| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 794273.18 | 266 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 339618.16 | 223 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 279541.76 | 311 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 161451.64 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 148437.76 | 41 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 101738.94 | 105 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 97048.15 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 92724.41 | 30 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 89369.35 | 27 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 86071.38 | 24 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 81937.39 | 80 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 75787.82 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 75001.97 | 30 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 66695.26 | 28 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 66472 | 32 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 64185.52 | 21 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 63810.6 | 13 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 62703.32 | 30 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 60838.91 | 93 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 59585.32 | 58 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 57144.78 | 16 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 55425.13 | 40 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 54518.75 | 26 |
| 22 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 54453.38 | 143 |
| 23 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 52853.28 | 113 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 50455.19 | 33 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 50437.75 | 50 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 48815.69 | 31 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 48789.32 | 52 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 46461.53 | 23 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 45515.25 | 23 |
| 29 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 45462.88 | 12 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 44998.23 | 22 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 44903.15 | 30 |
| 32 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 43537.87 | 15 |
| (32) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 43051.6 | 33 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 42217.57 | 22 |
| 34 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 41548.15 | 17 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 40351.22 | 18 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 39354.51 | 15 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 38622.33 | 14 |
| 38 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 37676.97 | 57 |
| 39 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 36817.89 | 25 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 36507.33 | 35 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 36351.84 | 31 |
| 42 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 36093.28 | 36 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 35351.47 | 28 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35349.79 | 31 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 33644.34 | 22 |
| 46 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 33149.39 | 17 |
| (46) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 32372.79 | 25 |
| 47 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 32372.79 | 25 |
| 48 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 32337.1 | 28 |
| 49 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 31833.47 | 37 |
| 50 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 30901.74 | 11 |
| 51 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 30601.12 | 12 |
| (51) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 30599.67 | 11 |
| 52 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 30278.43 | 23 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 29839.36 | 30 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 29673.13 | 43 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 29653.12 | 24 |
| 56 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 28271.28 | 27 |
| 57 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 28068.19 | 17 |
| 58 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 28032.05 | 3 |
| 59 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 27893.84 | 37 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 27864.84 | 24 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 27210.39 | 9 |
| 62 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 26735.16 | 10 |
| 63 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 26687.58 | 41 |
| 64 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 25437.49 | 46 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 24847.89 | 20 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 24541.71 | 19 |
| 67 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 24476.87 | 9 |
| (67) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 24467.54 | 8 |
| 68 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 24407.44 | 11 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 23703.51 | 13 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 23335.29 | 16 |
| 71 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 23106.64 | 5 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 23071.47 | 21 |
| (72) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 23050.66 | 16 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 22545.44 | 33 |
| 74 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 22528.8 | 49 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22366.02 | 29 |
| (75) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22063.38 | 26 |
| 76 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 21236.21 | 29 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 20954.82 | 11 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 20887.67 | 23 |
| 79 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 20390.16 | 59 |
| (79) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 20323.73 | 7 |
| 80 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 19985.43 | 12 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 19981.43 | 11 |
| (80) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19898.45 | 30 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 19479.35 | 10 |
| (81) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 19212.23 | 8 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 18858.19 | 12 |
| (82) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 18832.28 | 13 |
| 83 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 18372.37 | 26 |
| 84 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 18268.12 | 23 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 18198.93 | 23 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17244.57 | 14 |
| 87 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 17172.56 | 12 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 16963.06 | 17 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 16930.35 | 18 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 16818.45 | 26 |
| 91 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 16662.2 | 10 |
| 92 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 16499.15 | 25 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 16385.47 | 17 |
| (93) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16192.86 | 28 |
| 94 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 15760.7 | 106 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 15535.82 | 16 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 15512.85 | 26 |
| 97 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 15433.35 | 11 |
| (97) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 15260.9 | 11 |
| 98 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 15212.55 | 42 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 14917.21 | 37 |
| (99) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14915.04 | 5 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 14882.09 | 34 |
| (100) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 14873.79 | 6 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 14860.31 | 36 |
| 102 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 14834.43 | 35 |
| (102) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 14666.37 | 18 |
| (102) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14645.95 | 14 |
| 103 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 14363.24 | 15 |
| (103) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 14299.7 | 13 |
| 104 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 14299.7 | 14 |
| 105 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14287.85 | 24 |
| 106 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 14273.75 | 26 |
| 107 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 14271.3 | 8 |
| (107) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14256.59 | 5 |
| 108 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14221.19 | 14 |
| 109 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 14185.6 | 8 |
| 110 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 14145.96 | 10 |
| 111 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 13854.68 | 18 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 13841.62 | 11 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 13765.96 | 9 |
| (113) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13679.96 | 8 |
| 114 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 13655.32 | 18 |
| 115 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13618.38 | 22 |
| (115) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13299.22 | 4 |
| 116 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 13235.07 | 17 |
| (116) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 13225.28 | 8 |
| 117 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 13204.56 | 37 |
| (117) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13158.16 | 2 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 13095.18 | 14 |
| (118) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12977.72 | 5 |
| 119 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12790.06 | 6 |
| 120 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 12780.03 | 12 |
| 121 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 12744.76 | 10 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 12668.57 | 17 |
| (122) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12665.01 | 2 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 12625.96 | 24 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 12517.62 | 19 |
| 125 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 12515.17 | 51 |
| 126 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 12477.98 | 13 |
| 127 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 12476.17 | 8 |
| (127) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12438.13 | 18 |
| 128 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 12371.59 | 7 |
| 129 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 12362.86 | 10 |
| 130 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 12295.9 | 27 |
| 131 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 12256.21 | 28 |
| 132 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12242.79 | 43 |
| (132) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 12219.98 | 13 |
| 133 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 12151.13 | 56 |
| (133) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12128.26 | 8 |
| 134 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 12098.98 | 8 |
| 135 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 12098.14 | 7 |
| (135) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12088.61 | 4 |
| 136 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 11988.45 | 4 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11976.54 | 10 |
| 138 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 11927.59 | 6 |
| 139 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 11843.03 | 23 |
| 140 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 11704.98 | 6 |
| (140) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11597.21 | 4 |
| 141 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 11593.6 | 11 |
| (141) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11549.5 | 7 |
| 142 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11549.5 | 8 |
| (142) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11507.68 | 4 |
| 143 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 11490.72 | 15 |
| 144 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 11386.36 | 42 |
| 145 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 11244.67 | 12 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 11234.05 | 27 |
| 147 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 11221.51 | 76 |
| 148 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 11221.03 | 19 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11026.58 | 6 |
| 150 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 10946.88 | 25 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 10944.7 | 14 |
| 152 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10867.77 | 2 |
| (152) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10815.25 | 4 |
| 153 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 10799.48 | 36 |
| 154 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 10795.11 | 11 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 10717.45 | 14 |
| (155) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 10693.17 | 28 |
| (155) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 10529.13 | 16 |
| 156 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 10422.87 | 9 |
| (156) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 10374.92 | 8 |
| 157 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 10142.65 | 21 |
| 158 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 10042.13 | 13 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 10038.72 | 12 |
| (159) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9982.43 | 2 |
| (159) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9815.42 | 2 |
| 160 | Ente per gli Studi Monetari, Bancari e Finanziari "Luigi Einaudi" | Roma, Italy | 9737.48 | 6 |
| 161 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 9707 | 23 |
| (161) | Financial Markets Group (FMG), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9690.12 | 19 |
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