| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1728503 | 263 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 959851 | 215 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 901109 | 289 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 330489 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 258245 | 39 |
| 6 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 255472 | 100 |
| 7 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 252853 | 100 |
| 8 | CESifo | München, Germany | 248764 | 74 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 231262 | 136 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 194414 | 31 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 184570 | 24 |
| 12 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 175369 | 29 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 159569 | 29 |
| 14 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 152653 | 31 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 150831 | 26 |
| 16 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 147067 | 13 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 138348 | 91 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 132976 | 32 |
| 19 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 131796 | 101 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 129611 | 59 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 129411 | 32 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 128591 | 30 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 124406 | 27 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 122968 | 39 |
| 23 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 112566 | 21 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 112345 | 43 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 109952 | 29 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 109829 | 32 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 109323 | 31 |
| (27) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 109125 | 27 |
| 28 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 108635 | 35 |
| (28) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 108262 | 13 |
| 29 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 107982 | 48 |
| (29) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 106861 | 16 |
| 30 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 104496 | 54 |
| 31 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 104057 | 46 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 101816 | 26 |
| 33 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 101319 | 49 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 100195 | 37 |
| 35 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 97809 | 50 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 97076 | 14 |
| 37 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 94663 | 38 |
| 38 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 92378 | 12 |
| 39 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 92086 | 23 |
| 40 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 91398 | 22 |
| 41 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 88733 | 12 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 88241 | 28 |
| (42) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 87953 | 22 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 87900 | 29 |
| 44 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 87325 | 20 |
| 45 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 85446 | 26 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 85431 | 49 |
| 47 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 85191 | 30 |
| (47) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 84817 | 26 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 84539 | 42 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 84397 | 29 |
| 50 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 82900 | 24 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 82589 | 32 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 82496 | 29 |
| 53 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 81234 | 28 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 80984 | 22 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 78160 | 23 |
| 56 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 76184 | 17 |
| 57 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 75019 | 53 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 74725 | 22 |
| 59 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 74434 | 40 |
| 60 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 74319 | 15 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 74296 | 13 |
| 62 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 73158 | 17 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 71351 | 30 |
| 64 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 71331 | 27 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 68438 | 17 |
| 66 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 67207 | 28 |
| (66) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 66627 | 10 |
| 67 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 64754 | 41 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 64266 | 33 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 63505 | 24 |
| 70 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 62959 | 11 |
| 71 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 62510 | 11 |
| 72 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 62310 | 66 |
| 73 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 61932 | 26 |
| (73) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 61796 | 18 |
| 74 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 61648 | 41 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 61528 | 24 |
| (75) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 60976 | 9 |
| 76 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 59405 | 20 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 59211 | 23 |
| 78 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 58918 | 17 |
| (78) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 58060 | 27 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 57937 | 20 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 57738 | 12 |
| 81 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 56931 | 36 |
| 82 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 56509 | 11 |
| 83 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 56124 | 34 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 55895 | 37 |
| 85 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 55182 | 18 |
| 86 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 55136 | 31 |
| 87 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 54739 | 25 |
| 88 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 54361 | 59 |
| (88) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 53358 | 16 |
| 89 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 52974 | 35 |
| 90 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 52893 | 17 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 52843 | 34 |
| (91) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 52295 | 5 |
| 92 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 51208 | 25 |
| 93 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 49120 | 5 |
| 94 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 48196 | 6 |
| 95 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 47371 | 11 |
| 96 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 47310 | 65 |
| 97 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 46287 | 17 |
| (97) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 46216 | 7 |
| 98 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 45659 | 28 |
| 99 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 45631 | 17 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 44978 | 11 |
| 101 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 44903 | 22 |
| 102 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 44725 | 32 |
| 103 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 44543 | 25 |
| 104 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 44252 | 24 |
| 105 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 44220 | 32 |
| 106 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 44064 | 35 |
| 107 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 44041 | 26 |
| 108 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 44033 | 12 |
| (108) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 43989 | 25 |
| 108 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 43989 | 25 |
| (109) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 43792 | 11 |
| 110 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 43556 | 35 |
| 111 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 43344 | 19 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 42960 | 26 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 42589 | 19 |
| 114 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 42388 | 39 |
| (114) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 42345 | 14 |
| 115 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 41692 | 22 |
| (115) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 41680 | 37 |
| 116 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 41163 | 28 |
| 117 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 40920 | 14 |
| 118 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 40303 | 5 |
| 119 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 40256 | 28 |
| 120 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 40087 | 29 |
| 121 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 39776 | 23 |
| (121) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 39656 | 19 |
| 122 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 39510 | 3 |
| 123 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 39431 | 9 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 38468 | 12 |
| (124) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 38437 | 24 |
| 125 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 38396 | 17 |
| 126 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 38292 | 15 |
| 127 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 38183 | 28 |
| 128 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 38014 | 17 |
| 129 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 37837 | 37 |
| 130 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 37240 | 11 |
| 131 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 36983 | 26 |
| 132 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 36950 | 9 |
| 133 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 36634 | 15 |
| (133) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 36409 | 6 |
| 134 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 36235 | 46 |
| (134) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36011 | 4 |
| 135 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 35859 | 27 |
| (135) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 35754 | 16 |
| 136 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 35488 | 58 |
| (136) | Centro de Estudios de Organizaciones y Productividad (CEOP), Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 35376 | 2 |
| 137 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 35199 | 33 |
| 138 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 35130 | 6 |
| 139 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 34940 | 10 |
| 140 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 34796 | 22 |
| 141 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 34550 | 32 |
| (141) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 34512 | 12 |
| 142 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 34287 | 22 |
| 143 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 34199 | 16 |
| 144 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 33889 | 24 |
| (144) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 33817 | 4 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 33586 | 16 |
| 146 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 33564 | 34 |
| 147 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 33358 | 16 |
| 148 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 33202 | 29 |
| 149 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 33032 | 12 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 33027 | 13 |
| (150) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 32820 | 8 |
| (150) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 32706 | 5 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 32706 | 12 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 32364 | 17 |
| 153 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 32295 | 39 |
| (153) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 32155 | 15 |
| 154 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 32046 | 24 |
| 155 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 31895 | 15 |
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