| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 114200 | 260 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 70165 | 213 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 58588 | 285 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 23475 | 73 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21821 | 98 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 18340 | 39 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16607 | 33 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16347 | 137 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 16072 | 90 |
| 10 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15823 | 97 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13361 | 30 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12476 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12038 | 31 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11489 | 26 |
| 15 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 11474 | 60 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11192 | 28 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11175 | 26 |
| 18 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10737 | 53 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10638 | 24 |
| 20 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10455 | 29 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 10436 | 30 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10239 | 32 |
| (21) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10170 | 26 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 10114 | 29 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10013 | 26 |
| 24 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 9966 | 101 |
| (24) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9571 | 16 |
| 25 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9509 | 12 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9446 | 20 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 9249 | 47 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 8907 | 36 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 8808 | 47 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 8731 | 22 |
| (30) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8578 | 37 |
| 31 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8546 | 29 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 8336 | 33 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8287 | 31 |
| 34 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 8044 | 49 |
| 35 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8040 | 47 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7675 | 23 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7603 | 30 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7507 | 30 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7492 | 30 |
| (39) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7411 | 22 |
| 40 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7334 | 35 |
| 41 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 7189 | 39 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 6995 | 15 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 6918 | 22 |
| (43) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6781 | 27 |
| 44 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 6765 | 25 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6760 | 43 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 6600 | 27 |
| 47 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 6559 | 23 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6482 | 14 |
| 49 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6418 | 28 |
| 50 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6370 | 13 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6345 | 37 |
| 52 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 6259 | 59 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6201 | 22 |
| 53 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 6201 | 30 |
| 55 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6186 | 17 |
| 56 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6074 | 25 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 6015 | 18 |
| 58 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 5953 | 29 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 5842 | 20 |
| 60 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5752 | 27 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5706 | 16 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5620 | 24 |
| 63 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 5616 | 33 |
| 64 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 5540 | 51 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5455 | 23 |
| 66 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 5422 | 32 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 5398 | 23 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5349 | 13 |
| 69 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 5339 | 29 |
| 70 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5245 | 24 |
| (70) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 5233 | 25 |
| 70 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 5233 | 25 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 5178 | 10 |
| 73 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5157 | 11 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 5150 | 12 |
| 75 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5127 | 14 |
| (75) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5118 | 29 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5019 | 33 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 5018 | 33 |
| 78 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 4885 | 53 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 4762 | 41 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 4749 | 15 |
| 81 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4709 | 23 |
| 82 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4690 | 29 |
| 83 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 4672 | 35 |
| (83) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 4640 | 23 |
| 84 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4612 | 17 |
| 85 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 4605 | 70 |
| (85) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4604 | 12 |
| 86 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 4602 | 8 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 4581 | 26 |
| 88 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4576 | 23 |
| 89 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4484 | 40 |
| 90 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 4446 | 21 |
| 91 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4424 | 17 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4395 | 21 |
| (92) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4370 | 18 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4363 | 12 |
| 94 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 4361 | 17 |
| 95 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4299 | 24 |
| 96 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4282 | 34 |
| 97 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 4262 | 40 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 4258 | 36 |
| 99 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 4256 | 25 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 4213 | 16 |
| (100) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4172 | 10 |
| (100) | Centre d'Analyse Thérique des Organisations et des Marchés (ATOM), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 4165 | 67 |
| 101 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4150 | 14 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 4147 | 21 |
| 103 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4125 | 11 |
| 104 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 4111 | 25 |
| 105 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 4053 | 18 |
| 106 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 4025 | 28 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 4009 | 18 |
| 108 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4007 | 12 |
| (108) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3997 | 16 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 3983 | 28 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 3951 | 26 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 3951 | 17 |
| 112 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3939 | 9 |
| 113 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 3884 | 12 |
| (113) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 3874 | 11 |
| 114 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 3781 | 28 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3777 | 19 |
| 116 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3751 | 22 |
| 117 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3742 | 20 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3738 | 11 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 3726 | 12 |
| 120 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 3582 | 22 |
| 121 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 3574 | 26 |
| 122 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3556 | 14 |
| 123 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3555 | 41 |
| (123) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3547 | 9 |
| (123) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3539 | 16 |
| 124 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 3523 | 9 |
| 125 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3444 | 8 |
| 126 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 3419 | 36 |
| (126) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3418 | 7 |
| (126) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3416 | 7 |
| 127 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 3371 | 32 |
| (127) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3368 | 8 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 3367 | 16 |
| (128) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 3363 | 18 |
| 129 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 3360 | 26 |
| 130 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3323 | 11 |
| (130) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3304 | 14 |
| 131 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3302 | 11 |
| 132 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3271 | 11 |
| 133 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 3252 | 15 |
| 134 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3230 | 14 |
| (134) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 3190 | 11 |
| 135 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3142 | 16 |
| 136 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3107 | 3 |
| 137 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 3097 | 20 |
| 138 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 3091 | 24 |
| 139 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 3070 | 5 |
| 140 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3068 | 9 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 3050 | 16 |
| 142 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 3043 | 21 |
| (142) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3029 | 12 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 2979 | 14 |
| 144 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 2968 | 6 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 2953 | 17 |
| 146 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 2898 | 9 |
| 147 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2897 | 4 |
| (147) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2897 | 4 |
| 148 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2881 | 9 |
| 149 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 2869 | 40 |
| (149) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2834 | 14 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 2833 | 12 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2831 | 11 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2812 | 14 |
| (152) | 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 | 2807 | 12 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 2802 | 15 |
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