| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 421735 | 217 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 211683 | 179 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 95859 | 188 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 74415 | 40 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 65483 | 26 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 63066 | 79 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 58547 | 101 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 55077 | 76 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 48881 | 29 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 46482 | 31 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 37664 | 11 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 36839 | 16 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 36221 | 30 |
| 14 | CESifo | München, Germany | 35672 | 48 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 35122 | 23 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 34852 | 26 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 34824 | 21 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 34561 | 23 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 33526 | 32 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 32511 | 24 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 29640 | 14 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 29438 | 28 |
| 20 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 27848 | 47 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 27397 | 17 |
| 22 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27261 | 30 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 26735 | 26 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 26553 | 20 |
| 25 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 26377 | 12 |
| 26 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 25580 | 58 |
| 27 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 25469 | 19 |
| 28 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 25144 | 20 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 25108 | 32 |
| 30 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25069 | 25 |
| 31 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 24868 | 11 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 24758 | 28 |
| 33 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 24696 | 23 |
| (33) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 24323 | 13 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 23931 | 17 |
| 35 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 23567 | 40 |
| (35) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 23219 | 12 |
| 36 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 23005 | 26 |
| 37 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 22798 | 25 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 22417 | 19 |
| 39 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 21955 | 18 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 21357 | 22 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 20923 | 36 |
| (41) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19926 | 13 |
| (41) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19802 | 17 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 19640 | 21 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 19488 | 26 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 19213 | 33 |
| 45 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 18709 | 35 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 18664 | 19 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 18564 | 21 |
| 48 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 18490 | 13 |
| 49 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 18389 | 27 |
| (49) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 18369 | 20 |
| 50 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 18032 | 37 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17982 | 14 |
| 52 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 17679 | 13 |
| 53 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 17606 | 43 |
| 54 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17123 | 40 |
| (54) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16975 | 24 |
| 55 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16897 | 8 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 16697 | 20 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 16399 | 22 |
| 57 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 16304 | 20 |
| 58 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16191 | 12 |
| (58) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15725 | 4 |
| 59 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 15463 | 7 |
| 60 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 15283 | 27 |
| 61 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 15258 | 18 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 15195 | 19 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 14939 | 28 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 14932 | 22 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 14769 | 22 |
| 66 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 14724 | 23 |
| 67 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14273 | 12 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 14200 | 19 |
| (68) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 14075 | 16 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 13848 | 21 |
| 70 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 13799 | 26 |
| 71 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13612 | 11 |
| 72 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 13544 | 21 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 13400 | 9 |
| (73) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13395 | 15 |
| 74 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 13244 | 16 |
| (74) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12972 | 7 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 12869 | 18 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 12717 | 28 |
| 77 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12517 | 8 |
| 78 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12486 | 3 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12449 | 7 |
| 79 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 12405 | 17 |
| 80 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 12264 | 20 |
| 81 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 12142 | 37 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 11989 | 25 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11873 | 10 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 11444 | 31 |
| 85 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11431 | 10 |
| (85) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 11248 | 7 |
| (85) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11155 | 3 |
| 86 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 10846 | 6 |
| 87 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10796 | 23 |
| 88 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 10781 | 14 |
| 89 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 10753 | 21 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10741 | 15 |
| (90) | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno | Fisciano, Italy | 10706 | 12 |
| 91 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 10631 | 19 |
| (91) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10528 | 4 |
| (91) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10512 | 12 |
| (91) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 10403 | 13 |
| 92 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 10395 | 3 |
| 93 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 10330 | 8 |
| 94 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 10316 | 10 |
| 95 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 10232 | 15 |
| 96 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 10074 | 22 |
| 97 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 9901 | 14 |
| 98 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9856 | 12 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 9785 | 10 |
| 100 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 9477 | 22 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 9446 | 25 |
| 102 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 9427 | 11 |
| (102) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9163 | 15 |
| (102) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 9123 | 9 |
| 103 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 8980 | 19 |
| 104 | Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 8954 | 14 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, New York (USA) | 8914 | 7 |
| (105) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8865 | 5 |
| 106 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8798 | 7 |
| (106) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8798 | 7 |
| 107 | Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands | Den Haag, Netherlands | 8753 | 17 |
| (107) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8740 | 3 |
| 107 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8740 | 6 |
| (108) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8619 | 5 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Oregon | Eugene, Oregon (USA) | 8579 | 8 |
| (109) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 8532 | 5 |
| (109) | 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 | 8485 | 11 |
| 110 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 8466 | 13 |
| (110) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 8466 | 13 |
| (110) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 8463 | 6 |
| 111 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 8459 | 20 |
| 112 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 8407 | 19 |
| 113 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 8391 | 13 |
| 114 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 8336 | 31 |
| 115 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 8271 | 27 |
| 116 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 8260 | 11 |
| 117 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8204 | 4 |
| 118 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 8124 | 32 |
| 119 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 8079 | 16 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8061 | 22 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 8003 | 14 |
| 122 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7953 | 5 |
| 123 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 7936 | 27 |
| 124 | International Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 7930 | 7 |
| 125 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 7926 | 17 |
| 126 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 7895 | 16 |
| 127 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 7873 | 16 |
| 128 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 7868 | 8 |
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