| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1494938 | 225 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 761992 | 190 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 407217 | 200 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 231394 | 38 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 230878 | 28 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 218433 | 84 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 184789 | 107 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 176587 | 30 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 174399 | 80 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 160828 | 32 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 157504 | 18 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 145230 | 53 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 126696 | 21 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 126530 | 23 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 122643 | 30 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 122145 | 24 |
| 17 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 121535 | 20 |
| 18 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 119283 | 11 |
| (18) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 118071 | 13 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 115804 | 34 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 112252 | 25 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 112103 | 24 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 110218 | 59 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 107666 | 29 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 101327 | 27 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 101065 | 17 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 100069 | 27 |
| 25 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 100004 | 45 |
| 26 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 99528 | 32 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 97289 | 29 |
| (27) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 95225 | 15 |
| 28 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 90245 | 37 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 89510 | 33 |
| 30 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 89179 | 12 |
| 31 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 86686 | 23 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 86192 | 18 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 84990 | 19 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 83279 | 27 |
| 35 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 80345 | 19 |
| (35) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 79632 | 21 |
| 36 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 78516 | 11 |
| 37 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 78164 | 40 |
| 38 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 77034 | 26 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 76906 | 23 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 74646 | 27 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 74166 | 25 |
| (41) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 72948 | 13 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 72610 | 33 |
| 43 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 71830 | 44 |
| (43) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 71535 | 25 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 69967 | 14 |
| 45 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 68667 | 25 |
| 46 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 68494 | 18 |
| 47 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 65001 | 29 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 63960 | 21 |
| 49 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 63381 | 13 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 63216 | 21 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 62764 | 22 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 60491 | 23 |
| 53 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 59843 | 37 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 58477 | 21 |
| (54) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 57951 | 9 |
| 55 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 57025 | 9 |
| 56 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 55941 | 18 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 55919 | 48 |
| 58 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 55724 | 21 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 55454 | 20 |
| (59) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 55231 | 18 |
| 60 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 54821 | 45 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 54574 | 19 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 54311 | 19 |
| 63 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 54073 | 13 |
| 64 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 53230 | 40 |
| 65 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 52979 | 21 |
| 66 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 52895 | 29 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 52306 | 25 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 51967 | 21 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 51736 | 29 |
| (69) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 51663 | 16 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 51040 | 30 |
| 71 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 50774 | 13 |
| 72 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 50363 | 18 |
| (72) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 49236 | 24 |
| (72) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 48470 | 16 |
| 73 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 47603 | 27 |
| 74 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 47424 | 54 |
| (74) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 46603 | 4 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 46449 | 10 |
| 76 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 45632 | 11 |
| 77 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 45623 | 8 |
| (77) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 45141 | 7 |
| 78 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 45098 | 17 |
| 79 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 45014 | 21 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 44968 | 10 |
| 81 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44592 | 14 |
| 82 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 44550 | 31 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 44538 | 19 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 44347 | 26 |
| 85 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 43880 | 67 |
| 86 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 42944 | 17 |
| 87 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 42355 | 15 |
| (87) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 42289 | 13 |
| (87) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 42016 | 7 |
| 88 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 41922 | 8 |
| 89 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 41839 | 3 |
| 90 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 40173 | 23 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 40066 | 22 |
| 92 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 38892 | 26 |
| 93 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 38837 | 25 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 38830 | 14 |
| 95 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 37016 | 34 |
| 96 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 36784 | 17 |
| 97 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 36719 | 11 |
| 98 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 36673 | 24 |
| 99 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 36415 | 6 |
| 100 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 36022 | 17 |
| 101 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 35690 | 22 |
| 102 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 35668 | 14 |
| (102) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 34856 | 7 |
| (102) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 34502 | 4 |
| (102) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 34260 | 12 |
| 103 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 34014 | 8 |
| (103) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 33912 | 33 |
| 104 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 33845 | 10 |
| 105 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 33840 | 12 |
| 106 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 33771 | 19 |
| 107 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 33744 | 16 |
| 108 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 33491 | 24 |
| 109 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 33455 | 26 |
| 110 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 33282 | 8 |
| (110) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 32362 | 4 |
| 111 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 32139 | 12 |
| (111) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 31924 | 5 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 31823 | 21 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 31278 | 18 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 31244 | 14 |
| (114) | 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 | 31122 | 12 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 30916 | 12 |
| (115) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 30850 | 16 |
| 116 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 30806 | 13 |
| 117 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 30680 | 8 |
| (117) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 30661 | 7 |
| 118 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 30288 | 18 |
| 119 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 30091 | 10 |
| 120 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 30009 | 20 |
| 121 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 29979 | 44 |
| 122 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 29834 | 20 |
| 123 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 29672 | 19 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 29402 | 13 |
| 125 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 29377 | 27 |
| 126 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 29297 | 19 |
| 127 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 29182 | 18 |
| (127) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 29119 | 18 |
| 127 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 29119 | 18 |
| (128) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 28917 | 8 |
| 129 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 28634 | 6 |
| 130 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 28592 | 17 |
| 131 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 28543 | 14 |
| 132 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 28505 | 13 |
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