| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1717019 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 941741 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 863608 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 276700 | 31 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 262340 | 95 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 254571 | 36 |
| 7 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 250362 | 95 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 239871 | 132 |
| 9 | CESifo | München, Germany | 218424 | 66 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 188500 | 24 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 170393 | 29 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 167518 | 31 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 167225 | 26 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 148663 | 27 |
| 15 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 146693 | 13 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 137954 | 27 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 133672 | 30 |
| 17 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 131326 | 60 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 130891 | 31 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 126429 | 36 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 126414 | 26 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 126338 | 88 |
| 21 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 121402 | 21 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 118873 | 29 |
| 23 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 118694 | 96 |
| (23) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 117169 | 13 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 115007 | 29 |
| 25 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 113007 | 33 |
| 26 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 112027 | 46 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 111230 | 30 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 110317 | 36 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 109163 | 33 |
| 30 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 108346 | 52 |
| 31 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 107791 | 50 |
| (31) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 107637 | 16 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 106141 | 25 |
| 33 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 105727 | 49 |
| 34 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 103915 | 41 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 103718 | 16 |
| (35) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 100924 | 26 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 100702 | 37 |
| 37 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 96591 | 20 |
| 38 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 96553 | 24 |
| 39 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 94441 | 12 |
| (39) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 92968 | 22 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 91426 | 20 |
| 41 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 90205 | 36 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 88763 | 28 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 88290 | 28 |
| 44 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 87266 | 11 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 86919 | 27 |
| 46 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 85804 | 27 |
| 47 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 85624 | 29 |
| (47) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 84831 | 25 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 83597 | 36 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 82674 | 30 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 82434 | 15 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 81638 | 22 |
| 52 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 79782 | 27 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 79702 | 23 |
| 54 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 79315 | 21 |
| 55 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 78785 | 40 |
| 56 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 78229 | 25 |
| 57 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 78216 | 54 |
| 58 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 74347 | 15 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 73502 | 22 |
| 60 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 73033 | 16 |
| (60) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 72860 | 12 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 72256 | 15 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 69709 | 29 |
| 63 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 69044 | 27 |
| 64 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 65944 | 25 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 65557 | 28 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 64862 | 19 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 64343 | 32 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 64124 | 22 |
| (68) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 63744 | 28 |
| (68) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 62712 | 18 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 62603 | 42 |
| 70 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 62467 | 11 |
| 71 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 62224 | 62 |
| 72 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 61967 | 37 |
| (72) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 61259 | 10 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 61016 | 21 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 60875 | 23 |
| 75 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 59020 | 15 |
| 76 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 57022 | 18 |
| (76) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 56895 | 16 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 56802 | 11 |
| 78 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 56059 | 17 |
| 79 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 55893 | 24 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 55560 | 32 |
| 81 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 54966 | 16 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 54741 | 21 |
| 83 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 53534 | 36 |
| 84 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 53440 | 11 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 51925 | 35 |
| 86 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 51596 | 26 |
| 87 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 51201 | 24 |
| 88 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 50898 | 11 |
| 89 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 50623 | 56 |
| 90 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 50006 | 5 |
| (90) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 49161 | 4 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 48050 | 29 |
| 92 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 48002 | 18 |
| 93 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 47634 | 32 |
| 94 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 47209 | 9 |
| 95 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 46721 | 28 |
| (95) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 46613 | 7 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 46345 | 12 |
| 97 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 46312 | 25 |
| 98 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 46137 | 17 |
| 99 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 46104 | 25 |
| 100 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 45765 | 6 |
| 101 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 45585 | 63 |
| 102 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 45342 | 16 |
| 103 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 44385 | 21 |
| 104 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 44353 | 36 |
| (104) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 44343 | 14 |
| (104) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 44280 | 61 |
| 105 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 44269 | 10 |
| 106 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 44267 | 30 |
| (106) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 43961 | 38 |
| (106) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 43909 | 9 |
| 107 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 43649 | 31 |
| 108 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 43615 | 35 |
| 109 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 43465 | 3 |
| 110 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 42317 | 3 |
| 111 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 42143 | 17 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 42052 | 18 |
| 113 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 41636 | 35 |
| 114 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 41389 | 21 |
| 115 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 39752 | 10 |
| 116 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 39737 | 20 |
| 117 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 39687 | 28 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 39333 | 12 |
| 119 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 38959 | 36 |
| (119) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 38827 | 23 |
| 119 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 38827 | 23 |
| 121 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 38620 | 13 |
| 122 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 38136 | 11 |
| 123 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 38109 | 27 |
| 124 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 38077 | 12 |
| (124) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 37466 | 6 |
| 125 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 37451 | 25 |
| 126 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 36985 | 20 |
| (126) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36844 | 4 |
| 127 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 36571 | 23 |
| (127) | 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 | 36500 | 13 |
| 128 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 36426 | 24 |
| 129 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 36321 | 16 |
| 130 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 36132 | 8 |
| 131 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 36087 | 25 |
| 132 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 36055 | 45 |
| 133 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 36040 | 15 |
| (133) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 36015 | 16 |
| 134 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 35212 | 25 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 34899 | 13 |
| 136 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 34766 | 19 |
| 137 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 34688 | 12 |
| 138 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 34669 | 30 |
| (138) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 34583 | 14 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 34367 | 17 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 34101 | 16 |
| 141 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 34076 | 27 |
| (141) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 34014 | 4 |
| 142 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 34002 | 6 |
| 143 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 33945 | 27 |
| (143) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 33585 | 8 |
| 144 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 33441 | 15 |
| 145 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 33401 | 9 |
| (145) | Centro de Estudios de Organizaciones y Productividad (CEOP), Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 33034 | 2 |
| (145) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 33004 | 22 |
| 146 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 32921 | 22 |
| 147 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 32801 | 23 |
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