| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 113884 | 258 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 37972 | 212 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 29276 | 275 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22486 | 32 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 18022 | 36 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13718 | 31 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13040 | 24 |
| 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11751 | 98 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 11464 | 30 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11125 | 27 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10445 | 27 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10062 | 13 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9654 | 25 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9577 | 133 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8259 | 30 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8249 | 16 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7848 | 40 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 7711 | 31 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 7699 | 29 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7530 | 29 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7301 | 29 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7192 | 15 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7184 | 30 |
| (22) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6875 | 32 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6466 | 38 |
| 23 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6429 | 17 |
| 24 | CESifo | München, Germany | 6301 | 70 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6123 | 16 |
| 26 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6007 | 98 |
| 27 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 5571 | 12 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5467 | 22 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5332 | 26 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5325 | 90 |
| (30) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5191 | 11 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5029 | 17 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4950 | 14 |
| 33 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4874 | 12 |
| 34 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4629 | 60 |
| 35 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4583 | 28 |
| 36 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4466 | 53 |
| 37 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4457 | 27 |
| 38 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4288 | 28 |
| 39 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4101 | 11 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4088 | 15 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4054 | 21 |
| 42 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3990 | 35 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3942 | 21 |
| (43) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3928 | 5 |
| 44 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 3914 | 11 |
| (44) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 3911 | 10 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3877 | 25 |
| 46 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3859 | 6 |
| 47 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3824 | 45 |
| 48 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3814 | 16 |
| (48) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3725 | 22 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3708 | 23 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3674 | 23 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3674 | 21 |
| 52 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3605 | 3 |
| 53 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3569 | 29 |
| 54 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 3568 | 3 |
| 55 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 3510 | 8 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3275 | 22 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3255 | 30 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3132 | 33 |
| (58) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3105 | 6 |
| (58) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3077 | 5 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 2973 | 29 |
| (59) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2901 | 18 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2870 | 13 |
| (60) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2860 | 16 |
| (60) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2854 | 28 |
| (60) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2846 | 7 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2846 | 22 |
| (61) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 2838 | 8 |
| 62 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2785 | 11 |
| 63 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2730 | 10 |
| 64 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2641 | 10 |
| 65 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2592 | 9 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2575 | 11 |
| 67 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2509 | 38 |
| 68 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2419 | 23 |
| (68) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2404 | 7 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2352 | 47 |
| 70 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2324 | 51 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2314 | 32 |
| 72 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2292 | 24 |
| 73 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2279 | 47 |
| (73) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2158 | 28 |
| (73) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2140 | 4 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2132 | 9 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2087 | 22 |
| (74) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2077 | 14 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 1985 | 19 |
| 76 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1952 | 14 |
| (76) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1891 | 12 |
| (76) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1852 | 4 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1849 | 11 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1823 | 29 |
| (78) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1792 | 26 |
| (78) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1767 | 24 |
| 78 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1767 | 24 |
| (79) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1757 | 1 |
| (79) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1719 | 2 |
| 80 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1684 | 25 |
| (80) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1665 | 4 |
| (80) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1639 | 1 |
| (80) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1639 | 1 |
| 81 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1634 | 49 |
| 82 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1626 | 21 |
| 83 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1625 | 9 |
| 84 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1615 | 6 |
| 85 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1600 | 99 |
| (85) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1581 | 5 |
| 86 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1578 | 10 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1576 | 8 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1571 | 9 |
| 88 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1550 | 10 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1541 | 35 |
| (89) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1540 | 5 |
| 90 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1533 | 36 |
| (90) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1512 | 2 |
| 91 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1469 | 42 |
| 92 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1435 | 8 |
| (92) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1435 | 7 |
| (92) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1413 | 2 |
| 93 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1410 | 7 |
| (93) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1355 | 2 |
| 94 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1354 | 27 |
| 95 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1339 | 14 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1315 | 16 |
| 97 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1314 | 8 |
| 98 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1310 | 17 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1303 | 16 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1292 | 6 |
| 101 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1288 | 63 |
| 102 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1287 | 7 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1281 | 15 |
| (103) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1270 | 3 |
| (103) | 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 | 1258 | 12 |
| 104 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1256 | 13 |
| (104) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1252 | 3 |
| 105 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1251 | 16 |
| 106 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1242 | 2 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1233 | 18 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1231 | 14 |
| 109 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1226 | 22 |
| 110 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1222 | 36 |
| 111 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1183 | 4 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1178 | 11 |
| 113 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1160 | 2 |
| (113) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1154 | 16 |
| 114 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1145 | 20 |
| 115 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1134 | 11 |
| 116 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1119 | 40 |
| 116 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1119 | 36 |
| 118 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1105 | 6 |
| 119 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1098 | 70 |
| 120 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1094 | 16 |
| 121 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1080 | 18 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1078 | 11 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1069 | 12 |
| 124 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 1068 | 39 |
| 125 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1055 | 7 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1042 | 34 |
| (126) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1024 | 67 |
| 127 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1021 | 17 |
| 127 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1021 | 29 |
| 129 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1009 | 57 |
| (129) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1009 | 38 |
| 130 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1003 | 9 |
| (130) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1002 | 8 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 999 | 18 |
| (131) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 990 | 10 |
| 132 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 983 | 15 |
| 133 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 974 | 5 |
| 133 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 974 | 3 |
| 135 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 966 | 11 |
| (135) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 949 | 3 |
| 136 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 945 | 8 |
| (136) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 945 | 8 |
| 137 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 942 | 50 |
| 138 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 938 | 9 |
| 139 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 937 | 8 |
| 140 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 905 | 9 |
| 141 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 897 | 28 |
| (141) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 887 | 1 |
| (141) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 879 | 19 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 879 | 13 |
| 143 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 876 | 10 |
| 144 | Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 875 | 3 |
| (144) | Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section, Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 869 | 8 |
| 145 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 867 | 11 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 866 | 13 |
| 147 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 855 | 17 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 853 | 10 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 847 | 16 |
| 149 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 847 | 46 |
| 151 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 842 | 23 |
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