| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 501153 | 268 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 283073 | 224 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 242554 | 321 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 100686 | 34 |
| 5 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 95442 | 118 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 76699 | 40 |
| 7 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 74416 | 108 |
| 8 | CESifo | München, Germany | 74215 | 81 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 71514 | 144 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 60602 | 31 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 59477 | 30 |
| 12 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 57289 | 106 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 51551 | 24 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 50203 | 31 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 46974 | 98 |
| 16 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 44972 | 12 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 43241 | 27 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 41972 | 32 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 39365 | 35 |
| (19) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 39330 | 33 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 38743 | 28 |
| (20) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 37599 | 33 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 35859 | 31 |
| 22 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 35725 | 30 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 33694 | 16 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 32672 | 30 |
| 24 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 32590 | 58 |
| 25 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 30785 | 58 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 29712 | 35 |
| 27 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 29598 | 46 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 29402 | 43 |
| 29 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 28814 | 41 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 28362 | 36 |
| 31 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 28041 | 52 |
| 32 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 27942 | 59 |
| 33 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 27813 | 23 |
| (33) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 27640 | 39 |
| 34 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 27541 | 49 |
| 35 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 27470 | 12 |
| 36 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 27428 | 51 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 27118 | 27 |
| 38 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 27102 | 30 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 26347 | 15 |
| 40 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 25951 | 13 |
| 41 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 25853 | 30 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 25522 | 21 |
| 43 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25515 | 17 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 25328 | 29 |
| 45 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 24972 | 17 |
| 46 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 24948 | 28 |
| 47 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 24572 | 29 |
| (47) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 24296 | 23 |
| 48 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 24284 | 21 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 23321 | 34 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 22793 | 29 |
| 51 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 22749 | 70 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 22643 | 23 |
| 53 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 22464 | 43 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 22165 | 51 |
| (54) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 21921 | 26 |
| 55 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 21510 | 21 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 21460 | 46 |
| 57 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 21306 | 15 |
| 58 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 21207 | 44 |
| (58) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 20587 | 13 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 20539 | 23 |
| 60 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20392 | 11 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 20093 | 24 |
| 62 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 19594 | 31 |
| (62) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 19292 | 11 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 19135 | 31 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 18992 | 14 |
| 65 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 18799 | 43 |
| 65 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 18799 | 12 |
| (66) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 18658 | 28 |
| 67 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 18209 | 31 |
| 68 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18147 | 17 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 18115 | 19 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 18044 | 22 |
| (70) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 17995 | 11 |
| 71 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 17988 | 28 |
| (71) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 17928 | 18 |
| 72 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 17903 | 26 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 17576 | 13 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 17283 | 33 |
| 75 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 16964 | 43 |
| 76 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 16670 | 27 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 16546 | 36 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 16478 | 20 |
| 79 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 16276 | 28 |
| 80 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 16237 | 24 |
| (80) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 16180 | 5 |
| 81 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 16157 | 5 |
| 82 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 15966 | 84 |
| 83 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 15863 | 19 |
| (83) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 15197 | 39 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 15072 | 22 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 15025 | 37 |
| 86 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 14655 | 12 |
| 87 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 14558 | 33 |
| 88 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 14502 | 19 |
| 89 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 14428 | 6 |
| 90 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 14284 | 25 |
| 91 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 14148 | 26 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 14064 | 37 |
| 93 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 14003 | 23 |
| 94 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 13985 | 37 |
| 95 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13977 | 17 |
| 96 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 13882 | 37 |
| 97 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 13859 | 30 |
| 98 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 13821 | 8 |
| (98) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13562 | 4 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 13550 | 23 |
| (99) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 13384 | 3 |
| 100 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 13301 | 19 |
| 101 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 13256 | 5 |
| 102 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 13240 | 44 |
| (102) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 13176 | 6 |
| 103 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 13092 | 23 |
| 104 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 13055 | 59 |
| 105 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 12986 | 3 |
| (105) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12849 | 16 |
| (105) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 12787 | 9 |
| 106 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 12740 | 26 |
| 107 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 12451 | 25 |
| 108 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12429 | 12 |
| 109 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 12413 | 29 |
| (109) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 12386 | 11 |
| 110 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 12293 | 6 |
| 111 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 12259 | 26 |
| 112 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 12220 | 10 |
| 113 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 12185 | 12 |
| (113) | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 12161 | 3 |
| 114 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 12150 | 28 |
| 115 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 12062 | 21 |
| 116 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 11946 | 44 |
| (116) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11939 | 6 |
| 117 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 11829 | 40 |
| 118 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 11351 | 25 |
| (118) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 11336 | 14 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 11237 | 19 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 11231 | 11 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 11213 | 13 |
| 122 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11173 | 15 |
| 123 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 11168 | 35 |
| 124 | de Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 11120 | 26 |
| 125 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent | Gent, Belgium | 11067 | 18 |
| 126 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 11019 | 58 |
| 127 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 10860 | 8 |
| (127) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 10810 | 26 |
| 127 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 10810 | 26 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 10787 | 24 |
| 130 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 10715 | 26 |
| (130) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10558 | 4 |
| (130) | Policy Research Department, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10554 | 8 |
| 131 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 10436 | 37 |
| 132 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 10423 | 12 |
| 133 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 10417 | 18 |
| (133) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10373 | 4 |
| 134 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 10355 | 39 |
| 135 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 10224 | 34 |
| (135) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 10208 | 19 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 10193 | 19 |
| 137 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 10186 | 13 |
| (137) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 10185 | 17 |
| 138 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 10141 | 28 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 10096 | 34 |
| 140 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 10095 | 23 |
| 141 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 10030 | 18 |
| 142 | Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Napoli - "Federico II" | Napoli, Italy | 10020 | 8 |
| (142) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9920 | 14 |
| 143 | Waikato Management School, University of Waikato | Hamilton, New Zealand | 9822 | 19 |
| 144 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9812 | 16 |
| (144) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9743 | 5 |
| 145 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 9693 | 14 |
| 146 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9668 | 12 |
| (146) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 9608 | 29 |
| 147 | Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Économiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 9602 | 36 |
| 148 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 9578 | 37 |
| (148) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 9506 | 23 |
| 149 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9423 | 25 |
| (149) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 9423 | 15 |
| (149) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 9342 | 16 |
| (149) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 9327 | 15 |
| 150 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 9299 | 26 |
| 151 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 9281 | 29 |
| 152 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 9260 | 16 |
| 153 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 9237 | 36 |
| 154 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 9231 | 50 |
| 155 | Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 9216 | 14 |
| 156 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 9182 | 15 |
| 157 | Centro Richerche Nord Sud (CRENoS), Università degli Studi di Cagliari | Cagliari, Italy | 9177 | 29 |
| 158 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9133 | 23 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 9095 | 18 |
| 160 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 9064 | 26 |
| 161 | Department of Economics, Korea University | Seoul, South Korea | 9031 | 11 |
| 162 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 9024 | 41 |
| 163 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 9009 | 9 |
| (163) | School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology | Brisbane, Australia | 8989 | 13 |
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