| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 721273.52 | 260 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 295974.88 | 213 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 243626.16 | 285 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 131483.59 | 33 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 131277.4 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 95143.5 | 98 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 86674.54 | 30 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 82853.89 | 26 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 80474.38 | 24 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 80281.22 | 28 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 71447.43 | 73 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 70868.17 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 70668.41 | 31 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 61709.83 | 26 |
| 15 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 58963.57 | 12 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 58822.43 | 29 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 58818.19 | 20 |
| 18 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 57472.83 | 137 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 57154.73 | 60 |
| 20 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 54081.91 | 29 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 53716.96 | 16 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 53406.44 | 90 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 50836.59 | 37 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 49458.4 | 26 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 47316.62 | 31 |
| 24 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 46191.86 | 97 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 45632.92 | 30 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 44859.16 | 47 |
| 27 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 43310.76 | 13 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 43250.31 | 22 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 42428.86 | 30 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 41856.62 | 22 |
| (29) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 40724.12 | 32 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 40675.4 | 14 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 40373.44 | 47 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 39779.07 | 22 |
| 33 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 38820.79 | 17 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 38232.3 | 16 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 36758 | 13 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 35822.27 | 22 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 35628.24 | 15 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 34851.17 | 33 |
| 39 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 33530.21 | 35 |
| 40 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 33390.52 | 53 |
| 41 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 32967.95 | 28 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 32054.81 | 30 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 31820.48 | 25 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 31668.1 | 23 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 31425.79 | 30 |
| 46 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 31314.1 | 17 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 29848.59 | 27 |
| (47) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 29751.92 | 25 |
| 48 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 29751.92 | 25 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 29453.13 | 11 |
| (49) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 28300.69 | 10 |
| 50 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 27952.49 | 23 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 27923.64 | 43 |
| 52 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 27874.68 | 12 |
| 53 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 27666.81 | 23 |
| 54 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 26783.79 | 27 |
| 55 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 26461.99 | 17 |
| 56 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 26350.18 | 36 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 26049.8 | 24 |
| 58 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 26040.98 | 3 |
| 59 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 24576.03 | 29 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 24393.53 | 39 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 23649.54 | 9 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 23280.86 | 21 |
| 63 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22968.07 | 9 |
| 64 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 22884.38 | 11 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 22179.04 | 15 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21910.28 | 12 |
| (66) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 21834.99 | 16 |
| 67 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 21749.91 | 47 |
| (67) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 21468.14 | 29 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 21382.63 | 18 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 20885.32 | 29 |
| 70 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 20857.1 | 49 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 20618.64 | 26 |
| 71 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 20479.94 | 4 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 20425.81 | 20 |
| 73 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 20354.09 | 8 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 20347.06 | 7 |
| 74 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 19571.77 | 29 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 19191.56 | 23 |
| 76 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 19085.77 | 59 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 19017.73 | 33 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 18613.56 | 11 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 18428.55 | 10 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 17927.93 | 12 |
| (80) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17826.37 | 27 |
| (80) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 17656.22 | 7 |
| 81 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 17537.89 | 24 |
| 82 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17099.38 | 22 |
| 83 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 17023 | 12 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 17019.15 | 11 |
| (83) | 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 | 16509.98 | 12 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16209.94 | 14 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 16007.93 | 18 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 15941.42 | 9 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 15890.16 | 16 |
| 88 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 15488.96 | 25 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 15440.05 | 16 |
| 90 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 15155.19 | 23 |
| 91 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 15108.53 | 14 |
| (91) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 14980.74 | 8 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 14946.73 | 11 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 14858.5 | 25 |
| 94 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 14690.25 | 11 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 14319.27 | 26 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 14234.21 | 16 |
| (96) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14189.17 | 5 |
| (96) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 13665.04 | 9 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 13618.66 | 37 |
| (97) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13559.6 | 14 |
| (97) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 13555 | 18 |
| 98 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 13534.68 | 41 |
| (98) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 13418.63 | 12 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 13382.99 | 36 |
| 100 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 13354.41 | 8 |
| (100) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13344.01 | 5 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 13295.21 | 21 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 13229.09 | 9 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 13108.78 | 10 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 13088.9 | 33 |
| (104) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12896.26 | 6 |
| (104) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 12881.06 | 8 |
| 105 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 12843.33 | 18 |
| (105) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12825.75 | 8 |
| (105) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12624.9 | 4 |
| 106 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 12605.36 | 17 |
| 107 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 12503.95 | 17 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 12476.8 | 12 |
| 109 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12458.11 | 24 |
| 110 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 12456.72 | 14 |
| 111 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12242.25 | 6 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12232.74 | 11 |
| 113 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12179.69 | 14 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 12119.7 | 11 |
| 115 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 12107.98 | 101 |
| 116 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 12023.84 | 7 |
| 117 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 11994.52 | 35 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 11982.53 | 23 |
| (118) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11976.56 | 2 |
| 119 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 11938.79 | 13 |
| (119) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11810.55 | 2 |
| 120 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 11685.2 | 9 |
| 121 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11672.99 | 20 |
| 122 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 11665.74 | 28 |
| 123 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 11608.06 | 8 |
| 124 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 11578.29 | 8 |
| (124) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11566.43 | 8 |
| 125 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 11483.02 | 7 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 11467.98 | 51 |
| (126) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11375.4 | 4 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 11256.83 | 17 |
| 128 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 11235.98 | 4 |
| 129 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 11223.04 | 29 |
| 130 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 11202.5 | 9 |
| (130) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11081.4 | 5 |
| (130) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10991.48 | 4 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 10965.76 | 17 |
| 132 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 10927.23 | 11 |
| (132) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10872.66 | 4 |
| 133 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 10838.83 | 6 |
| (133) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10822.16 | 7 |
| 134 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10822.16 | 8 |
| 135 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 10821.64 | 28 |
| 136 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 10770.51 | 11 |
| 137 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10729.85 | 40 |
| 138 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 10587.46 | 70 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10507.91 | 6 |
| 140 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 10424.53 | 17 |
| (140) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 10420.99 | 12 |
| 141 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 10393.33 | 53 |
| 142 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10323.47 | 2 |
| 143 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 10204.06 | 36 |
| 144 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 10115.29 | 25 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 10071.26 | 26 |
| 146 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 9905.38 | 9 |
| (146) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 9844 | 67 |
| (146) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9753.27 | 16 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 9707.08 | 14 |
| (147) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9546.84 | 2 |
| (147) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9516.07 | 14 |
| 148 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 9465.51 | 11 |
| 149 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 9443.18 | 11 |
| 150 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 9343.1 | 11 |
| (150) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9213.94 | 17 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 9200.31 | 11 |
| (151) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 9181.19 | 8 |
| 152 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 9111.17 | 3 |
| 153 | Paul Merage School of Business, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 9100.79 | 4 |
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