| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 87699 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 51814 | 185 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 24143 | 194 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 16194 | 82 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 15553 | 40 |
| 6 | CESifo | München, Germany | 13358 | 51 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11926 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11170 | 28 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10730 | 104 |
| 10 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 9508 | 58 |
| 11 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 9079 | 28 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9050 | 29 |
| 13 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8918 | 79 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8866 | 23 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8705 | 23 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8388 | 23 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8120 | 26 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8093 | 19 |
| 19 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7891 | 12 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7816 | 34 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7781 | 24 |
| (19) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 7718 | 24 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 7558 | 28 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7484 | 23 |
| (21) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7329 | 14 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 7276 | 28 |
| 23 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7213 | 36 |
| 24 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6950 | 40 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 6886 | 30 |
| (25) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 6534 | 21 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 6453 | 20 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6208 | 17 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6168 | 22 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 6140 | 19 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6089 | 26 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5979 | 31 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5962 | 18 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5952 | 17 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5803 | 13 |
| 35 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5762 | 32 |
| 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 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5638 | 27 |
| 40 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 5619 | 25 |
| 41 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5443 | 45 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5415 | 21 |
| 43 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 5361 | 23 |
| 44 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 5298 | 15 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5255 | 22 |
| 46 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 5249 | 29 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 5202 | 29 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5120 | 14 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4791 | 20 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4672 | 21 |
| 51 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 4629 | 39 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4540 | 33 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4356 | 21 |
| (53) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4300 | 13 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 4272 | 18 |
| 55 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 4195 | 26 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4194 | 22 |
| 57 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4044 | 23 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 4035 | 32 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3966 | 21 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3943 | 29 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 3905 | 25 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 3880 | 9 |
| 63 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3879 | 19 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3797 | 19 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3734 | 20 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3732 | 19 |
| 67 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 3685 | 23 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3663 | 25 |
| 69 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 3655 | 19 |
| 70 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 3626 | 17 |
| 71 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3586 | 8 |
| 72 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 3512 | 40 |
| 73 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3500 | 7 |
| (73) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3500 | 7 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3479 | 8 |
| 75 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3440 | 11 |
| (75) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3352 | 16 |
| 76 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 3350 | 27 |
| 77 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3349 | 7 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3314 | 13 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 3307 | 14 |
| 80 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3293 | 36 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 3277 | 26 |
| 82 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3276 | 19 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3270 | 10 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 3261 | 8 |
| 85 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 3256 | 45 |
| 86 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3216 | 8 |
| (86) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3189 | 16 |
| 87 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 3180 | 15 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3131 | 13 |
| 89 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 3127 | 10 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 3115 | 21 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 3108 | 14 |
| (91) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3078 | 7 |
| 92 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 3069 | 21 |
| 93 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3054 | 13 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 3019 | 14 |
| (94) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 2974 | 6 |
| 95 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2969 | 14 |
| 96 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 2963 | 18 |
| 97 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 2929 | 24 |
| 98 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2927 | 13 |
| 99 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2923 | 10 |
| 100 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2914 | 13 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 2913 | 10 |
| 102 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 2883 | 23 |
| (102) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2855 | 18 |
| 103 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2844 | 10 |
| 104 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 2818 | 7 |
| (104) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2804 | 24 |
| 105 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2800 | 3 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 2777 | 17 |
| 107 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2767 | 8 |
| (107) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2761 | 10 |
| (107) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2757 | 7 |
| 108 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2755 | 36 |
| 109 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2754 | 16 |
| 110 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 2743 | 33 |
| 111 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2721 | 15 |
| 112 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2664 | 10 |
| 113 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2653 | 11 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2590 | 15 |
| (114) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2576 | 11 |
| 115 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2563 | 19 |
| (115) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2554 | 13 |
| 116 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 2529 | 19 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2444 | 10 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2434 | 14 |
| 119 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 2419 | 26 |
| 120 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 2414 | 15 |
| 121 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 2407 | 14 |
| 122 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2402 | 57 |
| 123 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2395 | 4 |
| (123) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2395 | 4 |
| 124 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 2345 | 18 |
| (124) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2323 | 9 |
| 124 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2323 | 10 |
| 126 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 2313 | 35 |
| (126) | Economics Department, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 2295 | 4 |
| 127 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 2258 | 9 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2243 | 9 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 2235 | 15 |
| (129) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2228 | 4 |
| 130 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2221 | 19 |
| (130) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2219 | 16 |
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