| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 125541 | 264 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 42674 | 218 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 32897 | 304 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 28063 | 35 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 20242 | 39 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14600 | 30 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14050 | 24 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12766 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 12652 | 31 |
| 10 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12524 | 104 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11347 | 27 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 10756 | 13 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10401 | 27 |
| 14 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9712 | 136 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9027 | 30 |
| (15) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8908 | 16 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8801 | 31 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8576 | 44 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 8339 | 30 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8211 | 33 |
| 20 | CESifo | München, Germany | 7948 | 78 |
| 21 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7843 | 15 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7809 | 29 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7637 | 30 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 7342 | 32 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6863 | 39 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6703 | 17 |
| 25 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6195 | 108 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 6061 | 93 |
| 27 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 6029 | 12 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5956 | 22 |
| 29 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5946 | 16 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5772 | 26 |
| (30) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5686 | 11 |
| 31 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5388 | 17 |
| 32 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5364 | 13 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5353 | 13 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5007 | 28 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 4948 | 58 |
| 36 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4913 | 28 |
| 37 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4825 | 54 |
| 38 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4635 | 27 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4473 | 22 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4443 | 15 |
| 41 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 4426 | 20 |
| 42 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4424 | 25 |
| 43 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4321 | 11 |
| 44 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4298 | 12 |
| 45 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4296 | 35 |
| (45) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4295 | 11 |
| 46 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4165 | 50 |
| 47 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4142 | 6 |
| 48 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 4073 | 29 |
| 49 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4056 | 17 |
| (49) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4022 | 22 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 3992 | 24 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3931 | 23 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3898 | 20 |
| 53 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 3870 | 5 |
| 54 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3811 | 3 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 3658 | 32 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 3591 | 22 |
| 57 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 3579 | 8 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 3454 | 11 |
| 59 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3433 | 11 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 3378 | 33 |
| (60) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3365 | 6 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3336 | 14 |
| (61) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3317 | 8 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 3290 | 30 |
| (62) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3253 | 5 |
| 63 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3248 | 11 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3151 | 24 |
| (64) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3100 | 16 |
| (64) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3078 | 7 |
| (64) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3059 | 18 |
| 65 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 2948 | 10 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 2881 | 50 |
| (66) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2873 | 4 |
| (66) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2825 | 8 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2766 | 9 |
| 68 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 2706 | 35 |
| 69 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2677 | 27 |
| 70 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 2659 | 40 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2644 | 33 |
| 72 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2515 | 54 |
| 73 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2449 | 46 |
| (73) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2432 | 27 |
| (73) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2376 | 11 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2338 | 23 |
| (74) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2335 | 28 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2322 | 21 |
| (75) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2301 | 4 |
| (75) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2299 | 14 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2289 | 12 |
| 77 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2176 | 14 |
| 78 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2139 | 23 |
| (78) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2109 | 12 |
| (78) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2003 | 4 |
| 79 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1990 | 102 |
| 80 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1946 | 29 |
| (80) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1913 | 26 |
| (80) | Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1912 | 1 |
| (80) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1895 | 24 |
| 80 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 1895 | 24 |
| 82 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1864 | 25 |
| (82) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1830 | 2 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1777 | 8 |
| 83 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 1776 | 49 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1773 | 9 |
| 85 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1771 | 25 |
| (85) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1770 | 4 |
| 86 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1756 | 10 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1736 | 37 |
| 88 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 1727 | 24 |
| (88) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1721 | 5 |
| 89 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1717 | 6 |
| 90 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1713 | 12 |
| (90) | Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1705 | 1 |
| (90) | George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1705 | 1 |
| 91 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 1703 | 37 |
| 92 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1668 | 12 |
| 93 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 1654 | 42 |
| (93) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1648 | 5 |
| 94 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1623 | 23 |
| (94) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1619 | 2 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1540 | 19 |
| 96 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1539 | 8 |
| 97 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1521 | 9 |
| (97) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 1521 | 8 |
| (97) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1507 | 2 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 1503 | 19 |
| 99 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1496 | 7 |
| (99) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1483 | 2 |
| 100 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 1460 | 28 |
| 101 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1446 | 8 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1437 | 17 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 1425 | 10 |
| 104 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1420 | 15 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1414 | 17 |
| 106 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1366 | 18 |
| 107 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1359 | 13 |
| 108 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1351 | 22 |
| (108) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 1347 | 3 |
| (108) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1343 | 3 |
| (108) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1340 | 13 |
| 109 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1339 | 65 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 1310 | 16 |
| 111 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1300 | 36 |
| 112 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1291 | 11 |
| 113 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1279 | 4 |
| 114 | School of Public Policy, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 1276 | 2 |
| 115 | Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Napoli - "Federico II" | Napoli, Italy | 1233 | 7 |
| 116 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1230 | 12 |
| 117 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1224 | 43 |
| (117) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1220 | 16 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1219 | 12 |
| 119 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 1218 | 12 |
| 120 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 1215 | 9 |
| 121 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 1210 | 16 |
| 122 | School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1209 | 2 |
| 123 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1201 | 59 |
| 124 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 1194 | 18 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1193 | 15 |
| 126 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1182 | 33 |
| 127 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1167 | 7 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1165 | 10 |
| 129 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 1155 | 41 |
| 130 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 1153 | 6 |
| 131 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 1146 | 74 |
| 132 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1123 | 29 |
| 133 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1117 | 36 |
| 134 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1082 | 11 |
| 135 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1079 | 9 |
| (135) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1079 | 9 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1074 | 18 |
| 137 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1072 | 17 |
| 138 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1058 | 21 |
| (138) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1056 | 11 |
| 139 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 1046 | 15 |
| 140 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 1034 | 5 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 1033 | 26 |
| 142 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1022 | 16 |
| 142 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1022 | 10 |
| 144 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1019 | 8 |
| (144) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1018 | 7 |
| 145 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1010 | 50 |
| (145) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1009 | 36 |
| 146 | Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1007 | 3 |
| 147 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 1000 | 9 |
| (147) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1000 | 3 |
| 148 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 999 | 24 |
| 149 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 997 | 34 |
| (149) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 996 | 19 |
| (149) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 989 | 2 |
| 150 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 984 | 28 |
| 151 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS) | Genève, Switzerland | 976 | 13 |
| 152 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 969 | 11 |
| 153 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 968 | 30 |
| (153) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 964 | 1 |
| 154 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 961 | 12 |
| (154) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 960 | 11 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 959 | 12 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 942 | 16 |
| (156) | Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section, Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 941 | 8 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 935 | 10 |
| 158 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 924 | 12 |
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