| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 78322 | 230 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 27063 | 194 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 18214 | 226 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15185 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13007 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10381 | 33 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8754 | 85 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8531 | 31 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8300 | 21 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8215 | 21 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7247 | 23 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7227 | 113 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6561 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6219 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 5820 | 31 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5813 | 24 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5726 | 34 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5508 | 28 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5471 | 15 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 5439 | 28 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5280 | 26 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5268 | 27 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5157 | 33 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5140 | 17 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4609 | 56 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4326 | 14 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4266 | 19 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3952 | 11 |
| (25) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3711 | 13 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3540 | 13 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3413 | 19 |
| 28 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3329 | 80 |
| 29 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3310 | 27 |
| 30 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3309 | 25 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3260 | 19 |
| 32 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3191 | 59 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3164 | 21 |
| 34 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3104 | 14 |
| 35 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3053 | 32 |
| 36 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2990 | 21 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2952 | 23 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2927 | 70 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2898 | 13 |
| 40 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2802 | 37 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2752 | 21 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2747 | 21 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2711 | 22 |
| 43 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2657 | 14 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2631 | 21 |
| 45 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2591 | 9 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2583 | 26 |
| 47 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 2576 | 8 |
| 48 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2556 | 3 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2547 | 21 |
| 50 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2542 | 13 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2452 | 19 |
| (51) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2416 | 4 |
| 52 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2394 | 23 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2356 | 22 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2343 | 30 |
| 55 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2324 | 8 |
| (55) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2321 | 7 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2268 | 25 |
| (56) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2243 | 7 |
| (56) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2238 | 7 |
| (56) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2180 | 16 |
| 57 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2040 | 11 |
| (57) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2031 | 26 |
| 58 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2003 | 8 |
| (58) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1973 | 16 |
| 59 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1951 | 19 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1944 | 14 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1903 | 10 |
| 62 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 1884 | 30 |
| 63 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1791 | 23 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1787 | 29 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1773 | 19 |
| (65) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1755 | 4 |
| (65) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1745 | 9 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1704 | 37 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1693 | 9 |
| 68 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1645 | 45 |
| (68) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1640 | 8 |
| 69 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1631 | 5 |
| 70 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1597 | 47 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1557 | 5 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1516 | 18 |
| (71) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1479 | 13 |
| (71) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1471 | 4 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1438 | 27 |
| 73 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1424 | 7 |
| (73) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1414 | 25 |
| 74 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1403 | 44 |
| 75 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1366 | 6 |
| (75) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1348 | 5 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1337 | 10 |
| 77 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1311 | 17 |
| (77) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1298 | 1 |
| (77) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1298 | 1 |
| 78 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1295 | 23 |
| 79 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1273 | 7 |
| (79) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1236 | 5 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1225 | 10 |
| (80) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1220 | 5 |
| 81 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1219 | 10 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1215 | 28 |
| 83 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1175 | 15 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1147 | 7 |
| 85 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1132 | 7 |
| 86 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1117 | 8 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1112 | 10 |
| (86) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1111 | 19 |
| (86) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1080 | 2 |
| 87 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1077 | 7 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1077 | 6 |
| (87) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1075 | 2 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1074 | 11 |
| 89 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1045 | 8 |
| (89) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1039 | 19 |
| 89 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1039 | 19 |
| 91 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1038 | 15 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1038 | 5 |
| (92) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1021 | 3 |
| 92 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1021 | 21 |
| 94 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1016 | 8 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1009 | 30 |
| 96 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 995 | 33 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 988 | 15 |
| 97 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 988 | 6 |
| 99 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 978 | 2 |
| (99) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 977 | 1 |
| 100 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 976 | 14 |
| 101 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 956 | 5 |
| 102 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 949 | 21 |
| 103 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 945 | 43 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 943 | 22 |
| 105 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 933 | 13 |
| 105 | Program in Institutions, Organization and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 933 | 7 |
| (106) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 923 | 16 |
| 107 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 918 | 54 |
| 107 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 918 | 4 |
| 109 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 898 | 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 | 893 | 12 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 891 | 15 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 881 | 15 |
| 112 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 875 | 34 |
| 113 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 864 | 37 |
| 114 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 815 | 7 |
| (114) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 802 | 6 |
| 114 | Institute of Economic Policy Research (IEPR), University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 802 | 2 |
| (115) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 801 | 9 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 801 | 11 |
| 115 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 801 | 10 |
| 118 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 767 | 11 |
| 119 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 761 | 16 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 745 | 7 |
| (120) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 745 | 7 |
| (120) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 741 | 1 |
| 121 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 738 | 2 |
| 122 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 735 | 3 |
| (122) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 725 | 33 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 719 | 15 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 719 | 19 |
| 125 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 716 | 13 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 713 | 10 |
| 127 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 706 | 18 |
| 128 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 700 | 22 |
| 129 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 691 | 11 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 685 | 12 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 672 | 14 |
| 132 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 667 | 30 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 664 | 12 |
| 134 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 662 | 16 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 662 | 15 |
| 134 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 662 | 3 |
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