| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 102152 | 255 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 34255 | 209 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 27189 | 264 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19551 | 31 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 16456 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12313 | 31 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11585 | 24 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10702 | 95 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 10494 | 29 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10300 | 26 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9255 | 27 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9181 | 13 |
| 13 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8722 | 132 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8604 | 26 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7289 | 16 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7043 | 29 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6946 | 27 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6898 | 33 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6898 | 29 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6850 | 36 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6690 | 27 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6566 | 30 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6288 | 30 |
| 22 | CESifo | München, Germany | 6256 | 66 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6062 | 16 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5818 | 36 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5736 | 15 |
| 25 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5529 | 95 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5069 | 11 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5068 | 20 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4998 | 15 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4954 | 25 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4732 | 88 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4499 | 16 |
| 32 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4388 | 12 |
| 33 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4333 | 15 |
| 34 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4248 | 52 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4240 | 60 |
| (35) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4227 | 12 |
| 36 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4102 | 27 |
| 37 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4085 | 28 |
| 38 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4013 | 28 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3785 | 15 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3727 | 20 |
| 41 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3642 | 41 |
| 42 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3597 | 33 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3580 | 22 |
| (43) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3563 | 22 |
| 44 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3542 | 6 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3538 | 24 |
| 46 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3527 | 11 |
| 47 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3509 | 16 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3472 | 23 |
| 49 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3437 | 3 |
| 50 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 3416 | 3 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3310 | 21 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3221 | 29 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3086 | 23 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3086 | 30 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2955 | 22 |
| 56 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 2926 | 8 |
| (56) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2907 | 6 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 2850 | 31 |
| (57) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2812 | 4 |
| 58 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2753 | 13 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2744 | 29 |
| (59) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2728 | 18 |
| (59) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2629 | 7 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2625 | 22 |
| (60) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2593 | 16 |
| 61 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2590 | 10 |
| (61) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2587 | 9 |
| 62 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2563 | 36 |
| (62) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2547 | 8 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2544 | 9 |
| (63) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2529 | 28 |
| 64 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2462 | 11 |
| (64) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2458 | 4 |
| 65 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2437 | 9 |
| 66 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2398 | 10 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2388 | 12 |
| (67) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2319 | 7 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2282 | 21 |
| 69 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2231 | 46 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2174 | 32 |
| 71 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2144 | 24 |
| 72 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2059 | 54 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2009 | 42 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2007 | 10 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1971 | 21 |
| (74) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1917 | 26 |
| (74) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1899 | 4 |
| (74) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1851 | 14 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1836 | 19 |
| (75) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1778 | 4 |
| 76 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1728 | 50 |
| 77 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1710 | 14 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1706 | 28 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1705 | 11 |
| (79) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1676 | 25 |
| (79) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1651 | 12 |
| (79) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1636 | 1 |
| 80 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1624 | 25 |
| (80) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1571 | 23 |
| 80 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1571 | 23 |
| (81) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1555 | 4 |
| 82 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1534 | 96 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1508 | 32 |
| (83) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1492 | 1 |
| (83) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1492 | 1 |
| (83) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1478 | 2 |
| 84 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1473 | 8 |
| (84) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1457 | 5 |
| 85 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1456 | 6 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1451 | 8 |
| (86) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1445 | 2 |
| 87 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1430 | 10 |
| 88 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1428 | 9 |
| 89 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1419 | 18 |
| (89) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1410 | 5 |
| 90 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1403 | 25 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1387 | 35 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1359 | 9 |
| 92 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1309 | 7 |
| (92) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1292 | 2 |
| 93 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1272 | 8 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1253 | 8 |
| 95 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1246 | 8 |
| (95) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1246 | 7 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1240 | 6 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1240 | 13 |
| 98 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1230 | 36 |
| 99 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1214 | 13 |
| 100 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1213 | 16 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1212 | 16 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1210 | 15 |
| 103 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1193 | 40 |
| (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) | 1174 | 3 |
| 103 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1174 | 62 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1161 | 23 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1160 | 15 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1154 | 14 |
| 108 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1143 | 36 |
| (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 | 1142 | 13 |
| 109 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1140 | 4 |
| 110 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1125 | 6 |
| 111 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1105 | 2 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1101 | 18 |
| 113 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1094 | 16 |
| (113) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1071 | 16 |
| 114 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1070 | 11 |
| 115 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1048 | 11 |
| 116 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1047 | 16 |
| 117 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1046 | 21 |
| 118 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1035 | 35 |
| 119 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1018 | 18 |
| 120 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1009 | 2 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1006 | 12 |
| 122 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 992 | 37 |
| 122 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 992 | 23 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 975 | 10 |
| 125 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 974 | 7 |
| 126 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 962 | 5 |
| (126) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 937 | 9 |
| 127 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 927 | 49 |
| 128 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 923 | 56 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 916 | 17 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 911 | 16 |
| (130) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 911 | 8 |
| 130 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 911 | 9 |
| (131) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 908 | 38 |
| 132 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 892 | 8 |
| (132) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 892 | 8 |
| 133 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 889 | 3 |
| 133 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 889 | 11 |
| 135 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 882 | 15 |
| (135) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 881 | 1 |
| (135) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 860 | 1 |
| 136 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 855 | 10 |
| 137 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 851 | 15 |
| 138 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 850 | 63 |
| (138) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 847 | 3 |
| (138) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 835 | 61 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 832 | 9 |
| 140 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 812 | 24 |
| 141 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 807 | 17 |
| 142 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 803 | 9 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 801 | 14 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 800 | 13 |
| 145 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 799 | 11 |
| 145 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 799 | 6 |
| 145 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 799 | 3 |
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