| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 124736 | 270 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 79152 | 226 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 70571 | 325 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 29743 | 83 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 22689 | 109 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 20672 | 42 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 20165 | 99 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19748 | 34 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19158 | 120 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16559 | 144 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13769 | 31 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 13478 | 31 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13407 | 31 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13168 | 31 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 12457 | 32 |
| 16 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12179 | 60 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12131 | 28 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11946 | 27 |
| 19 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 11850 | 104 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 11422 | 56 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 11337 | 30 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11305 | 28 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 11108 | 52 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11087 | 23 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10980 | 30 |
| (25) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 10672 | 27 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 10628 | 14 |
| (26) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10341 | 33 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 10207 | 53 |
| 28 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10203 | 48 |
| (28) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10042 | 16 |
| 29 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9908 | 21 |
| 30 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9731 | 31 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 9389 | 37 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9174 | 34 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 9022 | 21 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 8688 | 35 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 8640 | 23 |
| 35 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 8595 | 49 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8471 | 36 |
| 37 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 8419 | 41 |
| 38 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 8327 | 45 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 8113 | 37 |
| (39) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8079 | 39 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 7999 | 30 |
| 41 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 7954 | 37 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7782 | 23 |
| 43 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 7724 | 30 |
| 44 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7671 | 15 |
| 45 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7558 | 24 |
| (45) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7521 | 33 |
| 46 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 7418 | 25 |
| 47 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7239 | 30 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 7213 | 22 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 6965 | 20 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6853 | 27 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6847 | 36 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6810 | 15 |
| 53 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 6769 | 44 |
| 54 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6752 | 26 |
| 55 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 6743 | 92 |
| 56 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 6710 | 30 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 6662 | 22 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 6611 | 22 |
| 59 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 6527 | 59 |
| 60 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6413 | 12 |
| 61 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6377 | 17 |
| 62 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 6297 | 30 |
| 63 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 6218 | 37 |
| 64 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6207 | 44 |
| 65 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 6169 | 52 |
| 66 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 6131 | 36 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6079 | 19 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6016 | 24 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 5984 | 33 |
| (69) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 5954 | 26 |
| 69 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 5954 | 26 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 5948 | 25 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5880 | 23 |
| 73 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 5850 | 27 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 5814 | 34 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5694 | 24 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 5693 | 13 |
| 77 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5681 | 28 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 5625 | 24 |
| (78) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 5564 | 29 |
| 79 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 5562 | 61 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 5513 | 11 |
| 81 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5490 | 19 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 5467 | 27 |
| 83 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5409 | 23 |
| 84 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 5407 | 38 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5359 | 14 |
| 86 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5336 | 28 |
| 87 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5321 | 13 |
| 88 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5242 | 43 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 5170 | 46 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 5063 | 27 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 5048 | 22 |
| 92 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5042 | 13 |
| 93 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4985 | 24 |
| 94 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 4936 | 26 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4911 | 20 |
| (95) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4894 | 13 |
| 95 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4894 | 14 |
| 97 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 4882 | 8 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 4833 | 19 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 4832 | 16 |
| 100 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4821 | 35 |
| (100) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4724 | 20 |
| (100) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4704 | 18 |
| 101 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 4680 | 44 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 4647 | 38 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4646 | 7 |
| 104 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4624 | 25 |
| 105 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 4620 | 20 |
| 106 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4587 | 15 |
| 107 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4581 | 17 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 4523 | 27 |
| 109 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4510 | 12 |
| 110 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 4492 | 18 |
| 111 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 4487 | 24 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 4473 | 29 |
| (112) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4461 | 11 |
| 113 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4447 | 10 |
| 114 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 4441 | 9 |
| 115 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4428 | 12 |
| 116 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4413 | 11 |
| 117 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4391 | 13 |
| 118 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 4339 | 29 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 4304 | 11 |
| 120 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4274 | 10 |
| 121 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 4254 | 25 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 4226 | 19 |
| (122) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4204 | 11 |
| 123 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 4178 | 43 |
| (123) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4170 | 28 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 4166 | 27 |
| (124) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4144 | 8 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 4124 | 22 |
| 126 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 4116 | 32 |
| (126) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4049 | 13 |
| (126) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4009 | 16 |
| 127 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 3970 | 27 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 3963 | 20 |
| 129 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3961 | 12 |
| 130 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 3955 | 8 |
| 131 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3916 | 24 |
| 132 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 3868 | 23 |
| 133 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3867 | 12 |
| 134 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 3837 | 25 |
| 135 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 3806 | 26 |
| (135) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3778 | 9 |
| (135) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3766 | 16 |
| 136 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 3743 | 25 |
| 136 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 3743 | 44 |
| (137) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3731 | 11 |
| 138 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 3687 | 25 |
| 139 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 3674 | 37 |
| 140 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 3665 | 38 |
| (140) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 3654 | 17 |
| 141 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3636 | 11 |
| 142 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 3614 | 15 |
| (142) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 3591 | 15 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 3588 | 17 |
| (143) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 3579 | 21 |
| 144 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 3522 | 17 |
| 145 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 3507 | 41 |
| 146 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3495 | 15 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 3489 | 18 |
| 148 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 3456 | 17 |
| 149 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 3446 | 14 |
| 150 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 3443 | 13 |
| 151 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 3438 | 23 |
| 152 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 3432 | 15 |
| 153 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3430 | 13 |
| 154 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 3407 | 10 |
| (154) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3401 | 15 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University | Ramat-Gan, Israel | 3393 | 9 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 3373 | 15 |
| 157 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 3367 | 25 |
| 158 | Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3353 | 8 |
| 159 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 3345 | 27 |
| (159) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3332 | 6 |
| 160 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 3317 | 50 |
| 161 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 3298 | 13 |
| (161) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3277 | 9 |
| 162 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3259 | 3 |
| 163 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 3243 | 4 |
| (163) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 3243 | 4 |
| 164 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 3242 | 24 |
| 165 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3239 | 17 |
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