| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1713242 | 257 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 951808 | 211 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 881865 | 271 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 287504 | 32 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 262501 | 96 |
| 6 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 254390 | 97 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 252877 | 36 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 241324 | 132 |
| 9 | CESifo | München, Germany | 226429 | 69 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 184167 | 23 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 169816 | 30 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 168853 | 26 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 167571 | 31 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 149262 | 27 |
| 15 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 145995 | 13 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 141834 | 28 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 135679 | 89 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 134562 | 31 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 131976 | 32 |
| 19 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 131386 | 59 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 127270 | 37 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 127123 | 30 |
| 21 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 126365 | 26 |
| 22 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 123237 | 95 |
| 23 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 118453 | 21 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 114237 | 29 |
| (24) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 114192 | 13 |
| 25 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 112289 | 33 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 111082 | 30 |
| 27 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 110676 | 47 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 109120 | 36 |
| (28) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 108985 | 28 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 108652 | 32 |
| 30 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 108279 | 52 |
| (30) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 107923 | 16 |
| 31 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 106480 | 49 |
| 32 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 105711 | 51 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 104862 | 25 |
| 34 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 104336 | 43 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 103428 | 16 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 102236 | 37 |
| 37 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 96792 | 24 |
| 38 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 95396 | 37 |
| 39 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 95394 | 22 |
| 40 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 94691 | 12 |
| (40) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 92825 | 22 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 91359 | 20 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 90044 | 27 |
| 43 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 89016 | 12 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 88471 | 28 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 88140 | 29 |
| 46 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 86587 | 28 |
| 47 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 85952 | 29 |
| 48 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 85134 | 28 |
| (48) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 85045 | 25 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 83450 | 37 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 83178 | 30 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 82204 | 15 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 81933 | 22 |
| 53 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 81412 | 21 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 80449 | 23 |
| 55 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 78063 | 40 |
| 56 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 77889 | 53 |
| 57 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 77717 | 25 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 74747 | 22 |
| 59 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 74597 | 16 |
| 60 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 74209 | 15 |
| (60) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 72371 | 12 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 71479 | 45 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 71389 | 15 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 70812 | 28 |
| 64 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 70805 | 27 |
| 65 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 67854 | 26 |
| 66 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 65822 | 28 |
| 67 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 65659 | 16 |
| (67) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 65331 | 28 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 65096 | 32 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 64093 | 22 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 63774 | 20 |
| 71 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 63700 | 39 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 63693 | 24 |
| (72) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 63402 | 18 |
| 73 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 62896 | 11 |
| 74 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 62139 | 62 |
| (74) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 60340 | 9 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 60254 | 21 |
| 76 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 56792 | 18 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 56757 | 11 |
| 78 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 56580 | 33 |
| (78) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 56192 | 16 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 56179 | 34 |
| 80 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 55911 | 25 |
| 81 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 55459 | 11 |
| 82 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 55427 | 17 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 54741 | 21 |
| 84 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 54707 | 16 |
| 85 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 54235 | 40 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 53852 | 36 |
| (86) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 53447 | 5 |
| 87 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 52801 | 58 |
| 88 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 52291 | 27 |
| 89 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 52163 | 33 |
| 90 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 51949 | 24 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 50612 | 31 |
| 92 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 50292 | 5 |
| 93 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 49934 | 11 |
| 94 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 49595 | 30 |
| 95 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 47718 | 9 |
| 96 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 47125 | 6 |
| (96) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 46616 | 7 |
| 97 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 46321 | 67 |
| 98 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 46306 | 25 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 46065 | 11 |
| 100 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 45950 | 25 |
| 101 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 45739 | 16 |
| 102 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 45728 | 16 |
| 103 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 45572 | 30 |
| (103) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 45029 | 65 |
| 104 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 44893 | 19 |
| 105 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 44680 | 36 |
| 106 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 44617 | 35 |
| 107 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 44581 | 21 |
| (107) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 43810 | 38 |
| (107) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 43765 | 14 |
| 108 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 43304 | 18 |
| 109 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 42824 | 11 |
| (109) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 42502 | 10 |
| 110 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 42414 | 3 |
| 111 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 42052 | 36 |
| 112 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 42037 | 23 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 41964 | 18 |
| 114 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 41565 | 3 |
| 115 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 41227 | 21 |
| 116 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 40180 | 28 |
| 117 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 39784 | 10 |
| (117) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 39697 | 18 |
| (117) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 39576 | 23 |
| 117 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 39576 | 23 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 39277 | 12 |
| 120 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 39160 | 28 |
| 121 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 38863 | 36 |
| 122 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 38837 | 27 |
| 123 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 38568 | 13 |
| 124 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 38458 | 12 |
| 125 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 38370 | 28 |
| 126 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 37731 | 11 |
| (126) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 37510 | 6 |
| (126) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 37458 | 23 |
| 127 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 37119 | 25 |
| 128 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 36985 | 23 |
| (128) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 36764 | 16 |
| (128) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36561 | 4 |
| 129 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 36514 | 45 |
| 130 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 36258 | 15 |
| 131 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 35943 | 7 |
| 132 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 35895 | 26 |
| (132) | 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 | 35818 | 12 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 35122 | 13 |
| 134 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 35017 | 20 |
| 135 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 34801 | 32 |
| 136 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 34602 | 15 |
| 137 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 34486 | 6 |
| 138 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 34379 | 12 |
| (138) | Centro de Estudios de Organizaciones y Productividad (CEOP), Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 34261 | 2 |
| 139 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 34235 | 28 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 34136 | 17 |
| (140) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 34130 | 4 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 34046 | 16 |
| (141) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 33635 | 14 |
| 142 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 33343 | 23 |
| 143 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 33329 | 9 |
| 144 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 33247 | 22 |
| 145 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 33192 | 10 |
| 146 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 32840 | 24 |
| 147 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 32790 | 15 |
| (147) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 32716 | 8 |
| 148 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 32540 | 15 |
| 149 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 32395 | 37 |
| (149) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 32175 | 5 |
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