| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19721.49 | 264 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 7424.98 | 218 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6121.44 | 304 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3977.45 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3473.45 | 39 |
| 6 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2362.99 | 31 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2346.45 | 30 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2227.8 | 27 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2191.91 | 24 |
| 10 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2130.97 | 104 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1915.34 | 30 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1777.73 | 31 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1633.27 | 78 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1614.92 | 27 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1580.79 | 31 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1423.02 | 30 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1403.43 | 16 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1370.63 | 26 |
| 18 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1345.18 | 58 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1314.51 | 20 |
| 20 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1310.54 | 13 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1255.74 | 33 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1253.86 | 93 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1229.56 | 39 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1218.75 | 50 |
| 24 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1202.7 | 13 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 1164.18 | 30 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1151.52 | 15 |
| 27 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1135.12 | 136 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1120.93 | 50 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1120.87 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1102.79 | 29 |
| 31 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1053.86 | 16 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1049.18 | 22 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1029.17 | 13 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1019.11 | 17 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1006.66 | 22 |
| 35 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 996.92 | 22 |
| 36 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 994.28 | 108 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 913.11 | 15 |
| (37) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 866.78 | 32 |
| 38 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 864.41 | 25 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 854.41 | 33 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 847 | 35 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 823.93 | 23 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 823.6 | 17 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 821.75 | 28 |
| (43) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 816.48 | 11 |
| 44 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 789.94 | 11 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 768.16 | 32 |
| 46 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 735.39 | 12 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 711.8 | 28 |
| 48 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 705.63 | 3 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 693.19 | 24 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 681.52 | 44 |
| 51 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 680.76 | 35 |
| 52 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 676.19 | 54 |
| 53 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 673.11 | 17 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 670.63 | 30 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 655.88 | 24 |
| 56 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 631.36 | 29 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 628.73 | 19 |
| (57) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 626.15 | 24 |
| 58 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 626.15 | 24 |
| 59 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 621.75 | 10 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 620.21 | 20 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 610.99 | 9 |
| 62 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 606.81 | 27 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 606.44 | 37 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 592.38 | 12 |
| 65 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 586.58 | 11 |
| 66 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 567.71 | 5 |
| (66) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 561.23 | 16 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 547.34 | 21 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 536.06 | 40 |
| 69 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 536.02 | 24 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 521.21 | 11 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 511.08 | 16 |
| 72 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 494.99 | 12 |
| (72) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 494.96 | 11 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 487.43 | 23 |
| (73) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 481.05 | 8 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 479.66 | 33 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 476.88 | 12 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 461.96 | 29 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 460.43 | 14 |
| (77) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 457.27 | 26 |
| (77) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 457.08 | 7 |
| 78 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 437.7 | 46 |
| 79 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 437.13 | 29 |
| 80 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 432.72 | 49 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 430.67 | 17 |
| 82 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 427.68 | 59 |
| 83 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 424.31 | 22 |
| 84 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 424.08 | 9 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 423.99 | 8 |
| (84) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 410.67 | 13 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 410.43 | 18 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 404.99 | 10 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 398.81 | 26 |
| 88 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 397.82 | 27 |
| 89 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 393.83 | 11 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 392.13 | 10 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 389.3 | 17 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 388.3 | 16 |
| 93 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 383.19 | 11 |
| 94 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 379.49 | 23 |
| (94) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 367.81 | 5 |
| (94) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 362.91 | 14 |
| (94) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 359.03 | 8 |
| 95 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 355.31 | 14 |
| (95) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 353.95 | 28 |
| (95) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 351.86 | 8 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 347.44 | 10 |
| (96) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 346.34 | 27 |
| (96) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 341.8 | 4 |
| (96) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 339.89 | 5 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 333.94 | 11 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 330.63 | 9 |
| (98) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 324.72 | 2 |
| (98) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 324.38 | 11 |
| 99 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 323.63 | 17 |
| (99) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 323.24 | 5 |
| (99) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 322.9 | 18 |
| 100 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 321.28 | 9 |
| (100) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 321.01 | 12 |
| 101 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 320.53 | 6 |
| 102 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 319.96 | 25 |
| 103 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 318.49 | 42 |
| 104 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 317.49 | 7 |
| 105 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 316.76 | 15 |
| 106 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 316.37 | 24 |
| 107 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 313.58 | 21 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 313.34 | 14 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 312.03 | 34 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 310.87 | 36 |
| (110) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 307.28 | 7 |
| 111 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 307.28 | 8 |
| 112 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 307.2 | 8 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 306.81 | 17 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 301.64 | 26 |
| 115 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 301.37 | 8 |
| (115) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 298.28 | 2 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 297.4 | 37 |
| 117 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 297.27 | 25 |
| 118 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 297.17 | 7 |
| (118) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 297.11 | 8 |
| 119 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 294.07 | 12 |
| 120 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 291.67 | 6 |
| (120) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 290.83 | 6 |
| (120) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 287.19 | 17 |
| 121 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 285.04 | 13 |
| 122 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 282.28 | 8 |
| 123 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 281.73 | 9 |
| 124 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 280.86 | 11 |
| 125 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 280.57 | 17 |
| 126 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 280.52 | 18 |
| 127 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 279.77 | 4 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 279.38 | 19 |
| (128) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 275.43 | 4 |
| 129 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 273.49 | 28 |
| 130 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 273.02 | 6 |
| (130) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 272.94 | 4 |
| (130) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 270.82 | 2 |
| 131 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 269.31 | 34 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 268.5 | 10 |
| 133 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 266.76 | 9 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 266.74 | 25 |
| (134) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 266.38 | 4 |
| 135 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 265.33 | 15 |
| (135) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 264.74 | 13 |
| 136 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 261.47 | 36 |
| 137 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 260.98 | 3 |
| (137) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 260.29 | 2 |
| 138 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 259.39 | 2 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 258.53 | 14 |
| 140 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 253.28 | 11 |
| 141 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 247.24 | 102 |
| (141) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 243.76 | 16 |
| 142 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 243.45 | 12 |
| 143 | Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 243.02 | 2 |
| (143) | Department of Finance, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 242.96 | 1 |
| (143) | Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 242.96 | 1 |
| (143) | Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 241.37 | 3 |
| 144 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 240.52 | 12 |
| (144) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 239.87 | 8 |
| 145 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 235.69 | 18 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 235.69 | 27 |
| 147 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 233.11 | 28 |
| 148 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 231.14 | 6 |
| 149 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 230.77 | 23 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 228.85 | 12 |
| 151 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 227.14 | 5 |
| (151) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 225.51 | 2 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Rice University | Houston, Texas (USA) | 224.27 | 7 |
| 153 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 222.14 | 25 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 221.65 | 14 |
| 155 | Paul Merage School of Business, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 219.05 | 4 |
| 156 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 217.13 | 6 |
| 157 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 215.91 | 30 |
| 158 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 215.31 | 50 |
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