| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 82237 | 211 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 46324 | 167 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 18722 | 169 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14391 | 70 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14075 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11593 | 29 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10285 | 99 |
| 8 | CESifo | München, Germany | 10046 | 40 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8810 | 28 |
| 10 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 8596 | 56 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8582 | 23 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8425 | 22 |
| 13 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8310 | 71 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8170 | 25 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8164 | 23 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8015 | 21 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7860 | 12 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7286 | 20 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 7284 | 27 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7223 | 14 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6775 | 18 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6766 | 24 |
| 21 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 6732 | 35 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6705 | 26 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 6693 | 29 |
| 24 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6671 | 40 |
| (24) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6636 | 27 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6235 | 27 |
| (25) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 6110 | 20 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6100 | 22 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5910 | 18 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5796 | 20 |
| 29 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5619 | 30 |
| 30 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5567 | 11 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5564 | 14 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5452 | 30 |
| 33 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5350 | 25 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5319 | 16 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5217 | 15 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5135 | 24 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5105 | 11 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5063 | 15 |
| 39 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5054 | 45 |
| 40 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 5043 | 23 |
| 41 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4982 | 11 |
| 42 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 4901 | 15 |
| 43 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4780 | 18 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4764 | 27 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4757 | 21 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4641 | 18 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4492 | 14 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4386 | 20 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4341 | 30 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4292 | 21 |
| 51 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4184 | 25 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3988 | 20 |
| 53 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3891 | 22 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3853 | 25 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3791 | 9 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 3787 | 33 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 3733 | 9 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3691 | 19 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3634 | 8 |
| 60 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3606 | 22 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3583 | 18 |
| 62 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3551 | 8 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3546 | 23 |
| 64 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 3523 | 20 |
| 65 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3505 | 8 |
| (65) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3505 | 8 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3448 | 26 |
| 67 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3429 | 16 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3393 | 13 |
| (68) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3337 | 16 |
| 68 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3337 | 11 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3293 | 17 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3241 | 10 |
| (71) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3208 | 11 |
| 72 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3164 | 8 |
| 73 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 3160 | 12 |
| 74 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 3129 | 15 |
| (74) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3121 | 6 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 3119 | 13 |
| (75) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3115 | 15 |
| 76 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3011 | 33 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2995 | 10 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2963 | 24 |
| 79 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2949 | 7 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2901 | 18 |
| 81 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2885 | 10 |
| (81) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2882 | 24 |
| 82 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2793 | 13 |
| (82) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2782 | 17 |
| 82 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 2782 | 16 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2780 | 14 |
| 85 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2772 | 8 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2771 | 10 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2762 | 7 |
| 87 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2741 | 3 |
| 88 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2735 | 14 |
| 89 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 2704 | 29 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2701 | 15 |
| 91 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2651 | 11 |
| (91) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2648 | 11 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 2633 | 16 |
| 93 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2632 | 35 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 2626 | 8 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2624 | 10 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2621 | 16 |
| 97 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2602 | 17 |
| 98 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2598 | 9 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2589 | 13 |
| 100 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2547 | 12 |
| (100) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2545 | 13 |
| (100) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2493 | 9 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 2465 | 10 |
| 102 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2442 | 37 |
| 103 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2434 | 11 |
| (103) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2426 | 6 |
| 104 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 2420 | 17 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2414 | 11 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2363 | 11 |
| 106 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 2360 | 15 |
| 107 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 2343 | 19 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2328 | 18 |
| (108) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2323 | 9 |
| 108 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2323 | 10 |
| 110 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2282 | 7 |
| 111 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 2271 | 11 |
| 112 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2257 | 4 |
| (112) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2257 | 4 |
| 112 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2257 | 11 |
| 114 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2245 | 20 |
| (114) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2223 | 3 |
| 115 | School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 2220 | 9 |
| (115) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2202 | 17 |
| 115 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2202 | 17 |
| (116) | 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 | 2165 | 11 |
| (116) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2159 | 7 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 2155 | 13 |
| 118 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2139 | 7 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2138 | 18 |
| 120 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2137 | 16 |
| 121 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 2124 | 10 |
| (121) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2110 | 8 |
| 122 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2091 | 5 |
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