| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 487933 | 257 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 261276 | 211 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 215363 | 271 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 87584 | 32 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 83871 | 97 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 74741 | 96 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 74322 | 132 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 73018 | 36 |
| 9 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 55889 | 26 |
| 10 | CESifo | München, Germany | 54096 | 69 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 51531 | 30 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 51423 | 23 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 49290 | 31 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 46701 | 13 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 41680 | 27 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 39710 | 28 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38758 | 26 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 38494 | 31 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 37798 | 30 |
| (18) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 37519 | 28 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 37121 | 32 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 36320 | 37 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 35876 | 89 |
| 21 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 33402 | 95 |
| (21) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 33390 | 16 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 32857 | 30 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 32620 | 29 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 30858 | 36 |
| 25 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 30659 | 51 |
| 26 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 30612 | 59 |
| 27 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29465 | 47 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 29020 | 32 |
| 29 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 28013 | 37 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27882 | 33 |
| 31 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 27881 | 52 |
| 32 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 27401 | 12 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27242 | 25 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 27030 | 29 |
| 35 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 26648 | 16 |
| 36 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 26365 | 22 |
| 37 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 26244 | 24 |
| 38 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 25941 | 27 |
| 39 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 25784 | 12 |
| 40 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 25663 | 53 |
| 41 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 25560 | 16 |
| 42 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 25372 | 21 |
| 43 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 25122 | 49 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24759 | 28 |
| 45 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 24668 | 43 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 24552 | 29 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 23022 | 23 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 22559 | 20 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22148 | 28 |
| 50 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 22031 | 40 |
| (50) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 21999 | 22 |
| 51 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 21937 | 16 |
| 52 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 21933 | 21 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21684 | 30 |
| 54 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 21377 | 62 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 21309 | 15 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21289 | 25 |
| 56 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21264 | 15 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 21161 | 22 |
| (57) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 21072 | 13 |
| (57) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20645 | 28 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 20098 | 37 |
| 59 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 19649 | 39 |
| (59) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 19573 | 9 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 19486 | 24 |
| 61 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 19442 | 28 |
| (61) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18535 | 12 |
| 62 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18481 | 11 |
| (62) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 18181 | 18 |
| 63 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18023 | 16 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17921 | 15 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17648 | 11 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 17618 | 21 |
| (66) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17573 | 5 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 17505 | 45 |
| 68 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 17382 | 5 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 17180 | 32 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 16952 | 28 |
| 71 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 16409 | 18 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 16370 | 20 |
| 73 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 16230 | 27 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 16206 | 22 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 16032 | 22 |
| 76 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 15794 | 25 |
| (76) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 15738 | 38 |
| 77 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 15650 | 40 |
| 78 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 15635 | 26 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 15505 | 37 |
| 80 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15280 | 9 |
| 81 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 14476 | 6 |
| 82 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 14184 | 25 |
| 83 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 14019 | 33 |
| (83) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 13995 | 7 |
| (83) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13909 | 4 |
| 84 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13897 | 3 |
| 85 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13763 | 3 |
| 86 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 13654 | 16 |
| 87 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 13588 | 24 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 13556 | 34 |
| (88) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13474 | 16 |
| 89 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13215 | 11 |
| 90 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 13011 | 30 |
| 91 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 12893 | 28 |
| 92 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 12828 | 23 |
| 93 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 12823 | 18 |
| 94 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 12738 | 36 |
| (94) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12646 | 3 |
| 95 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 12402 | 25 |
| 96 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 12388 | 27 |
| 97 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12311 | 6 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 12205 | 21 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 12101 | 36 |
| 100 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 12030 | 21 |
| 101 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 12012 | 19 |
| 102 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 11976 | 25 |
| 103 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11655 | 12 |
| (103) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11553 | 6 |
| 104 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 11478 | 58 |
| 105 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 11447 | 21 |
| 106 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11351 | 11 |
| 107 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 11226 | 67 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 11211 | 28 |
| 109 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 11197 | 10 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11192 | 13 |
| 111 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11116 | 26 |
| (111) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11098 | 4 |
| 112 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11047 | 11 |
| (112) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 10995 | 10 |
| 113 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 10884 | 36 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 10813 | 11 |
| (114) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 10783 | 65 |
| (114) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10763 | 8 |
| 115 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 10739 | 36 |
| 116 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 10493 | 7 |
| (116) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10446 | 14 |
| 117 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 10413 | 25 |
| (117) | 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 | 10165 | 12 |
| 118 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10046 | 13 |
| 119 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10032 | 12 |
| 120 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 10023 | 33 |
| (120) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9989 | 14 |
| 121 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 9932 | 25 |
| (121) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9876 | 16 |
| (121) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9849 | 4 |
| 122 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 9759 | 15 |
| (122) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 9725 | 18 |
| 123 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 9633 | 45 |
| 124 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 9580 | 7 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 9516 | 18 |
| (125) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9490 | 5 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9473 | 12 |
| 127 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9411 | 24 |
| 128 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 9408 | 20 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 9378 | 31 |
| 130 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 9359 | 11 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9281 | 16 |
| 132 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 9148 | 11 |
| 133 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9113 | 23 |
| 134 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 9109 | 30 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 8966 | 16 |
| 136 | Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands | Den Haag, Netherlands | 8960 | 20 |
| 137 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 8932 | 35 |
| 138 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 8924 | 15 |
| 139 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 8816 | 10 |
| 140 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 8809 | 23 |
| 141 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 8703 | 37 |
| 142 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 8648 | 27 |
| 143 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 8610 | 28 |
| 144 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8602 | 8 |
| (144) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8585 | 7 |
| 145 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 8560 | 52 |
| 146 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 8551 | 32 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 8516 | 15 |
| (147) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 8454 | 14 |
| 148 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 8441 | 16 |
| (148) | Policy Research Department, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8436 | 8 |
| 149 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet | København, Denmark | 8305 | 18 |
| (149) | Quantitative Finance Research Centre, School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 8283 | 8 |
| (149) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8269 | 4 |
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