| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 498828 | 258 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 261895 | 212 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 218675 | 275 |
| 4 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 90768 | 98 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 88481 | 32 |
| 6 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 75200 | 98 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 74087 | 133 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 72859 | 36 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 59452 | 30 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 56846 | 27 |
| 11 | CESifo | München, Germany | 54025 | 70 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 52799 | 24 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 49740 | 31 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 47006 | 13 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 42102 | 27 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 39752 | 29 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39386 | 25 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 38920 | 32 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 37764 | 30 |
| (18) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 37517 | 28 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 36988 | 33 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 36775 | 38 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 36605 | 90 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 34245 | 16 |
| 21 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 33560 | 99 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 33423 | 30 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 32340 | 29 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 31433 | 40 |
| 25 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 31183 | 60 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 30476 | 31 |
| 27 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29050 | 47 |
| 28 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 29027 | 50 |
| 29 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 27967 | 53 |
| 30 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 27900 | 38 |
| 31 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27839 | 35 |
| 32 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 27584 | 12 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 26869 | 26 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 26866 | 29 |
| 35 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 26740 | 24 |
| 36 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 26146 | 23 |
| 37 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 26104 | 22 |
| 38 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 25934 | 27 |
| 39 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 25884 | 17 |
| 40 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 25831 | 51 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 25478 | 15 |
| 42 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 25467 | 12 |
| 43 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 25315 | 49 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 24566 | 45 |
| 45 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24465 | 28 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 24274 | 29 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 22895 | 23 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 22369 | 21 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21913 | 29 |
| 50 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 21888 | 17 |
| 51 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 21881 | 40 |
| (51) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 21592 | 22 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 21426 | 22 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21424 | 30 |
| 54 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 21359 | 21 |
| 55 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21321 | 15 |
| 56 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 21111 | 63 |
| (56) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21084 | 26 |
| (56) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 20495 | 13 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20343 | 28 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 20180 | 38 |
| (57) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 20095 | 9 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19639 | 14 |
| 59 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 19461 | 39 |
| 60 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 19351 | 28 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 19259 | 23 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 19174 | 47 |
| 63 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18727 | 11 |
| (63) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 18088 | 18 |
| 64 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17846 | 16 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17816 | 16 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 17730 | 21 |
| (66) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17567 | 5 |
| (66) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17385 | 11 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17370 | 11 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 17147 | 29 |
| 69 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 17134 | 5 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 16772 | 32 |
| 71 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 16653 | 42 |
| 72 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 16390 | 18 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 16123 | 21 |
| 74 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 16006 | 27 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 15965 | 37 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 15915 | 19 |
| 77 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 15859 | 22 |
| 78 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 15567 | 27 |
| (78) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 15542 | 38 |
| 79 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 15501 | 25 |
| 80 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15428 | 10 |
| 81 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 15226 | 25 |
| 82 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 14676 | 6 |
| 83 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 14098 | 34 |
| (83) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14042 | 7 |
| 84 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 13919 | 17 |
| 85 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13844 | 3 |
| (85) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13840 | 5 |
| 86 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13566 | 3 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 13516 | 35 |
| (87) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13382 | 16 |
| 88 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 13304 | 24 |
| 89 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 13266 | 28 |
| 90 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13244 | 11 |
| 91 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 13060 | 70 |
| 92 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 13025 | 29 |
| (92) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12914 | 3 |
| 93 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 12770 | 29 |
| 94 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 12741 | 36 |
| 95 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 12739 | 23 |
| 96 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 12737 | 18 |
| (96) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12565 | 3 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 12525 | 22 |
| 98 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12429 | 6 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 12386 | 36 |
| 100 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 12269 | 24 |
| 101 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 12131 | 21 |
| 102 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 11857 | 25 |
| 103 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 11834 | 28 |
| 104 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 11796 | 57 |
| 105 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 11793 | 20 |
| 106 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11628 | 11 |
| (106) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11567 | 6 |
| 107 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11556 | 12 |
| 108 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 11548 | 22 |
| (108) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 11492 | 67 |
| 109 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11442 | 11 |
| 110 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 11436 | 8 |
| 111 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 11414 | 10 |
| (111) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11390 | 10 |
| 112 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11089 | 26 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 10995 | 13 |
| (113) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10941 | 4 |
| 114 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 10918 | 37 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 10793 | 11 |
| 116 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 10606 | 38 |
| (116) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 10560 | 8 |
| 117 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 10453 | 25 |
| (117) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10399 | 14 |
| 118 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 10380 | 25 |
| 119 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 10323 | 32 |
| (119) | 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 | 10130 | 12 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10036 | 13 |
| 121 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 10011 | 46 |
| (121) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 9983 | 4 |
| 122 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9896 | 12 |
| (122) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 9886 | 19 |
| 123 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9825 | 24 |
| (123) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9729 | 14 |
| (123) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9668 | 16 |
| 124 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 9601 | 15 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 9568 | 18 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9557 | 12 |
| 127 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 9511 | 11 |
| (127) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9462 | 5 |
| 128 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 9432 | 28 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 9431 | 31 |
| 130 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9410 | 15 |
| 131 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 9339 | 7 |
| 132 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 9278 | 16 |
| 133 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 9233 | 13 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9225 | 16 |
| 135 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 9157 | 52 |
| 136 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 9148 | 36 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 9146 | 16 |
| 138 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 9064 | 30 |
| 139 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 9049 | 17 |
| (139) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 8958 | 14 |
| 140 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 8953 | 40 |
| 141 | Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands | Den Haag, Netherlands | 8841 | 21 |
| 142 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 8790 | 23 |
| 143 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 8785 | 20 |
| 144 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 8685 | 32 |
| 145 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 8633 | 17 |
| 146 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8621 | 22 |
| 147 | Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 8613 | 15 |
| 148 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 8570 | 29 |
| 149 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 8504 | 28 |
| 150 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8461 | 8 |
| 151 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 8446 | 16 |
| (151) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 8440 | 7 |
| (151) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8371 | 24 |
| 151 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8371 | 24 |
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