| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 91370 | 241 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 30728 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 24990 | 252 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16893 | 28 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 15034 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11435 | 30 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10188 | 23 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10078 | 89 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9889 | 25 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 9819 | 31 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8379 | 25 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7668 | 123 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7569 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7202 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6637 | 31 |
| (15) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6551 | 35 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6529 | 26 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6467 | 36 |
| (17) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6357 | 15 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6355 | 28 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6217 | 28 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5963 | 29 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5954 | 17 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5941 | 26 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5249 | 59 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4923 | 14 |
| 24 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4907 | 86 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4736 | 18 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4650 | 21 |
| 27 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4546 | 11 |
| (27) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4277 | 13 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4258 | 81 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4175 | 24 |
| 30 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4082 | 12 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4066 | 23 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3945 | 16 |
| 33 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3838 | 28 |
| 34 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3819 | 25 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3670 | 59 |
| 36 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3539 | 14 |
| 37 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3512 | 14 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3445 | 33 |
| 39 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3335 | 39 |
| 40 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3334 | 23 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3294 | 19 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3259 | 22 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3176 | 23 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3156 | 21 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3151 | 23 |
| 45 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3067 | 3 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2949 | 26 |
| 47 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2929 | 10 |
| 48 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2927 | 16 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2858 | 22 |
| 50 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2761 | 29 |
| 51 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 2750 | 8 |
| (51) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2713 | 4 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2710 | 26 |
| 53 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2696 | 10 |
| (53) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2693 | 9 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2661 | 21 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2629 | 30 |
| (55) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2505 | 7 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2472 | 18 |
| (55) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2452 | 16 |
| (55) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2449 | 7 |
| 56 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2412 | 11 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2408 | 21 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2400 | 8 |
| 59 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2295 | 8 |
| 59 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2295 | 9 |
| (60) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2267 | 27 |
| 61 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2230 | 34 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2226 | 12 |
| 63 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2222 | 14 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2134 | 29 |
| (64) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2046 | 4 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2020 | 29 |
| 66 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1999 | 24 |
| 67 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1950 | 44 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1922 | 18 |
| (68) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1852 | 8 |
| 69 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1827 | 5 |
| 70 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1809 | 50 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1785 | 5 |
| (70) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1711 | 14 |
| 71 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1673 | 49 |
| (71) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1663 | 8 |
| 72 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1662 | 8 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1661 | 19 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1630 | 28 |
| (74) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1630 | 4 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1626 | 37 |
| (75) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1602 | 25 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1560 | 11 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1535 | 46 |
| (77) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1529 | 21 |
| (77) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1523 | 5 |
| 78 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1443 | 22 |
| (78) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1438 | 2 |
| (78) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1423 | 5 |
| (78) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1418 | 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) | 1418 | 1 |
| 79 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1394 | 8 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1379 | 29 |
| (80) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1371 | 5 |
| 81 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1368 | 87 |
| 82 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1364 | 10 |
| 83 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1349 | 17 |
| 84 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1342 | 14 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1339 | 22 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1316 | 6 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1314 | 8 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1304 | 9 |
| (87) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1287 | 12 |
| 88 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1254 | 22 |
| (88) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1252 | 2 |
| (88) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1244 | 2 |
| 89 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1237 | 34 |
| 90 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1236 | 7 |
| 91 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1229 | 6 |
| 92 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1227 | 8 |
| (92) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1204 | 21 |
| 92 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1204 | 21 |
| 94 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1193 | 7 |
| (94) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1193 | 6 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1187 | 5 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1180 | 13 |
| 97 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1178 | 15 |
| 97 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1178 | 8 |
| 99 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1166 | 10 |
| 100 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1140 | 6 |
| 101 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1134 | 16 |
| 102 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1131 | 36 |
| (102) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1123 | 3 |
| 103 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1117 | 35 |
| 104 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1102 | 2 |
| (104) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1098 | 3 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1078 | 22 |
| 106 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1073 | 37 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1054 | 15 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1037 | 16 |
| 109 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1032 | 4 |
| 110 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1030 | 59 |
| (110) | 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 | 1027 | 12 |
| (110) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1013 | 15 |
| 111 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1008 | 14 |
| 112 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1006 | 7 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 987 | 12 |
| 114 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 977 | 10 |
| 115 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 973 | 21 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 972 | 13 |
| 117 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 931 | 16 |
| 118 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 919 | 7 |
| 118 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 919 | 19 |
| (119) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 911 | 8 |
| 119 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 911 | 9 |
| 121 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 909 | 2 |
| 122 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 903 | 32 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 893 | 11 |
| (123) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 869 | 8 |
| 123 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 869 | 15 |
| 125 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 862 | 18 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 855 | 19 |
| 127 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 853 | 11 |
| 128 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 849 | 29 |
| 128 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 849 | 45 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 844 | 16 |
| 131 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 843 | 5 |
| 132 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 817 | 7 |
| (132) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 817 | 7 |
| (132) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 816 | 37 |
| (132) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 802 | 3 |
| 132 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 802 | 3 |
| (133) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 800 | 1 |
| 134 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 782 | 45 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 771 | 15 |
| 136 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 763 | 15 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 761 | 13 |
| 138 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 756 | 10 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 755 | 11 |
| 140 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 749 | 9 |
| 141 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 748 | 22 |
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