| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 492567.07 | 266 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 195206.39 | 223 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 167225.57 | 311 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 96531.1 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 94065.17 | 41 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 63261.19 | 105 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 61473.87 | 31 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 60901.95 | 27 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 55999.76 | 30 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 52664.24 | 24 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 51601.8 | 80 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 48960.46 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 47575.64 | 30 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 45350.95 | 13 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 43697.71 | 21 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 42666.78 | 30 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 41918.87 | 28 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 39803.81 | 93 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 39360.3 | 32 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 36537.13 | 16 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 35487.56 | 58 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 34331.73 | 40 |
| 21 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 33744.53 | 12 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 30986.5 | 33 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 30513.07 | 50 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 29863.23 | 26 |
| 25 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 29317.6 | 143 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 29172.66 | 31 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 29049.32 | 30 |
| (27) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 28225.76 | 33 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 27973.89 | 52 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 27467.71 | 23 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 27439.48 | 22 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 26790.01 | 22 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 26308.21 | 23 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 26047.69 | 18 |
| 33 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 25806.68 | 113 |
| 34 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25411.39 | 17 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 25233.36 | 15 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 24610.85 | 15 |
| 37 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 23939.59 | 17 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 23602.95 | 35 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 23120.78 | 31 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 22765.81 | 36 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 22066.33 | 14 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21135.16 | 11 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 20735.72 | 25 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 20707.15 | 22 |
| 45 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 19960.04 | 57 |
| 46 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 19903.58 | 23 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 19870.26 | 37 |
| 48 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 18969.2 | 12 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 18885.43 | 31 |
| 50 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18813.06 | 28 |
| 51 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 18355.39 | 27 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 18222.91 | 43 |
| (52) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18137.85 | 11 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 17949.86 | 37 |
| 54 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17554.76 | 11 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 17284.7 | 24 |
| 56 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16823.45 | 3 |
| 57 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 16581.86 | 10 |
| 58 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16529.95 | 17 |
| 59 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 16473.06 | 41 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 16430.79 | 19 |
| 61 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 16340.93 | 30 |
| 62 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 16305.8 | 28 |
| 63 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 16156.43 | 9 |
| (63) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 16154.95 | 8 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 16043.72 | 24 |
| 65 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 15614.36 | 9 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 15259.61 | 21 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14968.75 | 13 |
| (67) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 14909.45 | 16 |
| (67) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 14900.91 | 25 |
| 68 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 14900.91 | 25 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 14726.01 | 20 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14331.47 | 29 |
| (70) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14157.37 | 26 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 14143.89 | 16 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 13823.1 | 33 |
| 73 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 13727.26 | 49 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 13592.92 | 11 |
| 75 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13046.25 | 5 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 12721.7 | 10 |
| 77 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12705.31 | 46 |
| (77) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12203.03 | 7 |
| 78 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11926.31 | 11 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 11802.41 | 26 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11796.41 | 23 |
| 81 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11718.14 | 12 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11716.13 | 11 |
| 82 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 11027.26 | 29 |
| (82) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10851.78 | 5 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 10821.94 | 10 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 10810.89 | 16 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 10709.5 | 17 |
| (85) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10343.64 | 8 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10333.56 | 23 |
| 87 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10327.22 | 22 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10326.18 | 8 |
| (87) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10320.71 | 13 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 10275.26 | 9 |
| 89 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 10224.89 | 59 |
| (89) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10079.54 | 30 |
| 90 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 10027.18 | 23 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 9753.79 | 26 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9722.6 | 12 |
| 93 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 9629.35 | 26 |
| (93) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9601.73 | 18 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9472.87 | 17 |
| 95 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9376.68 | 6 |
| (95) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9362.37 | 5 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9279.93 | 14 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 9259.31 | 11 |
| 98 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 9187.69 | 106 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 9044.31 | 12 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 9020.65 | 18 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 8932.38 | 34 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 8855.01 | 36 |
| 103 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 8743.34 | 8 |
| 104 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 8716.04 | 42 |
| (104) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 8703.98 | 18 |
| 105 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 8475.1 | 25 |
| (105) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8429.37 | 28 |
| 106 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8348.13 | 7 |
| 107 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 8308.64 | 10 |
| 108 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8246.89 | 24 |
| (108) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8180.03 | 14 |
| 109 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 8160.86 | 26 |
| 110 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 8154.74 | 8 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 8132.74 | 14 |
| (111) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8122.27 | 2 |
| (111) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8099.54 | 13 |
| 112 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8099.54 | 14 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 8066.2 | 37 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 8058.4 | 19 |
| 115 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 8041.49 | 18 |
| 116 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 8020.7 | 35 |
| 117 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 8007.88 | 17 |
| 118 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 8000.81 | 15 |
| 119 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 7931.5 | 12 |
| 120 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 7904.01 | 18 |
| (120) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7852.09 | 11 |
| 121 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7795.18 | 14 |
| (121) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7711.64 | 2 |
| 122 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 7705.92 | 10 |
| 123 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 7695.07 | 27 |
| 124 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 7692.77 | 8 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 7688.02 | 17 |
| (125) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7648.59 | 4 |
| 126 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 7639.77 | 28 |
| 127 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 7629.08 | 15 |
| 128 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 7438.84 | 10 |
| 129 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 7430.88 | 13 |
| 130 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 7371.02 | 8 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7230.85 | 10 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 7159.38 | 24 |
| (132) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7145.93 | 4 |
| (132) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 7106.16 | 8 |
| (132) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7058.37 | 5 |
| (132) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6893.66 | 8 |
| 133 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 6860.37 | 37 |
| (133) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6795.99 | 6 |
| (133) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 6787.69 | 13 |
| (133) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6769.43 | 4 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Rice University | Houston, Texas (USA) | 6757.17 | 7 |
| 135 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 6745.5 | 23 |
| (135) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 6699.71 | 8 |
| 136 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 6697.58 | 12 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 6668.69 | 22 |
| 138 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6658.42 | 11 |
| 139 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 6593.65 | 11 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 6587.49 | 14 |
| (140) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6569.85 | 2 |
| (140) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6536.03 | 7 |
| 141 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6536.03 | 8 |
| 142 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 6519.75 | 36 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 6442.5 | 27 |
| 144 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 6378.49 | 7 |
| (144) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6365.33 | 4 |
| 145 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 6324.16 | 13 |
| (145) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6317.5 | 4 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6297.08 | 6 |
| 147 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 6282.56 | 56 |
| 148 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6256.32 | 5 |
| 149 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 6254.44 | 42 |
| 150 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6243.12 | 4 |
| (150) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6188.81 | 3 |
| 151 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 6175 | 3 |
| 152 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 6160.44 | 51 |
| 153 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 6155.63 | 6 |
| 154 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 6154.85 | 6 |
| 155 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 6141.76 | 16 |
| (155) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 6110.55 | 16 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 6087.4 | 19 |
| 157 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 6036.57 | 6 |
| 158 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 5990.84 | 12 |
| 159 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 5986.95 | 9 |
| 160 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 5956.09 | 37 |
| 161 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 5893.46 | 23 |
| (161) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 5867.55 | 28 |
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