| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 110158 | 257 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 36317 | 211 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 28498 | 271 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 21808 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 17347 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13080 | 31 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12027 | 23 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11267 | 96 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 10868 | 30 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10801 | 26 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9955 | 27 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 9789 | 13 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9306 | 26 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9171 | 132 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8013 | 30 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7982 | 16 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 7472 | 29 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 7372 | 32 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7225 | 28 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7140 | 36 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7081 | 29 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7046 | 30 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6527 | 31 |
| 22 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6500 | 16 |
| 23 | CESifo | München, Germany | 6443 | 69 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6203 | 37 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5993 | 15 |
| 25 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5801 | 97 |
| 26 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5440 | 12 |
| 27 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5336 | 22 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5293 | 15 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5222 | 89 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5198 | 25 |
| 31 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5077 | 16 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4882 | 16 |
| 33 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4739 | 12 |
| (33) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4572 | 12 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4480 | 28 |
| 35 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4447 | 52 |
| 36 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4445 | 59 |
| 37 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4305 | 27 |
| 38 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4191 | 28 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3972 | 15 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3921 | 20 |
| 41 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3910 | 11 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3894 | 22 |
| 43 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3890 | 33 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3805 | 43 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3769 | 25 |
| 46 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3767 | 6 |
| (46) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3718 | 22 |
| 47 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3643 | 16 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3614 | 24 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3563 | 23 |
| 50 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3501 | 3 |
| 51 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3474 | 29 |
| 52 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 3463 | 3 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3402 | 21 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3198 | 22 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3176 | 30 |
| 56 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 3099 | 7 |
| (56) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3086 | 6 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3034 | 32 |
| (57) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2903 | 5 |
| 58 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2859 | 11 |
| (58) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2856 | 10 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2847 | 28 |
| (59) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2812 | 16 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2810 | 22 |
| (60) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2788 | 18 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2768 | 13 |
| (61) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2752 | 8 |
| (61) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2749 | 7 |
| (61) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2722 | 28 |
| 62 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2694 | 10 |
| 63 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2659 | 11 |
| (63) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2622 | 4 |
| 64 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2588 | 37 |
| 65 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2584 | 9 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2579 | 11 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2534 | 10 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2347 | 21 |
| (68) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2326 | 7 |
| 69 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2293 | 47 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2264 | 32 |
| 71 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2263 | 24 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2237 | 45 |
| 73 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2160 | 53 |
| (73) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2070 | 28 |
| (73) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2069 | 4 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2064 | 9 |
| (73) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2044 | 14 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2035 | 21 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1916 | 20 |
| 76 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1833 | 14 |
| (76) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1810 | 4 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1778 | 49 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1777 | 11 |
| (78) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1774 | 12 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1763 | 28 |
| (79) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1733 | 25 |
| (79) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1728 | 1 |
| 80 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1681 | 25 |
| (80) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1673 | 4 |
| (80) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1634 | 2 |
| (80) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1622 | 23 |
| 80 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1622 | 23 |
| 82 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1567 | 95 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1559 | 8 |
| 84 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1546 | 8 |
| 85 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1543 | 6 |
| 86 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1540 | 10 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1536 | 34 |
| (87) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1533 | 5 |
| (87) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1512 | 1 |
| (87) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1512 | 1 |
| (87) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1502 | 5 |
| 88 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1496 | 36 |
| 89 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1485 | 9 |
| (89) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1467 | 2 |
| 90 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1452 | 19 |
| 91 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1447 | 26 |
| (91) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1444 | 9 |
| 92 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1389 | 7 |
| (92) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1372 | 2 |
| (92) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1361 | 2 |
| 93 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1321 | 8 |
| 94 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1285 | 7 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1283 | 13 |
| 96 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1281 | 8 |
| (96) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1281 | 7 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1280 | 15 |
| (97) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1254 | 3 |
| (97) | 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 | 1253 | 12 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1252 | 16 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1249 | 6 |
| 100 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1241 | 62 |
| 101 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1235 | 35 |
| (101) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1232 | 3 |
| 102 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1231 | 16 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1222 | 15 |
| 104 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1218 | 13 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1198 | 23 |
| 106 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1197 | 40 |
| 107 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1190 | 40 |
| 108 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1180 | 16 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1169 | 14 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1156 | 18 |
| 111 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1148 | 21 |
| 112 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1140 | 4 |
| (112) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1122 | 16 |
| 113 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1108 | 11 |
| 114 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1105 | 2 |
| 115 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1100 | 11 |
| 116 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1089 | 16 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1063 | 12 |
| 118 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1055 | 2 |
| 119 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1051 | 7 |
| 120 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1046 | 36 |
| 121 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 1043 | 39 |
| 122 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1039 | 5 |
| 123 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1035 | 18 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1021 | 10 |
| 125 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 987 | 9 |
| (125) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 986 | 8 |
| 125 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 986 | 28 |
| 127 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 981 | 58 |
| (127) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 968 | 38 |
| 128 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 956 | 5 |
| (128) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 955 | 9 |
| 128 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 955 | 33 |
| 130 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 945 | 11 |
| 131 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 932 | 51 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 931 | 16 |
| 133 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 924 | 15 |
| 134 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 914 | 8 |
| (134) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 914 | 8 |
| 135 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 903 | 15 |
| 135 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 903 | 9 |
| 137 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 889 | 3 |
| 138 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 884 | 67 |
| 139 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 879 | 9 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 879 | 13 |
| (140) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 872 | 3 |
| (140) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 868 | 65 |
| 141 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 866 | 18 |
| 142 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 862 | 10 |
| (142) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 859 | 1 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 855 | 14 |
| 144 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 853 | 11 |
| 145 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 852 | 8 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 849 | 9 |
| 147 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 848 | 30 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 842 | 16 |
| 149 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 837 | 18 |
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