| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 499146 | 260 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 265499 | 213 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 224152 | 285 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 90419 | 33 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 87755 | 97 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 78666 | 137 |
| 7 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 76095 | 98 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 74752 | 39 |
| 9 | CESifo | München, Germany | 61831 | 73 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 59968 | 31 |
| 11 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 58737 | 28 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 53204 | 24 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 50240 | 30 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 47749 | 13 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 43140 | 26 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 39821 | 29 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 39766 | 32 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39331 | 26 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 38667 | 30 |
| (18) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 37908 | 27 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 37684 | 33 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 36954 | 90 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 36535 | 37 |
| 21 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 34938 | 101 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 34490 | 30 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 34237 | 16 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 32716 | 43 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 32429 | 29 |
| 25 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 31998 | 60 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 30771 | 31 |
| 27 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29197 | 47 |
| 28 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 28761 | 51 |
| 29 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 28377 | 39 |
| 30 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 28122 | 12 |
| 31 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 28001 | 53 |
| 32 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27936 | 35 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 27422 | 30 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27072 | 26 |
| 35 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 26558 | 24 |
| 36 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 26435 | 17 |
| 37 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 26231 | 27 |
| 38 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 26048 | 22 |
| 39 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 25876 | 49 |
| 40 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 25629 | 12 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 25589 | 14 |
| 42 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 25586 | 23 |
| 43 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 25408 | 53 |
| 44 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 24931 | 17 |
| 45 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 24782 | 47 |
| 46 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 24522 | 29 |
| 47 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24428 | 28 |
| (47) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 24297 | 29 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 23068 | 23 |
| 49 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 22320 | 20 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22309 | 29 |
| 51 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 21778 | 66 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 21744 | 22 |
| 53 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 21726 | 40 |
| 54 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21653 | 15 |
| (54) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 21625 | 22 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21512 | 26 |
| 55 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 21362 | 21 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21359 | 30 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 20675 | 41 |
| (57) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 20502 | 13 |
| (57) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 20273 | 9 |
| 58 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20087 | 11 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 19966 | 24 |
| 60 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 19640 | 40 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 19601 | 47 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19538 | 13 |
| 63 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 19065 | 27 |
| 64 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18868 | 11 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 18245 | 18 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17986 | 12 |
| 66 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17962 | 17 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17879 | 16 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 17713 | 21 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 17595 | 30 |
| (69) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17566 | 5 |
| 70 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 17543 | 41 |
| (70) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17385 | 10 |
| 71 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 17344 | 5 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 17102 | 33 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 16884 | 22 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 16295 | 37 |
| 75 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 16276 | 19 |
| 76 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 16136 | 25 |
| 77 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 16110 | 27 |
| 78 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 16061 | 23 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 15936 | 20 |
| (79) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 15766 | 38 |
| 80 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 15664 | 28 |
| 81 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 15161 | 25 |
| 82 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 14845 | 6 |
| (82) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14274 | 7 |
| 83 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 14249 | 34 |
| 84 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 14145 | 17 |
| (84) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13959 | 4 |
| 85 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13843 | 3 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 13781 | 36 |
| 87 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 13717 | 31 |
| 88 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13559 | 4 |
| 89 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 13400 | 24 |
| (89) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13348 | 16 |
| 90 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13316 | 11 |
| 91 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 13288 | 30 |
| 92 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 13273 | 70 |
| 93 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 13187 | 28 |
| (93) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13002 | 3 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 12955 | 23 |
| 95 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 12934 | 36 |
| 96 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 12878 | 23 |
| 97 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12773 | 6 |
| 98 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 12766 | 18 |
| (98) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12656 | 3 |
| 99 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 12337 | 23 |
| 100 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 12331 | 35 |
| 101 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 12257 | 26 |
| 102 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 12186 | 59 |
| 103 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 12115 | 28 |
| 104 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 12046 | 20 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 11976 | 10 |
| 106 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 11879 | 25 |
| 107 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11831 | 12 |
| 108 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11778 | 11 |
| (108) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 11777 | 11 |
| (108) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 11683 | 67 |
| 109 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11673 | 14 |
| (109) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11608 | 6 |
| 110 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 11553 | 8 |
| 111 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 11550 | 22 |
| 112 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11162 | 26 |
| 113 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11157 | 14 |
| (113) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 11079 | 8 |
| 114 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 11046 | 37 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11002 | 13 |
| (115) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10883 | 4 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 10854 | 11 |
| 117 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 10833 | 26 |
| 118 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 10721 | 33 |
| 119 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 10623 | 37 |
| 120 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 10596 | 8 |
| (120) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10503 | 14 |
| 121 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 10226 | 24 |
| (121) | 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 | 10173 | 12 |
| 122 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 10109 | 17 |
| (122) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10066 | 4 |
| 123 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 10043 | 47 |
| (123) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 10029 | 19 |
| 124 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 9995 | 32 |
| 125 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9986 | 24 |
| 126 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 9902 | 12 |
| (126) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9821 | 5 |
| (126) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9819 | 16 |
| 127 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 9769 | 11 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 9701 | 18 |
| (128) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9681 | 15 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 9681 | 33 |
| 130 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9626 | 12 |
| 131 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 9562 | 15 |
| 132 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 9532 | 28 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 9480 | 26 |
| 134 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 9423 | 54 |
| 135 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9393 | 15 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 9318 | 17 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9275 | 16 |
| 138 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 9258 | 36 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 9214 | 16 |
| 140 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 9204 | 15 |
| 141 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 9170 | 29 |
| 142 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 9101 | 17 |
| 143 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 9048 | 40 |
| 144 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 9015 | 24 |
| 145 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 9009 | 21 |
| 146 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 8989 | 25 |
| (146) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 8958 | 14 |
| 147 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 8885 | 29 |
| 148 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 8817 | 32 |
| 149 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent | Gent, Belgium | 8750 | 17 |
| 150 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8660 | 22 |
| 151 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 8651 | 17 |
| (151) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8621 | 25 |
| 151 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8621 | 25 |
| 153 | Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 8575 | 15 |
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