| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 313336 | 204 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 154593 | 149 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 61196 | 148 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 52907 | 33 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 49111 | 65 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44286 | 25 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 40311 | 87 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 35812 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 35091 | 26 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 29964 | 57 |
| 11 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 29538 | 21 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 29217 | 11 |
| (12) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 28785 | 15 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 28561 | 27 |
| (13) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 27054 | 27 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 27008 | 11 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 26222 | 20 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24814 | 20 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 24660 | 19 |
| 17 | CESifo | München, Germany | 23893 | 36 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 23881 | 16 |
| 19 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 22955 | 39 |
| 20 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 22456 | 26 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 21809 | 12 |
| 21 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 21270 | 20 |
| 22 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 21239 | 31 |
| 23 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 20545 | 12 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20377 | 30 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 20306 | 12 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 20283 | 20 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 20050 | 19 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 19933 | 23 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 18888 | 21 |
| 30 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18588 | 16 |
| 31 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 18339 | 32 |
| 32 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 17991 | 23 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 17595 | 16 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 16911 | 19 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 16776 | 15 |
| 36 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 16613 | 49 |
| 37 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 16593 | 31 |
| (37) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 16415 | 12 |
| 38 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 15983 | 16 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 15965 | 25 |
| 40 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 15814 | 21 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 15330 | 11 |
| 42 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 15136 | 33 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 14987 | 29 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 14761 | 18 |
| 45 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 14422 | 15 |
| 46 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 14302 | 24 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14298 | 7 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 14247 | 18 |
| 49 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 13907 | 29 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13686 | 24 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 13677 | 18 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 13618 | 10 |
| (52) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 13128 | 30 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 13080 | 22 |
| (53) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 12985 | 12 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 12952 | 22 |
| (54) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12825 | 22 |
| 55 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12806 | 38 |
| 56 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12749 | 10 |
| 57 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12721 | 8 |
| (57) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12668 | 7 |
| 58 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12235 | 11 |
| 59 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 12230 | 21 |
| 60 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12191 | 10 |
| (60) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 12144 | 18 |
| 61 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 12090 | 7 |
| (61) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12089 | 3 |
| 62 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 11969 | 25 |
| 63 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 11580 | 37 |
| (63) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11283 | 15 |
| 64 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11250 | 8 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10781 | 8 |
| (65) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 10765 | 13 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 10702 | 21 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 10619 | 17 |
| 68 | de Nederlandsche Bank, Government of the Netherlands | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10413 | 22 |
| 69 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10302 | 14 |
| 70 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 10166 | 19 |
| 71 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 10125 | 4 |
| (71) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10116 | 14 |
| (71) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 10091 | 12 |
| 72 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 10049 | 18 |
| 73 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10044 | 7 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 9871 | 27 |
| 75 | Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 9584 | 12 |
| 76 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 9546 | 14 |
| 77 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9543 | 11 |
| 78 | Handelshøjskolen i København | København, Denmark | 9416 | 9 |
| (78) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9379 | 4 |
| 79 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9309 | 9 |
| 80 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 9287 | 14 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 9206 | 16 |
| 82 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9084 | 3 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 9075 | 6 |
| 84 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 8840 | 42 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8840 | 13 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 8831 | 28 |
| 87 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 8607 | 14 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8590 | 19 |
| 89 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8556 | 7 |
| (89) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8440 | 6 |
| 90 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8387 | 14 |
| (90) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8245 | 3 |
| (90) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 8231 | 8 |
| 91 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8133 | 8 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8133 | 8 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 8013 | 12 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 7948 | 24 |
| 94 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 7942 | 21 |
| 95 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 7921 | 17 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7900 | 14 |
| 97 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 7853 | 17 |
| (97) | Development Economics, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7730 | 11 |
| 98 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 7639 | 8 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 7626 | 8 |
| 100 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 7430 | 17 |
| (100) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7197 | 3 |
| 101 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 7089 | 28 |
| 102 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 6967 | 14 |
| 103 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 6932 | 9 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, New York (USA) | 6930 | 7 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 6867 | 13 |
| 106 | Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands | Den Haag, Netherlands | 6836 | 17 |
| 107 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6816 | 4 |
| (107) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6726 | 5 |
| (107) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6664 | 10 |
| 108 | Bank of Canada, Government of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 6663 | 23 |
| 109 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 6656 | 28 |
| (109) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 6653 | 12 |
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