| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 85399 | 217 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 50794 | 179 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 23355 | 188 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 16093 | 79 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 15528 | 40 |
| 6 | CESifo | München, Germany | 12793 | 48 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11925 | 31 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10389 | 101 |
| 9 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 9508 | 58 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9054 | 29 |
| 11 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8891 | 76 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8749 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8677 | 26 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8591 | 22 |
| 15 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 8359 | 26 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8319 | 23 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8112 | 26 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8061 | 19 |
| 19 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7854 | 12 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7781 | 24 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7776 | 32 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 7557 | 28 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7422 | 21 |
| (21) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7372 | 14 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 7188 | 28 |
| (22) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6999 | 22 |
| 23 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 6965 | 36 |
| 24 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6927 | 40 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 6885 | 30 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 6446 | 20 |
| (26) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 6299 | 20 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6212 | 26 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6207 | 17 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6191 | 22 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 6035 | 18 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5978 | 31 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5951 | 17 |
| 33 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5948 | 18 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5781 | 13 |
| 35 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5692 | 30 |
| 36 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5678 | 11 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 5673 | 25 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5672 | 16 |
| 39 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 5516 | 25 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5406 | 25 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5381 | 20 |
| 42 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5345 | 47 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 5201 | 28 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5164 | 22 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5161 | 14 |
| 46 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 4935 | 14 |
| 47 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 4768 | 21 |
| 48 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 4739 | 27 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 4688 | 19 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 4647 | 21 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4447 | 32 |
| 52 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 4335 | 37 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4315 | 21 |
| (53) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4299 | 13 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 4200 | 26 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4084 | 22 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 4013 | 33 |
| 57 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4001 | 23 |
| 58 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3971 | 19 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3966 | 21 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3901 | 25 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3853 | 9 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3797 | 19 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3763 | 20 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3732 | 19 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3661 | 25 |
| 66 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3629 | 8 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3621 | 28 |
| 68 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3618 | 19 |
| 69 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 3513 | 23 |
| 70 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 3511 | 40 |
| 71 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3500 | 7 |
| (71) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3500 | 7 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3477 | 8 |
| 73 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 3452 | 16 |
| 74 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3440 | 11 |
| 75 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3349 | 7 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3314 | 13 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 3306 | 12 |
| (77) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3302 | 16 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3300 | 10 |
| 79 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3273 | 35 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 3262 | 8 |
| 81 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 3258 | 27 |
| 82 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 3225 | 43 |
| 83 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3197 | 8 |
| 84 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 3180 | 14 |
| 85 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3163 | 13 |
| (85) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3158 | 15 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 3127 | 11 |
| (86) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3113 | 12 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 3097 | 20 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 3093 | 14 |
| (88) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3087 | 7 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 3074 | 25 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 2994 | 14 |
| (90) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2972 | 6 |
| 91 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 2925 | 17 |
| 92 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2923 | 10 |
| 93 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2917 | 21 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 2913 | 10 |
| 95 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2892 | 13 |
| 96 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2882 | 12 |
| 97 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 2848 | 22 |
| (97) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2826 | 17 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2825 | 10 |
| 99 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2800 | 3 |
| 100 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2788 | 13 |
| 101 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2786 | 8 |
| (101) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2776 | 7 |
| 102 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2771 | 31 |
| (102) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2768 | 24 |
| 103 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2755 | 37 |
| 104 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2754 | 16 |
| 105 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2720 | 15 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 2716 | 17 |
| 107 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 2666 | 23 |
| 108 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2664 | 10 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2621 | 15 |
| 110 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2615 | 11 |
| 111 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2547 | 12 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 2544 | 10 |
| (112) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2527 | 12 |
| (112) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2499 | 10 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2481 | 10 |
| 114 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 2468 | 19 |
| 115 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 2435 | 6 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2434 | 14 |
| 117 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 2417 | 14 |
| 118 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 2414 | 16 |
| 119 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2384 | 4 |
| (119) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2384 | 4 |
| 120 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | | 2325 | 24 |
| (120) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2323 | 9 |
| 120 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2323 | 10 |
| 122 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 2258 | 9 |
| 123 | School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 2252 | 10 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2243 | 9 |
| 125 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2221 | 19 |
| (125) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2195 | 7 |
| (125) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2192 | 17 |
| 125 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 2192 | 17 |
| (126) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2189 | 3 |
| (126) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2188 | 9 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 2186 | 15 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2169 | 18 |
| (128) | 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 |
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