| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 83529 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 48764 | 172 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 21035 | 180 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 16068 | 78 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14224 | 39 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11794 | 31 |
| 7 | CESifo | München, Germany | 11473 | 44 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10485 | 102 |
| 9 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 9449 | 58 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8973 | 29 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8749 | 23 |
| 12 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8646 | 74 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8591 | 22 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8373 | 25 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8261 | 23 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8111 | 26 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8048 | 20 |
| 18 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7841 | 12 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7781 | 24 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7776 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 7521 | 28 |
| (19) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7372 | 14 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 7188 | 28 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7050 | 20 |
| 22 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 6897 | 36 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 6834 | 30 |
| 24 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6807 | 40 |
| (24) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 6231 | 20 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6212 | 26 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6191 | 22 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5995 | 18 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5978 | 30 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5946 | 19 |
| 30 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5678 | 11 |
| 31 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5659 | 30 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 5655 | 25 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5613 | 16 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5507 | 16 |
| 35 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5406 | 25 |
| 36 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5398 | 47 |
| 37 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5349 | 20 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5345 | 16 |
| 39 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 5241 | 23 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5223 | 23 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 5182 | 28 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5161 | 13 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5113 | 15 |
| 44 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5079 | 11 |
| 45 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 4922 | 14 |
| 46 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 4768 | 22 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 4688 | 19 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4602 | 14 |
| 49 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4592 | 25 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 4579 | 20 |
| 51 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4559 | 9 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4393 | 31 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4363 | 21 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4082 | 20 |
| 55 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 4050 | 26 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 4036 | 34 |
| 57 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3974 | 22 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3919 | 20 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3845 | 25 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3813 | 9 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3797 | 19 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 3794 | 9 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3705 | 18 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3691 | 20 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3661 | 25 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3621 | 28 |
| 67 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 3582 | 35 |
| 68 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3562 | 19 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3527 | 17 |
| 70 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3487 | 7 |
| (70) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3487 | 7 |
| 71 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 3455 | 22 |
| 72 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 3450 | 16 |
| 73 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3440 | 11 |
| 74 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 3423 | 40 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3417 | 8 |
| (75) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3349 | 16 |
| 75 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3349 | 7 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3301 | 12 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3300 | 10 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 3280 | 12 |
| (79) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3220 | 11 |
| 80 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3197 | 8 |
| 81 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3192 | 36 |
| 82 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 3180 | 13 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3164 | 13 |
| (83) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3125 | 15 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 3119 | 14 |
| 85 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 3077 | 23 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 3042 | 22 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2994 | 14 |
| (87) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2937 | 25 |
| 88 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2933 | 41 |
| 89 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2923 | 10 |
| 90 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2917 | 21 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2912 | 6 |
| 91 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 2898 | 17 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 2896 | 10 |
| 93 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2882 | 12 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2809 | 10 |
| (94) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2796 | 18 |
| 95 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2788 | 13 |
| 96 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 2780 | 21 |
| 97 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2768 | 8 |
| (97) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2758 | 7 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2755 | 10 |
| 99 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2741 | 3 |
| (99) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2734 | 11 |
| 100 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2733 | 37 |
| 101 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2727 | 16 |
| 102 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2711 | 13 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 2700 | 17 |
| 104 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2684 | 15 |
| 105 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2664 | 10 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2636 | 16 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2630 | 14 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 2622 | 18 |
| 109 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2615 | 11 |
| (109) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2575 | 9 |
| 110 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2547 | 12 |
| (110) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2527 | 12 |
| (110) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2523 | 6 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 2506 | 10 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2466 | 11 |
| 113 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 2436 | 19 |
| 114 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 2435 | 6 |
| 115 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 2417 | 14 |
| 116 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 2414 | 16 |
| 117 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 2401 | 22 |
| 118 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2384 | 4 |
| (118) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2384 | 4 |
| 119 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | | 2341 | 27 |
| (119) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2323 | 9 |
| 119 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2323 | 10 |
| (120) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2318 | 10 |
| 121 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 2266 | 9 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2243 | 9 |
| 123 | School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 2227 | 10 |
| 124 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2199 | 16 |
| (124) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2195 | 7 |
| (124) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2192 | 16 |
| 124 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2192 | 16 |
| (125) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2188 | 9 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2169 | 18 |
| (126) | 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 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 2164 | 14 |
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