| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1724055 | 250 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 913588 | 204 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 853293 | 260 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 279307 | 31 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 264423 | 92 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 257364 | 36 |
| 7 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 248788 | 92 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 238154 | 128 |
| 9 | CESifo | München, Germany | 215690 | 63 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 190284 | 24 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 173179 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 168842 | 32 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 166454 | 26 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 150065 | 26 |
| 15 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 140148 | 27 |
| 16 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 139802 | 11 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 133973 | 29 |
| 17 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 131650 | 60 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 130700 | 30 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 127599 | 34 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 125323 | 25 |
| 20 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 123748 | 21 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 123177 | 85 |
| (21) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 119529 | 13 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 117582 | 28 |
| 23 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 115190 | 93 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 113533 | 36 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 112684 | 29 |
| 26 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 112441 | 32 |
| 27 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 112030 | 45 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 110072 | 32 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 109203 | 25 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 107910 | 25 |
| 31 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 106675 | 17 |
| (31) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 106131 | 15 |
| 32 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 105349 | 48 |
| 33 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 103777 | 47 |
| 34 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 103696 | 39 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 100138 | 37 |
| (35) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 98721 | 24 |
| 36 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 97366 | 12 |
| 37 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 97204 | 21 |
| 38 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 97106 | 24 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 93923 | 20 |
| (39) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 93112 | 22 |
| 40 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 91867 | 51 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 88883 | 28 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 88807 | 35 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 88736 | 28 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 87637 | 26 |
| 45 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 86714 | 11 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 86690 | 26 |
| (46) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 85356 | 25 |
| 47 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 85252 | 26 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 85105 | 16 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 83276 | 35 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 82858 | 22 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 81987 | 29 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 80593 | 23 |
| 53 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 79400 | 25 |
| 54 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 78969 | 20 |
| 55 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 78344 | 53 |
| 56 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 78253 | 39 |
| (56) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 75370 | 13 |
| 57 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 75096 | 15 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 74121 | 16 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 73679 | 21 |
| 60 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 72340 | 16 |
| 61 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 72068 | 27 |
| 62 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 68148 | 30 |
| 63 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 66541 | 27 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 65415 | 19 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 65134 | 32 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 64798 | 22 |
| (66) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 64732 | 27 |
| 67 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 64281 | 23 |
| (67) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 63195 | 18 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 62885 | 38 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 62428 | 23 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 62391 | 22 |
| 71 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 62129 | 10 |
| (71) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 61576 | 10 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 60838 | 29 |
| 73 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 60192 | 15 |
| 74 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 60064 | 61 |
| 75 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 59125 | 35 |
| 76 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 58694 | 19 |
| 77 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 58554 | 28 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 58393 | 32 |
| (78) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 57975 | 16 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 57622 | 11 |
| 80 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 57169 | 24 |
| 81 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 57161 | 17 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 54079 | 21 |
| 83 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 51669 | 11 |
| 84 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 51568 | 15 |
| 85 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 51164 | 23 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 50103 | 33 |
| 87 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 50017 | 5 |
| 88 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 49820 | 31 |
| 89 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 49795 | 24 |
| (89) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 49742 | 4 |
| 90 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 48388 | 18 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 47400 | 29 |
| 92 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 47264 | 30 |
| (92) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 47079 | 7 |
| 93 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 47077 | 17 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 47073 | 12 |
| 95 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 46672 | 9 |
| 96 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 46451 | 25 |
| 97 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 46313 | 23 |
| 98 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 45536 | 10 |
| 99 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 45222 | 16 |
| (99) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 45218 | 14 |
| (99) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 45128 | 9 |
| 100 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 44690 | 9 |
| 101 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 44621 | 3 |
| 102 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 44437 | 6 |
| 103 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 44387 | 29 |
| 104 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 44143 | 35 |
| 105 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 44033 | 29 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 43849 | 6 |
| 107 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 43799 | 21 |
| 108 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 43217 | 3 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 42578 | 18 |
| 110 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 42486 | 9 |
| (110) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 42103 | 37 |
| 111 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 41819 | 61 |
| 112 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 41499 | 21 |
| 113 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 41498 | 33 |
| (113) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 41280 | 59 |
| 114 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 41199 | 34 |
| 115 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 40087 | 20 |
| 116 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 40086 | 14 |
| 117 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 39982 | 27 |
| 118 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 39350 | 13 |
| 119 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 39343 | 36 |
| 120 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 38927 | 11 |
| 121 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 38626 | 27 |
| 122 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 38310 | 46 |
| 123 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 37750 | 41 |
| 124 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 37669 | 25 |
| 125 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 37609 | 20 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 37426 | 11 |
| (126) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 37402 | 4 |
| 127 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 37327 | 12 |
| 128 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 37075 | 9 |
| 129 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 36771 | 8 |
| (129) | 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 | 36760 | 12 |
| 130 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 36566 | 23 |
| (130) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 36399 | 22 |
| 130 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 36399 | 22 |
| (131) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 36367 | 16 |
| 132 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 36155 | 15 |
| 133 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 36134 | 15 |
| 134 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 35804 | 13 |
| 135 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 35793 | 23 |
| (135) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 35629 | 14 |
| 136 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 35383 | 28 |
| 137 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 35116 | 23 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 35045 | 17 |
| 139 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 34955 | 19 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 34643 | 12 |
| 141 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 34574 | 24 |
| (141) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 34507 | 8 |
| (141) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 34371 | 4 |
| 142 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 34278 | 9 |
| 143 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 33971 | 15 |
| 144 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 33964 | 22 |
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