| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1658544 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 869162 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 788996 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 261086 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 253182 | 37 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 251784 | 88 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 223674 | 122 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 211128 | 85 |
| 9 | CESifo | München, Germany | 195503 | 57 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 187046 | 22 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 171027 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 164388 | 32 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 153518 | 24 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 138980 | 23 |
| 15 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 136465 | 11 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 134483 | 35 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 134049 | 26 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 129297 | 30 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 127629 | 28 |
| 18 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 123671 | 20 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 123438 | 60 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 123028 | 24 |
| (20) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 120004 | 13 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 115419 | 28 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 113187 | 29 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 112154 | 79 |
| 24 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 111720 | 33 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 111321 | 17 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 110803 | 36 |
| 27 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 108531 | 44 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 106931 | 26 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 105796 | 30 |
| (29) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 104288 | 15 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 102782 | 39 |
| 31 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 102321 | 44 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 102237 | 24 |
| 33 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 100425 | 13 |
| 34 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 98041 | 84 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 94665 | 21 |
| 36 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 91995 | 23 |
| (36) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 91426 | 22 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 90600 | 36 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 89516 | 20 |
| 39 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 89459 | 45 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 89148 | 18 |
| 41 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 87775 | 28 |
| 42 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 85738 | 49 |
| 43 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 85334 | 11 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 83546 | 28 |
| 45 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 82686 | 24 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 82443 | 26 |
| 47 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 81232 | 19 |
| (47) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 81082 | 21 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 80179 | 34 |
| 49 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 80143 | 33 |
| (49) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 80139 | 25 |
| (49) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 79906 | 13 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 77931 | 21 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 77818 | 22 |
| 52 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 76389 | 25 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 75207 | 15 |
| 54 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 74654 | 37 |
| 55 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 72279 | 14 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 71820 | 22 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 69374 | 21 |
| 58 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 68324 | 15 |
| 59 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 68053 | 48 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 67697 | 24 |
| (60) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 66010 | 9 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 65697 | 38 |
| (61) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 64510 | 27 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 62371 | 19 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 62063 | 23 |
| (63) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 60611 | 17 |
| 64 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 60432 | 9 |
| 65 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 59716 | 27 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 59489 | 29 |
| 67 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 59188 | 22 |
| 68 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 58790 | 22 |
| 69 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 58597 | 14 |
| 70 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 58428 | 30 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 57309 | 21 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 57165 | 11 |
| 73 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 56764 | 19 |
| (73) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 56228 | 16 |
| 74 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 55964 | 19 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 55713 | 27 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 55465 | 30 |
| 77 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 54977 | 34 |
| 78 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 54917 | 17 |
| 79 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 54648 | 24 |
| 80 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 53401 | 27 |
| 81 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 52935 | 56 |
| 82 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 50590 | 11 |
| 83 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 50054 | 15 |
| 84 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 49476 | 9 |
| (84) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 49300 | 4 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 49002 | 8 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 48757 | 11 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 48306 | 19 |
| 87 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 47435 | 17 |
| 88 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 47180 | 5 |
| 89 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 46870 | 17 |
| (89) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 46405 | 7 |
| (89) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 44750 | 14 |
| 90 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 44678 | 3 |
| 91 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 44554 | 8 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 44198 | 22 |
| 93 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 43839 | 22 |
| 94 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 43409 | 36 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 43083 | 15 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 43050 | 28 |
| 97 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 42773 | 31 |
| 98 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 42321 | 28 |
| 99 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 42272 | 26 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 41996 | 6 |
| 101 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 41787 | 15 |
| 102 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 41701 | 16 |
| 103 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 41060 | 5 |
| 104 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 40657 | 26 |
| 105 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 40156 | 10 |
| 106 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 39921 | 23 |
| 107 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 39531 | 23 |
| 108 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 38835 | 18 |
| 109 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 38715 | 35 |
| 110 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 38026 | 53 |
| 111 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 37877 | 34 |
| 112 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 37612 | 17 |
| 113 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 37463 | 22 |
| (113) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 37461 | 51 |
| 114 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 37443 | 30 |
| (114) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 37414 | 4 |
| 115 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 37078 | 9 |
| 116 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 36953 | 19 |
| (116) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 36917 | 34 |
| 117 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 36878 | 8 |
| (117) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 36710 | 7 |
| 118 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 36528 | 15 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 36490 | 11 |
| 120 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 36379 | 40 |
| 121 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 35909 | 14 |
| 122 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 35709 | 8 |
| (122) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 35684 | 13 |
| 123 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 35507 | 24 |
| 124 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 35194 | 21 |
| 125 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 35146 | 27 |
| 126 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 35096 | 22 |
| (126) | 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 | 35033 | 12 |
| 127 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 34926 | 45 |
| (127) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 34753 | 5 |
| 128 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 34748 | 15 |
| (128) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 34551 | 21 |
| 128 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 34551 | 21 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 34455 | 18 |
| 131 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 34339 | 27 |
| (131) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 34293 | 15 |
| 132 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 34009 | 25 |
| 133 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 33989 | 19 |
| 134 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 33923 | 22 |
| 135 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 33725 | 9 |
| (135) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 33250 | 4 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 32987 | 11 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 32904 | 15 |
| 138 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 32862 | 12 |
| 139 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 32735 | 20 |
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