| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 448928.36 | 260 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 172079.09 | 213 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 147631.64 | 285 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 83154.72 | 39 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 79380.36 | 33 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 59852.65 | 98 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 57168.13 | 26 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 52690.73 | 30 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 50245 | 28 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 49508.82 | 24 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 45668 | 31 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 45203.24 | 73 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 45030.18 | 30 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 41902.41 | 12 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 40392.97 | 20 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 39800.11 | 29 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38826.71 | 26 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 34783.68 | 90 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 34354.78 | 16 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 33824.25 | 60 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 32735.85 | 29 |
| 21 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 32136.23 | 13 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 32004.3 | 37 |
| 22 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 30408.11 | 137 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 29248.7 | 31 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 27571.04 | 30 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27301.4 | 26 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 27297.02 | 30 |
| (26) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 27008.59 | 32 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 25979.11 | 47 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 25807.59 | 47 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 25580.48 | 22 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 25167.94 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 24635.84 | 16 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 24287.66 | 22 |
| 32 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23653.51 | 17 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 23094.57 | 14 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 23027.23 | 15 |
| 35 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 22642 | 97 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 22609.71 | 17 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 22339.02 | 33 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 21629.4 | 22 |
| 39 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 21156.01 | 35 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 21015.68 | 13 |
| 41 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 20147.9 | 11 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 19562.6 | 23 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 19500.69 | 30 |
| 44 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 18266.05 | 23 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 18026.33 | 25 |
| 46 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17896.18 | 53 |
| 47 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 17392.36 | 28 |
| 48 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 17326.02 | 27 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17239.74 | 30 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17220.09 | 43 |
| 51 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 17170.99 | 12 |
| 52 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 16930.04 | 36 |
| (52) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 16901.74 | 10 |
| 53 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16455.88 | 11 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 16329.44 | 23 |
| 55 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 15648.43 | 3 |
| 56 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15553.55 | 17 |
| 57 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 15252.09 | 39 |
| 58 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 15169.19 | 27 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 15037.36 | 24 |
| 60 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14283.09 | 9 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 14248.96 | 18 |
| (61) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 14130.11 | 16 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 13864.02 | 21 |
| 63 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 13807.58 | 8 |
| (63) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 13806.43 | 7 |
| (63) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 13776.23 | 25 |
| 64 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 13776.23 | 25 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 13682.5 | 12 |
| 66 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 13517.02 | 29 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 13416.13 | 15 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 13413.77 | 20 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 13359.57 | 29 |
| (69) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 13201.12 | 26 |
| 70 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 13128.74 | 9 |
| 71 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 12759.48 | 49 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 12156.32 | 11 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 12029.63 | 10 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 11732.95 | 33 |
| 75 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11538.05 | 4 |
| 76 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11386.64 | 11 |
| 77 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11038.03 | 47 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 10817.34 | 23 |
| (78) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10719.2 | 29 |
| (78) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 10643.69 | 7 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 10357.76 | 9 |
| (79) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10320.92 | 5 |
| 80 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 10219.1 | 29 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 10114.76 | 16 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 9961.37 | 16 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 9892.14 | 9 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 9873.23 | 25 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9871.55 | 8 |
| 85 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 9845.43 | 12 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 9843.5 | 11 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9668.46 | 22 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 9619.11 | 21 |
| 88 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 9574.38 | 59 |
| (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 | 9399.83 | 12 |
| 89 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 9346.88 | 24 |
| (89) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9150.13 | 27 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 8975.28 | 26 |
| 91 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8972.11 | 6 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8878.98 | 16 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8749.79 | 14 |
| (93) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8700.35 | 5 |
| 94 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8674.09 | 20 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 8570.13 | 12 |
| 96 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8538.2 | 11 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 8532.91 | 18 |
| 98 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 8366.9 | 23 |
| 99 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8354.06 | 14 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 8175.57 | 11 |
| 101 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 8170.2 | 8 |
| (101) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8091.8 | 8 |
| (101) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 8014.27 | 18 |
| 102 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 7963.76 | 25 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 7931.1 | 37 |
| 104 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7923.6 | 7 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 7756.17 | 12 |
| 106 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 7726.25 | 41 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 7720.8 | 33 |
| 108 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 7695.26 | 9 |
| 109 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 7589.4 | 18 |
| 110 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 7575.27 | 17 |
| (110) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7548.92 | 12 |
| 111 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 7468.59 | 101 |
| (111) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7416.7 | 14 |
| (111) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7374.14 | 14 |
| 112 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 7367.72 | 8 |
| 113 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7347.04 | 24 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7325.87 | 11 |
| (114) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7308.52 | 2 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 7279.69 | 36 |
| 116 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 7275.45 | 28 |
| (116) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7260.2 | 4 |
| (116) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7177.9 | 2 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 7156.71 | 17 |
| (117) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7154.63 | 9 |
| 118 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 7117.42 | 14 |
| 119 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 7112.95 | 13 |
| 120 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 7030.23 | 17 |
| 121 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 7027.06 | 7 |
| 122 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 7004.22 | 10 |
| 123 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 6832.19 | 8 |
| 124 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6810.83 | 14 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 6795.77 | 17 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 6795.46 | 23 |
| 127 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 6724.76 | 28 |
| 128 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 6688.46 | 9 |
| (128) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 6496.98 | 8 |
| (128) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6483.09 | 8 |
| 129 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 6409.04 | 11 |
| 130 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 6402.06 | 11 |
| (130) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6349.01 | 4 |
| (130) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 6332.22 | 8 |
| 131 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6314.38 | 11 |
| (131) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6280.74 | 2 |
| 132 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 6257.4 | 35 |
| 133 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 6149.91 | 36 |
| (133) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6096.63 | 7 |
| 134 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6096.63 | 8 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6002.45 | 6 |
| (135) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6001.46 | 4 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 5989.26 | 14 |
| (136) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5985.81 | 4 |
| 137 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 5965.44 | 11 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 5964.45 | 12 |
| 138 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 5958.36 | 29 |
| 139 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 5902.44 | 3 |
| 140 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 5889.96 | 4 |
| (140) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5856.42 | 6 |
| 141 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 5839.69 | 6 |
| 142 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 5780.09 | 15 |
| 143 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 5748.77 | 11 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 5717.92 | 26 |
| (144) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5696.11 | 16 |
| 145 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 5695.2 | 9 |
| 146 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 5690.4 | 51 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 5689.15 | 21 |
| 148 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5614.37 | 4 |
| (148) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5598.46 | 5 |
| (148) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5559.22 | 17 |
| 149 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 5543.88 | 6 |
| 150 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 5522.97 | 16 |
| 151 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 5460.48 | 15 |
| 152 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 5431.82 | 53 |
| (152) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5404.48 | 2 |
| 153 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 5339.31 | 25 |
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