| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 61329 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 18314 | 169 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11901 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10933 | 26 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8655 | 31 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6670 | 74 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5973 | 28 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5869 | 23 |
| 9 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 5630 | 173 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5519 | 23 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5475 | 100 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5248 | 11 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5074 | 14 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4621 | 27 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4593 | 14 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4451 | 20 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4319 | 28 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4309 | 26 |
| (17) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4233 | 28 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4218 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4152 | 24 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4115 | 23 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4015 | 16 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3919 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3605 | 11 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3263 | 16 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3201 | 11 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3139 | 21 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2929 | 12 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2832 | 20 |
| 28 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2810 | 24 |
| (28) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2760 | 11 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2676 | 20 |
| 30 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2600 | 13 |
| 31 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2593 | 72 |
| 32 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2477 | 18 |
| 33 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2474 | 30 |
| 34 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2452 | 33 |
| 35 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2406 | 22 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2368 | 19 |
| 37 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2338 | 57 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2335 | 22 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2241 | 9 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2228 | 21 |
| (40) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2182 | 5 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2154 | 36 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2144 | 23 |
| 43 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2136 | 3 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2111 | 20 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2004 | 19 |
| 45 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1988 | 12 |
| 46 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1985 | 11 |
| 47 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1962 | 8 |
| (47) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1959 | 7 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1955 | 18 |
| 49 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1922 | 7 |
| (49) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1913 | 6 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1892 | 25 |
| 51 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1886 | 42 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1882 | 21 |
| (52) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1857 | 7 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1837 | 30 |
| (53) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1777 | 3 |
| (53) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1749 | 15 |
| 54 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1730 | 10 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1662 | 16 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1654 | 15 |
| 56 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1653 | 16 |
| 57 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1615 | 7 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1580 | 10 |
| 59 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1566 | 16 |
| 60 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1544 | 12 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1500 | 18 |
| (61) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1490 | 25 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1481 | 22 |
| (62) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1480 | 6 |
| (62) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1443 | 11 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1426 | 8 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1387 | 27 |
| (64) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1382 | 4 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1363 | 20 |
| (65) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1353 | 8 |
| 66 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1230 | 25 |
| 67 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1221 | 40 |
| (67) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1205 | 12 |
| (67) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1200 | 3 |
| 68 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1185 | 44 |
| (68) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1180 | 5 |
| 69 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1102 | 6 |
| 70 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1059 | 16 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1055 | 9 |
| 72 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1053 | 7 |
| (72) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1025 | 5 |
| 73 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1016 | 6 |
| (73) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1015 | 5 |
| 74 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1014 | 15 |
| (74) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1003 | 1 |
| (74) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1003 | 1 |
| 75 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 986 | 10 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 984 | 10 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 962 | 27 |
| 78 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 959 | 8 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 959 | 8 |
| 79 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 953 | 39 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 943 | 9 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 939 | 22 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 923 | 32 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 921 | 9 |
| (82) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 908 | 2 |
| (82) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 897 | 3 |
| 83 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 892 | 7 |
| (83) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 886 | 2 |
| 84 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 881 | 7 |
| 85 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 880 | 8 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 875 | 4 |
| (86) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 857 | 17 |
| 87 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 849 | 12 |
| 88 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 824 | 6 |
| 89 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 814 | 2 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 801 | 6 |
| (90) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 782 | 1 |
| 91 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 778 | 4 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 765 | 20 |
| 93 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 763 | 21 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 761 | 16 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 738 | 14 |
| 96 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 735 | 17 |
| (96) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 733 | 3 |
| (96) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 729 | 10 |
| (96) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 688 | 16 |
| 96 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 688 | 16 |
| (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 | 682 | 11 |
| 98 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 680 | 6 |
| 99 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 675 | 13 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 670 | 7 |
| (100) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 670 | 7 |
| (100) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 666 | 14 |
| (100) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 650 | 1 |
| (100) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 647 | 4 |
| 101 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 643 | 4 |
| 102 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 635 | 14 |
| 102 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 635 | 6 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 624 | 18 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 612 | 10 |
| (105) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 611 | 9 |
| 105 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 611 | 10 |
| 107 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 606 | 20 |
| 108 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 601 | 36 |
| 108 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 601 | 11 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 568 | 14 |
| 111 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 564 | 11 |
| 112 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 563 | 52 |
| 113 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 561 | 21 |
| 114 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 553 | 3 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 549 | 11 |
| (115) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 547 | 7 |
| 116 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 539 | 6 |
| 117 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 531 | 10 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 526 | 13 |
| 119 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 523 | 12 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 513 | 14 |
| (120) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 511 | 3 |
| 121 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 503 | 30 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 501 | 11 |
| 123 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 500 | 21 |
| (123) | ESRC Centre for Fiscal Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 495 | 4 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 491 | 9 |
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