| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 89650 | 238 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 30337 | 197 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 23199 | 239 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16974 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14797 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11250 | 32 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9783 | 87 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9710 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9530 | 21 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9497 | 24 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8392 | 121 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8196 | 23 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7539 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7147 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6543 | 30 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6455 | 26 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6452 | 35 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6398 | 36 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6329 | 15 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6275 | 29 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6114 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5913 | 26 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5894 | 17 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5765 | 27 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 4938 | 56 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4898 | 15 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4876 | 19 |
| 25 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4465 | 11 |
| 26 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4442 | 84 |
| (26) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4201 | 13 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4159 | 24 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4071 | 78 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4019 | 13 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3996 | 20 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3834 | 15 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3797 | 28 |
| 33 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3676 | 24 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3672 | 21 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3626 | 21 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3618 | 59 |
| 37 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3569 | 14 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3498 | 14 |
| 39 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3403 | 33 |
| 40 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3358 | 22 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3205 | 38 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3186 | 22 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3143 | 22 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3132 | 21 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3115 | 22 |
| 45 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2984 | 3 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2946 | 9 |
| 47 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2908 | 26 |
| 48 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2893 | 15 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2855 | 21 |
| 50 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | | 2772 | 8 |
| (50) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2737 | 4 |
| 51 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2701 | 27 |
| 52 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2682 | 9 |
| (52) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2679 | 8 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2661 | 22 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2595 | 30 |
| (54) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2508 | 7 |
| (54) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2503 | 27 |
| (54) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2467 | 7 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2446 | 17 |
| (54) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2425 | 16 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2405 | 20 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2359 | 10 |
| 57 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2248 | 8 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2235 | 15 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2198 | 11 |
| 60 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2159 | 19 |
| 61 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2153 | 33 |
| 62 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2088 | 7 |
| (62) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2078 | 4 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2018 | 26 |
| 64 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1997 | 23 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1995 | 19 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1994 | 29 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1985 | 9 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1980 | 38 |
| (68) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1923 | 9 |
| 69 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1912 | 44 |
| (69) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1874 | 9 |
| 70 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1818 | 5 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1773 | 5 |
| 71 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1754 | 49 |
| (71) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1685 | 14 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1650 | 19 |
| (72) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1648 | 4 |
| 73 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1600 | 7 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1590 | 28 |
| 75 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1564 | 48 |
| (75) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1563 | 25 |
| (75) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1553 | 21 |
| 76 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1491 | 46 |
| (76) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1490 | 5 |
| (76) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1427 | 2 |
| 77 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1414 | 22 |
| 78 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1404 | 7 |
| (78) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1399 | 5 |
| (78) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1398 | 1 |
| (78) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1398 | 1 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1369 | 30 |
| (79) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1365 | 5 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1360 | 10 |
| 81 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1354 | 10 |
| 82 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1341 | 17 |
| 83 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1325 | 14 |
| 84 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1282 | 86 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1277 | 8 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1275 | 6 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1254 | 9 |
| 87 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1253 | 7 |
| (87) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1250 | 11 |
| (87) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1235 | 2 |
| 88 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1213 | 8 |
| (88) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1206 | 2 |
| 89 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1191 | 31 |
| 90 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1190 | 7 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1190 | 6 |
| (90) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1180 | 21 |
| 90 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1180 | 21 |
| 92 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1166 | 8 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1165 | 5 |
| 94 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1164 | 11 |
| 94 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1164 | 22 |
| 96 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1158 | 15 |
| 97 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1156 | 10 |
| (97) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1140 | 3 |
| 98 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1134 | 15 |
| 98 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1134 | 6 |
| 100 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1128 | 34 |
| 101 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1120 | 2 |
| 102 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1103 | 5 |
| 103 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1070 | 15 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1055 | 15 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1049 | 22 |
| 106 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1045 | 37 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1045 | 22 |
| 108 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1044 | 35 |
| 109 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1024 | 4 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1014 | 15 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1010 | 15 |
| (111) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1003 | 15 |
| 112 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 999 | 56 |
| 112 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 999 | 14 |
| (113) | 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 | 974 | 12 |
| 114 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 963 | 9 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 949 | 11 |
| 116 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 940 | 17 |
| (116) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 916 | 9 |
| 116 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 916 | 10 |
| 118 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 901 | 2 |
| 119 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 899 | 7 |
| 120 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 895 | 19 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 888 | 11 |
| 122 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 878 | 30 |
| 123 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 854 | 11 |
| 124 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 853 | 15 |
| (124) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 852 | 6 |
| 125 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 848 | 17 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 845 | 44 |
| 127 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 837 | 16 |
| 128 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 825 | 30 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 824 | 19 |
| 130 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 820 | 7 |
| (130) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 820 | 7 |
| (130) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 802 | 3 |
| (130) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 799 | 1 |
| 131 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 796 | 11 |
| 132 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 793 | 3 |
| (132) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 792 | 34 |
| 133 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 776 | 45 |
| 134 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 773 | 10 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 764 | 11 |
| 136 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 762 | 15 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 760 | 13 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 752 | 14 |
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