| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 485492.19 | 264 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 189681.03 | 218 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 162981.49 | 304 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 94630.03 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 86850.71 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 61996.46 | 104 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 59759.53 | 27 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 57570.63 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 55626.47 | 30 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 52364.79 | 24 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 49864.41 | 78 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 47977.26 | 31 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 46898.12 | 30 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 44547.71 | 13 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 42357.94 | 30 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 42286.46 | 20 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 40753 | 27 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 38981.4 | 93 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 38215.43 | 31 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 36095.3 | 16 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 35332.64 | 58 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 33699.92 | 39 |
| 21 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 33565.55 | 13 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 30693.74 | 33 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 29945.76 | 50 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 29396.22 | 26 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 28870.76 | 29 |
| 26 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 28596.3 | 136 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 28130.69 | 30 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 27619.19 | 50 |
| (28) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 27530.21 | 32 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 27228.65 | 22 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 26500.1 | 22 |
| (30) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 26003.45 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 25882.8 | 17 |
| 32 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 25233.38 | 108 |
| 33 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 24711.35 | 16 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 24535.31 | 15 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 24366.2 | 22 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 24156.13 | 15 |
| 37 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 23602.24 | 17 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 22957.63 | 33 |
| 39 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 22250.69 | 35 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 21980.51 | 13 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 21059.61 | 23 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 20936.73 | 11 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 20521.64 | 25 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 20288.86 | 30 |
| 45 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 19637.2 | 35 |
| 46 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 19202.79 | 24 |
| 47 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 18890.81 | 54 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 18658.28 | 32 |
| 49 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18296.79 | 28 |
| (49) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18088.45 | 11 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 18069.15 | 44 |
| 51 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 18068.8 | 12 |
| 52 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 17972.54 | 27 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 17796.02 | 37 |
| 54 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17275.18 | 11 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 17111.75 | 24 |
| 56 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16746.91 | 3 |
| 57 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16413.78 | 17 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 16346 | 19 |
| 59 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 16152.17 | 40 |
| 60 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 16047.91 | 28 |
| 61 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 15843.44 | 10 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 15650.75 | 24 |
| 63 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 15341.09 | 9 |
| (63) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 15339.64 | 8 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 15068.5 | 21 |
| 65 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 15015.55 | 29 |
| (65) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 14799.19 | 16 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14595.09 | 12 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 14507.39 | 20 |
| (67) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 14461.78 | 24 |
| 68 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 14461.78 | 24 |
| 69 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 14265.34 | 9 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 14079.57 | 16 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 13927.72 | 29 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 13755.9 | 26 |
| 72 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 13428.62 | 49 |
| 73 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 12984.08 | 5 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 12915.03 | 11 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 12756.44 | 33 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 12589 | 10 |
| 77 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11856.73 | 11 |
| 78 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11676.86 | 12 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11674.89 | 11 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 11652.86 | 26 |
| 80 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11650.05 | 46 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11487.4 | 23 |
| (81) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11223.01 | 7 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 10766.65 | 10 |
| (82) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10754.61 | 5 |
| 83 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 10719.68 | 29 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 10675.13 | 16 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 10592.27 | 17 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10262.9 | 8 |
| 86 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10254.73 | 21 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 10234.89 | 9 |
| (87) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10202.22 | 8 |
| 88 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10187.53 | 22 |
| 89 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 10115.77 | 59 |
| 90 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 9818.75 | 27 |
| (90) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9796.7 | 13 |
| (90) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9735.38 | 28 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9531.26 | 17 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 9464.25 | 26 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9413.99 | 17 |
| 93 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9327.01 | 6 |
| 94 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9272.51 | 23 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9122.33 | 14 |
| (95) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9098.04 | 5 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 8937.01 | 18 |
| 97 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8924.62 | 11 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 8843.83 | 34 |
| 99 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8838.82 | 14 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 8832.29 | 11 |
| 101 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 8728.69 | 12 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 8659.46 | 36 |
| 103 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 8643.85 | 102 |
| 104 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 8599 | 8 |
| (104) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 8564.62 | 18 |
| 105 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 8518.63 | 42 |
| 106 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 8389.93 | 25 |
| (106) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8331.5 | 27 |
| 107 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8290.03 | 7 |
| 108 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8177.66 | 24 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 8080.3 | 14 |
| 110 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 8030.58 | 9 |
| (110) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7989.04 | 12 |
| 111 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 7987.75 | 18 |
| 112 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 7948.23 | 17 |
| 113 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 7922.23 | 25 |
| 114 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 7880.45 | 15 |
| 115 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 7876.7 | 34 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 7828.69 | 19 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 7819.35 | 37 |
| (117) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7739.33 | 14 |
| 118 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 7733.22 | 28 |
| 119 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 7663.78 | 8 |
| (119) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7638.57 | 2 |
| (119) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7601.71 | 4 |
| 120 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 7554.01 | 12 |
| (120) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7538.45 | 11 |
| (120) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7428.96 | 2 |
| 121 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 7391.02 | 13 |
| 122 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 7368.09 | 17 |
| 123 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 7364.41 | 28 |
| 124 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 7350.97 | 10 |
| 125 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 7333.88 | 7 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 7310.12 | 17 |
| 127 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 7292.92 | 8 |
| 128 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7203.81 | 15 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 7089.71 | 25 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7061.64 | 10 |
| 131 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 7023.59 | 9 |
| (131) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6775.94 | 8 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Rice University | Houston, Texas (USA) | 6747.34 | 7 |
| 133 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 6736.79 | 36 |
| (133) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 6684.08 | 8 |
| (133) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 6677.85 | 13 |
| 134 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6620.02 | 11 |
| 135 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 6616.34 | 23 |
| 136 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 6613.54 | 12 |
| (136) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6604.63 | 4 |
| (136) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 6571.02 | 8 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 6563.87 | 22 |
| 138 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 6538.97 | 11 |
| (138) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6530.84 | 2 |
| (138) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6470.48 | 5 |
| 139 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 6417.82 | 36 |
| (139) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6349.73 | 7 |
| 140 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6349.73 | 8 |
| (140) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6309.15 | 4 |
| (140) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6289.05 | 4 |
| 141 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 6271.24 | 12 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6257.09 | 6 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 6220.86 | 14 |
| 144 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6189.06 | 4 |
| 145 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 6143.73 | 3 |
| 146 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 6125.59 | 6 |
| (146) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6114.36 | 6 |
| 147 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 6078.94 | 6 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 5994.28 | 27 |
| 149 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 5987.06 | 50 |
| 150 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 5986.94 | 15 |
| 151 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5980.56 | 4 |
| (151) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5962.22 | 16 |
| 152 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 5947.24 | 9 |
| 153 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 5810.14 | 54 |
| (153) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5795.53 | 18 |
| 154 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 5783.56 | 6 |
| 155 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 5761.59 | 16 |
| 156 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 5720.84 | 15 |
| 157 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 5645.43 | 21 |
| 158 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 5642.86 | 18 |
| (158) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5630 | 2 |
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