 16 |
| (69) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1034.16 | 16 |
| 70 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1032.25 | 37 |
| (70) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1024.65 | 7 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 958.76 | 7 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 952.23 | 11 |
| (71) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 937.8 | 8 |
| 72 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 913.73 | 6 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 911.97 | 11 |
| 74 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 911.11 | 23 |
| (74) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 905.2 | 28 |
| 75 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 902.51 | 11 |
| 76 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 879.19 | 14 |
| 77 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 869.5 | 28 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 853.94 | 11 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 846.08 | 32 |
| 80 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 846.02 | 24 |
| (80) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 822.36 | 12 |
| (80) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 820.95 | 4 |
| 81 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 819.46 | 49 |
| 82 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 809.66 | 19 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 805.39 | 20 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 800.48 | 9 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 788.83 | 13 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 778.51 | 9 |
| 86 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 763.7 | 58 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 757.22 | 34 |
| 88 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 744.82 | 14 |
| 89 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 741.63 | 6 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 738.88 | 7 |
| (90) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 729.85 | 23 |
| 91 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 729.85 | 23 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 729.29 | 16 |
| 93 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 723.72 | 21 |
| 94 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 722.48 | 47 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 718.05 | 9 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 707.13 | 16 |
| (96) | 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 | 702.57 | 12 |
| (96) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 696.76 | 4 |
| 97 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 691.14 | 11 |
| 98 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 685.55 | 10 |
| 99 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 683.55 | 16 |
| 100 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 678.87 | 8 |
| (100) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 674.91 | 1 |
| (100) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 674.91 | 1 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 670.61 | 31 |
| 102 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 664.97 | 11 |
| (102) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 664.96 | 10 |
| (102) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 663.61 | 5 |
| (102) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 661.99 | 8 |
| (102) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 645.47 | 18 |
| 103 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 644.71 | 15 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 636.37 | 15 |
| (104) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 633.79 | 4 |
| (104) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 632.96 | 2 |
| (104) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 622.58 | 14 |
| (104) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 615.8 | 28 |
| 105 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 606.28 | 4 |
| 106 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 602.42 | 24 |
| (106) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 593.13 | 7 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 589.61 | 10 |
| 108 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 587.17 | 95 |
| (108) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 581.79 | 2 |
| (108) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 579.09 | 21 |
| 109 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 574.42 | 25 |
| (109) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 573.42 | 8 |
| 110 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 573.42 | 9 |
| (110) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 570.4 | 12 |
| (110) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 570.03 | 5 |
| 111 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 569.69 | 9 |
| (111) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 564.64 | 1 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 563.68 | 23 |
| (112) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 562.9 | 11 |
| 113 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 556.62 | 9 |
| (113) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 556.61 | 9 |
| (113) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 549.46 | 16 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 539.84 | 8 |
| (114) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 539.84 | 8 |
| 115 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 537.69 | 40 |
| 116 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 536.49 | 18 |
| (116) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 532.85 | 3 |
| 117 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 528.38 | 11 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 526.8 | 37 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 526.35 | 12 |
| 120 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 524.93 | 16 |
| 121 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 520.63 | 16 |
| 122 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 517.67 | 16 |
| 123 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 516.6 | 10 |
| 124 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 516.15 | 7 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 508.34 | 15 |
| 126 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 507.66 | 15 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 500.36 | 14 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 492.39 | 8 |
| (128) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 490.62 | 2 |
| 129 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 484.82 | 9 |
| (129) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 483.41 | 2 |
| (129) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 482.56 | 6 |
| 130 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 482.54 | 36 |
| 131 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 478.88 | 12 |
| 132 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 475.26 | 11 |
| 133 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 454.96 | 10 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 451.75 | 6 |
| (134) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 449.51 | 7 |
| 135 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 449.24 | 3 |
| 136 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 447.98 | 17 |
| 137 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 446.23 | 8 |
| 138 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 445.08 | 8 |
| (138) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 445.02 | 7 |
| 139 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 440.2 | 25 |
| 140 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 439.75 | 26 |
| 141 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 436.81 | 13 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 435.45 | 12 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 434.78 | 16 |
| 144 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 434.71 | 3 |
| 145 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 434.2 | 21 |
| 146 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 431.18 | 18 |
| (146) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 429.47 | 17 |
| 147 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 427.66 | 53 |
| (147) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 426.74 | 4 |
| (147) | Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 426.63 | 2 |
| 148 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 425.04 | 27 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 422.53 | 24 |
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