| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 506530 | 264 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 276225 | 218 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 233324 | 304 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 101079 | 35 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 90653 | 108 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 75981 | 39 |
| 7 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 74266 | 104 |
| 8 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 69955 | 136 |
| 9 | CESifo | München, Germany | 68914 | 78 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 61488 | 31 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 61219 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 53102 | 24 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 50408 | 30 |
| 14 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 47992 | 13 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 43644 | 27 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 42242 | 31 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39239 | 27 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 38371 | 93 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 38018 | 33 |
| (19) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 37943 | 32 |
| 20 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 37792 | 102 |
| (20) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 37487 | 28 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 36945 | 30 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35784 | 39 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 35078 | 30 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 34195 | 16 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 32213 | 44 |
| 24 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 31922 | 58 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 31798 | 30 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 30911 | 33 |
| 27 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 28752 | 46 |
| 28 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 28172 | 40 |
| 29 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 28154 | 12 |
| 30 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 27850 | 54 |
| 31 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27751 | 35 |
| 32 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 27517 | 50 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 26963 | 26 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 26878 | 29 |
| 35 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 26795 | 17 |
| 36 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 26702 | 49 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 26537 | 15 |
| 38 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 26377 | 23 |
| 39 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 26153 | 28 |
| 40 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 26047 | 27 |
| 41 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 25749 | 22 |
| 42 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 25680 | 54 |
| 43 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 25658 | 13 |
| 44 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25360 | 16 |
| 45 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 25203 | 29 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 25080 | 50 |
| 47 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24214 | 28 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 22699 | 23 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22203 | 29 |
| 50 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 22162 | 20 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21814 | 32 |
| (51) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 21769 | 22 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 21719 | 22 |
| 53 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21621 | 15 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 21522 | 50 |
| 55 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 21506 | 43 |
| (55) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21452 | 26 |
| 56 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 21298 | 21 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 20974 | 43 |
| 58 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 20937 | 65 |
| (58) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 20405 | 13 |
| 59 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 20293 | 41 |
| 60 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20281 | 11 |
| (60) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 20018 | 11 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 19821 | 24 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19391 | 13 |
| 63 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 19166 | 11 |
| 64 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 18689 | 27 |
| (64) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18386 | 11 |
| (64) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 18175 | 27 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 18160 | 30 |
| 66 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 18100 | 42 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 18074 | 18 |
| 67 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17913 | 17 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17866 | 17 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17588 | 12 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 17307 | 33 |
| 71 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17177 | 25 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 17047 | 22 |
| 73 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 16953 | 5 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 16617 | 20 |
| (74) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16555 | 5 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 16363 | 36 |
| 76 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 16326 | 28 |
| 77 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 16251 | 27 |
| 78 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 15955 | 19 |
| 79 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 15799 | 24 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 15477 | 21 |
| 81 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 15107 | 31 |
| 82 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 14792 | 6 |
| (82) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 14508 | 36 |
| 83 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 14371 | 18 |
| 84 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 14310 | 25 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 14286 | 35 |
| 86 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 14250 | 33 |
| (86) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14087 | 7 |
| 87 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 14080 | 30 |
| (87) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13962 | 4 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 13826 | 37 |
| 89 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 13784 | 33 |
| 90 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 13721 | 26 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 13692 | 37 |
| 92 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13560 | 5 |
| 93 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 13547 | 23 |
| 94 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13392 | 16 |
| 95 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 13382 | 24 |
| (95) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13340 | 3 |
| 96 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13310 | 3 |
| (96) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 13117 | 16 |
| 97 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 13069 | 6 |
| 98 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 13029 | 11 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 13002 | 23 |
| 100 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 12878 | 36 |
| 101 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 12775 | 18 |
| 102 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 12571 | 59 |
| 103 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 12550 | 24 |
| 104 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 12416 | 74 |
| 105 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 12385 | 10 |
| 106 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12382 | 12 |
| 107 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 12372 | 26 |
| (107) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12334 | 11 |
| (107) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12275 | 3 |
| (107) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 12212 | 8 |
| 108 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 12030 | 28 |
| 109 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 11972 | 36 |
| 110 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 11906 | 25 |
| 111 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 11786 | 21 |
| 112 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 11703 | 8 |
| (112) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11684 | 6 |
| 113 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 11680 | 26 |
| 114 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11663 | 11 |
| 115 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 11537 | 27 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11230 | 11 |
| 117 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 11220 | 37 |
| 118 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 11044 | 38 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 10995 | 14 |
| 120 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 10863 | 34 |
| 121 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10828 | 26 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 10727 | 12 |
| 123 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 10712 | 8 |
| (123) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10699 | 14 |
| 124 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 10652 | 17 |
| (124) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10517 | 4 |
| 125 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 10434 | 59 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 10277 | 19 |
| 127 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 10273 | 25 |
| (127) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10215 | 4 |
| 128 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 10166 | 12 |
| (128) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10058 | 5 |
| 129 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10052 | 12 |
| (129) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 9981 | 19 |
| 130 | Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Napoli - "Federico II" | Napoli, Italy | 9968 | 7 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 9932 | 34 |
| 132 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 9909 | 50 |
| 132 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 9909 | 34 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 9905 | 19 |
| 135 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 9883 | 18 |
| 136 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 9876 | 15 |
| (136) | Policy Research Department, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9833 | 8 |
| 137 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9821 | 12 |
| 138 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 9749 | 37 |
| (138) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9738 | 13 |
| 139 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 9654 | 28 |
| 140 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent | Gent, Belgium | 9644 | 17 |
| 141 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 9533 | 36 |
| (141) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9481 | 16 |
| 142 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9387 | 16 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 9375 | 26 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 9355 | 16 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9262 | 17 |
| 146 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 9190 | 36 |
| 147 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9167 | 24 |
| 148 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 9163 | 22 |
| (148) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9159 | 14 |
| 149 | Waikato Management School, University of Waikato | Hamilton, New Zealand | 9077 | 18 |
| 150 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 9023 | 35 |
| 151 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 9004 | 29 |
| (151) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 8988 | 15 |
| 152 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover | Hannover, Germany | 8969 | 29 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 8943 | 10 |
| 154 | Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands | Den Haag, Netherlands | 8905 | 21 |
| 155 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 8884 | 41 |
| 156 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 8854 | 12 |
| 157 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 8833 | 17 |
| 158 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 8785 | 18 |
| (158) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8776 | 24 |
| 158 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 8776 | 24 |
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