| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 485988 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 258187 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 212059 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 83946 | 31 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 83068 | 95 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 74711 | 132 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 74687 | 95 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 73050 | 36 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 54996 | 26 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 52211 | 24 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 52195 | 66 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 51538 | 29 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 48894 | 31 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 46483 | 13 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 41367 | 27 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38974 | 26 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 38214 | 30 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 38194 | 27 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 38059 | 30 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 36946 | 31 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35999 | 36 |
| (19) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 34995 | 26 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 33545 | 88 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 33494 | 16 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 32911 | 29 |
| 22 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 32612 | 96 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 31249 | 36 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 31049 | 29 |
| 25 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 30890 | 49 |
| 26 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 30382 | 60 |
| 27 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29874 | 46 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 29147 | 33 |
| 29 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 28172 | 33 |
| 30 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 28072 | 52 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27872 | 25 |
| 32 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 27009 | 20 |
| 33 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 26847 | 11 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 26648 | 27 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 26575 | 16 |
| 36 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 26342 | 36 |
| 37 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 26119 | 24 |
| 38 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 25935 | 54 |
| 39 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 25917 | 50 |
| 40 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 25850 | 12 |
| 41 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 25802 | 28 |
| 42 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 25366 | 21 |
| 43 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 25013 | 16 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24977 | 27 |
| 45 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 24737 | 41 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 24394 | 29 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 22954 | 23 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 22813 | 20 |
| 49 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 22595 | 21 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22415 | 28 |
| 51 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 22382 | 40 |
| (51) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 22184 | 22 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21843 | 30 |
| (52) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 21715 | 13 |
| 53 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 21575 | 62 |
| (53) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21523 | 25 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 21225 | 15 |
| 55 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21208 | 15 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 21199 | 22 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20459 | 28 |
| (56) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 20372 | 10 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 20327 | 36 |
| 58 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 20130 | 15 |
| 59 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 19484 | 37 |
| 60 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 19427 | 28 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 18899 | 23 |
| (61) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18643 | 12 |
| 62 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18518 | 11 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 18187 | 15 |
| 64 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18138 | 16 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 18026 | 18 |
| 65 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 17830 | 5 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 17816 | 21 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17702 | 11 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 17345 | 32 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 16777 | 19 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 16618 | 29 |
| 71 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 16108 | 27 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 15992 | 22 |
| (72) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15988 | 4 |
| 73 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 15870 | 24 |
| 74 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 15849 | 17 |
| (74) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 15829 | 38 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 15723 | 22 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 15627 | 42 |
| 77 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 15351 | 36 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 15228 | 37 |
| 79 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15196 | 9 |
| 80 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 15183 | 25 |
| 81 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 14626 | 25 |
| 82 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14036 | 3 |
| 83 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 13991 | 6 |
| (83) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13963 | 4 |
| 84 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13941 | 3 |
| (84) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 13856 | 7 |
| 85 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13645 | 11 |
| (85) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13621 | 16 |
| 86 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 13543 | 24 |
| 87 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 13516 | 16 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 13438 | 32 |
| 89 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 12981 | 18 |
| 90 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 12657 | 35 |
| 91 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 12513 | 28 |
| (91) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12480 | 3 |
| 92 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 12456 | 25 |
| 93 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 12387 | 26 |
| 94 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 12368 | 20 |
| 95 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 12367 | 21 |
| 96 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 12361 | 18 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 12149 | 21 |
| 98 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 12090 | 25 |
| 99 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12026 | 6 |
| 100 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 11694 | 27 |
| 101 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 11607 | 35 |
| (101) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11604 | 6 |
| 102 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11533 | 12 |
| 103 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11431 | 11 |
| 104 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 11308 | 21 |
| (104) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11245 | 4 |
| 105 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11195 | 10 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11191 | 13 |
| 107 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 11168 | 27 |
| (107) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11138 | 9 |
| 108 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 11119 | 56 |
| 109 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 11033 | 35 |
| (109) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10998 | 8 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 10949 | 12 |
| 111 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 10916 | 63 |
| 112 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10895 | 25 |
| 113 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 10851 | 36 |
| 114 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 10755 | 9 |
| 115 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 10600 | 8 |
| 116 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 10548 | 20 |
| (116) | 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 | 10496 | 13 |
| 117 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 10482 | 25 |
| 118 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 10474 | 31 |
| (118) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 10461 | 61 |
| (118) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10452 | 14 |
| (118) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 10252 | 14 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10117 | 13 |
| 120 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10049 | 12 |
| (120) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9879 | 16 |
| 121 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 9781 | 15 |
| 122 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 9763 | 19 |
| 123 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 9740 | 11 |
| (123) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9731 | 4 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 9723 | 8 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 9534 | 18 |
| 126 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 9531 | 45 |
| 127 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 9514 | 24 |
| 128 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9428 | 15 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9416 | 12 |
| (129) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9390 | 5 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9212 | 16 |
| 131 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9155 | 23 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 9129 | 29 |
| (132) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 8918 | 14 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 8900 | 16 |
| 133 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 8900 | 32 |
| 135 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 8889 | 10 |
| 136 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 8886 | 37 |
| 137 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 8849 | 36 |
| 138 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 8744 | 30 |
| 139 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 8740 | 22 |
| 140 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 8722 | 11 |
| 141 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8669 | 8 |
| (141) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8656 | 7 |
| 142 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 8571 | 27 |
| (142) | Policy Research Department, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8569 | 8 |
| 143 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8529 | 23 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 8528 | 15 |
| 145 | Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands | Den Haag, Netherlands | 8507 | 18 |
| (145) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8416 | 4 |
| 146 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 8412 | 27 |
| 147 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 8380 | 16 |
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