| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 71647.66 | 258 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 26717.36 | 212 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 19888.67 | 275 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13274.96 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11920.03 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9177.86 | 24 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8001.62 | 31 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7708.38 | 27 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7570.99 | 98 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7246.88 | 30 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7223.22 | 27 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7175.32 | 25 |
| (12) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6372.83 | 16 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6353.93 | 30 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5484 | 13 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 5025.69 | 30 |
| 16 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4999.18 | 70 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4856.61 | 29 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4855.63 | 29 |
| 19 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4837.25 | 133 |
| 20 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4543.38 | 17 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4465.3 | 38 |
| 21 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4371.17 | 60 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4191.45 | 29 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3909.4 | 47 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3901.37 | 26 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3728.59 | 15 |
| 26 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3688.08 | 35 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3588.24 | 31 |
| 28 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3567.15 | 98 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3554.38 | 22 |
| 30 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3553.47 | 3 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3490.24 | 22 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3355.96 | 45 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3346.65 | 90 |
| 34 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3287.76 | 11 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3184.81 | 22 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3180.49 | 14 |
| (35) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3123.3 | 32 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3080.11 | 22 |
| 37 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2996.41 | 53 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2943.64 | 16 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2887.3 | 21 |
| (39) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2872.81 | 11 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2853.76 | 40 |
| 41 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2832.09 | 16 |
| 42 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2806.85 | 12 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2798.97 | 15 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2744.24 | 33 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2730.34 | 25 |
| 46 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2721.43 | 17 |
| 47 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 2704.39 | 3 |
| 48 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2658.37 | 12 |
| 49 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2625.39 | 21 |
| (49) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2575.3 | 16 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2487.43 | 23 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 2469.94 | 10 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2350.2 | 29 |
| 53 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2228.71 | 28 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2222.74 | 22 |
| 55 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2181.6 | 27 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2136.8 | 19 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2135.81 | 11 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2120.49 | 21 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 2098.18 | 18 |
| 60 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 2074.57 | 36 |
| 61 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2011.59 | 10 |
| 62 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2009.42 | 29 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2005.19 | 14 |
| 64 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2002.31 | 9 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1997.6 | 30 |
| 66 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1989.88 | 9 |
| (66) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1932.87 | 24 |
| 67 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1932.87 | 24 |
| (67) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1911.71 | 28 |
| 68 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1806.42 | 11 |
| (68) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1806.38 | 10 |
| (68) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1778.41 | 5 |
| 69 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1773.69 | 38 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1735.91 | 23 |
| (70) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1720.82 | 2 |
| 71 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1671.18 | 28 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1654.3 | 16 |
| 73 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1601.33 | 47 |
| (73) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1586.62 | 5 |
| (73) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1573.94 | 8 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1553.61 | 11 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1538.96 | 11 |
| 76 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1535.68 | 49 |
| 77 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1514.19 | 24 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1485.76 | 13 |
| (78) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1483.2 | 7 |
| (78) | 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 | 1461.44 | 12 |
| 79 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1440.09 | 23 |
| 80 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1435.73 | 9 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1427.09 | 11 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1421.12 | 29 |
| (82) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1415.39 | 26 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1414.94 | 22 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1414.89 | 15 |
| 85 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1400.94 | 27 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1394.89 | 18 |
| 87 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1389.35 | 10 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1381.33 | 17 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1365.84 | 32 |
| (89) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1332.38 | 8 |
| 90 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1332.38 | 9 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1320.67 | 16 |
| 92 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1314.03 | 2 |
| 93 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1307.59 | 29 |
| (93) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1281.9 | 18 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1262.44 | 31 |
| (94) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1251.62 | 2 |
| 95 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1247.89 | 42 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1243.64 | 37 |
| 97 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1238.26 | 9 |
| 98 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1230.58 | 14 |
| 99 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 1202.52 | 3 |
| 100 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1193 | 14 |
| (100) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1192.56 | 8 |
| 101 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1191.79 | 57 |
| (101) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1189.69 | 6 |
| 102 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1188.27 | 17 |
| 103 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1181.59 | 25 |
| 104 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1173.2 | 9 |
| (104) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1171.94 | 5 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1168.17 | 11 |
| 106 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1165.72 | 6 |
| 107 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1165.65 | 13 |
| 108 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1162.35 | 15 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1160.45 | 16 |
| (109) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1154.19 | 7 |
| 110 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1153.74 | 11 |
| 111 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1145.76 | 7 |
| (111) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1131.51 | 2 |
| 112 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1130.08 | 25 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 1125.95 | 23 |
| (113) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1118.47 | 5 |
| (113) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1110.07 | 12 |
| 114 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1107.71 | 8 |
| (114) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1096.93 | 28 |
| 115 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 1096.32 | 8 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1092.34 | 20 |
| 117 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1083.47 | 21 |
| (117) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1058.81 | 9 |
| 118 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1058.65 | 11 |
| 119 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1058.07 | 5 |
| 120 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1057.73 | 24 |
| 121 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 1050.83 | 6 |
| 122 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1050.59 | 17 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1041.11 | 35 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1038.57 | 12 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1033.42 | 9 |
| 124 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1031.42 | 36 |
| 125 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1010.2 | 13 |
| (125) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1009.29 | 14 |
| (125) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1007.83 | 2 |
| 126 | Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1003.19 | 4 |
| 127 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1002.43 | 16 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 991.34 | 26 |
| 129 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 987.31 | 2 |
| (129) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 982.72 | 7 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 973.06 | 8 |
| 131 | Ente per gli Studi Monetari, Bancari e Finanziari "Luigi Einaudi" | Roma, Italy | 971.78 | 7 |
| (131) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 971.72 | 1 |
| 132 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 954.02 | 6 |
| 133 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 930.87 | 28 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Haifa | Haifa, Israel | 924.01 | 10 |
| (134) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 922.86 | 4 |
| 135 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 916.22 | 11 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 915.67 | 12 |
| 137 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 915.5 | 16 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 903.91 | 14 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 887.4 | 14 |
| 140 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 884.68 | 15 |
| 141 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 882.03 | 16 |
| 142 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 878.36 | 36 |
| 143 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 877.13 | 11 |
| 144 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 867.78 | 40 |
| 145 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 867.6 | 18 |
| 146 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 857.22 | 99 |
| 147 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 857.07 | 7 |
| 148 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 845.69 | 10 |
| 149 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 843.1 | 30 |
| (149) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 840.24 | 11 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 840.06 | 17 |
| 151 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 838.57 | 8 |
| (151) | Economics Department, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 835.09 | 4 |
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