| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 827059.81 | 270 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 357483.28 | 226 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 295621.26 | 325 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 165615.94 | 34 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 153739.89 | 42 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 104768.08 | 109 |
| 7 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 99100.61 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 94902.4 | 31 |
| 9 | CESifo | München, Germany | 93125.98 | 83 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 91735.09 | 27 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 87957.98 | 23 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 82524.1 | 31 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 79075.17 | 31 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 74978.42 | 99 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 68788.92 | 28 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 67718.8 | 31 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 67628.63 | 30 |
| 18 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 66867.61 | 14 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 61909.26 | 21 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 59712.42 | 28 |
| 21 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 59197.58 | 56 |
| (21) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 59082.44 | 16 |
| 22 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 58577.33 | 120 |
| 23 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 56630.37 | 144 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 53319.42 | 39 |
| 24 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 52112.77 | 53 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 51879.08 | 52 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 51602.92 | 36 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 48904.38 | 30 |
| (27) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 48619.7 | 23 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 47089.53 | 22 |
| 29 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 46151.42 | 12 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 45249.77 | 15 |
| (30) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 44173.85 | 33 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 43580.59 | 21 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 43033.08 | 19 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 42437.61 | 27 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 42057.25 | 34 |
| 35 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 42048.65 | 17 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 40506.83 | 32 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 40484.87 | 15 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39632.43 | 30 |
| 39 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 39550.87 | 60 |
| 40 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 38934.92 | 19 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 38923.13 | 14 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 38847.5 | 22 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 38093.18 | 26 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 38003.58 | 35 |
| 45 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 37348.3 | 37 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 37125.71 | 30 |
| 47 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 35470.21 | 48 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 34272.17 | 23 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 33153.36 | 24 |
| (49) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 33000.99 | 26 |
| 50 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 33000.99 | 26 |
| 51 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 32480.1 | 37 |
| (51) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 31879.64 | 11 |
| 52 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 31701.87 | 13 |
| 53 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 31555.2 | 12 |
| 54 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 31358.25 | 24 |
| 55 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 31285.89 | 41 |
| 56 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 30993.1 | 30 |
| 57 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 28826.4 | 37 |
| 58 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 28777.64 | 3 |
| 59 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 28750.04 | 17 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 28665.54 | 22 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 28565.62 | 25 |
| 62 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 28320.54 | 28 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 27835.18 | 9 |
| 64 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 27181.53 | 10 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 26960.95 | 44 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 25659.23 | 20 |
| 67 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 25566.86 | 10 |
| 68 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 25380.3 | 11 |
| (68) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 25113.29 | 8 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 24199.13 | 22 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 24141.16 | 13 |
| 71 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 23834.91 | 5 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 23810.8 | 16 |
| (72) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 23451.31 | 16 |
| 73 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 23385.95 | 49 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 23314.85 | 33 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 23120.77 | 30 |
| 76 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 22865.38 | 30 |
| (76) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22808.24 | 27 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 22054.29 | 11 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 21690.21 | 23 |
| (78) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 21234.07 | 33 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 21227.37 | 20 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 21178.75 | 11 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 21144.95 | 24 |
| 82 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 20932.64 | 59 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 20835.04 | 7 |
| 84 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 20752.91 | 13 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 20515.59 | 11 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 20124.61 | 12 |
| (85) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 19617.44 | 9 |
| (85) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 19292.9 | 14 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 18917.82 | 15 |
| 87 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 18909.72 | 28 |
| 88 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 18749.12 | 8 |
| 89 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 18708.76 | 12 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 18664.85 | 24 |
| 91 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 18648.07 | 23 |
| (91) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 18463.88 | 6 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 17930.36 | 12 |
| 93 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 17692.9 | 92 |
| 94 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 17571.76 | 25 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 17526.11 | 27 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 17405.88 | 19 |
| 97 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 17381.65 | 10 |
| (97) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17009.74 | 28 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 16831.61 | 18 |
| 99 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 16702.35 | 8 |
| 100 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 16674.43 | 13 |
| (100) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16434.1 | 15 |
| 101 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 16417.03 | 36 |
| 102 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 16254.41 | 20 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 16239.24 | 38 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 16194.75 | 27 |
| 105 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 16140.53 | 43 |
| (105) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 16099.74 | 9 |
| 106 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 15851.02 | 104 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 15740.1 | 36 |
| 108 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15735.97 | 13 |
| 109 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 15691.7 | 24 |
| (109) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 15535.24 | 11 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 15509.29 | 34 |
| (110) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 15368.93 | 18 |
| (110) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 15346.58 | 9 |
| (110) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15319.66 | 5 |
| (110) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 15198.39 | 6 |
| 111 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 15172.39 | 7 |
| 112 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 15095.62 | 15 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 14931.71 | 19 |
| (113) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 14930.7 | 13 |
| 114 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 14930.7 | 14 |
| (114) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14915.07 | 5 |
| 115 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14749.1 | 25 |
| 116 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 14724 | 27 |
| 117 | Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 14692.58 | 8 |
| 118 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 14646.39 | 23 |
| 119 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 14622.97 | 8 |
| (119) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14494.4 | 5 |
| (119) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14490.58 | 20 |
| 120 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 14413.07 | 10 |
| 121 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 14402.15 | 18 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 14271.16 | 9 |
| (122) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14263.39 | 9 |
| 123 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 14117.83 | 11 |
| 124 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 13943.5 | 38 |
| 125 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 13861.13 | 7 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 13812.66 | 52 |
| (126) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13780.47 | 5 |
| (126) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13771.46 | 2 |
| 127 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 13684.52 | 18 |
| 128 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 13558.83 | 6 |
| (128) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13462.7 | 4 |
| 129 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 13453.79 | 29 |
| 130 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 13424.43 | 24 |
| 131 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 13420.51 | 61 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 13412.93 | 13 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 13174.18 | 17 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 13123.66 | 13 |
| 135 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 13116.63 | 14 |
| 136 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 13079.32 | 12 |
| 137 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 12979.17 | 10 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 12952.36 | 24 |
| (138) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12792.45 | 2 |
| 139 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 12774.4 | 8 |
| 140 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12738.72 | 43 |
| (140) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 12738.16 | 13 |
| 141 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 12715.41 | 13 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12693.11 | 10 |
| 143 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 12636.94 | 27 |
| 144 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 12604.41 | 26 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 12577.23 | 22 |
| 146 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 12531.61 | 10 |
| 147 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 12447.68 | 27 |
| 148 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 12342.38 | 7 |
| 149 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 12170.59 | 4 |
| 150 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 12087.75 | 17 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 12066.11 | 15 |
| 152 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 11788.55 | 44 |
| (152) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11738.79 | 5 |
| (152) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11708.57 | 7 |
| 153 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11708.57 | 8 |
| 154 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 11646.73 | 25 |
| 155 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 11442.74 | 12 |
| (155) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11439.94 | 3 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 11376.77 | 27 |
| 157 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 11289.91 | 38 |
| 158 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11135.12 | 2 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 11131.47 | 15 |
| (159) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11059.35 | 4 |
| 160 | Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 11050.68 | 8 |
| (160) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 11037.69 | 29 |
| 161 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 11031.71 | 14 |
| 162 | Ente per gli Studi Monetari, Bancari e Finanziari "Luigi Einaudi" | Roma, Italy | 10978.54 | 7 |
| 163 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 10969.69 | 14 |
| 164 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 10842.56 | 13 |
| 165 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 10805.76 | 9 |
| (165) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 10788.23 | 16 |
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