| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12328.86 | 266 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4461.55 | 223 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3774.68 | 311 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2437.05 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2319.25 | 41 |
| 6 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1579.78 | 31 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1515.28 | 27 |
| 8 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1373 | 105 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1368.1 | 30 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1318.76 | 24 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1196.02 | 30 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1177.91 | 30 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1084.08 | 80 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1032.56 | 28 |
| 15 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1015.58 | 13 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 998.91 | 30 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 981.21 | 21 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 953.48 | 32 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 904.36 | 16 |
| 19 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 865.28 | 12 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 822.62 | 93 |
| 21 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 818.02 | 58 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 778.26 | 40 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 752.17 | 33 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 732.4 | 50 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 716.65 | 30 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 714.64 | 26 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 712.97 | 31 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 687.05 | 22 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 655.67 | 23 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 646.56 | 52 |
| 30 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 641.5 | 17 |
| 31 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 638.7 | 143 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 620.85 | 18 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 616.5 | 15 |
| (33) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 616.11 | 33 |
| 34 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 611.4 | 22 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 608.44 | 23 |
| 35 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 600.37 | 15 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 599.35 | 17 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 561.65 | 14 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 553.25 | 35 |
| 39 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 538.09 | 36 |
| 40 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 534.43 | 11 |
| 41 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 508.49 | 113 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 494.34 | 25 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 490.09 | 22 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 482.59 | 31 |
| 45 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 460.17 | 12 |
| (45) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 453 | 11 |
| 46 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 440.43 | 28 |
| 47 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 431.34 | 11 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 431.22 | 43 |
| 49 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 428.32 | 37 |
| 50 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 421.9 | 17 |
| 51 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 418.62 | 3 |
| 52 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 414.55 | 23 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 408.17 | 31 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 406.76 | 24 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 405.23 | 19 |
| 56 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 401.87 | 27 |
| 57 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 397.18 | 37 |
| 58 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 396.85 | 10 |
| 59 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 394.65 | 57 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 384.26 | 24 |
| 61 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 382.98 | 30 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 371.45 | 9 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 370.34 | 13 |
| (63) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 364.21 | 16 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 361.59 | 21 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 354.4 | 20 |
| 66 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 351.74 | 28 |
| 67 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 348.39 | 41 |
| 68 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 339.44 | 9 |
| (68) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 339.43 | 8 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 333.21 | 33 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 331.93 | 11 |
| 71 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 317.6 | 5 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 312.85 | 29 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 310.1 | 16 |
| (73) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 309.73 | 26 |
| (73) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 304.73 | 25 |
| 74 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 304.73 | 25 |
| 75 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 299.69 | 11 |
| (75) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 290.46 | 7 |
| 76 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 283.06 | 12 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 283.04 | 11 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 279.94 | 10 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 278.68 | 23 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 274.98 | 26 |
| (79) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 274.65 | 5 |
| 80 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 270.41 | 49 |
| (80) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 264.06 | 8 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 263.67 | 17 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 259.28 | 8 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 258.65 | 16 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 248.62 | 14 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 246.07 | 23 |
| 85 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 245.83 | 12 |
| (85) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 242.58 | 13 |
| 86 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 241.14 | 29 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 240.3 | 11 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 239.46 | 10 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 238.54 | 17 |
| 90 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 238.37 | 22 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 237.67 | 9 |
| 92 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 234.91 | 46 |
| 93 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 230.7 | 6 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 226.75 | 12 |
| (94) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 224.33 | 5 |
| 95 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 222.65 | 23 |
| (95) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 221.69 | 18 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 217.36 | 18 |
| 97 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 211.56 | 59 |
| 98 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 208.65 | 10 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 205.12 | 26 |
| 100 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 203.14 | 7 |
| 101 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 202.7 | 26 |
| (101) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 200.51 | 14 |
| 102 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 198.01 | 8 |
| 103 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 197.94 | 42 |
| (103) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 196.76 | 4 |
| (103) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 196.18 | 18 |
| (103) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 195.52 | 30 |
| 104 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 195 | 8 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 193.07 | 14 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 192.24 | 36 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 191.8 | 34 |
| (107) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 189.09 | 2 |
| (107) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 188 | 2 |
| 108 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 187.7 | 12 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 186.96 | 17 |
| 110 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 186.64 | 18 |
| (110) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 185.95 | 28 |
| 111 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 185.63 | 15 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 185.57 | 19 |
| 113 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 185.49 | 10 |
| 114 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 185.21 | 24 |
| (114) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 185 | 8 |
| 115 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 184.21 | 26 |
| (115) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 181.42 | 8 |
| (115) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 179.99 | 13 |
| 116 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 179.99 | 14 |
| (116) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 178.48 | 5 |
| 117 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 173.83 | 17 |
| 118 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 172.98 | 10 |
| (118) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 172.06 | 2 |
| (118) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 171.76 | 11 |
| 119 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 171.36 | 18 |
| (119) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 170.54 | 7 |
| 120 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 170.54 | 8 |
| 121 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 169.28 | 27 |
| 122 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 168.8 | 8 |
| (122) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 168.46 | 8 |
| 123 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 167.33 | 106 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 164.96 | 37 |
| 125 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 164.9 | 15 |
| 126 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 164.73 | 8 |
| 127 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 164.28 | 13 |
| (127) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 164.1 | 4 |
| (127) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 162.72 | 3 |
| (127) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 162.62 | 4 |
| 128 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 159.85 | 3 |
| 129 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 158.53 | 7 |
| 130 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 157.96 | 11 |
| 131 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 157.86 | 6 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 157.43 | 10 |
| 133 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 155.36 | 28 |
| 134 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 155.06 | 11 |
| 135 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 154.65 | 25 |
| 136 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 154.33 | 14 |
| 137 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 154.23 | 35 |
| (137) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 154.13 | 13 |
| (137) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 153.82 | 6 |
| (137) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 153.57 | 4 |
| 138 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 152.96 | 13 |
| 139 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 152.89 | 5 |
| 140 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 151.98 | 6 |
| (140) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 148.9 | 16 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 148.67 | 24 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 148.52 | 19 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Rice University | Houston, Texas (USA) | 148.42 | 7 |
| 144 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 147.7 | 12 |
| 145 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 146.02 | 4 |
| 146 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 145.13 | 6 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 144.62 | 22 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 143.01 | 27 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 142.57 | 14 |
| 150 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 142.56 | 5 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 142.27 | 12 |
| (151) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 142.22 | 4 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 141.83 | 16 |
| 153 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 140.98 | 16 |
| 154 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 138.74 | 9 |
| 155 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 138.48 | 2 |
| 156 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 137.32 | 37 |
| 157 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 137.08 | 12 |
| 158 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 136.28 | 2 |
| (158) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 135.77 | 2 |
| 159 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 134.18 | 23 |
| 160 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 133.59 | 17 |
| 161 | Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 132.97 | 2 |
| (161) | Department of Finance, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 132.94 | 1 |
| (161) | Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 132.94 | 1 |
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