| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23301.24 | 258 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 5973.78 | 212 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4787.78 | 32 |
| 4 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4688.11 | 275 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3606.79 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2913.65 | 24 |
| 7 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2537.02 | 13 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2526.34 | 27 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2352.92 | 31 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2259.15 | 30 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1990.8 | 27 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1812.28 | 30 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1784.39 | 25 |
| 14 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1655.53 | 15 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1578.9 | 16 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1564.22 | 29 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1550.45 | 40 |
| 17 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1540.94 | 98 |
| 18 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1465.51 | 17 |
| 19 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1443.49 | 133 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1430.95 | 29 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1365.25 | 29 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1288.74 | 31 |
| (22) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1247.07 | 11 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1238.65 | 16 |
| 24 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1236.32 | 17 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1179.6 | 14 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1117.9 | 30 |
| 27 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 983.37 | 12 |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 978.6 | 12 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 942.33 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 927.25 | 21 |
| 31 | CESifo | München, Germany | 882.35 | 70 |
| 32 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 879.78 | 35 |
| 33 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 875.8 | 6 |
| (33) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 873.57 | 5 |
| (33) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 870.19 | 38 |
| (33) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 859.58 | 32 |
| 34 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 837.26 | 11 |
| (34) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 837.25 | 10 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 834.12 | 26 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 726.13 | 15 |
| 37 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 715.69 | 11 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 707.06 | 90 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 686.09 | 11 |
| (39) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 685.41 | 16 |
| 40 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 683.46 | 60 |
| 41 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 664.74 | 3 |
| 42 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 646.89 | 21 |
| 43 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 637.44 | 98 |
| 44 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 628.91 | 3 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 627.3 | 25 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 622.64 | 23 |
| 47 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 619.99 | 28 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 619.9 | 11 |
| 49 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 607.15 | 28 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 600.51 | 23 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 589.06 | 22 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 588.84 | 33 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 582.2 | 29 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 581.03 | 22 |
| 55 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 563.56 | 53 |
| 56 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 557.35 | 27 |
| 57 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 526.59 | 10 |
| 58 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 526.48 | 16 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 506.5 | 47 |
| (59) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 505.73 | 7 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 491.98 | 21 |
| 61 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 491.04 | 45 |
| (61) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 483.96 | 22 |
| (61) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 466.67 | 18 |
| (61) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 457.42 | 5 |
| (61) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 457.32 | 8 |
| 62 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 456.88 | 10 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 446.78 | 32 |
| 64 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 435.55 | 9 |
| (64) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 425.65 | 6 |
| (64) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 423.45 | 9 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 421.72 | 30 |
| (65) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 421.27 | 1 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 401.65 | 19 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 396.67 | 13 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 387.36 | 16 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 370.26 | 29 |
| (69) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 362.91 | 28 |
| 70 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 359.44 | 8 |
| (70) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 356.43 | 14 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 348.45 | 8 |
| (71) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 339.22 | 5 |
| (71) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 338.24 | 4 |
| (71) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 322.78 | 7 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 315.97 | 24 |
| (72) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 313.84 | 2 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 298.77 | 29 |
| (73) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 295.48 | 26 |
| 74 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 294.54 | 7 |
| (74) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 291.89 | 2 |
| 75 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 288.01 | 38 |
| 76 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 283.65 | 6 |
| 77 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 278.33 | 10 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 276.99 | 22 |
| (78) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 273.34 | 5 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 271.61 | 15 |
| 80 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 269.36 | 16 |
| (80) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 259.12 | 3 |
| (80) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 258.7 | 4 |
| 81 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 252.15 | 9 |
| 82 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 251.68 | 36 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 249.5 | 11 |
| 84 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 242.86 | 47 |
| 85 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 242.45 | 14 |
| 86 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 239.65 | 51 |
| (86) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 237.83 | 2 |
| (86) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 237.19 | 12 |
| (86) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 236.02 | 2 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 235.93 | 18 |
| (87) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 233.74 | 1 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 233.3 | 7 |
| (88) | 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 | 230.47 | 12 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 228.38 | 6 |
| 90 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 226.95 | 42 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 226.85 | 11 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 224.78 | 13 |
| 93 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 222.32 | 27 |
| (93) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 221.46 | 16 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 219.25 | 11 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 218.35 | 22 |
| 96 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 216.07 | 1 |
| 97 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 215.45 | 10 |
| 98 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 215.27 | 23 |
| 99 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 215.19 | 10 |
| 100 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 213.28 | 16 |
| (100) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 212.72 | 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) | 212.72 | 1 |
| 101 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 212.65 | 12 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 211.46 | 12 |
| (102) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 209.26 | 4 |
| 103 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 203.7 | 2 |
| (103) | Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section, Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 203.51 | 8 |
| (103) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 201.98 | 24 |
| 104 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 201.98 | 24 |
| (104) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 201.84 | 8 |
| (104) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 200.98 | 7 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 195.97 | 14 |
| 106 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 194.64 | 4 |
| 107 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 194.57 | 12 |
| 108 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 193.16 | 11 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 192.65 | 14 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 191.22 | 16 |
| (110) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 189.06 | 11 |
| 111 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 187.87 | 16 |
| 112 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 187.05 | 11 |
| 113 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 185.83 | 20 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 179.17 | 11 |
| 115 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 178.94 | 11 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 178.65 | 16 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 178.45 | 35 |
| 118 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 172.92 | 7 |
| 119 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 172.24 | 19 |
| (119) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 171.63 | 9 |
| (119) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 166.7 | 28 |
| 120 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 165.79 | 9 |
| (120) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 165.77 | 8 |
| (120) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 165.44 | 3 |
| 121 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 163.95 | 8 |
| 122 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 162.97 | 9 |
| 123 | Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 161.41 | 5 |
| 124 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 160.19 | 17 |
| (124) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 158.75 | 10 |
| 125 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 156.63 | 99 |
| 126 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 156.22 | 21 |
| (126) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 156.01 | 1 |
| 127 | Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 152.8 | 4 |
| 128 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 151.3 | 17 |
| 129 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 151.15 | 49 |
| 130 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 149.26 | 9 |
| 131 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 148.8 | 2 |
| 132 | Department of Commerce, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 148.14 | 27 |
| 133 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 146.23 | 13 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 145.84 | 10 |
| 135 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 142.31 | 24 |
| 136 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 139.47 | 3 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 139.11 | 18 |
| (137) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 138.95 | 2 |
| 138 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 138.87 | 8 |
| 139 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 138.04 | 36 |
| 140 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 137.29 | 8 |
| (140) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 137.29 | 8 |
| 141 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 135.63 | 6 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 135.13 | 13 |
| (142) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 133.85 | 2 |
| 143 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 133.74 | 3 |
| 144 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 131.64 | 18 |
| 145 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 130.92 | 8 |
| (145) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 130.92 | 7 |
| 146 | Paul Merage School of Business, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 128.47 | 3 |
| 147 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 128.2 | 17 |
| 148 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 125.13 | 28 |
| 149 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 124.83 | 11 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 124.71 | 17 |
| 151 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 122.78 | 25 |
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