| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 655866.98 | 257 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 261753.85 | 211 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 216053.83 | 271 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 118773.77 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 114934.47 | 36 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 85801.06 | 96 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 80477.83 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 73111.26 | 23 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 72279.45 | 27 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 69112.18 | 26 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 64340.99 | 30 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 63493.65 | 30 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 58314.25 | 69 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 56723.96 | 26 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 52456.82 | 20 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 52321.32 | 29 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 52139.99 | 12 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 50555.35 | 28 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 50108.12 | 59 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 49387.31 | 16 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 49346.33 | 89 |
| 21 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 48045.87 | 132 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 46788.28 | 37 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 45829.68 | 25 |
| 23 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 44723.18 | 97 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 42967.09 | 32 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 42086.81 | 30 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 41110.13 | 43 |
| 27 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 40726.94 | 13 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 40314.47 | 22 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 39297.78 | 29 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 39013.95 | 22 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 38856.19 | 16 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 36220.08 | 15 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 36099.67 | 45 |
| (32) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 36031.98 | 31 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 35716.62 | 15 |
| 34 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 35585.69 | 22 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 32771.58 | 22 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 32699.45 | 15 |
| 37 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 31003.19 | 33 |
| 38 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 30757.33 | 16 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 30627.34 | 32 |
| 40 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 30187.2 | 52 |
| 41 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 30152.22 | 28 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 29321.33 | 16 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 29108.5 | 25 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 28912.41 | 30 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 28587.36 | 28 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 28124.92 | 21 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 27474.88 | 11 |
| (47) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 27385.83 | 12 |
| 48 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 26814.49 | 27 |
| 49 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 25863.89 | 12 |
| 50 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 25073.36 | 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 | 24974.57 | 23 |
| 51 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 24974.57 | 23 |
| 52 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 24873.47 | 19 |
| 53 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 24519.21 | 28 |
| 54 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 24399.6 | 16 |
| 55 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 24377.73 | 36 |
| 56 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 23557.27 | 3 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 23369.31 | 36 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 23053.37 | 24 |
| 59 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 22692.68 | 10 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 21896.64 | 37 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 21502.27 | 21 |
| 62 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 20626.44 | 8 |
| 63 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 20483.2 | 29 |
| (63) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 20295.19 | 16 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 19880.53 | 14 |
| 65 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 19701.93 | 3 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 19472.48 | 18 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 19295.69 | 28 |
| 68 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 19262.5 | 47 |
| 69 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19218.61 | 9 |
| (69) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 19043.45 | 25 |
| 70 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 18675.01 | 49 |
| 71 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 18368.21 | 8 |
| (71) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 18362.7 | 7 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 18302.46 | 20 |
| 73 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 17776.97 | 28 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 17568.64 | 23 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 16906.55 | 11 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 16850.04 | 9 |
| (76) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16725.66 | 28 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 16723.69 | 11 |
| (77) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 16064.53 | 7 |
| (77) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16017.49 | 28 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 15960.98 | 32 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 15853 | 11 |
| 80 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15678.04 | 23 |
| 81 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 15638.34 | 24 |
| (81) | 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 | 15485.82 | 12 |
| 82 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 15449.99 | 21 |
| 83 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 15409.06 | 58 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 14919.11 | 9 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 14754.56 | 16 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 14354.09 | 16 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14105.05 | 13 |
| (87) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 14065.65 | 8 |
| 88 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 14017.85 | 14 |
| 89 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 13849.1 | 25 |
| 90 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 13840.52 | 11 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 13836.76 | 10 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 13431.07 | 16 |
| (91) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13125.9 | 5 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 12945.3 | 11 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 12633.91 | 15 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 12564.92 | 37 |
| (94) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 12432.43 | 12 |
| (94) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12382.99 | 5 |
| (94) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 12352.7 | 18 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 12250.6 | 10 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 12164.07 | 7 |
| (95) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12083.89 | 14 |
| (95) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11989.72 | 6 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 11969.22 | 34 |
| (96) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 11908 | 9 |
| (96) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11901.65 | 4 |
| 97 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11858.91 | 11 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 11855.87 | 31 |
| 99 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 11651.01 | 24 |
| 100 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 11591.42 | 14 |
| 101 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 11554.52 | 17 |
| 102 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 11486.16 | 18 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 11456.36 | 12 |
| 104 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 11438.52 | 6 |
| 105 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 11272.03 | 15 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 11269.61 | 20 |
| 107 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 11264.55 | 11 |
| (107) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11172.15 | 2 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 11106.23 | 23 |
| 109 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 11099.39 | 36 |
| (109) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11097.12 | 2 |
| 110 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 11028.68 | 7 |
| 111 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 11005.87 | 13 |
| (111) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10968.3 | 7 |
| (111) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10888.02 | 8 |
| 112 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10888.02 | 9 |
| 113 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 10886.72 | 95 |
| 114 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 10844.48 | 7 |
| 115 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 10842.23 | 9 |
| 116 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 10785.12 | 8 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10783.92 | 10 |
| 118 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 10777.09 | 7 |
| (118) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10681.46 | 4 |
| 119 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 10542.87 | 8 |
| 120 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 10434.83 | 26 |
| 121 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 10323.22 | 30 |
| 122 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 10300.56 | 51 |
| (122) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10275.66 | 4 |
| (122) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10196.06 | 4 |
| 123 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 10098.75 | 6 |
| (123) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10092.77 | 5 |
| 124 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 10060.01 | 3 |
| 125 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 10029.72 | 40 |
| 126 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9984.83 | 11 |
| 127 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 9935.87 | 9 |
| 128 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 9880.64 | 10 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 9871.56 | 8 |
| 130 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9868.65 | 12 |
| (130) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 9689.41 | 12 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 9647.34 | 6 |
| 132 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9575.22 | 2 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 9572.26 | 17 |
| (133) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9511.53 | 9 |
| 134 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 9416.72 | 35 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 9388.47 | 24 |
| 136 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9300.81 | 16 |
| 137 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 9209.6 | 40 |
| 138 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 9138.24 | 53 |
| 139 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 9106.43 | 25 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 9005.15 | 15 |
| (140) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8917.84 | 2 |
| 141 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 8818.52 | 27 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 8756.53 | 14 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 8702.48 | 14 |
| 144 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 8586.01 | 11 |
| 145 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 8525.56 | 16 |
| (145) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8518.27 | 2 |
| 146 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 8501.78 | 9 |
| 147 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 8475.31 | 3 |
| 148 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 8465.04 | 6 |
| (148) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 8459.4 | 8 |
| (148) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8402.36 | 16 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 8254.88 | 6 |
| (149) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8233.68 | 3 |
| (149) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8134.44 | 17 |
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