The scores of institutions in each field are determined by a weighted sum of all authors affiliated with the respective institutions. The weights are determined, for each author, by the proportion of all working papers announced in NEP that have also been announced in NEP-POL (Positive Political Economics).  
| Rank | Score | Institution | 
1 | 1.17 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge | 2 | 1.67 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London | 3 | 3.5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge | 4 | 4.75 | Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton | 5 | 5.78 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London | (6) | 6.98 | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London | 6 | 7.03 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich | 7 | 8.78 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn | 8 | 9.1 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich | 9 | 9.28 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano | 10 | 9.74 | Department of Economics, New York University, New York City | (11) | 10.52 | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich | 11 | 11.28 | CESifo, München | 12 | 11.92 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City | 13 | 14.83 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge | 14 | 17.23 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm | 15 | 17.69 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London | (16) | 18.79 | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London | 16 | 19.06 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York City | 17 | 19.62 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley | 18 | 21.41 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City | (19) | 23.1 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City | (19) | 23.77 | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton | 19 | 24.03 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | 20 | 24.47 | World Bank Group, Washington | 21 | 25.53 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry | 22 | 26.48 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago | 23 | 27.49 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park | 23 | 27.49 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure, Paris | 25 | 28.62 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | 26 | 29.57 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse | 27 | 30.59 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge | 28 | 31.21 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton | (29) | 33.22 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse | 29 | 34.73 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, Palo Alto | 30 | 37.13 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 31 | 38.92 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 32 | 38.97 | Economics Department, Brown University, Providence | 33 | 39.71 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago | 34 | 39.88 | Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca | 35 | 41.71 | Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge | 36 | 45.17 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles | 37 | 45.94 | Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine | 38 | 47.55 | Economics Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing | 39 | 48.01 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto | 40 | 49.59 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla | 41 | 50.38 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München | 42 | 51.48 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville | 43 | 51.71 | Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston | 44 | 52.05 | Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven | 45 | 52.95 | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington |