| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 467030 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 239178 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 194459 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 79927 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 71586 | 37 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 71452 | 88 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 71083 | 122 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 69825 | 85 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 51148 | 22 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 50560 | 31 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 49149 | 24 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 47441 | 57 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 46521 | 32 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 42164 | 11 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 38725 | 29 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38263 | 24 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 38228 | 35 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 37644 | 26 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 37617 | 23 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 37022 | 30 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 36210 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 32880 | 28 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 32754 | 15 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 31438 | 36 |
| 22 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 30682 | 44 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 30094 | 79 |
| 24 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 29983 | 19 |
| (24) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 29162 | 21 |
| 25 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 28942 | 44 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 28884 | 17 |
| 27 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 28567 | 33 |
| 28 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 28094 | 60 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 27715 | 26 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 27712 | 30 |
| 31 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 27511 | 13 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 26976 | 24 |
| 33 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 26964 | 84 |
| 34 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 25808 | 11 |
| (34) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 25777 | 9 |
| 35 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25466 | 28 |
| 36 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 24936 | 23 |
| 37 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 24337 | 39 |
| 38 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 24285 | 24 |
| 39 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 24009 | 26 |
| 40 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 23761 | 20 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 23595 | 21 |
| 42 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 23378 | 48 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 23290 | 33 |
| 44 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 23172 | 15 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 23026 | 18 |
| 46 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 22929 | 20 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 22310 | 22 |
| (47) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 22094 | 13 |
| 48 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 21708 | 37 |
| (48) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 21690 | 22 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21444 | 28 |
| (49) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 21353 | 27 |
| 50 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 21184 | 45 |
| 51 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 21078 | 49 |
| (51) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 20886 | 13 |
| (51) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 20710 | 25 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 20454 | 21 |
| 53 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 20377 | 14 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 20042 | 21 |
| 55 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19862 | 14 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 19675 | 34 |
| 57 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 19436 | 56 |
| 58 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 19298 | 5 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 18512 | 11 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 18390 | 24 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 18371 | 15 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 17986 | 21 |
| 63 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 17910 | 9 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 17892 | 23 |
| 65 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17723 | 8 |
| (65) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 17315 | 17 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 17206 | 38 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 16602 | 29 |
| 68 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16538 | 15 |
| 69 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 16519 | 22 |
| 70 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 16338 | 30 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 16085 | 19 |
| 72 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 16073 | 15 |
| (72) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16033 | 4 |
| 73 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 15955 | 27 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 15506 | 22 |
| 75 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 15262 | 25 |
| 76 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 15026 | 34 |
| 77 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 14894 | 27 |
| (77) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 14056 | 34 |
| 78 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14036 | 3 |
| 79 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 13981 | 22 |
| (79) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13925 | 4 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 13797 | 30 |
| (80) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13756 | 16 |
| (80) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 13651 | 7 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 13589 | 19 |
| 82 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13493 | 11 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 13454 | 36 |
| 84 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 13286 | 19 |
| 85 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 12594 | 16 |
| 86 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12586 | 9 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12523 | 8 |
| 87 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 12522 | 5 |
| 88 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12267 | 10 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 12157 | 27 |
| 90 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 12140 | 17 |
| (90) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 11658 | 7 |
| 91 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 11649 | 17 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11639 | 11 |
| 93 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 11606 | 18 |
| 94 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 11493 | 22 |
| 95 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 11491 | 24 |
| (95) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11337 | 5 |
| 96 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 10991 | 14 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 10888 | 6 |
| 98 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 10877 | 35 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10875 | 15 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 10796 | 11 |
| 101 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 10762 | 30 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 10756 | 19 |
| 103 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10719 | 25 |
| 104 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10633 | 8 |
| 105 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 10583 | 23 |
| (105) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10554 | 14 |
| (105) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 10540 | 13 |
| 106 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 10390 | 8 |
| 107 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 10325 | 26 |
| 108 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 10208 | 21 |
| (108) | 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 | 10163 | 12 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 10146 | 27 |
| 110 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 10135 | 15 |
| 111 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 10102 | 19 |
| 112 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 10061 | 8 |
| 113 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 10005 | 10 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, New York (USA) | 9935 | 7 |
| (114) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9781 | 15 |
| 115 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9760 | 12 |
| 116 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 9740 | 22 |
| 117 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 9633 | 15 |
| 118 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 9571 | 22 |
| 119 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 9543 | 34 |
| 120 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 9530 | 23 |
| 121 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 9447 | 45 |
| (121) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9376 | 5 |
| 122 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 9188 | 24 |
| 123 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9180 | 14 |
| (123) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9116 | 5 |
| 124 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9031 | 5 |
| 125 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 9007 | 31 |
| 126 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 9002 | 9 |
| 127 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8987 | 7 |
| 128 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8982 | 22 |
| (128) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8974 | 6 |
| 129 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 8961 | 19 |
| 130 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 8942 | 53 |
| 131 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 8928 | 36 |
| (131) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8882 | 4 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8825 | 22 |
| 133 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 8792 | 36 |
| 134 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 8757 | 17 |
| (134) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 8742 | 51 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 8724 | 11 |
| 136 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 8679 | 24 |
| (136) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 8633 | 13 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 8584 | 15 |
| (137) | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 8580 | 10 |
| 138 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 8566 | 7 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 8542 | 16 |
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