| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11948.33 | 270 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4268.22 | 226 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3727.46 | 325 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2302.37 | 34 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2266.74 | 42 |
| 6 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1560.56 | 31 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1452.85 | 27 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1383.54 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1378.36 | 23 |
| 10 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1335.76 | 109 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1189.9 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1146.41 | 31 |
| 13 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1143.18 | 83 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1103.29 | 14 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1017.62 | 30 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 991.74 | 21 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 964.25 | 28 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 935.18 | 99 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 906.05 | 31 |
| 20 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 898 | 12 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 844.87 | 16 |
| 21 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 813.74 | 56 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 774.3 | 28 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 735.86 | 39 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 728.18 | 36 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 722.3 | 52 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 664.57 | 27 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 659.79 | 30 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 656.31 | 53 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 655.58 | 19 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 651.74 | 15 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 644.09 | 22 |
| (30) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 621.1 | 23 |
| 31 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 614.02 | 144 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 607.55 | 19 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 596.56 | 22 |
| 34 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 594.12 | 17 |
| 35 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 585.57 | 21 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 568.47 | 14 |
| (36) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 568.21 | 33 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 555.5 | 15 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 536.96 | 37 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 535.37 | 35 |
| 40 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 521.71 | 120 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 494.16 | 26 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 490.53 | 32 |
| (42) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 479.48 | 11 |
| 43 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 478.1 | 13 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 466.92 | 30 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 462.48 | 34 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 456.99 | 23 |
| 47 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 454.39 | 3 |
| 48 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 450.77 | 12 |
| 49 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 446.54 | 24 |
| 50 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 436.5 | 24 |
| 51 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 410.15 | 37 |
| 52 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 393.26 | 11 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 393.17 | 20 |
| 54 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 392.87 | 17 |
| 55 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 392.58 | 60 |
| 56 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 390 | 10 |
| 57 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 386.15 | 9 |
| 58 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 378.43 | 28 |
| 59 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 377.99 | 30 |
| 60 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 375.89 | 10 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 374.91 | 22 |
| 62 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 374.63 | 41 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 374.57 | 37 |
| (63) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 370.66 | 8 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 365.64 | 25 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 364.91 | 44 |
| (65) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 361.95 | 16 |
| 66 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 360.68 | 30 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 356.27 | 22 |
| 68 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 347.99 | 5 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 347.86 | 13 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 343.33 | 24 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 327.85 | 11 |
| 72 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 321.95 | 12 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 315.38 | 33 |
| (73) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 315.26 | 26 |
| 74 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 315.26 | 26 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 311.17 | 30 |
| (75) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 308.15 | 27 |
| 76 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 307.46 | 48 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 306.83 | 16 |
| 78 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 290.49 | 13 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 287.38 | 11 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 280.93 | 9 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 277.63 | 11 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 272.59 | 15 |
| 81 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 269.17 | 24 |
| 82 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 267.25 | 49 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 265.8 | 23 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 264 | 20 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 262.83 | 10 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 260.71 | 27 |
| (86) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 255.03 | 9 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 250.41 | 20 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 249.6 | 18 |
| (87) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 247.31 | 5 |
| (87) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 240.19 | 6 |
| 88 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 239.73 | 30 |
| 89 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 235.85 | 24 |
| 90 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 235.75 | 8 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 235.31 | 12 |
| 92 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 234.24 | 6 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 233.17 | 7 |
| 94 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 232.84 | 12 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 231.42 | 9 |
| (95) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 224.8 | 14 |
| (95) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 214.2 | 5 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 213.03 | 11 |
| 97 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 211.89 | 59 |
| 98 | Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 209.2 | 8 |
| 99 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 208.92 | 13 |
| (99) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 206.09 | 15 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 205.79 | 19 |
| 101 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 204.83 | 23 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 202.72 | 19 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 202.7 | 34 |
| (103) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 201.52 | 9 |
| 104 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 201.06 | 10 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 200.74 | 27 |
| 106 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 197.23 | 20 |
| 107 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 192.11 | 8 |
| 108 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 189.35 | 43 |
| (108) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 189.01 | 5 |
| 109 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 188.97 | 28 |
| (109) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 188.17 | 18 |
| 110 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 188.13 | 18 |
| (110) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 187.91 | 2 |
| (110) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 185.6 | 2 |
| 111 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 184.85 | 12 |
| (111) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 184.76 | 9 |
| (111) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 184.62 | 33 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 184.61 | 36 |
| 113 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 183.47 | 8 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 182.95 | 13 |
| (114) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 181.46 | 28 |
| 115 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 180.54 | 7 |
| 116 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 178.22 | 14 |
| 117 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 177.38 | 25 |
| 118 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 176.25 | 10 |
| 119 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 175.13 | 18 |
| 120 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 174.85 | 15 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 173.73 | 38 |
| 122 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 173 | 7 |
| 123 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 172.27 | 27 |
| 124 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 171.74 | 7 |
| 125 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 171.17 | 13 |
| (125) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 171.05 | 4 |
| (125) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 170.8 | 13 |
| 126 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 170.8 | 14 |
| 127 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 169.72 | 36 |
| (127) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 169.33 | 7 |
| 128 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 169.33 | 8 |
| 129 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 168.53 | 17 |
| (129) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 167.66 | 5 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 167.64 | 10 |
| 131 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 166.83 | 92 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 165.71 | 17 |
| 133 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 163.76 | 13 |
| (133) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 161.81 | 2 |
| 134 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 161.76 | 29 |
| (134) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 161.76 | 8 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 160.62 | 13 |
| (135) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 157.67 | 11 |
| 136 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 157.58 | 10 |
| (136) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 157.5 | 4 |
| 137 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 155.37 | 8 |
| (137) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 155.2 | 5 |
| 138 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 154.87 | 8 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Rice University | Houston, Texas (USA) | 154.44 | 8 |
| 140 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 153.31 | 2 |
| 141 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 152.59 | 104 |
| 142 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 151.24 | 9 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 151.11 | 22 |
| (143) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 150.49 | 6 |
| (143) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 149.69 | 3 |
| 144 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 149.58 | 23 |
| 145 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 148.94 | 25 |
| 146 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 148.38 | 14 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 147.25 | 15 |
| (147) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 146.78 | 13 |
| (147) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 146.77 | 16 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 144.73 | 25 |
| 149 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 142.66 | 24 |
| (149) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 142.56 | 3 |
| 150 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 140.62 | 27 |
| 151 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 139.21 | 38 |
| 152 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 138.99 | 13 |
| 153 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 137.55 | 5 |
| 154 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 137.14 | 5 |
| 155 | Cato Institute | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 135.11 | 2 |
| 156 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 135.07 | 12 |
| 157 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 134.82 | 5 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 134.08 | 24 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, University of Haifa | Haifa, Israel | 133.28 | 10 |
| 160 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 133.23 | 27 |
| 161 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 132.84 | 16 |
| (161) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 131.86 | 2 |
| 162 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 131.18 | 21 |
| 163 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 131.15 | 16 |
| 164 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 129.05 | 15 |
| 165 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 129 | 61 |
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