| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 58886.66 | 260 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 19810.42 | 213 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 16693.56 | 285 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10670.68 | 39 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10296.29 | 33 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7681.59 | 26 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7145.78 | 28 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7007.92 | 30 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6930.94 | 24 |
| 10 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6340.28 | 98 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6007.03 | 30 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5459.51 | 31 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4864.41 | 26 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4808.64 | 13 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4717.75 | 29 |
| 16 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4571.29 | 73 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4290.13 | 16 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4204.32 | 29 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3986.05 | 60 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 3900.66 | 31 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3682.38 | 30 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3678.53 | 90 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3666.16 | 26 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3648.87 | 37 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3613.36 | 47 |
| 24 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3589.22 | 12 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3496.89 | 20 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3453.66 | 30 |
| 27 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3232.97 | 137 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3193.61 | 47 |
| 29 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3158.53 | 17 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3106.47 | 16 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3091.17 | 22 |
| 32 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3075.22 | 14 |
| (32) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3012.65 | 22 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2917.33 | 22 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2887.65 | 22 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2860.62 | 13 |
| (35) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2803.84 | 32 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2767.07 | 17 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2719.81 | 15 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2688.94 | 33 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2636.26 | 11 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2561.41 | 35 |
| (40) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2302.74 | 10 |
| 41 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2288.7 | 12 |
| 42 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2281.32 | 3 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2269.74 | 23 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2217.56 | 25 |
| 45 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2099.07 | 28 |
| 46 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2091.07 | 97 |
| 47 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2081.88 | 17 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2026.19 | 43 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1965.31 | 30 |
| 50 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1945.31 | 9 |
| 51 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1943.57 | 11 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1933 | 18 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1903.59 | 36 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1896.34 | 30 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1887.24 | 24 |
| 56 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1880.18 | 27 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1869.04 | 23 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1853 | 12 |
| 59 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1769.03 | 29 |
| (59) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1746.51 | 16 |
| 60 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 1704.26 | 27 |
| 61 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1663.03 | 53 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1639.62 | 20 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1626.53 | 9 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1601.75 | 21 |
| 65 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1587.09 | 39 |
| 66 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1575.8 | 4 |
| 67 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1511.89 | 23 |
| 68 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1480.45 | 11 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1472.85 | 11 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1417.49 | 33 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1395.31 | 15 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1348.12 | 16 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1307.02 | 23 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 1300.96 | 16 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1292.86 | 10 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1288.62 | 29 |
| (76) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1277.31 | 26 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1268.97 | 8 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1267.39 | 21 |
| (77) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1256.02 | 7 |
| (77) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1254.81 | 29 |
| (77) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1247.51 | 25 |
| 78 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1247.51 | 25 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1241.99 | 14 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1220.04 | 9 |
| 81 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1205.8 | 49 |
| (81) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1190.89 | 5 |
| 82 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1179.23 | 6 |
| 83 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1178.84 | 11 |
| 84 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1177.97 | 12 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1177.9 | 11 |
| (84) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1171.68 | 8 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1166.45 | 9 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1116.37 | 22 |
| (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 | 1112.27 | 12 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1105.08 | 16 |
| (87) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1101.82 | 5 |
| 88 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1100.99 | 9 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1097.42 | 11 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1085.05 | 18 |
| 91 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1077.57 | 59 |
| 92 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 1067.08 | 25 |
| 93 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1053.72 | 20 |
| 94 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1052.67 | 29 |
| 95 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1037.33 | 8 |
| (95) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1037.24 | 7 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 1030.39 | 26 |
| 97 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1025.22 | 24 |
| 98 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1006.1 | 47 |
| 99 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1000.71 | 23 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 986.04 | 12 |
| 101 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 976.24 | 7 |
| 102 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 969.68 | 14 |
| (102) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 966.38 | 4 |
| (102) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 954.13 | 14 |
| (102) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 943.29 | 8 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 921.56 | 10 |
| (103) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 918.3 | 2 |
| 104 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 913.2 | 14 |
| (104) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 910.36 | 14 |
| 105 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 910.3 | 7 |
| (105) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 908.54 | 18 |
| 106 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 902.19 | 24 |
| 107 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 901.06 | 3 |
| (107) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 897.32 | 12 |
| 108 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 896.21 | 8 |
| (108) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 894.61 | 7 |
| 109 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 894.61 | 8 |
| (109) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 893.04 | 2 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 886.18 | 37 |
| 111 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 878.86 | 12 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 868.55 | 33 |
| 113 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 857.91 | 9 |
| 114 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 856.42 | 13 |
| (114) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 855.98 | 8 |
| 115 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 854.36 | 18 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 850.71 | 11 |
| 117 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 847.87 | 41 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 839.46 | 17 |
| (118) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 834.7 | 2 |
| (118) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 828.36 | 2 |
| (118) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 824.17 | 9 |
| 119 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 823.36 | 17 |
| 120 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 814.58 | 6 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 806.89 | 17 |
| 122 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 805.94 | 17 |
| 123 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 799.37 | 8 |
| (123) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 794.12 | 27 |
| 124 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 791.97 | 9 |
| 125 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 780.44 | 5 |
| 126 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 776.86 | 11 |
| 127 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 775.3 | 11 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 771.98 | 36 |
| (128) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 768.25 | 16 |
| 129 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 763.64 | 28 |
| 130 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 759.15 | 8 |
| 131 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 757.59 | 11 |
| 132 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 755.64 | 2 |
| (132) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 738.26 | 4 |
| (132) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 734.3 | 5 |
| 133 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 731.17 | 25 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Haifa | Haifa, Israel | 728.25 | 10 |
| 135 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 724.99 | 14 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 719.46 | 23 |
| (136) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 719.45 | 2 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 719.17 | 14 |
| (137) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 718.46 | 4 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 715.7 | 12 |
| 138 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 710.51 | 6 |
| 139 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 710.12 | 35 |
| (139) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 687.74 | 3 |
| 140 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 684.45 | 28 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 670.05 | 21 |
| (141) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 662.58 | 4 |
| 142 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 656.96 | 4 |
| 143 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 655.49 | 16 |
| 144 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 652.44 | 15 |
| 145 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 645.3 | 4 |
| (145) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 645.12 | 8 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 642.97 | 11 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 639.84 | 26 |
| (147) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 639.33 | 6 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 637.58 | 14 |
| 149 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 634.73 | 11 |
| 150 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 629.68 | 11 |
| (150) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 627.02 | 17 |
| (150) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 626.61 | 3 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 616.85 | 18 |
| 152 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 611.5 | 17 |
| (152) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 610.5 | 21 |
| 153 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 608.93 | 101 |
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