| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1406101 | 217 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 716685 | 179 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 379318 | 188 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 241918 | 40 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 210975 | 79 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 196898 | 26 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 170796 | 101 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 157832 | 76 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 156282 | 31 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 153772 | 29 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 137131 | 48 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 128962 | 16 |
| 13 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 122575 | 20 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 121710 | 23 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 119945 | 30 |
| (15) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 119281 | 13 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 115826 | 21 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 113867 | 32 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 112025 | 11 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 107466 | 24 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 105059 | 23 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 102146 | 58 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 96869 | 17 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 96518 | 26 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 95986 | 28 |
| 23 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 95387 | 47 |
| 24 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 94287 | 30 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 94144 | 26 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 90349 | 28 |
| (26) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 89166 | 14 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 87541 | 20 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 87324 | 12 |
| 29 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 84690 | 23 |
| 30 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 83652 | 32 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 83028 | 19 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 81923 | 36 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 81895 | 17 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 80365 | 25 |
| 35 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 75488 | 11 |
| 36 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 75221 | 40 |
| 37 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 74052 | 26 |
| (37) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 72403 | 20 |
| 38 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 70526 | 25 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 70188 | 33 |
| (39) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 70168 | 13 |
| 40 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 69249 | 18 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 68933 | 22 |
| 42 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 68891 | 19 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 67158 | 14 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 66449 | 26 |
| 45 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 63851 | 40 |
| 46 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 62482 | 23 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 61695 | 22 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 61638 | 21 |
| (48) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 61273 | 12 |
| 49 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 60801 | 13 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 60102 | 21 |
| 51 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 59356 | 35 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 58249 | 22 |
| 53 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 57507 | 37 |
| 54 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 55898 | 27 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 55555 | 20 |
| 56 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 54143 | 20 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 53384 | 19 |
| 58 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 53327 | 17 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 53188 | 22 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 53049 | 19 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 52712 | 19 |
| 61 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 51289 | 8 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 51155 | 18 |
| 63 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 50531 | 21 |
| (63) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 50463 | 17 |
| 64 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 49767 | 27 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 49220 | 28 |
| 66 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 49004 | 13 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 48742 | 28 |
| (67) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 48482 | 15 |
| 68 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 48357 | 37 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 48271 | 21 |
| 70 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 47732 | 43 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 47669 | 24 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 47563 | 25 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 46768 | 16 |
| 72 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 46006 | 16 |
| (72) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 45377 | 4 |
| 73 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 44765 | 8 |
| 74 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 44618 | 11 |
| (74) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 44338 | 7 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 44065 | 10 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 43861 | 31 |
| 77 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 43144 | 26 |
| 78 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 42366 | 12 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 42084 | 25 |
| (79) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 41431 | 12 |
| 80 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 40656 | 14 |
| 81 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 40525 | 17 |
| 82 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 40370 | 16 |
| 83 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 39987 | 12 |
| (83) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 39762 | 7 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 39063 | 15 |
| 85 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 39045 | 7 |
| 86 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 39025 | 3 |
| 87 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 38926 | 18 |
| 88 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 38564 | 27 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 38366 | 22 |
| 90 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 37960 | 20 |
| 91 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 36434 | 21 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 36393 | 9 |
| 93 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 35654 | 15 |
| 94 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 35572 | 31 |
| 95 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 34947 | 10 |
| 96 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 34127 | 6 |
| 97 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 34112 | 17 |
| 98 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 34109 | 22 |
| 99 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 33925 | 11 |
| (99) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 33647 | 7 |
| (99) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 33565 | 13 |
| 100 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 33274 | 22 |
| (100) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 33171 | 12 |
| 101 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 32863 | 8 |
| 102 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 32788 | 8 |
| 103 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 32719 | 19 |
| (103) | 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 | 32686 | 11 |
| 104 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 32679 | 13 |
| 105 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 32342 | 19 |
| 106 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 32016 | 23 |
| 107 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 31509 | 15 |
| 108 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 31364 | 12 |
| 109 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 31231 | 23 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 30546 | 14 |
| (110) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 30438 | 3 |
| 111 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 30130 | 7 |
| (111) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 30130 | 7 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 29993 | 18 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 29794 | 20 |
| (113) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 29476 | 5 |
| 114 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 29457 | 10 |
| (114) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 29359 | 15 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 29337 | 10 |
| 116 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 28792 | 42 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 28755 | 12 |
| 118 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 27927 | 14 |
| 119 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 27789 | 27 |
| (119) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 27644 | 8 |
| 120 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 27410 | 19 |
| 121 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 27402 | 10 |
| 122 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 27383 | 6 |
| 123 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 27326 | 27 |
| (123) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 27284 | 5 |
| 124 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 27160 | 28 |
| 125 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 26947 | 11 |
| (125) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 26905 | 5 |
| 126 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 26872 | 13 |
| (126) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 26872 | 13 |
| (126) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 26859 | 4 |
| (126) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 26720 | 3 |
| 127 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 26646 | 32 |
| 128 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 26490 | 16 |
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