| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 500867.77 | 268 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 199959.27 | 224 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 172160.33 | 321 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 97756.3 | 34 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 94873.18 | 40 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 64205.64 | 108 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 62075.62 | 31 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 61690.34 | 27 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 56604.8 | 31 |
| 10 | CESifo | München, Germany | 53626.03 | 81 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 53133.12 | 24 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 49512.67 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 48973.55 | 31 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 45568.59 | 13 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 45100.02 | 30 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 43895.34 | 21 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 43886.4 | 98 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 42260.14 | 28 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 39836.69 | 32 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 36792.15 | 16 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 35774.31 | 58 |
| 21 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 33935.72 | 12 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 32511.54 | 39 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 31284.6 | 35 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 31169.83 | 51 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 30112.59 | 27 |
| 25 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 29904.32 | 144 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 29482.03 | 52 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 28747.74 | 30 |
| (27) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 28706.56 | 33 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 28649.9 | 29 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 27739.38 | 23 |
| 29 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 27731.7 | 118 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 27698.46 | 23 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 27636.58 | 22 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 27306.32 | 19 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 27187.02 | 21 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 25734.85 | 15 |
| 35 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25585.33 | 17 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 25160.68 | 15 |
| 37 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 24186.86 | 17 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 23923.93 | 35 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 23383.83 | 31 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 23203.33 | 36 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 21666.92 | 14 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21447.59 | 34 |
| 43 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21310.17 | 12 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 20999.06 | 26 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 20915.52 | 23 |
| 46 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 20213.61 | 58 |
| 47 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 20070.65 | 37 |
| 48 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 19993.23 | 23 |
| 49 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 19155.13 | 12 |
| 50 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18927.09 | 28 |
| (50) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18527.02 | 11 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 18351.64 | 24 |
| 52 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 18259.1 | 28 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 18158.35 | 37 |
| 54 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 18119.26 | 30 |
| 55 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17872.37 | 11 |
| 56 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 17075.43 | 41 |
| 57 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16949.63 | 3 |
| 58 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16776.47 | 17 |
| 59 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 16708.55 | 10 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 16684.09 | 19 |
| 61 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 16583.19 | 30 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16363.12 | 43 |
| 63 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 16236.28 | 9 |
| (63) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 16234.99 | 8 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 16139.19 | 24 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 16001.74 | 22 |
| 66 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 15758.54 | 9 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 15074.24 | 13 |
| (67) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 15028.8 | 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 | 15012.57 | 26 |
| 68 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 15012.57 | 26 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 14901.29 | 20 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 14547.82 | 24 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14434.34 | 29 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 14382.13 | 16 |
| (72) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 14257.89 | 26 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 14047.52 | 33 |
| 74 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 13891.1 | 49 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 13744.59 | 11 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 13722.09 | 11 |
| 77 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13656.2 | 12 |
| 78 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 13246.22 | 46 |
| 79 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13151.64 | 5 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12040.78 | 9 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11996.76 | 23 |
| 81 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11964.74 | 24 |
| 82 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11905.8 | 12 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11903.78 | 11 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 11874.1 | 26 |
| 84 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 11271.94 | 29 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11236.84 | 20 |
| (84) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11211.99 | 6 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 11103.71 | 10 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 10955.06 | 17 |
| (86) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10946.68 | 5 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 10548.2 | 9 |
| (87) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10463.49 | 9 |
| 88 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10450.6 | 23 |
| (88) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10432.03 | 33 |
| (88) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10426.4 | 14 |
| 89 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 10396.9 | 59 |
| 90 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 10125.33 | 23 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 9844.94 | 26 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9838.34 | 12 |
| 93 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 9735.94 | 29 |
| (93) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9569.8 | 5 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9565.91 | 18 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 9495.37 | 19 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 9480.41 | 12 |
| 97 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9427.24 | 6 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9407.54 | 15 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 9333.4 | 11 |
| 100 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9268.05 | 13 |
| 101 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 9242.04 | 106 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 9221.68 | 34 |
| 103 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 9172.59 | 19 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 9171.94 | 19 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 9045.18 | 36 |
| 106 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 8925.7 | 43 |
| (106) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 8876.87 | 18 |
| 107 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 8848.31 | 8 |
| 108 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 8747.17 | 25 |
| (108) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8625.67 | 28 |
| 109 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8596.51 | 14 |
| 110 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8439.16 | 7 |
| 111 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8416.26 | 25 |
| 112 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 8372.54 | 10 |
| 113 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 8328.34 | 84 |
| (113) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8299.11 | 13 |
| 114 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8299.11 | 14 |
| (114) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8248.08 | 14 |
| 115 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 8240.8 | 26 |
| (115) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8221.86 | 2 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 8220.16 | 14 |
| 117 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 8210.99 | 8 |
| 118 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 8138.47 | 15 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 8106.37 | 37 |
| 120 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 8086.04 | 17 |
| 121 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 8077.39 | 35 |
| (121) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 8024.85 | 9 |
| 122 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 7997.18 | 12 |
| 123 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 7992.47 | 18 |
| 124 | Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 7988.12 | 8 |
| (124) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 7918.81 | 11 |
| 125 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 7885.04 | 17 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 7816.2 | 17 |
| (126) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7774.31 | 2 |
| 127 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 7756 | 28 |
| 128 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 7747.17 | 10 |
| 129 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 7728.61 | 28 |
| (129) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7695.56 | 4 |
| 130 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 7506.01 | 10 |
| 131 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 7493.28 | 13 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7465.77 | 10 |
| 133 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 7444.51 | 8 |
| (133) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7232.74 | 4 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 7205.18 | 24 |
| (134) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 7176.72 | 8 |
| (134) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7127.24 | 5 |
| 135 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 7113.29 | 26 |
| (135) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 6996.59 | 9 |
| 136 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 6967.86 | 37 |
| 137 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 6937.02 | 23 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 6929.06 | 23 |
| (138) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 6866.16 | 13 |
| (138) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6865 | 6 |
| (138) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6842.33 | 4 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Rice University | Houston, Texas (USA) | 6839.45 | 7 |
| 140 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 6756.36 | 13 |
| 141 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 6740.08 | 12 |
| 142 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 6713.15 | 12 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 6705.5 | 14 |
| (143) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6627.96 | 2 |
| 144 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 6605.42 | 36 |
| 145 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 6589.38 | 51 |
| (145) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6564.44 | 7 |
| 146 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6564.44 | 8 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 6497.25 | 27 |
| 148 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 6463.57 | 59 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6405.33 | 6 |
| 150 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 6402.97 | 7 |
| (150) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6387.85 | 4 |
| 151 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 6384.82 | 13 |
| (151) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6375.5 | 4 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 6344.73 | 20 |
| 153 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6333.09 | 5 |
| 154 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 6318.25 | 44 |
| 155 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 6301.28 | 4 |
| 156 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 6266.42 | 16 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 6242.29 | 21 |
| 158 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 6226.38 | 3 |
| (158) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6222.42 | 3 |
| 159 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 6220.4 | 6 |
| (159) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 6187.1 | 16 |
| 160 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 6158.5 | 37 |
| 161 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 6107.02 | 6 |
| 162 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 6035.44 | 25 |
| 163 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 6006.15 | 9 |
| (163) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 5921.41 | 29 |
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