| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 117702 | 263 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 71992 | 215 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 60056 | 289 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 23803 | 74 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21578 | 100 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19169 | 35 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 18397 | 39 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 16154 | 91 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15899 | 100 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 15490 | 136 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13098 | 29 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12535 | 30 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12121 | 31 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11587 | 29 |
| 15 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 11566 | 59 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11490 | 26 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11226 | 27 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10856 | 24 |
| 19 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10737 | 54 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 10627 | 49 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10520 | 29 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 10478 | 30 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 10265 | 26 |
| 24 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 10240 | 101 |
| (24) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10215 | 26 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 10114 | 29 |
| (25) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9966 | 32 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9734 | 12 |
| (26) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9590 | 16 |
| 27 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9504 | 20 |
| 28 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9492 | 31 |
| 29 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 9059 | 49 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 8953 | 36 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 8756 | 22 |
| (31) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8600 | 39 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8308 | 32 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 8277 | 32 |
| 34 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 8105 | 48 |
| 35 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 8056 | 46 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7718 | 32 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7675 | 23 |
| 38 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7655 | 31 |
| (38) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 7644 | 22 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 7562 | 32 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7377 | 29 |
| 41 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7352 | 35 |
| 42 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7249 | 15 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 7145 | 38 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 6932 | 22 |
| 45 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 6847 | 25 |
| (45) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6836 | 27 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6816 | 43 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 6684 | 28 |
| 48 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 6570 | 24 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6543 | 14 |
| 50 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6445 | 28 |
| 51 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6416 | 13 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 6413 | 19 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6404 | 37 |
| 54 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 6369 | 59 |
| 55 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 6352 | 31 |
| 56 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6296 | 25 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6215 | 22 |
| 58 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6197 | 17 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 6065 | 20 |
| 60 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 5997 | 29 |
| (60) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 5791 | 25 |
| 60 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 5791 | 25 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5780 | 17 |
| 63 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5747 | 26 |
| 64 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 5695 | 35 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5637 | 24 |
| 66 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 5563 | 50 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5496 | 23 |
| 68 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 5478 | 32 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 5444 | 24 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 5433 | 34 |
| 71 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 5408 | 29 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5383 | 13 |
| 73 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5286 | 24 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 5195 | 10 |
| 75 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5194 | 11 |
| 76 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5127 | 14 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 5097 | 12 |
| 78 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5059 | 33 |
| 79 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 4994 | 53 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 4850 | 42 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 4777 | 15 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4752 | 24 |
| 83 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 4738 | 35 |
| 84 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4695 | 23 |
| 85 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 4691 | 32 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 4690 | 24 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 4659 | 26 |
| 87 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 4635 | 9 |
| 88 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4612 | 17 |
| (88) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4604 | 12 |
| 89 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4511 | 40 |
| 90 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4506 | 17 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4450 | 20 |
| 92 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 4446 | 21 |
| 93 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 4435 | 17 |
| 94 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4417 | 24 |
| (94) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4411 | 18 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 4373 | 37 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4363 | 12 |
| 97 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4343 | 34 |
| 98 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4337 | 15 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 4325 | 16 |
| 100 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 4319 | 41 |
| (100) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4233 | 10 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 4217 | 18 |
| 102 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 4194 | 18 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 4189 | 21 |
| 104 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4160 | 12 |
| (104) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4157 | 27 |
| 105 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4153 | 21 |
| 106 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4150 | 14 |
| (106) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4150 | 11 |
| 107 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4148 | 11 |
| 108 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 4132 | 65 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 4125 | 28 |
| 110 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 4111 | 26 |
| 111 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 4050 | 9 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 4027 | 28 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 4023 | 18 |
| (113) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4009 | 16 |
| 114 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4007 | 12 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 4001 | 26 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3962 | 11 |
| (116) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3892 | 17 |
| 117 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 3849 | 41 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3817 | 19 |
| (118) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3810 | 13 |
| 119 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 3781 | 28 |
| 120 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3774 | 22 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 3634 | 23 |
| 122 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 3591 | 22 |
| (122) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3588 | 9 |
| 123 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 3574 | 26 |
| (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 |
| (124) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3501 | 7 |
| 125 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 3467 | 35 |
| 126 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3444 | 8 |
| 127 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 3428 | 33 |
| (127) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 3416 | 7 |
| 128 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 3411 | 26 |
| (128) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3368 | 8 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 3367 | 16 |
| (129) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 3363 | 18 |
| (129) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 3341 | 12 |
| 130 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3323 | 11 |
| 131 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3286 | 11 |
| 132 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3277 | 11 |
| 133 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 3269 | 15 |
| 134 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 3252 | 22 |
| 135 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3239 | 14 |
| 136 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3207 | 3 |
| 137 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 3191 | 25 |
| 138 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3142 | 16 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 3118 | 11 |
| 140 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 3102 | 16 |
| 141 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3085 | 9 |
| 142 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 3070 | 5 |
| 143 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 3044 | 22 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 3035 | 17 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 2991 | 14 |
| 146 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 2977 | 6 |
| 147 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 2948 | 5 |
| 148 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 2922 | 9 |
| 149 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 2918 | 34 |
| 150 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2904 | 4 |
| (150) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 2904 | 4 |
| 151 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 2897 | 10 |
| 152 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 2886 | 39 |
| (152) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2861 | 14 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 2858 | 14 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 2839 | 15 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2831 | 11 |
| (155) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2828 | 12 |
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