| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12281.99 | 264 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4274.17 | 218 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3702.29 | 304 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2394.29 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2208.56 | 39 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1543.1 | 27 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1494.2 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1408.56 | 30 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1352.99 | 24 |
| 10 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1335.74 | 104 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1218.89 | 30 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1154.57 | 31 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1051.15 | 78 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1019.02 | 27 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 986.44 | 30 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 945.81 | 31 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 932.14 | 13 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 900.49 | 16 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 892.93 | 20 |
| 19 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 889.31 | 13 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 817.73 | 93 |
| 21 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 811.64 | 58 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 772.32 | 33 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 764.34 | 39 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 750.94 | 50 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 744.82 | 26 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 724.1 | 29 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 698.93 | 30 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 665.86 | 17 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 662.54 | 22 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 648.19 | 50 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 641.58 | 15 |
| 31 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 637.05 | 16 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 622.19 | 22 |
| (32) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 611.53 | 22 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 611.29 | 22 |
| 34 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 595.44 | 136 |
| 35 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 591.39 | 17 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 587.69 | 15 |
| (36) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 579.24 | 32 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 577.98 | 13 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 548.93 | 33 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 544.54 | 11 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 539.54 | 35 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 513.27 | 23 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 490.76 | 25 |
| 43 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 481.42 | 108 |
| (43) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 479.34 | 11 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 460.72 | 12 |
| 45 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 430.1 | 28 |
| 46 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 428.92 | 3 |
| 47 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 424.71 | 11 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 424.16 | 35 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 420.48 | 19 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 418.65 | 30 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 417.87 | 44 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 409.67 | 32 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 406.97 | 24 |
| 54 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 404.04 | 17 |
| 55 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 401.78 | 37 |
| 56 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 396.18 | 10 |
| 57 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 391.26 | 27 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 377.86 | 24 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 372.84 | 12 |
| (59) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 367.87 | 16 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 363.79 | 20 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 360.89 | 21 |
| 62 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 358.64 | 28 |
| 63 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 356.1 | 54 |
| 64 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 352.93 | 24 |
| 65 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 349.84 | 29 |
| 66 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 347.54 | 9 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 345.38 | 11 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 335.15 | 40 |
| 69 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 321.53 | 5 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 301.3 | 16 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 298.66 | 33 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 296.95 | 29 |
| 73 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 294.46 | 11 |
| (73) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 294.22 | 26 |
| 74 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 291.83 | 12 |
| (74) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 291.82 | 11 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 286.02 | 26 |
| (75) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 285.31 | 24 |
| 76 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 285.31 | 24 |
| 77 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 279.97 | 9 |
| (77) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 279.95 | 8 |
| (77) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 274.71 | 7 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 272.03 | 23 |
| (78) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 269.07 | 5 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 268.35 | 10 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 265.14 | 16 |
| 81 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 263.41 | 49 |
| (81) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 261.53 | 8 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 261.08 | 17 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 260.06 | 10 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 252.9 | 8 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 247.29 | 9 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 247.26 | 14 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 243.48 | 17 |
| 87 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 243.46 | 22 |
| 88 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 242.31 | 21 |
| 89 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 237.22 | 6 |
| (89) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 232.03 | 13 |
| 90 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 227.17 | 29 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 225.23 | 17 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 224.98 | 12 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 224.8 | 11 |
| 93 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 223.66 | 9 |
| (93) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 223.04 | 5 |
| 94 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 223.03 | 7 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 222.77 | 11 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 222.05 | 18 |
| 97 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 216.42 | 46 |
| 98 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 210.1 | 27 |
| 99 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 208.09 | 59 |
| 100 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 205.07 | 23 |
| (100) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 198.68 | 4 |
| 101 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 196.28 | 14 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 194.58 | 14 |
| 103 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 193.74 | 8 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 192.32 | 26 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 192.18 | 36 |
| 106 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 191.98 | 12 |
| (106) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 191.73 | 14 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 190.92 | 34 |
| (107) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 190.46 | 2 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 188.95 | 17 |
| (108) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 188.8 | 18 |
| 109 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 184.9 | 24 |
| (109) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 182.59 | 8 |
| 110 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 182.38 | 10 |
| 111 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 181.67 | 25 |
| (111) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 180.45 | 12 |
| 112 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 179.77 | 17 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 179.63 | 19 |
| (113) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 179.38 | 28 |
| (113) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 179.02 | 2 |
| 114 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 178.83 | 15 |
| 115 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 178.45 | 42 |
| 116 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 178.41 | 3 |
| 117 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 177.58 | 8 |
| (117) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 177.04 | 27 |
| 118 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 176.23 | 8 |
| (118) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 173.89 | 8 |
| 119 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 173.6 | 17 |
| (119) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 173.55 | 2 |
| (119) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 172.41 | 7 |
| 120 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 172.41 | 8 |
| 121 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 169.57 | 7 |
| (121) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 168.5 | 11 |
| (121) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 168.42 | 5 |
| 122 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 168.34 | 9 |
| 123 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 168.23 | 13 |
| 124 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 168.2 | 18 |
| 125 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 167.34 | 28 |
| (125) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 165.22 | 8 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Rice University | Houston, Texas (USA) | 164.48 | 7 |
| 127 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 160.84 | 11 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 158.2 | 10 |
| 129 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 157.58 | 5 |
| (129) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 157.56 | 4 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 156.94 | 37 |
| 131 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 155.43 | 11 |
| 132 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 155.19 | 12 |
| 133 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 152.07 | 2 |
| 134 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 152.02 | 25 |
| 135 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 151.35 | 9 |
| 136 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 150.52 | 6 |
| 137 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 150.5 | 15 |
| (137) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 150.18 | 4 |
| (137) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 150.09 | 2 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 148.84 | 13 |
| 138 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 146.81 | 34 |
| 139 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 146.56 | 4 |
| 140 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 146.44 | 6 |
| 141 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 146.38 | 102 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 146.08 | 25 |
| 143 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 146.02 | 28 |
| 144 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 145.57 | 12 |
| (144) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 144.6 | 16 |
| (144) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 142.55 | 4 |
| 145 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 141.8 | 4 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 140.26 | 16 |
| 147 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 138.27 | 6 |
| 148 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 138.18 | 16 |
| (148) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 137.45 | 2 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 136.19 | 22 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 135.15 | 19 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 134.83 | 27 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 133.54 | 14 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 132.45 | 12 |
| 154 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 132.2 | 23 |
| 155 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 131.01 | 36 |
| (155) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 130.62 | 6 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, University of Haifa | Haifa, Israel | 130.29 | 10 |
| (156) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 129.04 | 3 |
| 157 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 128.82 | 2 |
| 158 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 128.78 | 15 |
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