| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 80586 | 233 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 27729 | 195 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 21115 | 233 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15578 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 13411 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10657 | 32 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9049 | 85 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 8865 | 31 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8615 | 22 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8420 | 21 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7518 | 116 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7451 | 23 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6745 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6385 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6016 | 31 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5982 | 27 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5945 | 35 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5669 | 34 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 5667 | 29 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5632 | 15 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 5626 | 28 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5343 | 26 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5319 | 26 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5301 | 17 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4538 | 55 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4452 | 19 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4407 | 15 |
| 25 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4179 | 84 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4083 | 11 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3791 | 76 |
| (27) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3772 | 13 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3610 | 13 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3466 | 19 |
| 30 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3460 | 25 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3436 | 15 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3410 | 27 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3297 | 21 |
| 34 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3282 | 59 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3256 | 21 |
| 36 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3163 | 14 |
| 37 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3134 | 33 |
| 38 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3071 | 22 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3042 | 23 |
| 40 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2880 | 37 |
| (40) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 2828 | 21 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2793 | 21 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 2759 | 22 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2741 | 21 |
| 44 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2688 | 15 |
| 45 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2671 | 26 |
| 46 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2638 | 3 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2628 | 21 |
| 48 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2622 | 13 |
| 49 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 2603 | 8 |
| 50 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2599 | 9 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2563 | 21 |
| 52 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2535 | 25 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2465 | 22 |
| (53) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2447 | 4 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2387 | 30 |
| 55 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2357 | 9 |
| (55) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2354 | 8 |
| (55) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2292 | 7 |
| (55) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2254 | 7 |
| (55) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2230 | 16 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2107 | 16 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2094 | 10 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2086 | 26 |
| 57 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2073 | 8 |
| 58 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2031 | 32 |
| 59 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2009 | 19 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1998 | 14 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 1981 | 10 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1909 | 25 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1859 | 19 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1858 | 29 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1829 | 23 |
| (65) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1815 | 4 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1799 | 37 |
| (66) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1798 | 9 |
| 67 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1771 | 45 |
| 68 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1769 | 9 |
| (68) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1683 | 8 |
| 69 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1663 | 5 |
| 70 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1645 | 48 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1598 | 5 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1562 | 19 |
| (71) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1523 | 13 |
| (71) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1484 | 5 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1482 | 27 |
| 73 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1481 | 7 |
| (73) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1477 | 21 |
| (73) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1457 | 25 |
| 74 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1453 | 45 |
| 75 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1410 | 7 |
| (75) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1382 | 5 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1376 | 10 |
| 77 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1351 | 18 |
| 78 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1327 | 7 |
| 79 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1319 | 22 |
| (79) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1316 | 5 |
| 80 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1307 | 46 |
| (80) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1298 | 1 |
| (80) | 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 |
| (80) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1284 | 2 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1255 | 10 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1251 | 6 |
| (82) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1249 | 5 |
| 83 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1245 | 10 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1230 | 28 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1193 | 7 |
| 86 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1173 | 16 |
| (86) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1172 | 10 |
| 86 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1172 | 11 |
| 88 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1151 | 7 |
| 89 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1150 | 8 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1143 | 9 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1131 | 11 |
| 91 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1128 | 10 |
| (91) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1114 | 2 |
| (91) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1092 | 2 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1076 | 5 |
| 93 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1070 | 7 |
| (93) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1070 | 6 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1069 | 31 |
| (94) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1067 | 19 |
| 94 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1067 | 19 |
| 96 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1061 | 34 |
| 97 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1058 | 8 |
| 98 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1056 | 15 |
| 99 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1052 | 6 |
| 100 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1047 | 22 |
| (100) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1038 | 3 |
| 101 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1009 | 13 |
| 102 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 998 | 5 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 991 | 15 |
| 104 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 990 | 14 |
| 105 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 978 | 2 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 977 | 21 |
| 107 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 970 | 4 |
| 108 | Program in Institutions, Organizations and Growth, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | Toronto, Canada | 958 | 7 |
| (108) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 954 | 15 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 951 | 22 |
| (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 | 949 | 12 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 933 | 15 |
| 111 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 928 | 54 |
| 112 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 925 | 14 |
| 113 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 907 | 35 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 907 | 15 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 884 | 11 |
| 116 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 872 | 36 |
| (116) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 852 | 6 |
| 117 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 828 | 7 |
| (117) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 817 | 9 |
| 117 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 817 | 10 |
| 119 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 803 | 19 |
| 120 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 800 | 11 |
| (120) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 799 | 1 |
| (120) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 779 | 3 |
| 121 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 775 | 3 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 773 | 19 |
| 123 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 768 | 27 |
| 124 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 765 | 2 |
| 125 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 764 | 7 |
| (125) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 764 | 7 |
| 126 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 762 | 17 |
| 127 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 755 | 13 |
| 128 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 736 | 10 |
| 128 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 736 | 41 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 733 | 16 |
| (130) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 731 | 33 |
| 131 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 713 | 15 |
| 132 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 708 | 11 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 695 | 15 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 690 | 12 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 687 | 12 |
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