| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 109284 | 257 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 66455 | 211 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 54577 | 271 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 21211 | 69 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 20751 | 96 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 17127 | 36 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15922 | 32 |
| 8 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15861 | 97 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 15735 | 89 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 14609 | 132 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13017 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11728 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11510 | 30 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10638 | 26 |
| 15 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10522 | 52 |
| 16 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 10514 | 59 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 10221 | 28 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10197 | 27 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10175 | 28 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10170 | 26 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10031 | 23 |
| (21) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 9890 | 25 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 9764 | 25 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9704 | 31 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 9518 | 29 |
| 24 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 9426 | 95 |
| (24) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9176 | 16 |
| 25 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 8911 | 36 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8900 | 20 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 8847 | 45 |
| 28 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8834 | 12 |
| 29 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8407 | 28 |
| (29) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8338 | 37 |
| 30 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 8291 | 43 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 8054 | 22 |
| 32 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 7872 | 49 |
| 33 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7774 | 47 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 7701 | 32 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 7525 | 32 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7409 | 30 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7389 | 30 |
| (37) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7383 | 22 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7313 | 29 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7175 | 21 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7076 | 33 |
| 41 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 6978 | 37 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6870 | 15 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 6841 | 22 |
| 44 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6621 | 16 |
| 45 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 6461 | 25 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 6394 | 27 |
| (46) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6340 | 28 |
| 47 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 6298 | 19 |
| 48 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6218 | 28 |
| 49 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6180 | 13 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6126 | 37 |
| 51 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5932 | 25 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 5861 | 18 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5816 | 22 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5797 | 36 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5773 | 15 |
| 56 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 5733 | 28 |
| 57 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5663 | 28 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5640 | 15 |
| 59 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 5624 | 27 |
| 60 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 5514 | 58 |
| 61 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 5403 | 33 |
| 62 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 5354 | 20 |
| 63 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 5318 | 51 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5313 | 23 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 5310 | 23 |
| 66 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 5302 | 32 |
| 67 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5155 | 16 |
| 68 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5129 | 11 |
| 69 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5119 | 14 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 5099 | 9 |
| 71 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5040 | 21 |
| 72 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 5030 | 29 |
| 73 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4991 | 24 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 4894 | 24 |
| 75 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 4821 | 36 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 4775 | 31 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 4716 | 32 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 4597 | 37 |
| (78) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4596 | 12 |
| 79 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4576 | 16 |
| 80 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4565 | 30 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 4494 | 14 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4493 | 22 |
| 83 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 4486 | 53 |
| (83) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 4485 | 23 |
| 83 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 4485 | 23 |
| (84) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 4450 | 23 |
| 85 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4340 | 16 |
| (85) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4326 | 12 |
| 86 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 4325 | 22 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4287 | 21 |
| 88 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4253 | 40 |
| 89 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 4252 | 17 |
| (89) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4239 | 18 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4225 | 11 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 4197 | 34 |
| 92 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4180 | 24 |
| 93 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 4155 | 39 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 4153 | 16 |
| (94) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4056 | 28 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4043 | 11 |
| 96 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 4021 | 10 |
| 97 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3960 | 12 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3920 | 24 |
| (98) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3915 | 16 |
| 99 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 3902 | 25 |
| 100 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 3862 | 67 |
| 101 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 3859 | 26 |
| 102 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 3824 | 33 |
| 103 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 3801 | 18 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 3800 | 16 |
| (104) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 3713 | 65 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3694 | 23 |
| 106 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 3693 | 7 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 3673 | 12 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 3671 | 28 |
| 109 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3630 | 12 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3573 | 11 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 3565 | 20 |
| 112 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 3511 | 25 |
| 113 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3485 | 14 |
| 114 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3484 | 8 |
| (114) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3456 | 7 |
| 115 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 3446 | 27 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 3437 | 15 |
| (116) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3422 | 16 |
| 117 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 3398 | 35 |
| (117) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3396 | 9 |
| 118 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 3372 | 21 |
| 119 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3349 | 8 |
| (119) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3308 | 7 |
| (119) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3289 | 7 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3282 | 11 |
| (120) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 3257 | 19 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3205 | 16 |
| 122 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3166 | 9 |
| 123 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 3164 | 25 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 3112 | 10 |
| 124 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3099 | 16 |
| 125 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 3089 | 15 |
| 126 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3042 | 9 |
| 127 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3020 | 13 |
| 128 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 3010 | 24 |
| 129 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2996 | 3 |
| (129) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 2991 | 12 |
| 130 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 2986 | 5 |
| 131 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2971 | 16 |
| 132 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2969 | 11 |
| 133 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 2968 | 6 |
| (133) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2959 | 10 |
| 134 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2955 | 40 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2952 | 16 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 2950 | 14 |
| 137 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2904 | 11 |
| 138 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 2901 | 20 |
| 139 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2833 | 9 |
| 140 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2809 | 4 |
| (140) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2809 | 4 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 2805 | 12 |
| (141) | 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 | 2790 | 12 |
| 142 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 2773 | 21 |
| 143 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 2765 | 13 |
| 144 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 2752 | 9 |
| (144) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2746 | 14 |
| 145 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 2732 | 18 |
| 146 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2731 | 11 |
| 147 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 2706 | 3 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 2698 | 14 |
| 149 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 2689 | 15 |
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