| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 101523 | 246 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 59364 | 202 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 49374 | 256 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 19642 | 90 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 18322 | 61 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 16330 | 37 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 13948 | 81 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13901 | 127 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13621 | 89 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12423 | 29 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11244 | 30 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11132 | 31 |
| 13 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 10036 | 58 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9756 | 23 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9727 | 25 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 9664 | 28 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9471 | 29 |
| (16) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 9381 | 25 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9378 | 24 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9267 | 26 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9217 | 35 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9133 | 25 |
| 20 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 9107 | 51 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8985 | 25 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 8784 | 28 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8726 | 20 |
| 24 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8696 | 12 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 8517 | 29 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 8171 | 33 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7993 | 39 |
| 28 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7932 | 27 |
| (28) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7923 | 15 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 7565 | 32 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 7464 | 21 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 7393 | 30 |
| 32 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 7357 | 46 |
| 33 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7205 | 29 |
| (33) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7196 | 22 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 7058 | 38 |
| 35 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 6983 | 45 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6594 | 27 |
| 37 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 6538 | 88 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 6524 | 19 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6413 | 14 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6300 | 17 |
| 41 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 6264 | 17 |
| 42 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6262 | 32 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 6166 | 21 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6042 | 28 |
| 45 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 5923 | 34 |
| 46 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 5847 | 22 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 5838 | 26 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 5813 | 36 |
| 49 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5803 | 11 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5639 | 37 |
| 51 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5547 | 23 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5523 | 21 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5507 | 15 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5467 | 17 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5338 | 21 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5156 | 23 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 5089 | 23 |
| (57) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5056 | 22 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 4829 | 18 |
| 59 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4779 | 14 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 4672 | 30 |
| 61 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 4644 | 45 |
| 62 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4617 | 10 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 4610 | 8 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4596 | 24 |
| 65 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 4585 | 26 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 4569 | 29 |
| 67 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4564 | 24 |
| 68 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 4503 | 25 |
| 69 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 4448 | 22 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4404 | 22 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 4369 | 30 |
| (71) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4361 | 13 |
| 72 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4314 | 29 |
| (72) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4293 | 12 |
| 73 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4285 | 29 |
| 74 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 4219 | 33 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 4181 | 34 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 4173 | 22 |
| 77 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 4170 | 50 |
| (77) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4082 | 18 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4032 | 22 |
| 79 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4017 | 16 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 4014 | 30 |
| (80) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3958 | 28 |
| 81 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3940 | 25 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3810 | 11 |
| 83 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3798 | 17 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3791 | 9 |
| 85 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 3748 | 17 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 3740 | 20 |
| 86 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 3709 | 19 |
| 87 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3678 | 11 |
| 88 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3654 | 15 |
| 89 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 3624 | 27 |
| 90 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3610 | 7 |
| (90) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3603 | 6 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3602 | 23 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3599 | 25 |
| 93 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3588 | 37 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 3551 | 16 |
| (94) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3548 | 16 |
| 95 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3516 | 13 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 3516 | 10 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 3472 | 13 |
| (97) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3435 | 22 |
| 97 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3435 | 22 |
| 99 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 3425 | 8 |
| 100 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3406 | 15 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3387 | 12 |
| 102 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 3365 | 22 |
| 103 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3349 | 8 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3341 | 6 |
| 105 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 3325 | 20 |
| 106 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3307 | 14 |
| (106) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3286 | 7 |
| 107 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 3271 | 37 |
| 108 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 3262 | 15 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 3259 | 15 |
| 110 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 3256 | 27 |
| 111 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 3250 | 25 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 3232 | 15 |
| 113 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3224 | 36 |
| 114 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3223 | 10 |
| (114) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3200 | 7 |
| (114) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3175 | 15 |
| 115 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 3166 | 24 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3127 | 14 |
| 117 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3098 | 8 |
| 118 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 3096 | 41 |
| 119 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 3079 | 24 |
| 120 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3010 | 9 |
| 121 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2995 | 3 |
| 122 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2947 | 23 |
| 123 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2946 | 57 |
| 124 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2936 | 14 |
| 125 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2932 | 10 |
| 126 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2931 | 16 |
| (126) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2922 | 9 |
| 127 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 2919 | 6 |
| 128 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 2917 | 24 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 2896 | 17 |
| 130 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 2895 | 21 |
| (130) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2891 | 12 |
| (130) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 2886 | 18 |
| (130) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2873 | 55 |
| 131 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2864 | 11 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2862 | 12 |
| 133 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 2805 | 15 |
| 134 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 2730 | 9 |
| 135 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2728 | 4 |
| (135) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2728 | 4 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2698 | 16 |
| 137 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2686 | 11 |
| (137) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2681 | 14 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 2675 | 15 |
| 139 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 2633 | 22 |
| 140 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 2608 | 19 |
| 141 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 2594 | 5 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2526 | 17 |
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