| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 684276.09 | 258 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 278662.24 | 212 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 228457.94 | 275 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 123549.67 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 119686.51 | 36 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 89883.67 | 98 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 83154.63 | 31 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 78248.46 | 27 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 77732.68 | 24 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 71215.4 | 27 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 66930.56 | 30 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 66223.41 | 30 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 61572.29 | 70 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 59304.65 | 25 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 56382.5 | 21 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 55948.72 | 12 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 54193.28 | 29 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 53723.8 | 60 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 52147.81 | 29 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 51714.57 | 16 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 51119.37 | 90 |
| 21 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 49838.33 | 133 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 49109.23 | 38 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 47687.25 | 26 |
| 23 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 46911.51 | 98 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 45443.23 | 31 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 43819.13 | 30 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 42688.36 | 45 |
| 27 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 41774.52 | 13 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 41636.53 | 22 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 40818.74 | 29 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 40320.34 | 22 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 39081.64 | 15 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 38322.09 | 47 |
| (31) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 38224.51 | 32 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 37269.41 | 22 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 37116.75 | 16 |
| 34 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 35384.79 | 17 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 34659.54 | 14 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 33708.58 | 15 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 32699.31 | 21 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 32329.23 | 35 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 32161.86 | 33 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 31473.4 | 28 |
| 41 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 31096.84 | 53 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 30239.44 | 30 |
| 43 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 30191.7 | 17 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 30131.71 | 25 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 29940.88 | 29 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 29294.75 | 22 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 28354.14 | 27 |
| 48 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 28090.51 | 11 |
| (48) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 28052.58 | 24 |
| 49 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 28052.58 | 24 |
| (49) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 27260.2 | 11 |
| 50 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 26865.73 | 21 |
| 51 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 26775.8 | 12 |
| 52 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 26402.26 | 22 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 25822.9 | 40 |
| 54 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 25593.61 | 3 |
| 55 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 25318.55 | 28 |
| 56 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25182.41 | 16 |
| 57 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 25122.42 | 36 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 23770.62 | 23 |
| 59 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 23123.96 | 38 |
| 60 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 22866.2 | 9 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 22503.47 | 21 |
| 62 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21824.51 | 9 |
| 63 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 21176.13 | 29 |
| (63) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 21100.89 | 16 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 20682.08 | 14 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 20516.57 | 18 |
| 66 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 20123.17 | 3 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 20021.86 | 29 |
| 68 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 19821.29 | 8 |
| (68) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 19814.6 | 7 |
| (68) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 19765.4 | 26 |
| 69 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19696.8 | 10 |
| 70 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 19676.58 | 47 |
| 71 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 19549.04 | 49 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 19100.84 | 19 |
| 73 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 18663.8 | 29 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 18397.11 | 23 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 17622.61 | 10 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 17557.36 | 11 |
| (76) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17450.04 | 28 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 17342.17 | 11 |
| (77) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17084.42 | 28 |
| 78 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 16756.58 | 23 |
| 79 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 16666.99 | 57 |
| (79) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 16541.75 | 7 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 16531.09 | 32 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 16527 | 11 |
| 82 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16237.66 | 22 |
| 83 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 16036.29 | 24 |
| 84 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 15980.47 | 11 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 15976.65 | 10 |
| (84) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15898.51 | 5 |
| (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 | 15864.44 | 12 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 15485.37 | 9 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 15295.33 | 16 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 14972.85 | 18 |
| 88 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 14909.3 | 25 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14728.22 | 13 |
| (89) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 14554.15 | 8 |
| 90 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 14470.53 | 14 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 13873.76 | 16 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13668.8 | 11 |
| 93 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13605.22 | 11 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 13537.5 | 15 |
| (94) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13438.44 | 5 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 13062.94 | 37 |
| (95) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 13030.7 | 9 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 12982.19 | 18 |
| (95) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 12841.18 | 12 |
| (95) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12833.68 | 5 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 12656.94 | 7 |
| (95) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12635.21 | 14 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 12605.64 | 10 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 12387.22 | 31 |
| (97) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12311.59 | 6 |
| 98 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 12241.42 | 36 |
| 99 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 12211.23 | 42 |
| 100 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 12208.78 | 17 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 12208.48 | 35 |
| 102 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12014.74 | 24 |
| 103 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 11993.22 | 18 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 11982.97 | 12 |
| 105 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 11927.06 | 14 |
| 106 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 11919.61 | 17 |
| 107 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 11749.38 | 6 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 11744.87 | 20 |
| 109 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11710 | 13 |
| (109) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11635.41 | 2 |
| 110 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 11625.19 | 7 |
| 111 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 11511.88 | 13 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 11497.29 | 11 |
| (112) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11467.41 | 7 |
| (112) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11426.06 | 8 |
| 113 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11426.06 | 9 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 11412.45 | 23 |
| 115 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 11412.42 | 99 |
| 116 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 11338.93 | 8 |
| (116) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11286.4 | 2 |
| 117 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 11248.73 | 9 |
| 118 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 11245.63 | 7 |
| 119 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 11226.41 | 8 |
| (119) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11213.43 | 9 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11132.66 | 11 |
| 121 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 11103.6 | 27 |
| 122 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 11074.1 | 7 |
| (122) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11015.26 | 4 |
| 123 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 10812.31 | 4 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 10765.13 | 17 |
| 125 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 10687.52 | 30 |
| (125) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10634.74 | 4 |
| 126 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 10510.22 | 6 |
| (126) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10436.71 | 5 |
| (126) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10387.52 | 4 |
| 127 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 10328.77 | 50 |
| 128 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 10320.47 | 9 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 10224.99 | 16 |
| 130 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 10204.01 | 11 |
| 131 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 10197.91 | 10 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10182.35 | 6 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 10139.6 | 8 |
| 134 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 10094.92 | 28 |
| 135 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10047.72 | 2 |
| (135) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 9972.69 | 12 |
| 136 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 9836.77 | 36 |
| 137 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 9784.99 | 40 |
| 138 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 9782.73 | 51 |
| 139 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 9746.23 | 70 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 9715.62 | 26 |
| 141 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9620 | 16 |
| (141) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 9454.64 | 67 |
| 142 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 9445.29 | 17 |
| 143 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 9330.99 | 25 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 9275.12 | 14 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 9193.57 | 14 |
| (145) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9185.99 | 2 |
| 146 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 8963.05 | 11 |
| 147 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 8809.06 | 3 |
| (147) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8778 | 3 |
| 148 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 8736.78 | 6 |
| (148) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8726.81 | 16 |
| (148) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8680.29 | 2 |
| (148) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 8648.67 | 8 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 8589.8 | 10 |
| 150 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 8469.32 | 22 |
| 151 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 8455.22 | 10 |
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