| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 427288.28 | 258 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 162488.83 | 212 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 139109.29 | 275 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 75883.03 | 36 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 74953.91 | 32 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 56582.71 | 98 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 53936.71 | 27 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 50474.91 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 47846.74 | 24 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 43348.06 | 30 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 42825.26 | 27 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 42014.03 | 30 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 39984.06 | 12 |
| 14 | CESifo | München, Germany | 38924.16 | 70 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 38810.9 | 21 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 37352.31 | 25 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 36667.72 | 29 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 33342.45 | 90 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 33125.64 | 16 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 32047.85 | 60 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 31539.77 | 29 |
| 21 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 30982.53 | 13 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 30833.37 | 38 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 28080.66 | 31 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 26589.93 | 29 |
| 24 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 26566.88 | 133 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 26291.94 | 26 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 26224.11 | 30 |
| (26) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 25529.85 | 32 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 24803.16 | 47 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 24614.77 | 22 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 24584.93 | 45 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 23926.12 | 16 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 23567.5 | 22 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 23386.46 | 22 |
| 32 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 23058.68 | 98 |
| 33 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22438.51 | 17 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 22178.81 | 15 |
| 35 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 21778.51 | 17 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21754.84 | 15 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 20625.22 | 33 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 20392.38 | 35 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19843.19 | 14 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 19361.91 | 21 |
| 41 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19274.16 | 11 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 18623.55 | 29 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 18165.81 | 22 |
| 44 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 17737.94 | 21 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17147.17 | 25 |
| 46 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 16714.75 | 53 |
| 47 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16664.68 | 28 |
| 48 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 16492.02 | 12 |
| 49 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 16485.43 | 28 |
| (49) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 16272.9 | 11 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 16263.87 | 30 |
| 51 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 16125.91 | 36 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15915.4 | 40 |
| 53 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 15398.02 | 3 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 15285.24 | 22 |
| 55 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14932.59 | 16 |
| 56 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14526.05 | 10 |
| 57 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 14510.95 | 38 |
| 58 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 14348.96 | 27 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 13707.61 | 18 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 13676.51 | 23 |
| 61 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 13646.94 | 9 |
| (61) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13644.34 | 16 |
| 62 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 13441.58 | 8 |
| (62) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 13440.49 | 7 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 13425.26 | 21 |
| (63) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 12944.78 | 24 |
| 64 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 12944.78 | 24 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12795.19 | 29 |
| 66 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 12703.86 | 9 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12643 | 26 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 12609.02 | 19 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 12449.66 | 14 |
| 69 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 12053.52 | 49 |
| 70 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 11782.61 | 29 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 11511.98 | 10 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11376.86 | 11 |
| 73 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11349.19 | 3 |
| 74 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10654.19 | 11 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 10373.48 | 23 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 10200.25 | 32 |
| 77 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10127.7 | 47 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 10038.93 | 9 |
| (78) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9932.84 | 7 |
| (78) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9854.29 | 5 |
| (78) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9804.55 | 5 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 9774.5 | 11 |
| 80 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 9738.48 | 29 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 9713.23 | 16 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9580.61 | 9 |
| 82 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 9252.08 | 11 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 9250.16 | 10 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9225.76 | 22 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 9100.81 | 15 |
| (84) | 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 | 9026.66 | 12 |
| 85 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 8886.62 | 24 |
| 86 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 8847.78 | 23 |
| (86) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8760.2 | 28 |
| (86) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8638.05 | 28 |
| 87 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8611.83 | 6 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 8566.7 | 20 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8528.79 | 16 |
| 90 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 8472.85 | 57 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 8388.76 | 11 |
| (91) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8363.79 | 5 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8051.26 | 13 |
| 93 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7994.2 | 14 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 7933.11 | 18 |
| 95 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7897.48 | 11 |
| (95) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7867.54 | 8 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 7760.08 | 11 |
| (96) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 7682.24 | 18 |
| 97 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 7664.42 | 25 |
| 98 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7650.67 | 7 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 7608.57 | 37 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 7548.02 | 8 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 7454.35 | 12 |
| 102 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 7399.34 | 9 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 7309.97 | 31 |
| (103) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7218.78 | 12 |
| 104 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7197.95 | 16 |
| 105 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 7190.06 | 17 |
| 106 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 7179.4 | 8 |
| (106) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7114.02 | 2 |
| 107 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 7093.53 | 18 |
| 108 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7085.69 | 24 |
| 109 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 6996.09 | 42 |
| (109) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6969.03 | 14 |
| 110 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 6964.51 | 99 |
| 111 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 6954.72 | 27 |
| 112 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 6909.89 | 7 |
| (112) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6861.13 | 2 |
| 113 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 6856 | 13 |
| 114 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 6809.62 | 14 |
| 115 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 6805.82 | 17 |
| 116 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 6800.12 | 7 |
| (116) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 6736.88 | 9 |
| 117 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 6733.76 | 10 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 6697.91 | 35 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 6666.53 | 16 |
| 120 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 6619.83 | 8 |
| 121 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 6572.42 | 36 |
| 122 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6543.26 | 13 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 6497.04 | 17 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 6468.72 | 23 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6429.46 | 11 |
| (125) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 6378.52 | 7 |
| 126 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 6371.88 | 28 |
| (126) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6345.31 | 8 |
| 127 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6345.31 | 9 |
| 128 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 6156.87 | 9 |
| 129 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 6084.22 | 16 |
| 130 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 6066.88 | 10 |
| (130) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6066.55 | 4 |
| (130) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6036.61 | 2 |
| (130) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6001.52 | 11 |
| (130) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 5966.32 | 8 |
| 131 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 5933.06 | 36 |
| (131) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5876.26 | 7 |
| 132 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5866.83 | 11 |
| (132) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5826.1 | 4 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5819.96 | 6 |
| (133) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5790.15 | 4 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 5737.59 | 14 |
| (134) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 5703.89 | 12 |
| 135 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 5700.18 | 3 |
| 136 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 5660.91 | 4 |
| 137 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 5652.99 | 6 |
| 138 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 5646.64 | 30 |
| 139 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 5623.33 | 10 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 5566 | 6 |
| (140) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5559.24 | 6 |
| 141 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 5538.49 | 15 |
| 142 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 5527.93 | 11 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 5527.12 | 26 |
| 144 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5491.06 | 4 |
| 145 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 5388.46 | 10 |
| 146 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 5380.63 | 6 |
| 147 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 5271.12 | 16 |
| (147) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5245.16 | 5 |
| 148 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 5174.9 | 50 |
| 149 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 5101.67 | 5 |
| (149) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5080.46 | 16 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 5067.99 | 17 |
| 151 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4972.94 | 2 |
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