| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 61810 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 19010 | 172 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 12222 | 39 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11020 | 25 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8644 | 31 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6960 | 78 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6168 | 29 |
| 8 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 6038 | 180 |
| 9 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5955 | 23 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5680 | 102 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5526 | 23 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5300 | 11 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5088 | 16 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4790 | 28 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4601 | 14 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4520 | 20 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4499 | 31 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4399 | 26 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4356 | 28 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4313 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4226 | 26 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4183 | 24 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4062 | 16 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4037 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3644 | 13 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3383 | 16 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3275 | 11 |
| 25 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2924 | 12 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 2884 | 19 |
| 27 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2835 | 25 |
| (27) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2802 | 11 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2704 | 20 |
| 29 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2664 | 74 |
| 30 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2633 | 13 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2627 | 20 |
| 32 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2615 | 36 |
| 33 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2550 | 20 |
| 34 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2541 | 30 |
| 35 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2503 | 23 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2493 | 58 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2386 | 22 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2354 | 20 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2245 | 9 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2234 | 21 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2182 | 23 |
| (41) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2179 | 5 |
| 42 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2165 | 36 |
| 43 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2123 | 3 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2117 | 20 |
| 44 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2094 | 44 |
| (44) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2061 | 6 |
| 45 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2050 | 11 |
| 46 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2021 | 12 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2014 | 19 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 2008 | 19 |
| 49 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1957 | 8 |
| (49) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1954 | 7 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1920 | 22 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1916 | 26 |
| (51) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1900 | 7 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1864 | 30 |
| (52) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1807 | 15 |
| (52) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1803 | 3 |
| 53 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1753 | 10 |
| 54 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1696 | 16 |
| 55 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1689 | 7 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1677 | 16 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1648 | 15 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1619 | 25 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1583 | 10 |
| 58 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1571 | 17 |
| 59 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1545 | 12 |
| (59) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1538 | 6 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1515 | 18 |
| 61 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1493 | 22 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1472 | 28 |
| (62) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1448 | 11 |
| 63 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1426 | 8 |
| 64 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1410 | 5 |
| (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 | | 1371 | 20 |
| (65) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1350 | 8 |
| 66 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1236 | 40 |
| 67 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1231 | 25 |
| (67) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1221 | 12 |
| (67) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1203 | 3 |
| 68 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1196 | 47 |
| (68) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1179 | 5 |
| 69 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1121 | 41 |
| 70 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1096 | 6 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1085 | 9 |
| 72 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1078 | 16 |
| 73 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1074 | 7 |
| (73) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1058 | 5 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1035 | 28 |
| 75 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1026 | 6 |
| (75) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1025 | 5 |
| 76 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1018 | 14 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1004 | 10 |
| 78 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1003 | 10 |
| (78) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 999 | 1 |
| (78) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 999 | 1 |
| 79 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 956 | 7 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 956 | 7 |
| (79) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 952 | 9 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 951 | 9 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 941 | 22 |
| (81) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 935 | 2 |
| 82 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 931 | 7 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 923 | 30 |
| (83) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 900 | 3 |
| (83) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 895 | 2 |
| 84 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 892 | 7 |
| (84) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 882 | 18 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 872 | 4 |
| 86 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 869 | 6 |
| 87 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 866 | 7 |
| 88 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 863 | 22 |
| 89 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 858 | 13 |
| (89) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 836 | 3 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 809 | 6 |
| 91 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 797 | 2 |
| (91) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 794 | 1 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 781 | 16 |
| 93 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 778 | 4 |
| 94 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 771 | 19 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 771 | 20 |
| 94 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 771 | 21 |
| (96) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 765 | 11 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 751 | 14 |
| 98 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 734 | 25 |
| (98) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 726 | 15 |
| 99 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 715 | 4 |
| 100 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 702 | 16 |
| (100) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 696 | 16 |
| 100 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 696 | 16 |
| (101) | 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 | 695 | 11 |
| 102 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 688 | 6 |
| 103 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 684 | 14 |
| 104 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 663 | 7 |
| (104) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 663 | 7 |
| (104) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 646 | 1 |
| 105 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 643 | 11 |
| 106 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 636 | 6 |
| (106) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 634 | 3 |
| (106) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 633 | 9 |
| 106 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 633 | 10 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 626 | 18 |
| 109 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 619 | 37 |
| 110 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 610 | 35 |
| 111 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 602 | 10 |
| 112 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 575 | 51 |
| 113 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 569 | 11 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 569 | 12 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 568 | 14 |
| 115 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 568 | 13 |
| 117 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 552 | 3 |
| 118 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 548 | 7 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 534 | 14 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 533 | 11 |
| 120 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 533 | 10 |
| (121) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 532 | 7 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 523 | 10 |
| 123 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 520 | 14 |
| (123) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 518 | 3 |
| 124 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 503 | 6 |
| 125 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 502 | 6 |
| 126 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 500 | 16 |
| 127 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 498 | 40 |
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