| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 484146 | 250 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 248908 | 204 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 209589 | 260 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 84115 | 31 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 82229 | 92 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 74643 | 92 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 74608 | 128 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 72968 | 36 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 54079 | 26 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 52264 | 24 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 51688 | 31 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 51614 | 63 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 48447 | 32 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 43598 | 11 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 41290 | 26 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38760 | 25 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 38652 | 27 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 38476 | 29 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 37702 | 29 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 37101 | 30 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35922 | 34 |
| (19) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 34255 | 24 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 33401 | 28 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 33193 | 15 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 32693 | 85 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 31981 | 36 |
| 23 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 31752 | 93 |
| 24 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 31171 | 48 |
| 25 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 30197 | 60 |
| 26 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29782 | 45 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 29176 | 32 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 28369 | 25 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 28057 | 25 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 28007 | 32 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 27121 | 21 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 26823 | 26 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 26800 | 17 |
| 34 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 26582 | 53 |
| 35 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 26428 | 11 |
| 36 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 26247 | 12 |
| 37 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 26097 | 24 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 25629 | 28 |
| 39 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 25602 | 35 |
| 40 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 25490 | 20 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 25274 | 26 |
| 42 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 24721 | 47 |
| 43 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 24529 | 16 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 24394 | 39 |
| 45 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 24230 | 26 |
| 46 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 23039 | 20 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 22976 | 23 |
| 48 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 22945 | 21 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22794 | 28 |
| 50 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 22674 | 51 |
| 51 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 22168 | 39 |
| (51) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 22063 | 13 |
| (51) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21907 | 25 |
| (51) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 21868 | 22 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21458 | 29 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 21450 | 16 |
| 54 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21369 | 15 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 21316 | 22 |
| 56 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 21080 | 61 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20988 | 27 |
| (56) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 20662 | 10 |
| 57 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 20364 | 15 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 20345 | 35 |
| 59 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 20002 | 30 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 19196 | 23 |
| (60) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18897 | 13 |
| 61 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18465 | 10 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 18292 | 16 |
| 63 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 18186 | 5 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 18074 | 22 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 17997 | 18 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17994 | 11 |
| 66 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17754 | 9 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 17620 | 32 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 16807 | 19 |
| 69 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 16794 | 31 |
| 70 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16751 | 15 |
| (70) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16130 | 4 |
| 71 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 16103 | 24 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 16061 | 22 |
| 73 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 16034 | 35 |
| 74 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 15939 | 28 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 15672 | 21 |
| 76 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 15635 | 14 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 15480 | 38 |
| 78 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 15460 | 27 |
| 79 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15404 | 9 |
| (79) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 15310 | 37 |
| 80 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 15067 | 25 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 14937 | 37 |
| 82 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 14867 | 23 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 14259 | 32 |
| 84 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14170 | 3 |
| (84) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 14073 | 4 |
| 85 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 14050 | 3 |
| (85) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 13928 | 7 |
| (85) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13829 | 16 |
| 86 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13709 | 11 |
| 87 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 13577 | 6 |
| 88 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 13430 | 23 |
| 89 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 13420 | 16 |
| 90 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 13311 | 19 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 13205 | 29 |
| 92 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 12632 | 20 |
| 93 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 12436 | 18 |
| 94 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 12328 | 25 |
| 95 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 12256 | 21 |
| (95) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12196 | 3 |
| 96 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 12106 | 23 |
| 97 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 12086 | 33 |
| 98 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 11760 | 24 |
| 99 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11640 | 11 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 11541 | 21 |
| (100) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11526 | 5 |
| 101 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11323 | 12 |
| 102 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11284 | 10 |
| 102 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 11284 | 27 |
| (103) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11221 | 9 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11197 | 12 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 11179 | 6 |
| (105) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 11155 | 8 |
| 106 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 11121 | 21 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11048 | 12 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 11045 | 33 |
| 109 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 10956 | 20 |
| 110 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 10872 | 36 |
| 111 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 10828 | 29 |
| 112 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 10735 | 8 |
| 113 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 10728 | 34 |
| 114 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10656 | 24 |
| 115 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 10639 | 25 |
| (115) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 10600 | 14 |
| (115) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10524 | 14 |
| (115) | 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 | 10522 | 12 |
| 116 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 10439 | 8 |
| 117 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 10428 | 27 |
| 118 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10344 | 13 |
| 119 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 10200 | 46 |
| (119) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 10085 | 16 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 9974 | 13 |
| 121 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 9928 | 19 |
| 122 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 9910 | 15 |
| 123 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 9832 | 10 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 9814 | 8 |
| 125 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 9757 | 61 |
| 126 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 9662 | 25 |
| (126) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9643 | 4 |
| 127 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9590 | 15 |
| (127) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 9577 | 59 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 9548 | 18 |
| 129 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9514 | 5 |
| 130 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9273 | 23 |
| (130) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9228 | 5 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 9135 | 29 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9123 | 16 |
| (132) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9071 | 14 |
| 133 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 9066 | 36 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9024 | 11 |
| 135 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 8910 | 22 |
| 136 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8896 | 8 |
| (136) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8881 | 7 |
| 137 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 8775 | 35 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 8754 | 15 |
| (138) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8723 | 4 |
| 139 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 8702 | 29 |
| 140 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 8677 | 17 |
| 141 | Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands | Den Haag, Netherlands | 8665 | 19 |
| 142 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 8610 | 30 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 8551 | 15 |
| 144 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 8530 | 41 |
| (144) | Policy Research Department, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8520 | 8 |
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