| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 260355 | 185 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 138550 | 137 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 56799 | 129 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 43100 | 60 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 38896 | 28 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 34678 | 25 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 34365 | 83 |
| 8 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 34291 | 20 |
| 9 | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 33537 | 15 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 29341 | 23 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 28822 | 20 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 27805 | 28 |
| 13 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 24627 | 51 |
| 14 | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 24298 | 19 |
| 15 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 24077 | 11 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23666 | 18 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 22900 | 12 |
| 18 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 21693 | 36 |
| 19 | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21685 | 23 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 20997 | 18 |
| 21 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 20972 | 18 |
| 22 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 20205 | 12 |
| 23 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18945 | 16 |
| 24 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 18675 | 20 |
| 25 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18414 | 11 |
| 26 | CESifo | München, Germany | 18245 | 30 |
| 27 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18041 | 16 |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 17523 | 10 |
| 29 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 17231 | 20 |
| 30 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 17131 | 29 |
| 31 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 17114 | 33 |
| 32 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 17104 | 42 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 16818 | 16 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16430 | 25 |
| 35 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 16138 | 26 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 16042 | 29 |
| 37 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 15907 | 22 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 15734 | 17 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 15463 | 12 |
| 40 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 15092 | 21 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 14964 | 18 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 14246 | 11 |
| 43 | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 14188 | 14 |
| 44 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 13878 | 15 |
| 45 | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 13712 | 26 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 13000 | 19 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12973 | 5 |
| 48 | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 12704 | 12 |
| 49 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 12426 | 24 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 12186 | 17 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 12058 | 20 |
| 52 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 12022 | 35 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 12016 | 15 |
| 54 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 11981 | 4 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11948 | 10 |
| 56 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11831 | 37 |
| 57 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11782 | 26 |
| 58 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 11771 | 21 |
| 59 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 11532 | 18 |
| 60 | de Nederlandsche Bank, Government of the Netherlands | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11407 | 20 |
| 61 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11344 | 9 |
| 62 | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 11256 | 14 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 11232 | 16 |
| 64 | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 11132 | 20 |
| 65 | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11106 | 3 |
| 66 | Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 11085 | 13 |
| 67 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 10934 | 7 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 10934 | 7 |
| 69 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10857 | 13 |
| 70 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 10780 | 19 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 10651 | 20 |
| 72 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 10624 | 7 |
| 73 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10111 | 7 |
| 74 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10076 | 8 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9986 | 14 |
| 76 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9884 | 10 |
| 77 | Handelshøjskolen i København | København, Denmark | 9847 | 5 |
| 78 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 9832 | 15 |
| 79 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9593 | 8 |
| 80 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9580 | 13 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 9536 | 10 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 9469 | 6 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9278 | 21 |
| 84 | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9195 | 4 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 9126 | 21 |
| 86 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 8913 | 11 |
| 87 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 8905 | 13 |
| 88 | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8826 | 13 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 8680 | 25 |
| 90 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 8391 | 17 |
| 91 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8192 | 3 |
| 92 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8166 | 8 |
| 93 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 8134 | 14 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 8111 | 23 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 8067 | 13 |
| 96 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8065 | 7 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8065 | 7 |
| 98 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 7902 | 12 |
| 99 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 7900 | 28 |
| 100 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 7810 | 12 |
| 101 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 7661 | 6 |
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