| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 66096 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 20677 | 185 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13231 | 40 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13202 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8877 | 31 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7138 | 82 |
| 7 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 7035 | 194 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6301 | 23 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6251 | 29 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5899 | 104 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5541 | 11 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5496 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5143 | 28 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5089 | 16 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4844 | 23 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4650 | 26 |
| (16) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4570 | 14 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4543 | 34 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4464 | 17 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4451 | 33 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4407 | 28 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4306 | 24 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4281 | 18 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4235 | 26 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3855 | 14 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3721 | 17 |
| 24 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3368 | 11 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3272 | 20 |
| (25) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3212 | 13 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2961 | 12 |
| 27 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2919 | 27 |
| 28 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2888 | 79 |
| 29 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2817 | 13 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2743 | 19 |
| 31 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2721 | 25 |
| 32 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2716 | 21 |
| 33 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2676 | 32 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2660 | 21 |
| 34 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2660 | 36 |
| 36 | CESifo | München, Germany | 2633 | 51 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2578 | 22 |
| 38 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 2518 | 58 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2425 | 13 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2372 | 20 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2337 | 22 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2260 | 21 |
| 43 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2217 | 13 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2204 | 36 |
| (44) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2182 | 5 |
| (44) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2153 | 21 |
| 45 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2141 | 3 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2078 | 26 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2074 | 19 |
| (47) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2055 | 7 |
| (47) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2054 | 4 |
| 48 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2053 | 13 |
| (48) | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2051 | 7 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2040 | 8 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2037 | 23 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2022 | 20 |
| 52 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2016 | 8 |
| (52) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2013 | 7 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1957 | 30 |
| (53) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1916 | 16 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1864 | 15 |
| (54) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1848 | 7 |
| 55 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 1847 | 7 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1829 | 10 |
| 57 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1767 | 16 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1724 | 10 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1692 | 16 |
| 59 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1636 | 19 |
| (59) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1602 | 24 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1564 | 29 |
| 61 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1537 | 5 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1535 | 19 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1527 | 23 |
| (63) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1522 | 8 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1500 | 29 |
| (64) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1494 | 4 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1481 | 21 |
| (65) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1480 | 10 |
| 66 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1476 | 8 |
| (66) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1404 | 5 |
| 67 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1332 | 45 |
| (67) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1288 | 4 |
| (67) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1285 | 13 |
| 68 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1282 | 40 |
| (68) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1281 | 5 |
| 69 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1217 | 45 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1215 | 28 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1185 | 10 |
| 72 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1160 | 6 |
| 73 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1099 | 15 |
| (73) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1089 | 24 |
| (73) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1080 | 5 |
| 74 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1077 | 7 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1068 | 29 |
| 76 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1033 | 15 |
| 77 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1030 | 6 |
| (77) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1029 | 5 |
| 78 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1002 | 10 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 996 | 9 |
| (79) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 993 | 1 |
| (79) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 993 | 1 |
| 80 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 992 | 7 |
| (80) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 987 | 2 |
| (80) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 976 | 2 |
| 81 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 955 | 7 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 955 | 7 |
| 82 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 953 | 23 |
| 83 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 947 | 7 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 947 | 9 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 932 | 31 |
| (84) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 928 | 18 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 924 | 26 |
| (85) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 896 | 3 |
| 86 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 895 | 6 |
| 87 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 893 | 15 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 883 | 4 |
| 88 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | | 883 | 13 |
| (89) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 863 | 1 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 863 | 8 |
| 91 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 854 | 8 |
| 92 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 839 | 4 |
| 93 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 827 | 7 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 810 | 22 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 810 | 6 |
| 96 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 802 | 19 |
| 97 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 799 | 2 |
| 98 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 787 | 21 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 763 | 25 |
| 100 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 748 | 39 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 743 | 15 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 739 | 14 |
| 103 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 732 | 4 |
| (103) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 726 | 16 |
| 104 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 724 | 6 |
| 105 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 714 | 33 |
| (105) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 708 | 1 |
| 106 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 703 | 52 |
| (106) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 699 | 16 |
| 106 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 699 | 16 |
| 108 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 696 | 16 |
| (108) | 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 | 694 | 12 |
| 108 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 694 | 7 |
| (108) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 694 | 7 |
| (109) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 691 | 9 |
| 109 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 691 | 10 |
| 111 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 685 | 14 |
| 112 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 669 | 36 |
| 113 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 666 | 11 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 647 | 19 |
| (114) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 633 | 4 |
| 115 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 618 | 2 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 599 | 10 |
| 117 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 595 | 9 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 595 | 14 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 592 | 12 |
| 120 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 591 | 13 |
| 121 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 590 | 3 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 589 | 14 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 580 | 14 |
| 124 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 575 | 11 |
| (124) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 566 | 3 |
| (124) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 562 | 32 |
| 125 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 551 | 3 |
| (125) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 549 | 1 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 544 | 40 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 544 | 10 |
| 128 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 533 | 4 |
| (128) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 529 | 7 |
| 129 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 528 | 10 |
| (129) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 522 | 2 |
| 130 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 520 | 7 |
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