| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 328383 | 205 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 160318 | 151 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 64190 | 152 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 54336 | 34 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 51031 | 65 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 46639 | 25 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 42597 | 89 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 37530 | 25 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 37429 | 26 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 31949 | 59 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 30946 | 11 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 29578 | 28 |
| 13 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 28720 | 21 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 28514 | 12 |
| (14) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 27971 | 15 |
| (14) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 27901 | 27 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 27077 | 20 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 26439 | 21 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 25794 | 19 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 24921 | 16 |
| 18 | CESifo | München, Germany | 24509 | 36 |
| 19 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 23855 | 42 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 23312 | 13 |
| 20 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 23210 | 26 |
| 21 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 23010 | 36 |
| 22 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 22247 | 31 |
| 23 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 21788 | 20 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 21697 | 21 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 21249 | 12 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 21179 | 12 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20958 | 30 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 20901 | 19 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 20535 | 23 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 19918 | 21 |
| 31 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19614 | 16 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 18903 | 19 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18578 | 16 |
| 34 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 18544 | 23 |
| 35 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 17256 | 51 |
| (35) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17171 | 12 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17159 | 15 |
| 37 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 17054 | 22 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 17015 | 25 |
| 39 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 16703 | 33 |
| 40 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 16542 | 16 |
| 41 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 15650 | 33 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 15624 | 11 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 15535 | 18 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 15434 | 24 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 15394 | 20 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 15228 | 31 |
| 47 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 15176 | 49 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 15086 | 28 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 15084 | 7 |
| 50 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 15062 | 24 |
| 51 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 14880 | 15 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 14157 | 19 |
| (52) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14045 | 23 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 14017 | 24 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 13972 | 10 |
| (54) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 13599 | 32 |
| 55 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 13568 | 38 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 13432 | 23 |
| (56) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 13404 | 12 |
| 57 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 13357 | 8 |
| 58 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 13355 | 10 |
| (58) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 13315 | 19 |
| (58) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 13301 | 7 |
| 59 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12807 | 11 |
| 60 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 12757 | 7 |
| (60) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12720 | 3 |
| 61 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12571 | 10 |
| 62 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 12261 | 25 |
| 63 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 12139 | 21 |
| (63) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 11833 | 15 |
| (63) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11559 | 15 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 11400 | 18 |
| 65 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11358 | 8 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 11320 | 21 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11173 | 8 |
| 68 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 10970 | 36 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 10574 | 17 |
| 70 | de Nederlandsche Bank, Government of the Netherlands | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10571 | 22 |
| 71 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10540 | 14 |
| (71) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 10425 | 13 |
| (71) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10394 | 14 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 10153 | 27 |
| 73 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 10032 | 4 |
| 74 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10022 | 11 |
| 75 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 9963 | 18 |
| 76 | Handelshøjskolen i København | København, Denmark | 9926 | 9 |
| 77 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 9800 | 14 |
| (77) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9666 | 4 |
| 78 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9646 | 9 |
| 79 | Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 9573 | 12 |
| 80 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 9550 | 14 |
| 81 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9510 | 3 |
| 82 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 9486 | 18 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 9425 | 6 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 9305 | 28 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9226 | 13 |
| 86 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9166 | 6 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9091 | 15 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9057 | 19 |
| 89 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 9033 | 18 |
| 90 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8953 | 7 |
| (90) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8950 | 6 |
| 91 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 8798 | 14 |
| 92 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 8687 | 14 |
| 93 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 8635 | 17 |
| 94 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 8594 | 21 |
| (94) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 8529 | 8 |
| (94) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8489 | 3 |
| (94) | Development Economics, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8418 | 13 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 8410 | 12 |
| 96 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8312 | 8 |
| (96) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8312 | 8 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 8151 | 24 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 7988 | 8 |
| 99 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 7916 | 17 |
| 100 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 7892 | 8 |
| (100) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7527 | 3 |
| 101 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 7351 | 28 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, New York (USA) | 7264 | 7 |
| 103 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 7246 | 10 |
| 104 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 7195 | 5 |
| 105 | Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands | Den Haag, Netherlands | 7166 | 17 |
| (105) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 7059 | 12 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 7054 | 13 |
| (106) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7037 | 5 |
| (106) | 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 | 6924 | 10 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6837 | 18 |
| 108 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 6822 | 8 |
| 109 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 6800 | 14 |
| (109) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6717 | 5 |
| 110 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 6699 | 28 |
| 111 | Bank of Canada, Government of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 6689 | 23 |
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