| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 89331 | 239 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 30342 | 200 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 24258 | 241 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16940 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 14713 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11275 | 32 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10110 | 22 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9809 | 88 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9671 | 31 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9431 | 24 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8606 | 122 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8201 | 23 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7531 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7136 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6520 | 30 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6446 | 26 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6411 | 35 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6361 | 36 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6315 | 15 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6237 | 29 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6102 | 28 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5907 | 26 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5897 | 17 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5799 | 28 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5065 | 57 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4828 | 15 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4711 | 18 |
| 25 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4496 | 85 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4478 | 11 |
| (26) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4218 | 13 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4182 | 79 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4131 | 24 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4020 | 13 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 3980 | 20 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3819 | 15 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3787 | 28 |
| 33 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3710 | 24 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3669 | 21 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3631 | 21 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3620 | 60 |
| 37 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3520 | 14 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3453 | 14 |
| 39 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3360 | 33 |
| 40 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3329 | 22 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3291 | 39 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3217 | 22 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3177 | 23 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3131 | 22 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3112 | 22 |
| 45 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3024 | 3 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2949 | 9 |
| 47 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2927 | 26 |
| 48 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2894 | 15 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2844 | 21 |
| (49) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2727 | 4 |
| 50 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 2715 | 8 |
| 51 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2706 | 27 |
| 52 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2657 | 9 |
| (52) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2654 | 8 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2627 | 21 |
| (53) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2587 | 27 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2567 | 30 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2554 | 24 |
| (55) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2475 | 7 |
| (55) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2456 | 7 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2442 | 17 |
| (55) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2388 | 16 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2377 | 10 |
| 57 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2222 | 8 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2196 | 11 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2194 | 15 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2180 | 33 |
| 61 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2137 | 19 |
| 62 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2075 | 7 |
| (62) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2038 | 4 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2021 | 27 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1993 | 19 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1977 | 29 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1969 | 38 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1962 | 9 |
| 68 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1949 | 23 |
| 69 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1908 | 44 |
| (69) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1904 | 9 |
| (69) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1836 | 9 |
| 70 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1806 | 5 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1786 | 5 |
| 71 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1739 | 49 |
| 72 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1702 | 8 |
| (72) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1669 | 14 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1656 | 19 |
| (73) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1634 | 4 |
| 74 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1628 | 48 |
| (74) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1602 | 21 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1572 | 28 |
| (75) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1548 | 25 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1536 | 11 |
| (76) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1495 | 5 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1441 | 45 |
| (77) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1422 | 2 |
| (77) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1405 | 1 |
| 77 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1405 | 22 |
| (77) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1405 | 1 |
| (78) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1394 | 5 |
| 79 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1381 | 7 |
| (79) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1372 | 5 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1360 | 30 |
| 81 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1342 | 10 |
| 82 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1334 | 17 |
| 83 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1313 | 14 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1287 | 9 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1279 | 6 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1275 | 8 |
| (85) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1258 | 12 |
| 86 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1233 | 84 |
| 87 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1231 | 7 |
| (87) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1225 | 2 |
| (87) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1210 | 2 |
| 88 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1209 | 8 |
| 89 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1207 | 6 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1183 | 31 |
| 91 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1180 | 8 |
| 91 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1180 | 7 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1180 | 6 |
| (92) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1171 | 21 |
| 92 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1171 | 21 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1162 | 5 |
| 95 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1159 | 15 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1158 | 11 |
| 96 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1158 | 22 |
| 98 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1153 | 10 |
| 99 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1123 | 16 |
| (99) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1119 | 3 |
| 100 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1117 | 6 |
| 101 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1107 | 2 |
| 102 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1096 | 34 |
| 103 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1067 | 36 |
| 104 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1065 | 15 |
| 105 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1061 | 37 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1059 | 22 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1044 | 22 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1034 | 15 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1024 | 15 |
| 110 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1023 | 4 |
| 111 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1017 | 56 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1002 | 15 |
| (112) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 994 | 15 |
| 113 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 989 | 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 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 969 | 18 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 962 | 11 |
| 116 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 955 | 9 |
| 117 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 926 | 19 |
| 118 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 913 | 7 |
| (118) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 896 | 9 |
| 118 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 896 | 10 |
| 120 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 886 | 2 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 882 | 11 |
| 122 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 877 | 30 |
| 123 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 854 | 18 |
| (123) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 847 | 6 |
| 124 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 845 | 15 |
| 125 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 840 | 5 |
| 125 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 840 | 11 |
| 127 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 836 | 30 |
| 128 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 833 | 44 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 830 | 11 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 828 | 16 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 820 | 19 |
| (131) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 809 | 3 |
| (131) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 809 | 34 |
| 132 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 808 | 7 |
| (132) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 808 | 7 |
| 133 | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 804 | 10 |
| 134 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 802 | 3 |
| (134) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 795 | 1 |
| 135 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 775 | 45 |
| 136 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 763 | 10 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 756 | 15 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 753 | 15 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 751 | 13 |
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