| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 455964 | 230 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 236555 | 194 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 172380 | 226 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 78185 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 69798 | 37 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 67676 | 113 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 67032 | 85 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 61412 | 80 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 55789 | 31 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 49549 | 21 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 47883 | 33 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 47692 | 56 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 43831 | 21 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 40030 | 11 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 37035 | 24 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36960 | 23 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 36911 | 24 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 36811 | 30 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 36694 | 28 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35120 | 34 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 34203 | 26 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 32811 | 28 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 31623 | 15 |
| 21 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29505 | 45 |
| 22 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 28043 | 32 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 28028 | 17 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 27857 | 27 |
| 25 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 27646 | 59 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 27550 | 13 |
| 27 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 27447 | 19 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 26855 | 31 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 26765 | 33 |
| 30 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25641 | 27 |
| 31 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 25232 | 11 |
| 32 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 25221 | 23 |
| 33 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 24914 | 40 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 24705 | 19 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 24521 | 70 |
| (35) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 24057 | 9 |
| 36 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 24000 | 26 |
| 37 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 23730 | 25 |
| 38 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 23673 | 20 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 23355 | 19 |
| 40 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 23179 | 37 |
| (40) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 23099 | 19 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 22971 | 23 |
| 42 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 22942 | 19 |
| (42) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 22807 | 13 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22445 | 27 |
| (43) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21576 | 25 |
| 44 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 20870 | 44 |
| 45 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 20705 | 30 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 20462 | 21 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 20410 | 21 |
| (46) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 20280 | 13 |
| (46) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20093 | 26 |
| 47 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 19877 | 47 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 19876 | 21 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 19856 | 34 |
| 50 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 19572 | 14 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 19168 | 22 |
| 52 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 19003 | 13 |
| 53 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 18780 | 54 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 18525 | 14 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 18511 | 19 |
| 56 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18460 | 13 |
| 57 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18322 | 9 |
| 58 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 18215 | 37 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 17631 | 21 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 17346 | 21 |
| 61 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17165 | 8 |
| 62 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 16555 | 21 |
| 63 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 16426 | 30 |
| (63) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16222 | 4 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 16194 | 10 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 16032 | 29 |
| 66 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15986 | 14 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 15858 | 37 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 15778 | 18 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 15454 | 25 |
| 70 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 15421 | 15 |
| 71 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 15407 | 25 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 15120 | 16 |
| 72 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 15016 | 23 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 14848 | 22 |
| 74 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 14599 | 27 |
| 75 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 14333 | 43 |
| 76 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 14138 | 33 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 13946 | 19 |
| 78 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 13944 | 21 |
| (78) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13850 | 16 |
| 79 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13735 | 11 |
| (79) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 13656 | 33 |
| 80 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13642 | 3 |
| (80) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13641 | 4 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 13620 | 28 |
| (81) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 13509 | 7 |
| 82 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 13499 | 67 |
| 83 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 12704 | 18 |
| 84 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12399 | 8 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12336 | 7 |
| 85 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 12144 | 3 |
| 86 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 12074 | 18 |
| 87 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 12044 | 23 |
| 88 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11860 | 11 |
| 89 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 11797 | 14 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11744 | 10 |
| 91 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 11671 | 6 |
| (91) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 11561 | 7 |
| 92 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 11499 | 15 |
| 93 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11277 | 25 |
| (93) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11165 | 5 |
| 94 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 11105 | 12 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 10780 | 12 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 10702 | 19 |
| (96) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10667 | 13 |
| (96) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 10614 | 12 |
| 97 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 10432 | 25 |
| 98 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 10427 | 15 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10385 | 14 |
| 100 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 10375 | 23 |
| 101 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10168 | 12 |
| 102 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 10157 | 8 |
| 103 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 10148 | 34 |
| 104 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 10060 | 20 |
| 105 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 9957 | 10 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 9952 | 25 |
| 107 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 9842 | 8 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, New York (USA) | 9760 | 7 |
| (108) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9739 | 16 |
| 109 | Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9738 | 14 |
| (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 | 9602 | 12 |
| (109) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 9586 | 10 |
| 110 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 9553 | 10 |
| 110 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 9553 | 20 |
| 112 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9449 | 7 |
| 113 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 9417 | 27 |
| (113) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9376 | 4 |
| 114 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 9208 | 19 |
| 115 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9191 | 14 |
| 116 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 9179 | 20 |
| (116) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9164 | 5 |
| 117 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8948 | 7 |
| 118 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 8947 | 13 |
| (118) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8938 | 5 |
| (118) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8937 | 6 |
| 119 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 8896 | 21 |
| 120 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 8796 | 26 |
| 121 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 8719 | 9 |
| (121) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 8653 | 13 |
| 122 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 8609 | 35 |
| 123 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 8604 | 17 |
| 124 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 8596 | 27 |
| 125 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 8584 | 43 |
| 126 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 8555 | 34 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8554 | 22 |
| 128 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8538 | 21 |
| 129 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 8476 | 22 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 8407 | 15 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 8311 | 14 |
| 132 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 8304 | 19 |
| 133 | International Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 8289 | 7 |
| 134 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8264 | 4 |
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