| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 475173.07 | 263 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 181985.36 | 215 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 155087.65 | 289 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 93456.11 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 85631.76 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 60985.4 | 100 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 59087.17 | 26 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 53959.07 | 29 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 53317.24 | 29 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 51665.05 | 24 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 47170.46 | 31 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 46643.13 | 74 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 46452.6 | 30 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 43988.5 | 12 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 41743.46 | 20 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 41135 | 29 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 40101.1 | 27 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 37552.2 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 36012.95 | 91 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 35487.14 | 16 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 34597.02 | 59 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 33123.38 | 39 |
| 21 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 33020.66 | 13 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 30339.78 | 32 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 29537.34 | 49 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 28892.1 | 26 |
| 25 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 28722.9 | 136 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 28297.32 | 29 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 28283.98 | 31 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 27104.17 | 49 |
| (28) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 27072.97 | 32 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 26425.81 | 22 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 26182.98 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 25709.75 | 17 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 25516.88 | 22 |
| 32 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 24433.29 | 17 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 23873.29 | 14 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 23773.97 | 15 |
| 35 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 23427.01 | 100 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 23209.09 | 17 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 22747.14 | 32 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 22325.67 | 22 |
| 39 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 21897.07 | 35 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 21687.77 | 13 |
| 41 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 20769.78 | 11 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 20274.76 | 23 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 20032.35 | 30 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 19235.79 | 25 |
| 45 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 18877.4 | 24 |
| 46 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 18551.68 | 32 |
| 47 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 18328.45 | 54 |
| 48 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18038.51 | 28 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 18022.13 | 32 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17840.42 | 43 |
| 51 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 17744.44 | 26 |
| 52 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 17672.9 | 12 |
| (52) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17505.75 | 10 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 17402.76 | 36 |
| 54 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17121.63 | 11 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 16859.3 | 24 |
| 56 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16556.46 | 3 |
| 57 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16142.14 | 17 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 16141.86 | 19 |
| 59 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 15742.78 | 28 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 15652.04 | 38 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 15557.7 | 24 |
| (61) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 14835.42 | 25 |
| 62 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 14835.42 | 25 |
| 63 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14758.06 | 9 |
| (63) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 14618.9 | 16 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 14402.04 | 20 |
| 65 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 14317.31 | 8 |
| (65) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 14316.14 | 7 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 14262.82 | 20 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 14074.08 | 9 |
| 68 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 14012.26 | 29 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 13867.35 | 12 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 13849.41 | 15 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 13751.21 | 29 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 13582.84 | 26 |
| 72 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 13200.92 | 48 |
| 73 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 12842.39 | 5 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 12787.59 | 11 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 12406.48 | 10 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 12125.07 | 33 |
| 77 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11718.8 | 11 |
| 78 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11520.28 | 12 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11518.35 | 11 |
| 79 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11317.64 | 46 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11252.68 | 23 |
| (80) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11090.51 | 7 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 10691.56 | 10 |
| (81) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10667.08 | 5 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 10555.44 | 16 |
| 83 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 10553.36 | 29 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 10432.93 | 16 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10138.14 | 8 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 10124.73 | 9 |
| 86 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10109.21 | 21 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 9963.73 | 21 |
| 88 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9925.46 | 22 |
| 89 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 9922.22 | 59 |
| 90 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 9710.79 | 24 |
| (90) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9640.49 | 12 |
| (90) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9527.18 | 27 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9395.52 | 17 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 9326.42 | 26 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9251.89 | 16 |
| 93 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9143.23 | 6 |
| (93) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 9083.66 | 8 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9024.75 | 14 |
| (94) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9008.26 | 5 |
| 95 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8813.98 | 11 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 8809.64 | 18 |
| 97 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 8710.21 | 23 |
| 98 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8672.22 | 14 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 8659.5 | 34 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 8609.93 | 12 |
| 101 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 8513.51 | 11 |
| 102 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 8480.14 | 9 |
| (102) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8403.81 | 27 |
| 103 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 8400.1 | 41 |
| (103) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 8363.17 | 18 |
| 104 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8222.27 | 7 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 8208.88 | 37 |
| 106 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 8207.07 | 25 |
| 107 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8071.18 | 24 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 7928.28 | 14 |
| 109 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 7908.54 | 18 |
| 110 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 7903.28 | 9 |
| 111 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 7886.35 | 17 |
| (111) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7833.81 | 12 |
| 112 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 7782.18 | 101 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 7738.16 | 37 |
| (113) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7666.38 | 14 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 7664.39 | 18 |
| 115 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 7658.37 | 15 |
| 116 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 7616.53 | 28 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7592.32 | 11 |
| 118 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 7580.01 | 8 |
| (118) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7569.14 | 2 |
| (118) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7526.71 | 4 |
| (118) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7460.07 | 9 |
| (118) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7351.18 | 2 |
| 119 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 7293.65 | 17 |
| 120 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 7288.96 | 13 |
| 121 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 7272.31 | 10 |
| 122 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 7237.94 | 7 |
| 123 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 7213.72 | 8 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 7030.45 | 17 |
| 125 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7012.4 | 14 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 7002.76 | 24 |
| 127 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 6951.66 | 9 |
| 128 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 6895.05 | 28 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Rice University | Houston, Texas (USA) | 6705.93 | 7 |
| (129) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6700.83 | 8 |
| 130 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 6677.64 | 11 |
| (130) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 6566.13 | 8 |
| 131 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 6562.24 | 11 |
| (131) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6515.07 | 4 |
| 132 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 6504.72 | 35 |
| (132) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 6473.94 | 8 |
| (132) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 6460.55 | 13 |
| 133 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6447.27 | 11 |
| (133) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6404.76 | 2 |
| (133) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6393.17 | 5 |
| 134 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 6361.68 | 11 |
| 135 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 6258.73 | 35 |
| (135) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6238.32 | 7 |
| 136 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6238.32 | 8 |
| (136) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6217.1 | 4 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6199.18 | 6 |
| (137) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6179.72 | 4 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 6154.64 | 14 |
| 139 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 6151.4 | 12 |
| 140 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 6103.39 | 32 |
| 141 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 6101.85 | 3 |
| 142 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6077.89 | 4 |
| 143 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 6046.2 | 6 |
| 144 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 6035.88 | 6 |
| (144) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5989.53 | 6 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 5924.41 | 21 |
| 146 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 5915.7 | 15 |
| (146) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5913.2 | 16 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 5901.72 | 26 |
| 148 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5893.91 | 4 |
| 149 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 5882.43 | 9 |
| 150 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 5863.01 | 50 |
| 151 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 5729.28 | 6 |
| (151) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5704.54 | 17 |
| 152 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 5693.07 | 53 |
| 153 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 5689.13 | 16 |
| 154 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 5649.92 | 22 |
| 155 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 5610.33 | 15 |
| (155) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5555.25 | 2 |
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