| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 109202.36 | 270 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 46942.22 | 226 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 35614.51 | 325 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 20145.73 | 34 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 16624.61 | 42 |
| 6 | CESifo | München, Germany | 12162.58 | 83 |
| 7 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 12093.16 | 109 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10974.7 | 27 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 10753.29 | 31 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 9890.49 | 31 |
| 11 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9183.39 | 31 |
| 12 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8814.28 | 144 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8739.95 | 31 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8517.33 | 31 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7609.16 | 28 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 7518.51 | 99 |
| 17 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 7418.79 | 14 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7299.94 | 23 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 6771.15 | 30 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 6590.95 | 28 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6497.35 | 16 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 6406.46 | 36 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 6356.98 | 33 |
| 22 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6339.98 | 120 |
| 23 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 6025.27 | 56 |
| 24 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 5999.91 | 21 |
| 25 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5989.96 | 15 |
| 26 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5872.65 | 21 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 5598.75 | 53 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 5437.3 | 19 |
| 29 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5368.41 | 12 |
| (29) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5280.4 | 39 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 5157.38 | 37 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5143.32 | 14 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 5033.25 | 23 |
| 32 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4987.7 | 30 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4895.39 | 22 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4781.47 | 35 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4781.17 | 27 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 4586.98 | 32 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 4570.62 | 52 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 4568.07 | 22 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 4567.78 | 30 |
| 40 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4464.59 | 44 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 4404.72 | 34 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 4334.39 | 24 |
| 43 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 4238.48 | 30 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 4112.42 | 26 |
| 45 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4089.94 | 60 |
| 46 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 4050.63 | 15 |
| (46) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4024.15 | 11 |
| 47 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3914.14 | 17 |
| 48 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 3806.18 | 30 |
| 49 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 3668.22 | 23 |
| 50 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3659.27 | 48 |
| 51 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 3574.42 | 19 |
| 52 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 3391.96 | 12 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 3390.45 | 23 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 3380.35 | 22 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 3377.98 | 33 |
| 56 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 3360.27 | 37 |
| 57 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3318.44 | 13 |
| 58 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3297.28 | 41 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 3294.05 | 22 |
| 60 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 3275.06 | 37 |
| (60) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3123.6 | 26 |
| 61 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 3123.6 | 26 |
| 62 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 3072.25 | 9 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 3018.82 | 20 |
| 64 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2982.54 | 11 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2898.63 | 25 |
| (65) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2868.26 | 18 |
| (65) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2836.16 | 16 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 2786.23 | 18 |
| 67 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2774.88 | 17 |
| 68 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 2759.4 | 104 |
| (68) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2749.58 | 33 |
| 69 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 2747.17 | 8 |
| 70 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 2734.48 | 28 |
| (70) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2715.89 | 5 |
| 71 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2704.35 | 12 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2693.8 | 30 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2691.76 | 13 |
| 74 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2674.25 | 28 |
| (74) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2647.18 | 27 |
| 75 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 2645.61 | 12 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2589.75 | 11 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2589.32 | 24 |
| 78 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 2588.48 | 61 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 2573.08 | 15 |
| 80 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2563.01 | 23 |
| 81 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2560.34 | 15 |
| 82 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 2557.96 | 24 |
| (82) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2543.8 | 15 |
| 83 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 2534.6 | 49 |
| 84 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 2403.4 | 16 |
| 85 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2385.09 | 13 |
| (85) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2376.78 | 28 |
| 86 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2356.95 | 29 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 2348.84 | 11 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2322.22 | 9 |
| 87 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2310.75 | 43 |
| 88 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 2228.76 | 3 |
| (88) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 2227.82 | 6 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2227.8 | 16 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 2217.23 | 8 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2215.65 | 36 |
| (91) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2210.12 | 11 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 2201.55 | 38 |
| (92) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2148.74 | 3 |
| 93 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 2136.68 | 30 |
| 94 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 2117.27 | 59 |
| 95 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2109.86 | 10 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 2095.3 | 20 |
| (96) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2060.32 | 8 |
| 97 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 2044.99 | 20 |
| 98 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2044.28 | 10 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 2032.48 | 11 |
| 100 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 2027.83 | 92 |
| 101 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 2018.37 | 24 |
| 102 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2006.01 | 24 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1999.22 | 12 |
| 104 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 1966.66 | 27 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 1965.18 | 19 |
| 106 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 1957.55 | 13 |
| 107 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 1944.9 | 18 |
| (107) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 1942.81 | 9 |
| 108 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 1937.35 | 5 |
| (108) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1923.9 | 9 |
| 109 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1884.1 | 36 |
| 110 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 1877.76 | 10 |
| 111 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1844.31 | 10 |
| 112 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1840.31 | 25 |
| 113 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1831.43 | 5 |
| 114 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 1811.27 | 23 |
| 115 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 1804.02 | 6 |
| 116 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 1721.92 | 27 |
| 117 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1715.15 | 12 |
| 118 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1706.96 | 52 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, University of California | Irvine, California (USA) | 1706.04 | 13 |
| 120 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1698.84 | 38 |
| (120) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 1684.88 | 16 |
| 121 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 1677.25 | 14 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1667.58 | 7 |
| 123 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 1664.67 | 25 |
| (123) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1654.23 | 14 |
| 124 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1635.1 | 24 |
| 125 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 1626.22 | 12 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 1613.74 | 27 |
| 127 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 1607.18 | 32 |
| 128 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1593.2 | 43 |
| (128) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1591.9 | 5 |
| (128) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1584.06 | 2 |
| 129 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1573.73 | 34 |
| 130 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 1561.96 | 27 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1557.14 | 19 |
| (131) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1549.42 | 3 |
| 132 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1539.75 | 14 |
| 133 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 1537.21 | 15 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 1532.91 | 9 |
| (134) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 1527.65 | 13 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1523.67 | 15 |
| 136 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1517.63 | 35 |
| (136) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1509.8 | 20 |
| (136) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1501.27 | 4 |
| 137 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1499.78 | 7 |
| 138 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 1499.72 | 7 |
| 139 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1489.5 | 23 |
| (139) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1471.68 | 2 |
| 140 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 1469.93 | 50 |
| 141 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1468.66 | 10 |
| 142 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 1460.68 | 38 |
| 143 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1459.85 | 27 |
| 144 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 1429.47 | 14 |
| 145 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1408.09 | 13 |
| 146 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 1404.81 | 8 |
| 147 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 1396.52 | 19 |
| (147) | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1394.05 | 26 |
| (147) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1381.55 | 5 |
| (147) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1376.99 | 6 |
| (147) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1375.04 | 2 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 1372.25 | 22 |
| (148) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1354.91 | 5 |
| 149 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 1347.28 | 74 |
| 150 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 1337.26 | 26 |
| (150) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1331.42 | 9 |
| 151 | London Business School (LBS), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1325.58 | 14 |
| (151) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1325.57 | 5 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 1316.78 | 17 |
| 153 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1294.77 | 25 |
| 154 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 1276.36 | 37 |
| 155 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1272.6 | 11 |
| 156 | Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 1268 | 13 |
| 157 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 1251.18 | 31 |
| 158 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 1243.9 | 44 |
| (158) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 1237.32 | 2 |
| 159 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 1230.5 | 12 |
| 160 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1229.23 | 9 |
| 161 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 1227.89 | 8 |
| 162 | Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 1219.39 | 8 |
| 163 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 1214.59 | 13 |
| 164 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1214.47 | 9 |
| (164) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1214.47 | 9 |
| 165 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 1211.35 | 15 |
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