| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25081.21 | 263 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 7856.74 | 215 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6668.29 | 35 |
| 4 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6421.07 | 289 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4867.17 | 39 |
| 6 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3245.83 | 59 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2943.67 | 24 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2873.14 | 26 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2636.09 | 31 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2305.37 | 29 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2302.12 | 29 |
| 12 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2200.86 | 49 |
| (12) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2138.92 | 22 |
| 13 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2103.82 | 13 |
| 14 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2074.99 | 74 |
| 15 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2049.74 | 100 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2036.52 | 29 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1951.16 | 30 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1917.15 | 32 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1896.75 | 31 |
| 20 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1860.99 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1793.33 | 91 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1740.67 | 29 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1534.36 | 13 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1512.96 | 49 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1420.98 | 27 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1403.56 | 14 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1376.6 | 22 |
| (27) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1274.98 | 16 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1245.31 | 26 |
| 29 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1228.34 | 9 |
| 30 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1167.68 | 25 |
| (30) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1158.36 | 39 |
| 31 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1129.51 | 12 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1126.77 | 24 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1110.03 | 20 |
| 34 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1096.54 | 136 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 1089.03 | 10 |
| 36 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1088.06 | 54 |
| 37 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1087.13 | 17 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1039.83 | 24 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1025.69 | 22 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1022.2 | 30 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 962.74 | 36 |
| 42 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 935.82 | 6 |
| (42) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 935.7 | 32 |
| 43 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 902.25 | 31 |
| (43) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 859.85 | 25 |
| 44 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 859.85 | 25 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 858.62 | 32 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 848.59 | 11 |
| 47 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 812.04 | 26 |
| 48 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 798.06 | 21 |
| 49 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 786.15 | 17 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 784.4 | 21 |
| 51 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 782.89 | 100 |
| (51) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 777.73 | 17 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 768.54 | 22 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 764.57 | 17 |
| (53) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 760.55 | 10 |
| (53) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 740.52 | 8 |
| 54 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 736.94 | 35 |
| 55 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 710.24 | 17 |
| 56 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 703.32 | 23 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 688.36 | 20 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 661.3 | 32 |
| 59 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 652.88 | 29 |
| 60 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 652.48 | 12 |
| 61 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 648.54 | 28 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 636.48 | 32 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 632.09 | 9 |
| 64 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 626.83 | 15 |
| 65 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 623.96 | 11 |
| 66 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 613.14 | 29 |
| 67 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 605.66 | 12 |
| (67) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 603.99 | 2 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 587.87 | 10 |
| 69 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 587.7 | 11 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 572.92 | 15 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 572.23 | 43 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 571.55 | 23 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 569.36 | 37 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 558.04 | 33 |
| 75 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 555.46 | 59 |
| 76 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 536.85 | 28 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 535.9 | 14 |
| (77) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 532.59 | 16 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 531.28 | 9 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 527.47 | 18 |
| (79) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 519.84 | 7 |
| 80 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 519.84 | 8 |
| 81 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 518.91 | 48 |
| 82 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 509.87 | 24 |
| 83 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 502.86 | 11 |
| (83) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 500.19 | 6 |
| 84 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 495.93 | 11 |
| 85 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 495.7 | 46 |
| 86 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 489.18 | 18 |
| (86) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 474.71 | 7 |
| (86) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 466.73 | 1 |
| 87 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 459.66 | 17 |
| 88 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 459.2 | 41 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 457.05 | 24 |
| 90 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 453.93 | 3 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 451.01 | 8 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 449.11 | 14 |
| 92 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 448.02 | 22 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 434.76 | 16 |
| 94 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 431.53 | 17 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 428.03 | 23 |
| 96 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 412.48 | 11 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 411.48 | 29 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 410.44 | 12 |
| (98) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 409.46 | 26 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 406.2 | 19 |
| 100 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 401.05 | 16 |
| 101 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 400.96 | 9 |
| (101) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 400.96 | 9 |
| (101) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 392.96 | 27 |
| 102 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 392.9 | 22 |
| 103 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 390.73 | 12 |
| (103) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 390.67 | 11 |
| 104 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 390.57 | 2 |
| 105 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 388.51 | 11 |
| 106 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 385.76 | 101 |
| 107 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 384.9 | 9 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 384.36 | 16 |
| (108) | Center for the Study of Energy Markets (CSEM), University of California Energy Institute (UCEI), University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 382.76 | 2 |
| 109 | University of California Energy Institute (UCEI), University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 382.76 | 2 |
| (109) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 378.32 | 2 |
| (109) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 377.33 | 12 |
| (109) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 376.38 | 8 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 367.75 | 26 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 367.65 | 11 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 367.01 | 5 |
| (112) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 363.39 | 2 |
| 113 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 359.53 | 25 |
| 114 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 357.7 | 13 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 356.99 | 37 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 355.44 | 12 |
| (116) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 355.07 | 8 |
| 117 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 349.12 | 15 |
| (117) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 348.4 | 18 |
| 118 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 346.8 | 38 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 345.3 | 16 |
| 120 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 342.01 | 5 |
| 121 | School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington | Wellington, New Zealand | 341.61 | 6 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 336.86 | 21 |
| 123 | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 334.94 | 2 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 331.84 | 20 |
| (124) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 331.54 | 27 |
| 125 | Singapore Management University | Singapore, Singapore | 325.83 | 15 |
| 126 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 319.42 | 15 |
| 127 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 318.31 | 8 |
| (127) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 318.29 | 7 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 317.74 | 34 |
| 129 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 313.56 | 17 |
| (129) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 312.41 | 3 |
| 130 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 311.06 | 28 |
| 131 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 310.99 | 9 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, York University | Toronto, Canada | 308.93 | 10 |
| (132) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 308.21 | 14 |
| (132) | Department of Finance, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah | Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) | 306.64 | 1 |
| 133 | David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah | Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) | 306.64 | 1 |
| (133) | Business Economics, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 306.11 | 7 |
| 134 | Carolina Population Center (CPC), University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) | 304.93 | 3 |
| 135 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 302.89 | 28 |
| 136 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 301.37 | 9 |
| 137 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 296.9 | 14 |
| 138 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 292.7 | 28 |
| 139 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 292.2 | 7 |
| (139) | Department of Economics, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 290.16 | 10 |
| 140 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 288.82 | 12 |
| (140) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 285.15 | 16 |
| 141 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 282.19 | 14 |
| 142 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 282.02 | 11 |
| (142) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 281.06 | 12 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 279.38 | 14 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Carleton University | Ottawa, Canada | 269.63 | 18 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 269.33 | 14 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 268.74 | 17 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 267.54 | 9 |
| (147) | Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CEMMAP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 265.21 | 4 |
| 148 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 263.88 | 10 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 262.78 | 14 |
| 150 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 261.45 | 8 |
| (150) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 258.31 | 2 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 258.28 | 18 |
| 152 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 258.19 | 39 |
| 153 | Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Napoli - "Federico II" | Napoli, Italy | 256.03 | 3 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 252.8 | 19 |
| (154) | Department of Economics, Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 252.56 | 5 |
| (154) | Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 251.43 | 3 |
| (154) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 250.58 | 24 |
| 155 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 244.48 | 35 |
| (155) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 243.5 | 5 |
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