| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 397844 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 193387 | 169 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 82964 | 173 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 67564 | 39 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 60432 | 26 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 59482 | 74 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 54925 | 100 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 49745 | 72 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 47077 | 28 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 43874 | 31 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 35379 | 11 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 35147 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 34077 | 14 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 33898 | 23 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 32992 | 26 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 32168 | 23 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 31666 | 20 |
| (17) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 31522 | 28 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 30878 | 23 |
| 18 | CESifo | München, Germany | 30334 | 42 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 28134 | 28 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 27913 | 14 |
| 20 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 25888 | 30 |
| 21 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 25870 | 44 |
| 22 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 25612 | 12 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25523 | 24 |
| 24 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 25142 | 20 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 24575 | 15 |
| 26 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24356 | 24 |
| (26) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 24344 | 13 |
| 27 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 24125 | 11 |
| 28 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 23863 | 22 |
| 29 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 23459 | 57 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 22952 | 31 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 22723 | 27 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 22325 | 20 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 21899 | 20 |
| 34 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 21870 | 16 |
| 35 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 21578 | 25 |
| 36 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 21529 | 38 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 21508 | 21 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 21375 | 16 |
| 39 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 20464 | 22 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 20131 | 22 |
| (40) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 19936 | 11 |
| 41 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 19523 | 16 |
| 42 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 18859 | 36 |
| 43 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18607 | 9 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 17986 | 18 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 17921 | 33 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 17584 | 21 |
| (46) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17401 | 11 |
| 47 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17181 | 36 |
| 47 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 17181 | 33 |
| 49 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17104 | 40 |
| 50 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 17056 | 25 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17020 | 11 |
| (51) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16677 | 17 |
| (51) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 16548 | 20 |
| 52 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 16502 | 13 |
| (52) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16092 | 25 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 15842 | 19 |
| 54 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15320 | 12 |
| 55 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 14995 | 52 |
| 56 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 14989 | 18 |
| 57 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14936 | 11 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 14535 | 21 |
| 59 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 14528 | 27 |
| 60 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 14434 | 7 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 14395 | 19 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 14384 | 23 |
| 63 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 14056 | 39 |
| (63) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13963 | 3 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 13934 | 27 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 13587 | 18 |
| 66 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13498 | 11 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 13447 | 16 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 13124 | 20 |
| 68 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 13045 | 21 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 12977 | 9 |
| 70 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 12968 | 23 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12782 | 15 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 12721 | 9 |
| 72 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12641 | 12 |
| 73 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12544 | 8 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12475 | 7 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 12279 | 18 |
| 75 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 12207 | 16 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 12125 | 10 |
| 77 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11531 | 10 |
| 78 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11527 | 3 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 11385 | 22 |
| 80 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 11260 | 17 |
| 81 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 11179 | 20 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 10873 | 27 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10681 | 14 |
| (83) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10644 | 3 |
| 84 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 10643 | 15 |
| 85 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10634 | 23 |
| (85) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10617 | 7 |
| (85) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 10539 | 31 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 10539 | 32 |
| 87 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10441 | 7 |
| 88 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 10352 | 19 |
| (88) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10317 | 12 |
| 89 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 10297 | 17 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10291 | 15 |
| (90) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10278 | 4 |
| 91 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 10155 | 21 |
| 92 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 10009 | 10 |
| 93 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 9890 | 13 |
| (93) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 9771 | 10 |
| 94 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 9706 | 5 |
| 95 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 9679 | 22 |
| (95) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9653 | 6 |
| 96 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 9634 | 14 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 9234 | 10 |
| 98 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 9174 | 12 |
| (98) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9073 | 12 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 8961 | 25 |
| 100 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 8810 | 3 |
| 101 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 8692 | 20 |
| 102 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8677 | 8 |
| (102) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8677 | 8 |
| (102) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8611 | 14 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, New York (USA) | 8571 | 7 |
| 104 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 8511 | 10 |
| 105 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 8496 | 9 |
| (105) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8364 | 3 |
| 106 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 8333 | 30 |
| 107 | Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands | Den Haag, Netherlands | 8312 | 17 |
| 108 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8263 | 6 |
| (108) | 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 | 8231 | 11 |
| (108) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8149 | 5 |
| (108) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8006 | 5 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 7976 | 14 |
| (109) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 7968 | 5 |
| 110 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 7917 | 11 |
| 111 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 7899 | 4 |
| 112 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 7734 | 16 |
| 113 | Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 7670 | 15 |
| 114 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 7656 | 8 |
| 115 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 7641 | 20 |
| 116 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 7637 | 16 |
| 117 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 7596 | 16 |
| 118 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 7569 | 12 |
| 119 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 7557 | 16 |
| 120 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 7548 | 26 |
| 121 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 7531 | 17 |
| (121) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 7506 | 6 |
| 122 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 7472 | 16 |
| 123 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 7460 | 16 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 7438 | 13 |
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