| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 783130.7 | 264 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 328879.36 | 218 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 271956.91 | 304 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 157963.84 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 137275.28 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 98942.71 | 104 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 92058.13 | 30 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 91456.23 | 31 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 86608.82 | 27 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 85538.27 | 24 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 79011.64 | 78 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 74523.73 | 31 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 73818.3 | 30 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 64869.75 | 27 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 64495.18 | 31 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 62402.07 | 13 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 62242.58 | 30 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 61556.19 | 20 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 59797.4 | 93 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 59296.14 | 58 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 56524.89 | 16 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 53851.05 | 26 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 53633.68 | 39 |
| 22 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 53320.83 | 136 |
| 23 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 51556.14 | 108 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 49828.39 | 33 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 49310.21 | 50 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 47916.14 | 50 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 47119.42 | 30 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 45999.57 | 22 |
| 29 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 45233.4 | 13 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 44749.27 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 44634.55 | 29 |
| 31 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 43388.56 | 15 |
| (31) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 41914.2 | 32 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 41752.51 | 22 |
| 33 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 40539.99 | 16 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 40152.54 | 22 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 39977.75 | 17 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 38455.39 | 13 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 37551.1 | 15 |
| 38 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 36370.35 | 25 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 35705.4 | 33 |
| 40 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 35577.54 | 54 |
| 41 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 35211.93 | 35 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 34861.3 | 32 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 34709.14 | 28 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 33812.41 | 23 |
| 45 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 32748.22 | 17 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 32719.1 | 30 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 31777.85 | 28 |
| (47) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 31520.94 | 24 |
| 48 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 31520.94 | 24 |
| 49 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 31381.82 | 35 |
| 50 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 30605.96 | 11 |
| (50) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 30505.8 | 11 |
| 51 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 29406.35 | 12 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 29404.87 | 44 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 29320.19 | 24 |
| 54 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 29044.46 | 24 |
| 55 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 27898.14 | 3 |
| 56 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 27844.31 | 17 |
| 57 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 27793.1 | 27 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 27638.29 | 37 |
| 59 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 27516.05 | 29 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 27087.3 | 24 |
| 61 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 26006.27 | 40 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 25359.22 | 9 |
| 63 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 25203.99 | 10 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 24487.26 | 20 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 24391.19 | 19 |
| 66 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 24031.82 | 11 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 23273.04 | 12 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 23218.87 | 16 |
| 69 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 23169.98 | 46 |
| 70 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 23056.32 | 9 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 23047.18 | 8 |
| 71 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 22989.91 | 5 |
| (71) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 22888.92 | 16 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 22698.11 | 21 |
| 73 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 22000.77 | 49 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21760.99 | 29 |
| (74) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21462.46 | 26 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 20524.54 | 33 |
| 76 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 20522.98 | 29 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 20325.07 | 23 |
| 78 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 20184.38 | 59 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 19970.53 | 11 |
| 80 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 19914.7 | 12 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 19910.77 | 11 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 19270.72 | 10 |
| (81) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19050.44 | 28 |
| (81) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 18859.37 | 8 |
| (81) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 18705.3 | 7 |
| 82 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 18455.21 | 27 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 18223.19 | 12 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 18005 | 22 |
| (84) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17221.52 | 13 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 16865.51 | 17 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16862.15 | 14 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 16761.14 | 18 |
| 88 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 16733.19 | 23 |
| 89 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 16591.14 | 10 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 16544.56 | 26 |
| 91 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 16326.28 | 25 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 16206.86 | 17 |
| (92) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16021.07 | 27 |
| 93 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 15925.42 | 14 |
| 94 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 15625.72 | 11 |
| 95 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 15349.28 | 11 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 15315.2 | 16 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 15118.11 | 26 |
| 98 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 14955.09 | 42 |
| (98) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14774.81 | 5 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 14713.12 | 34 |
| 100 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 14657.42 | 102 |
| 101 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 14586.76 | 34 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 14578.58 | 36 |
| (102) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 14442.24 | 18 |
| (102) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 14427.37 | 11 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 14410.42 | 37 |
| 104 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 14206.84 | 15 |
| 105 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14168.8 | 24 |
| (105) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14143.27 | 14 |
| (105) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 14140.97 | 12 |
| 106 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 14069.63 | 8 |
| (106) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13974.71 | 5 |
| 107 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 13913.9 | 25 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 13750.63 | 10 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 13708.58 | 9 |
| 110 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 13568.61 | 18 |
| 111 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13516.9 | 21 |
| (111) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 13463.21 | 6 |
| (111) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13361.24 | 8 |
| (111) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13214.8 | 4 |
| 112 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 13181.31 | 17 |
| 113 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 13137.31 | 17 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 13121.9 | 11 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 13007.15 | 14 |
| (115) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 12964.4 | 8 |
| 116 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 12957.92 | 36 |
| 117 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12921.94 | 15 |
| 118 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12724.96 | 6 |
| 119 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 12578.28 | 7 |
| (119) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12509.23 | 2 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 12508.03 | 25 |
| 121 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 12410.42 | 13 |
| 122 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 12358.62 | 8 |
| 123 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 12342.6 | 28 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12338.37 | 17 |
| 124 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 12254.26 | 9 |
| (124) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12242.05 | 2 |
| (124) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12178.05 | 5 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 12130.21 | 19 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 12101.47 | 17 |
| (126) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 12082.24 | 13 |
| 127 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 12078.16 | 50 |
| (127) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12057.35 | 8 |
| 128 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 12051.28 | 8 |
| 129 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 12027.61 | 12 |
| 130 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 12017.13 | 7 |
| (130) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11984.75 | 4 |
| 131 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 11887.31 | 4 |
| 132 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 11871.94 | 6 |
| 133 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 11741.31 | 9 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11692.49 | 10 |
| 135 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 11616.26 | 28 |
| 136 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 11605.66 | 23 |
| (136) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11548.97 | 4 |
| 137 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 11516.31 | 11 |
| 138 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11375.05 | 43 |
| (138) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11317.21 | 4 |
| 139 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 11311.61 | 6 |
| (139) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11275.74 | 7 |
| 140 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11275.74 | 8 |
| 141 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 11197.09 | 54 |
| 142 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 11109.78 | 12 |
| 143 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 11070.95 | 18 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10950.14 | 6 |
| 145 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 10931.29 | 74 |
| 146 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10813.8 | 2 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 10800.42 | 14 |
| 148 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 10730.29 | 11 |
| 149 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 10640.74 | 36 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 10561.62 | 27 |
| 151 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 10555.86 | 25 |
| 152 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 10352.57 | 9 |
| (152) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 10199.22 | 16 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 10081.33 | 14 |
| 154 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 9974.21 | 21 |
| 155 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 9967.07 | 12 |
| (155) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9923.17 | 2 |
| 156 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 9748.09 | 36 |
| (156) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9742.25 | 2 |
| (156) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 9670.11 | 8 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 9655.75 | 12 |
| 158 | Ente per gli Studi Monetari, Bancari e Finanziari "Luigi Einaudi" | Roma, Italy | 9606.1 | 6 |
| (158) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9601.86 | 18 |
| (158) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 9558.27 | 3 |
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