| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 94852 | 246 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 32025 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 25787 | 256 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17335 | 29 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 15630 | 37 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11877 | 30 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10465 | 23 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10409 | 90 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10041 | 25 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 10031 | 31 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8666 | 25 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8461 | 127 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7793 | 24 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7440 | 11 |
| (14) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6808 | 35 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6802 | 32 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6783 | 27 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6685 | 37 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6680 | 28 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6553 | 15 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6469 | 29 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6165 | 29 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6165 | 25 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5968 | 17 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5506 | 61 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5433 | 15 |
| 24 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5332 | 89 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4924 | 17 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4860 | 21 |
| 27 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4725 | 11 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4676 | 26 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4477 | 81 |
| (29) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4200 | 13 |
| 30 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4195 | 12 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4163 | 24 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4048 | 16 |
| 33 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4039 | 28 |
| 34 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4003 | 26 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 3798 | 58 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3692 | 20 |
| 37 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3639 | 15 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3615 | 14 |
| 39 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3466 | 39 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3463 | 32 |
| 41 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3407 | 23 |
| (41) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3388 | 22 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3314 | 23 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3253 | 22 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3228 | 21 |
| 45 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3204 | 3 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3129 | 26 |
| 47 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3051 | 15 |
| 48 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3045 | 10 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2970 | 22 |
| 50 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 2907 | 8 |
| 51 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2875 | 29 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2845 | 27 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2759 | 21 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2744 | 30 |
| (54) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2725 | 4 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2575 | 18 |
| (54) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2552 | 7 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2548 | 14 |
| 56 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2541 | 10 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2539 | 22 |
| (57) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2538 | 9 |
| (57) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2532 | 16 |
| (57) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2503 | 7 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2487 | 8 |
| (58) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2445 | 28 |
| 59 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2432 | 11 |
| 60 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2377 | 9 |
| 61 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2332 | 34 |
| 62 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2291 | 9 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2260 | 12 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2199 | 29 |
| 65 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2153 | 45 |
| (65) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2145 | 8 |
| (65) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2110 | 4 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2107 | 30 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2094 | 24 |
| 68 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1935 | 51 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1893 | 17 |
| (69) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1864 | 5 |
| 70 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1861 | 5 |
| (70) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1826 | 14 |
| 71 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1813 | 50 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1785 | 38 |
| (72) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1770 | 22 |
| (72) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1707 | 4 |
| 73 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1706 | 8 |
| 74 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1698 | 18 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1643 | 28 |
| (75) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1632 | 7 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1615 | 11 |
| (76) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1613 | 25 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1597 | 46 |
| (77) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1549 | 5 |
| 78 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1487 | 22 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1480 | 21 |
| (79) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1463 | 1 |
| (79) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1463 | 1 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1456 | 30 |
| 81 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1453 | 8 |
| (81) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1447 | 5 |
| (81) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1446 | 2 |
| 82 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1434 | 14 |
| 83 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1432 | 88 |
| 84 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1403 | 17 |
| (84) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1393 | 5 |
| 85 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1390 | 10 |
| (85) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1379 | 12 |
| 86 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1371 | 9 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1371 | 8 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1364 | 6 |
| (88) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1347 | 9 |
| 89 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1315 | 6 |
| 90 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1296 | 22 |
| 91 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1288 | 7 |
| (91) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1287 | 2 |
| 92 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1285 | 33 |
| (92) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1278 | 2 |
| (92) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1257 | 22 |
| 92 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1257 | 22 |
| 94 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1244 | 8 |
| 95 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1241 | 7 |
| (95) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1241 | 6 |
| 96 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1234 | 15 |
| 97 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1220 | 8 |
| 98 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1205 | 37 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1202 | 5 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1193 | 13 |
| 101 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1178 | 11 |
| 102 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1174 | 6 |
| 103 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1166 | 36 |
| 104 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1164 | 16 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1160 | 15 |
| (105) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1158 | 3 |
| (105) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1155 | 3 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1125 | 23 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1125 | 14 |
| 108 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1094 | 2 |
| 109 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1093 | 37 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1083 | 16 |
| (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 | 1068 | 12 |
| 111 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1062 | 59 |
| 112 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1058 | 14 |
| 113 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1055 | 4 |
| 114 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1034 | 16 |
| (114) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1033 | 15 |
| 115 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1025 | 22 |
| 116 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1014 | 19 |
| 117 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1013 | 11 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1000 | 12 |
| 119 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 990 | 33 |
| 120 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 943 | 7 |
| 121 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 939 | 22 |
| 122 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 923 | 2 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 917 | 11 |
| (123) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 898 | 8 |
| 123 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 898 | 9 |
| 125 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 897 | 29 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 895 | 19 |
| (126) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 891 | 8 |
| 127 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 878 | 15 |
| 128 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 875 | 5 |
| 128 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 875 | 11 |
| 130 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 873 | 45 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 865 | 16 |
| 132 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 848 | 7 |
| (132) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 848 | 7 |
| 133 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 839 | 3 |
| (133) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 837 | 37 |
| (133) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 836 | 3 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 818 | 13 |
| 135 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 816 | 47 |
| (135) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 815 | 1 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 794 | 15 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 792 | 8 |
| 138 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 783 | 10 |
| 139 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 781 | 8 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 780 | 13 |
| 141 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 773 | 15 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 773 | 11 |
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