| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 96973 | 250 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 32677 | 204 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 26177 | 260 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18704 | 31 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 15880 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12047 | 32 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10633 | 24 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10560 | 92 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 10185 | 31 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10145 | 26 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8939 | 26 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8517 | 128 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7910 | 25 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7480 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6841 | 32 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6774 | 28 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6771 | 36 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6770 | 27 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6672 | 15 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6545 | 29 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6276 | 25 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6221 | 29 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6217 | 26 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6032 | 17 |
| 23 | CESifo | München, Germany | 5868 | 63 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5804 | 34 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5500 | 16 |
| 25 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5409 | 92 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4965 | 16 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4893 | 21 |
| 28 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4775 | 11 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4743 | 25 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4542 | 85 |
| 31 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4248 | 12 |
| (31) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4222 | 13 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4091 | 16 |
| 33 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4074 | 60 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4052 | 28 |
| 35 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4048 | 26 |
| 36 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4045 | 30 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3723 | 20 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3703 | 15 |
| 39 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3666 | 15 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3518 | 32 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3493 | 39 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3450 | 24 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3418 | 22 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3321 | 23 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3258 | 21 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3221 | 22 |
| 46 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3211 | 3 |
| 47 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 3190 | 3 |
| 48 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3187 | 26 |
| 49 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3117 | 10 |
| 50 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3082 | 15 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3039 | 23 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3035 | 29 |
| 53 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 2926 | 8 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2875 | 22 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2783 | 30 |
| (55) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2700 | 4 |
| (55) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2581 | 16 |
| 56 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2579 | 10 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2576 | 18 |
| (56) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2576 | 9 |
| (56) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2568 | 7 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2553 | 22 |
| (57) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2548 | 8 |
| 58 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2509 | 8 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2509 | 13 |
| 60 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2460 | 11 |
| (60) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2443 | 27 |
| 61 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2397 | 9 |
| 62 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2388 | 35 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2320 | 12 |
| 64 | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2280 | 9 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2242 | 29 |
| 66 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2204 | 20 |
| 67 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2169 | 45 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2123 | 32 |
| (68) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2122 | 4 |
| (68) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2106 | 7 |
| 69 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2102 | 24 |
| 70 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1988 | 53 |
| 71 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1947 | 51 |
| (71) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1938 | 10 |
| 72 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1886 | 9 |
| (72) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1871 | 5 |
| 72 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1871 | 5 |
| (73) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1846 | 24 |
| (73) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1830 | 14 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1816 | 38 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1767 | 19 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1762 | 21 |
| (76) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1682 | 4 |
| 77 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1638 | 14 |
| 78 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1635 | 47 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1623 | 11 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1621 | 28 |
| (80) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1591 | 25 |
| (80) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1582 | 12 |
| (80) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1555 | 4 |
| 81 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1539 | 23 |
| 82 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1477 | 8 |
| (82) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1468 | 2 |
| (82) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1468 | 1 |
| (82) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1468 | 1 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1465 | 32 |
| 84 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1437 | 93 |
| (84) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1431 | 5 |
| 85 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1418 | 18 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1413 | 8 |
| 87 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1401 | 10 |
| (87) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1398 | 5 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1396 | 6 |
| 89 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1386 | 9 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1356 | 9 |
| 90 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1353 | 23 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1310 | 33 |
| 92 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1306 | 7 |
| (92) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1293 | 2 |
| (92) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1286 | 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 | 1265 | 22 |
| 92 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1265 | 22 |
| 94 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1257 | 8 |
| 95 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1240 | 8 |
| (95) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1240 | 7 |
| 96 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1233 | 8 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1222 | 13 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1199 | 5 |
| 99 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1198 | 13 |
| 100 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1196 | 35 |
| 101 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1194 | 16 |
| 102 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1187 | 6 |
| 103 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1179 | 35 |
| (103) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1174 | 3 |
| (103) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1161 | 3 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1161 | 15 |
| 105 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1146 | 39 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1132 | 14 |
| 107 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1122 | 61 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1119 | 23 |
| (108) | 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 | 1118 | 12 |
| 109 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1111 | 6 |
| 110 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1085 | 15 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1073 | 16 |
| 112 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1056 | 2 |
| 113 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1055 | 4 |
| (113) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1045 | 16 |
| 114 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1040 | 11 |
| 115 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1039 | 16 |
| 115 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1039 | 21 |
| 117 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1024 | 11 |
| 118 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1020 | 19 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1009 | 12 |
| 120 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 989 | 33 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 989 | 14 |
| 122 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 982 | 2 |
| 123 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 974 | 23 |
| 124 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 950 | 7 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 944 | 11 |
| (125) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 919 | 9 |
| (125) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 911 | 8 |
| 125 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 911 | 9 |
| 127 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 907 | 28 |
| 128 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 900 | 5 |
| 129 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 888 | 11 |
| 130 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 884 | 48 |
| 131 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 880 | 15 |
| 132 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 878 | 31 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 869 | 17 |
| (133) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 857 | 37 |
| 134 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 856 | 7 |
| (134) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 856 | 7 |
| 135 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 850 | 14 |
| 136 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 840 | 3 |
| (136) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 834 | 3 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 817 | 15 |
| (137) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 815 | 1 |
| 138 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 813 | 46 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 808 | 18 |
| 140 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 797 | 10 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 796 | 8 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 789 | 13 |
| 143 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 788 | 10 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 784 | 12 |
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