| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1644842 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 844422 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 752184 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 256383 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 246474 | 37 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 242797 | 87 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 217532 | 121 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 216717 | 84 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 189270 | 31 |
| 10 | CESifo | München, Germany | 187515 | 56 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 177405 | 21 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 161283 | 32 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 148524 | 24 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 134618 | 23 |
| 15 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 132780 | 11 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 131474 | 26 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 130922 | 35 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 126752 | 30 |
| 18 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 122418 | 20 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 122348 | 27 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 120153 | 59 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 119756 | 24 |
| (20) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 118815 | 13 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 112937 | 28 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 110816 | 29 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 109072 | 17 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 107738 | 36 |
| 25 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 107703 | 33 |
| 26 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 105772 | 44 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 104283 | 26 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 103585 | 78 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 102856 | 30 |
| (29) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 101716 | 15 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 99660 | 24 |
| 31 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 99610 | 44 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 98039 | 38 |
| 33 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 96326 | 13 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 93432 | 19 |
| 35 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 91761 | 86 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 90339 | 21 |
| 37 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 89923 | 23 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 86965 | 20 |
| (38) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 86720 | 21 |
| 39 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 86302 | 46 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 85828 | 28 |
| 41 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 83477 | 11 |
| 42 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 82875 | 49 |
| 43 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 80738 | 26 |
| 44 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 79648 | 24 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 79445 | 34 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 78834 | 28 |
| 47 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 78642 | 19 |
| (47) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 78529 | 13 |
| (47) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 78482 | 21 |
| 48 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 77571 | 33 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 75570 | 22 |
| (49) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 75411 | 25 |
| 50 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 75125 | 25 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 74890 | 22 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 73254 | 15 |
| 53 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 73114 | 37 |
| 54 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 70217 | 14 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 69290 | 22 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 67791 | 29 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 67701 | 21 |
| 58 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 66002 | 15 |
| 59 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 64647 | 48 |
| (59) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 64293 | 9 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 64208 | 38 |
| (60) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 62279 | 27 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 60845 | 19 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 60828 | 22 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 59067 | 20 |
| 64 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 58753 | 9 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 58344 | 17 |
| 65 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 57827 | 22 |
| 66 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 57405 | 14 |
| 67 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 57402 | 27 |
| 68 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 57395 | 30 |
| 69 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 57039 | 22 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 56995 | 29 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 56542 | 21 |
| 72 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 55774 | 19 |
| (72) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 54724 | 16 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 54578 | 19 |
| 74 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 54223 | 17 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 53823 | 30 |
| 76 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 53157 | 34 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 52114 | 26 |
| 78 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 51890 | 56 |
| 79 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 51372 | 27 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 49690 | 10 |
| 81 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 48996 | 9 |
| 82 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 48613 | 11 |
| (82) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 48580 | 4 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 48530 | 8 |
| 83 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 48416 | 15 |
| 84 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 48355 | 21 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 47706 | 11 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 46355 | 19 |
| 87 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 45999 | 17 |
| 88 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 45411 | 17 |
| (88) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 45102 | 7 |
| (88) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 44129 | 14 |
| 89 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 44077 | 8 |
| 90 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 43963 | 3 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 42845 | 22 |
| 92 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 42227 | 22 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 42060 | 15 |
| 94 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 41137 | 6 |
| 95 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 40874 | 35 |
| 96 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 40642 | 26 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 40608 | 6 |
| 98 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 40351 | 28 |
| 99 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 40189 | 15 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 40141 | 27 |
| 101 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 39826 | 26 |
| 102 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 39309 | 15 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 39281 | 31 |
| 104 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 38795 | 23 |
| 105 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 38780 | 10 |
| 106 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 37758 | 35 |
| 107 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 37025 | 17 |
| (107) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36675 | 4 |
| (107) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 36460 | 34 |
| 108 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 36236 | 9 |
| (108) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 36126 | 7 |
| 109 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 36007 | 21 |
| 110 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 35935 | 34 |
| 111 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 35884 | 19 |
| 112 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 35717 | 17 |
| 113 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 35706 | 21 |
| 114 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 35620 | 8 |
| 115 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 35432 | 15 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 35342 | 11 |
| 117 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 35137 | 30 |
| 118 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 35095 | 14 |
| (118) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 35016 | 13 |
| 119 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 34563 | 53 |
| 120 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 34095 | 27 |
| 121 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 33980 | 39 |
| 122 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 33970 | 15 |
| (122) | 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 | 33805 | 12 |
| 123 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 33802 | 22 |
| (123) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 33776 | 5 |
| (123) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 33663 | 21 |
| 123 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 33663 | 21 |
| 125 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 33655 | 45 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 33607 | 18 |
| 127 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 33419 | 4 |
| 128 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 33389 | 9 |
| 129 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 33384 | 27 |
| 130 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 33235 | 21 |
| 131 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 33225 | 20 |
| 132 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 33137 | 25 |
| (132) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 33018 | 15 |
| 133 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 32823 | 22 |
| 134 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 32711 | 21 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 32656 | 11 |
| 136 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 32562 | 12 |
| 137 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 32531 | 7 |
| (137) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 32484 | 4 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 32282 | 14 |
| (138) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 31523 | 9 |
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