| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 54635 | 210 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 15699 | 158 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10993 | 37 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8499 | 24 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7918 | 29 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5886 | 69 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5577 | 28 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5468 | 22 |
| 9 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4998 | 11 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4954 | 22 |
| 11 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4751 | 164 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4712 | 14 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4651 | 97 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4145 | 21 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4113 | 13 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3881 | 30 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3819 | 26 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 3694 | 25 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3627 | 20 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3503 | 16 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3429 | 16 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3268 | 11 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3233 | 19 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3229 | 22 |
| 22 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2892 | 13 |
| 23 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2809 | 16 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2643 | 15 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2605 | 23 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2576 | 13 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2530 | 19 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 2499 | 26 |
| 29 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2418 | 25 |
| 30 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2384 | 32 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2383 | 11 |
| 32 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2301 | 30 |
| (32) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2190 | 11 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2166 | 20 |
| 34 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2105 | 69 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2102 | 24 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2081 | 55 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2054 | 24 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2037 | 21 |
| (38) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2036 | 5 |
| 39 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2025 | 23 |
| 40 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1978 | 17 |
| 41 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1975 | 3 |
| 42 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1953 | 33 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1915 | 19 |
| 43 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1889 | 7 |
| (43) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1852 | 5 |
| 44 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1849 | 11 |
| 45 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1844 | 7 |
| 46 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1789 | 8 |
| (46) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1786 | 7 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1782 | 18 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1708 | 23 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1679 | 17 |
| (49) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1639 | 3 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1634 | 30 |
| (50) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1630 | 15 |
| 51 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1617 | 38 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1598 | 25 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1583 | 16 |
| 53 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1557 | 11 |
| 54 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1528 | 6 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1466 | 15 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1435 | 10 |
| (56) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1402 | 7 |
| 57 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1393 | 8 |
| 58 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1386 | 11 |
| (58) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1373 | 6 |
| (58) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1357 | 25 |
| 59 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1355 | 16 |
| 60 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1315 | 21 |
| 61 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1283 | 8 |
| 62 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1278 | 7 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1260 | 21 |
| (63) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1257 | 11 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1220 | 15 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1208 | 17 |
| (65) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1206 | 8 |
| (65) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1147 | 5 |
| (65) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1113 | 13 |
| 66 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1103 | 45 |
| (66) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1099 | 3 |
| (66) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1098 | 4 |
| 67 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1070 | 39 |
| 68 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1054 | 6 |
| 69 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1037 | 16 |
| 70 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1015 | 23 |
| (70) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 973 | 5 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 958 | 20 |
| 72 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 924 | 7 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 911 | 9 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 903 | 8 |
| (74) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 884 | 2 |
| 75 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 862 | 15 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 853 | 27 |
| (76) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 847 | 5 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 846 | 30 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 843 | 7 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 814 | 23 |
| (79) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 801 | 3 |
| (79) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 794 | 4 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 792 | 7 |
| 81 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 789 | 8 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 789 | 8 |
| 82 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 784 | 7 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 779 | 5 |
| 84 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 766 | 11 |
| 85 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 758 | 9 |
| (85) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 743 | 1 |
| 86 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 742 | 38 |
| 87 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 738 | 7 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 734 | 6 |
| 89 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 733 | 3 |
| 89 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 733 | 5 |
| 91 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 721 | 1 |
| (91) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 696 | 1 |
| (91) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 696 | 1 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 692 | 15 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 688 | 19 |
| (93) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 667 | 17 |
| (93) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 653 | 7 |
| 94 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 643 | 6 |
| 95 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 641 | 6 |
| (95) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 641 | 15 |
| 95 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 641 | 15 |
| 97 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 638 | 14 |
| (97) | 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 | 636 | 11 |
| (97) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 635 | 9 |
| (97) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 629 | 12 |
| 98 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 622 | 13 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 621 | 13 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 598 | 7 |
| (100) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 598 | 7 |
| (100) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 593 | 1 |
| (100) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 592 | 4 |
| 101 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 585 | 5 |
| (101) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 561 | 9 |
| 101 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 561 | 9 |
| 103 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 555 | 20 |
| (103) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 553 | 3 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 546 | 14 |
| 105 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 543 | 35 |
| 106 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 530 | 5 |
| 106 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 530 | 3 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 524 | 17 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 523 | 10 |
| 110 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 510 | 11 |
| 111 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 495 | 20 |
| 112 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 489 | 10 |
| 113 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 488 | 12 |
| (113) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 485 | 3 |
| 114 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 483 | 6 |
| 115 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 472 | 6 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 457 | 10 |
| (116) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 456 | 1 |
| 117 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 445 | 16 |
| 117 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 445 | 14 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 444 | 10 |
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