| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44949.53 | 258 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 15440.12 | 212 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 12261.35 | 275 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8116.24 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7273.69 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5610.49 | 24 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5348.73 | 27 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4810.13 | 31 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4786.87 | 98 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4719.71 | 30 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4453.92 | 25 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4151.34 | 30 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4149.94 | 27 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4064.68 | 13 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4006.33 | 16 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3361.72 | 29 |
| 16 | CESifo | München, Germany | 3249.47 | 70 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2953.17 | 30 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2900.11 | 29 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2853.19 | 29 |
| 20 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2815.66 | 17 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2810.22 | 38 |
| 21 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2672.38 | 60 |
| 22 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2510.11 | 133 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2487.56 | 47 |
| 24 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2360.85 | 35 |
| 25 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2285.41 | 11 |
| 26 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2246.96 | 3 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2242.85 | 31 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2208.47 | 90 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2168.13 | 15 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2146.34 | 26 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2116.34 | 22 |
| (31) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2089.37 | 32 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2089.12 | 22 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2030.62 | 16 |
| 34 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1984 | 45 |
| 35 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1964.44 | 17 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1912.72 | 22 |
| (36) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1897.2 | 22 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1886.91 | 14 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1868.79 | 15 |
| 39 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1855.75 | 12 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1767.56 | 21 |
| (40) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1759.06 | 11 |
| (40) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1736.69 | 16 |
| 41 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1736.55 | 12 |
| 42 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1724.46 | 98 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1722.87 | 40 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1698.83 | 33 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1655.59 | 10 |
| 46 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1652.84 | 21 |
| 47 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1610.43 | 16 |
| 48 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1598.27 | 3 |
| 49 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1592.96 | 53 |
| 50 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1563.29 | 25 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1524.91 | 29 |
| 52 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1507.98 | 10 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1504.46 | 23 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1494.55 | 18 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1364.95 | 19 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1335.51 | 22 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1305.36 | 11 |
| 58 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1277.6 | 9 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1258.2 | 14 |
| 60 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1250.91 | 36 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1205.06 | 21 |
| 62 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1202.34 | 28 |
| 63 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1179.79 | 28 |
| (63) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1173.14 | 5 |
| 64 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1164.02 | 29 |
| 65 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1147.91 | 9 |
| 66 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1128.05 | 27 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1126.14 | 11 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1098.05 | 38 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1093.31 | 11 |
| (69) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1078.53 | 5 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1066.6 | 16 |
| 71 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1050.38 | 11 |
| (71) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1050.36 | 10 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1035.55 | 30 |
| 73 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1008.04 | 9 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 991.79 | 23 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 984.22 | 15 |
| (75) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 982.7 | 2 |
| 76 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 973.32 | 49 |
| (76) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 933.69 | 7 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 924.65 | 29 |
| (77) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 921.33 | 26 |
| 78 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 910.84 | 11 |
| (78) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 886.04 | 24 |
| 79 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 886.04 | 24 |
| 80 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 885.05 | 6 |
| 81 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 878.41 | 27 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 877.93 | 32 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 868.95 | 9 |
| (83) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 866.04 | 8 |
| (83) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 861.97 | 28 |
| (83) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 861.57 | 8 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 854.25 | 13 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 852.29 | 17 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 847.37 | 9 |
| 86 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 840.77 | 3 |
| (86) | 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 | 831.42 | 12 |
| 87 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 826.63 | 15 |
| 88 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 826.35 | 22 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 821.8 | 16 |
| 90 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 818.81 | 47 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 805.82 | 16 |
| 92 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 801.74 | 24 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 799.09 | 20 |
| (93) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 765.44 | 5 |
| 94 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 752.07 | 5 |
| 95 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 751.04 | 23 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 749.14 | 18 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 744.37 | 31 |
| 97 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 742.4 | 42 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 733.43 | 18 |
| 99 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 732.6 | 2 |
| 100 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 731.03 | 14 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 728.73 | 37 |
| (101) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 723.44 | 8 |
| 102 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 723.44 | 9 |
| 103 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 720.27 | 16 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 706.97 | 8 |
| (104) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 703.56 | 1 |
| (104) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 696.34 | 2 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 695.6 | 11 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 689.79 | 10 |
| 107 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 683.95 | 29 |
| 108 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 681.49 | 21 |
| 109 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 672.38 | 14 |
| 110 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 669.67 | 9 |
| 111 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 665.8 | 7 |
| 112 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 659.26 | 17 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 654.46 | 11 |
| 114 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 651.44 | 17 |
| 115 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 645.29 | 2 |
| 116 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 644.06 | 16 |
| (116) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 639.67 | 7 |
| (116) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 637.49 | 12 |
| 117 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 633.4 | 13 |
| (117) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 632.59 | 2 |
| 118 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 626.21 | 24 |
| (118) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 625.86 | 11 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Haifa | Haifa, Israel | 624.5 | 10 |
| 120 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 621.87 | 25 |
| 121 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 615.46 | 8 |
| (121) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 610.03 | 12 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 609.17 | 14 |
| 123 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 607.28 | 11 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 604.77 | 23 |
| 125 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 603.89 | 7 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 600.8 | 12 |
| (126) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 599.3 | 5 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 594.74 | 35 |
| 128 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 589.4 | 25 |
| 129 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 587.56 | 57 |
| 130 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 581.62 | 13 |
| 131 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 578.47 | 36 |
| (131) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 577.72 | 2 |
| 132 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 576.74 | 8 |
| 133 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 572.6 | 28 |
| (133) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 571.79 | 4 |
| (133) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 564.68 | 28 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, State University of New York | Buffalo, New York (USA) | 563.89 | 6 |
| 135 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 561.27 | 11 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 559.59 | 26 |
| 137 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 555.68 | 18 |
| 138 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 555.61 | 6 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 551.27 | 17 |
| 140 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 548.91 | 99 |
| 141 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 539.83 | 36 |
| (141) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 539.61 | 9 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 537.72 | 14 |
| 143 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 535.41 | 6 |
| (143) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 528.61 | 14 |
| 144 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 527.6 | 11 |
| 145 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 522.91 | 10 |
| (145) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 521.08 | 6 |
| 146 | Ente per gli Studi Monetari, Bancari e Finanziari "Luigi Einaudi" | Roma, Italy | 518.09 | 7 |
| 147 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 516.7 | 16 |
| 148 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 516.63 | 8 |
| 149 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 516.05 | 10 |
| (149) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 515.98 | 7 |
| (149) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 503.43 | 16 |
| 150 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 493.2 | 15 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 491.92 | 14 |
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