| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 506224 | 266 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 281003 | 223 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 238655 | 311 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 102860 | 35 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 91665 | 113 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 77606 | 41 |
| 7 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 73988 | 105 |
| 8 | CESifo | München, Germany | 73326 | 80 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 71395 | 143 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 61721 | 31 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 60433 | 30 |
| 12 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 55986 | 106 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 52231 | 24 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 50386 | 30 |
| 15 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 46220 | 12 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44072 | 27 |
| 17 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 42110 | 32 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 39472 | 28 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 38802 | 35 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 38448 | 93 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 38173 | 33 |
| (20) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 38057 | 30 |
| 21 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 36223 | 31 |
| (21) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 35160 | 40 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 35061 | 30 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 34343 | 16 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 32385 | 58 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 31788 | 43 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 31491 | 30 |
| 26 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 31093 | 57 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 30669 | 33 |
| 28 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29702 | 46 |
| 29 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 28747 | 41 |
| 30 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 27992 | 12 |
| 31 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27923 | 36 |
| 32 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 27743 | 51 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27615 | 26 |
| 34 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 27265 | 23 |
| 35 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 27204 | 49 |
| 36 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 26735 | 56 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 26529 | 30 |
| 38 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 26486 | 28 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 26302 | 15 |
| 40 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 26093 | 13 |
| 41 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 26085 | 30 |
| 42 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 26050 | 17 |
| 43 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 25828 | 22 |
| 44 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 25753 | 52 |
| 45 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25634 | 17 |
| 46 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24826 | 28 |
| 47 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 24775 | 26 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 24343 | 21 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 22798 | 23 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22682 | 29 |
| (50) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 22181 | 23 |
| 51 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 22151 | 43 |
| 52 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 22121 | 69 |
| (52) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21826 | 26 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 21809 | 50 |
| 54 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21687 | 15 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 21642 | 31 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 21607 | 23 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 21196 | 45 |
| 58 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 21121 | 21 |
| 59 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20672 | 11 |
| (59) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 20190 | 13 |
| 60 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 20096 | 42 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 20081 | 24 |
| (61) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 19804 | 11 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 19207 | 14 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 19149 | 31 |
| 64 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18988 | 11 |
| (64) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 18566 | 28 |
| 65 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 18564 | 27 |
| 66 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 18383 | 42 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 18319 | 22 |
| (67) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18171 | 11 |
| 68 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18116 | 17 |
| (68) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 18058 | 18 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17923 | 18 |
| 70 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 17797 | 29 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17648 | 13 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 17510 | 33 |
| 73 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17239 | 25 |
| 74 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 16838 | 5 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 16495 | 20 |
| 76 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 16468 | 27 |
| (76) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16430 | 5 |
| 77 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 16407 | 42 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 16396 | 36 |
| 79 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 16169 | 27 |
| 80 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 15924 | 19 |
| 81 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 15829 | 30 |
| 82 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 15803 | 24 |
| 83 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 15111 | 21 |
| (83) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 14937 | 39 |
| 84 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 14790 | 37 |
| 85 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 14766 | 12 |
| 86 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 14756 | 6 |
| 87 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 14561 | 19 |
| 88 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 14430 | 33 |
| (88) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 14281 | 7 |
| 89 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 14277 | 25 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 14057 | 37 |
| 91 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 13999 | 28 |
| 92 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 13841 | 23 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 13814 | 37 |
| (93) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13784 | 4 |
| 94 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13735 | 17 |
| 95 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 13689 | 30 |
| 96 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 13464 | 37 |
| 97 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13443 | 5 |
| (97) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13414 | 3 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 13209 | 22 |
| 99 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13143 | 3 |
| 100 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 13120 | 76 |
| 101 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 12993 | 42 |
| 102 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 12975 | 23 |
| (102) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12966 | 16 |
| 103 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 12914 | 59 |
| 104 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12751 | 6 |
| 105 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 12671 | 18 |
| 106 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 12436 | 10 |
| 107 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 12377 | 26 |
| 108 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 12314 | 25 |
| 109 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12272 | 12 |
| (109) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12223 | 11 |
| (109) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 12158 | 8 |
| 110 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 12154 | 28 |
| (110) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12101 | 6 |
| (110) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12058 | 3 |
| 111 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 11985 | 27 |
| 112 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 11961 | 21 |
| 113 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 11877 | 40 |
| 114 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 11770 | 8 |
| 115 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 11521 | 41 |
| 116 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11489 | 11 |
| 117 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 11325 | 26 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11269 | 11 |
| (118) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11232 | 14 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11101 | 14 |
| 120 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 11049 | 35 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11009 | 13 |
| 122 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10998 | 26 |
| 123 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 10842 | 8 |
| 124 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 10798 | 57 |
| (124) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 10595 | 25 |
| 124 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 10595 | 25 |
| 124 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 10595 | 26 |
| (126) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10552 | 4 |
| 127 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 10474 | 17 |
| 128 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 10286 | 37 |
| 128 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 10286 | 12 |
| 130 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent | Gent, Belgium | 10272 | 17 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 10253 | 19 |
| 132 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 10251 | 34 |
| (132) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10147 | 4 |
| (132) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 10097 | 19 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 10090 | 19 |
| 134 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10065 | 12 |
| 135 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 10060 | 38 |
| 136 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 10035 | 28 |
| (136) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10032 | 5 |
| 137 | Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Napoli - "Federico II" | Napoli, Italy | 10024 | 7 |
| (137) | Policy Research Department, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10016 | 8 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 9990 | 34 |
| 139 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 9978 | 23 |
| 140 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 9967 | 18 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9831 | 12 |
| 142 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9682 | 16 |
| 143 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 9679 | 14 |
| (143) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9636 | 13 |
| 144 | Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Économiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 9569 | 36 |
| (144) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9511 | 16 |
| (144) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9445 | 15 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 9442 | 16 |
| 146 | Waikato Management School, University of Waikato | Hamilton, New Zealand | 9419 | 18 |
| 147 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 9393 | 22 |
| 148 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 9375 | 37 |
| 149 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 9350 | 26 |
| 150 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 9330 | 50 |
| (150) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 9309 | 28 |
| 151 | Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands | Den Haag, Netherlands | 9304 | 21 |
| 152 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 9301 | 36 |
| (152) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9281 | 15 |
| 153 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9195 | 23 |
| 154 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9183 | 17 |
| 155 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9181 | 24 |
| 156 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 9106 | 29 |
| 157 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 9078 | 12 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 9067 | 11 |
| 159 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9037 | 9 |
| (159) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 9008 | 8 |
| 160 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 9004 | 15 |
| 161 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 8979 | 9 |
| (161) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 8976 | 20 |
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