| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1591319 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 826549 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 724435 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 250257 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 240061 | 37 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 231355 | 85 |
| 7 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 209923 | 84 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 207315 | 116 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 184286 | 31 |
| 10 | CESifo | München, Germany | 180453 | 55 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 173598 | 21 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 162617 | 32 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 139102 | 22 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 132124 | 23 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 129698 | 27 |
| 16 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 127695 | 11 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 125072 | 30 |
| (17) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 122188 | 35 |
| 18 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 120172 | 20 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 119156 | 26 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 117034 | 59 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 116859 | 24 |
| (20) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 116628 | 13 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 111582 | 29 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 106450 | 17 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 106334 | 28 |
| 24 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 104315 | 33 |
| 25 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 103382 | 45 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 101197 | 26 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 101123 | 31 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 100502 | 34 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 99655 | 76 |
| (29) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 99193 | 15 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 96210 | 37 |
| 31 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 94350 | 13 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 90808 | 19 |
| 33 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 88795 | 23 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 86913 | 21 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 85213 | 21 |
| 35 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 84713 | 27 |
| 36 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 84036 | 41 |
| 37 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 83411 | 46 |
| 38 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 81619 | 11 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 81590 | 19 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 80643 | 27 |
| 41 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 80103 | 26 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 80043 | 23 |
| 43 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 78079 | 48 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 77584 | 34 |
| 45 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 77557 | 25 |
| (45) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 77142 | 25 |
| (45) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 76971 | 13 |
| 46 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 75459 | 19 |
| (46) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 75259 | 21 |
| 47 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 73815 | 25 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 73664 | 22 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 72252 | 15 |
| 50 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 69942 | 32 |
| 51 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 68698 | 14 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 67746 | 21 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 66751 | 22 |
| 54 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 66415 | 70 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 66087 | 21 |
| 56 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 62429 | 15 |
| (56) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 62137 | 9 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 61978 | 28 |
| 58 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 61562 | 45 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 61358 | 21 |
| 60 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 60668 | 36 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 60586 | 37 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 59780 | 21 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 59562 | 19 |
| (63) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 58482 | 26 |
| 64 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 57187 | 22 |
| 65 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 56682 | 9 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 55983 | 21 |
| 67 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 55917 | 22 |
| 68 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 55828 | 30 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 55111 | 29 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 54532 | 19 |
| 71 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 54412 | 19 |
| (71) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 53676 | 16 |
| 72 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 53633 | 27 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 53246 | 28 |
| 74 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 53201 | 17 |
| 75 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 52368 | 13 |
| (75) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 51765 | 16 |
| 76 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 51595 | 34 |
| 77 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 50506 | 54 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 50125 | 25 |
| 79 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 49665 | 25 |
| 80 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 48958 | 9 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 48577 | 10 |
| (81) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 48474 | 8 |
| (81) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 48434 | 4 |
| 82 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 47400 | 15 |
| 83 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 47393 | 11 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 46463 | 10 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 45080 | 19 |
| 86 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 44831 | 17 |
| (86) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 44283 | 7 |
| 87 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 43546 | 8 |
| (87) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 43441 | 13 |
| 88 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 43261 | 20 |
| 89 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 43144 | 16 |
| 90 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 43116 | 3 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 41665 | 22 |
| 92 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 41592 | 22 |
| 93 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 41403 | 28 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 39843 | 14 |
| 95 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 39505 | 25 |
| 96 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 39433 | 26 |
| 97 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 39372 | 35 |
| 98 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 39298 | 15 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 39256 | 6 |
| 100 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 38973 | 6 |
| 101 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 38226 | 10 |
| 102 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 38200 | 14 |
| 103 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 37490 | 23 |
| 104 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 36818 | 17 |
| 105 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 36732 | 35 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 36514 | 31 |
| (106) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36021 | 4 |
| (106) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 35878 | 7 |
| 107 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 35641 | 9 |
| (107) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 35628 | 33 |
| 108 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 35285 | 27 |
| 109 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 35179 | 10 |
| 110 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 35099 | 19 |
| 111 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 35084 | 8 |
| 112 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 34893 | 15 |
| 113 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 34694 | 14 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 34534 | 21 |
| 115 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 34289 | 25 |
| (115) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 34174 | 12 |
| (115) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 33330 | 5 |
| (115) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 33302 | 5 |
| (115) | 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 | 32978 | 12 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 32849 | 18 |
| 117 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 32712 | 27 |
| 118 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 32707 | 12 |
| 119 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 32631 | 9 |
| 120 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 32610 | 20 |
| 121 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 32516 | 49 |
| 122 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 32475 | 21 |
| 123 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 32320 | 20 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 32243 | 12 |
| (124) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 32144 | 15 |
| 125 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 31769 | 43 |
| 126 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 31764 | 21 |
| 127 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 31739 | 20 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 31608 | 14 |
| 129 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 31520 | 7 |
| 130 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 31267 | 18 |
| 131 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 31230 | 27 |
| (131) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 31224 | 19 |
| 131 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 31224 | 19 |
| 133 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 30798 | 14 |
| 134 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 30772 | 10 |
| 135 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 30594 | 13 |
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