| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 470902 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 239030 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 189516 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 79640 | 28 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 75116 | 84 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 71368 | 121 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 71142 | 37 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 70538 | 87 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 56469 | 31 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 49174 | 21 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 48080 | 24 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 47198 | 56 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 46581 | 32 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 41518 | 11 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 38510 | 29 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 38182 | 35 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 37876 | 24 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 37456 | 26 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 37206 | 23 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 36877 | 30 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35414 | 27 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 32872 | 28 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 32443 | 15 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 31281 | 36 |
| 22 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 30825 | 44 |
| 23 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 29746 | 19 |
| (23) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 28954 | 21 |
| 24 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 28886 | 44 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 28820 | 17 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 28697 | 78 |
| 27 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 28221 | 59 |
| 28 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 28180 | 33 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 27560 | 26 |
| 30 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 27504 | 13 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 27243 | 30 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27203 | 24 |
| 33 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 25945 | 86 |
| (33) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 25681 | 9 |
| 34 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 25651 | 11 |
| 35 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25327 | 28 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 25257 | 19 |
| 37 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 25071 | 23 |
| 38 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 24119 | 24 |
| 39 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 24091 | 26 |
| 40 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 23714 | 20 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 23472 | 38 |
| 42 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 23285 | 21 |
| 43 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 23216 | 20 |
| 44 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 23149 | 33 |
| 45 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 22649 | 48 |
| 46 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 22610 | 15 |
| (46) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 22372 | 13 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 22050 | 22 |
| 48 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 21939 | 37 |
| (48) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 21321 | 27 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21179 | 28 |
| 50 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 21141 | 49 |
| 51 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 20957 | 46 |
| (51) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 20866 | 13 |
| (51) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 20745 | 21 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 20519 | 21 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 20440 | 25 |
| 53 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 20197 | 14 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 20149 | 34 |
| 55 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19778 | 14 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 19636 | 22 |
| 57 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 19314 | 56 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 18481 | 15 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 18222 | 21 |
| 60 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 17834 | 9 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 17792 | 22 |
| 62 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17772 | 8 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 17168 | 38 |
| (63) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 17088 | 17 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 16499 | 20 |
| 65 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 16474 | 22 |
| 66 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 16466 | 30 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 16387 | 29 |
| 68 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16332 | 15 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 16100 | 10 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 16021 | 19 |
| (70) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15988 | 4 |
| 71 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 15767 | 15 |
| 72 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 15766 | 27 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 15393 | 22 |
| 74 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 15251 | 25 |
| 75 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 15071 | 27 |
| 76 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 14892 | 34 |
| (76) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 14015 | 34 |
| 77 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 13985 | 22 |
| 78 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13913 | 3 |
| (78) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13872 | 4 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 13825 | 30 |
| 80 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 13811 | 4 |
| (80) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13791 | 16 |
| 81 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13575 | 11 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 13547 | 19 |
| (82) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 13538 | 7 |
| 83 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 13249 | 19 |
| 84 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12718 | 9 |
| 85 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 12691 | 6 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12655 | 8 |
| 86 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 12170 | 17 |
| 87 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 12153 | 17 |
| 88 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 12127 | 15 |
| (88) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12092 | 3 |
| 89 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11996 | 10 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11711 | 11 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 11633 | 26 |
| (91) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 11619 | 7 |
| 92 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 11342 | 22 |
| 93 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 11235 | 21 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 11140 | 29 |
| (94) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11066 | 5 |
| 95 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 11026 | 17 |
| 96 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 10994 | 14 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 10960 | 11 |
| 98 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 10927 | 35 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10927 | 15 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10799 | 6 |
| (100) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10674 | 14 |
| 101 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10651 | 25 |
| 102 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 10600 | 23 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 10542 | 19 |
| 104 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 10539 | 30 |
| (104) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 10512 | 13 |
| 105 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 10307 | 8 |
| 106 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 10283 | 26 |
| 107 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 10200 | 20 |
| 108 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 10162 | 15 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 10126 | 27 |
| 110 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 10055 | 8 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, New York (USA) | 10053 | 7 |
| (111) | 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 | 10041 | 12 |
| 112 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 10020 | 10 |
| 113 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 9940 | 21 |
| 114 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9931 | 12 |
| 115 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 9718 | 15 |
| 116 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 9717 | 21 |
| 117 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9703 | 7 |
| (117) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9660 | 15 |
| 118 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 9422 | 34 |
| 119 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 9405 | 22 |
| 120 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 9316 | 45 |
| 121 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 9261 | 24 |
| 122 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9189 | 14 |
| (122) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9171 | 5 |
| (122) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9099 | 5 |
| 123 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 9080 | 19 |
| 124 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 9070 | 9 |
| 125 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9042 | 7 |
| (125) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9030 | 6 |
| 126 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 9019 | 21 |
| (126) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 9015 | 10 |
| 127 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 8992 | 36 |
| 128 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8901 | 22 |
| (128) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8842 | 4 |
| 129 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8824 | 5 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8792 | 22 |
| 131 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 8773 | 17 |
| 132 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 8766 | 35 |
| (132) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 8635 | 13 |
| 133 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 8613 | 31 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8604 | 11 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 8545 | 14 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 8474 | 15 |
| 137 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8393 | 4 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 8345 | 15 |
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