| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9475.24 | 273 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3424.63 | 227 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 3067.59 | 338 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2310.36 | 39 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1724.02 | 42 |
| 6 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1198.19 | 28 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1196.54 | 34 |
| 8 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1173.2 | 31 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1061.26 | 33 |
| 10 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1017.9 | 111 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1003.31 | 23 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 924.62 | 83 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 898.21 | 31 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 761.01 | 29 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 748.8 | 30 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 744.92 | 14 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 722.24 | 102 |
| 18 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 707.51 | 31 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 671.91 | 30 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 667.42 | 21 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 659.46 | 17 |
| 21 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 650.65 | 12 |
| 22 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 605.18 | 55 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 588.12 | 28 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 580.48 | 51 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 568.27 | 36 |
| (25) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 540.17 | 41 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 537.85 | 25 |
| 27 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 502.11 | 145 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 502.04 | 30 |
| 29 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 490.16 | 15 |
| 30 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 485.88 | 16 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 484.43 | 23 |
| 32 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 478.93 | 19 |
| 33 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 475.52 | 24 |
| (33) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 475.52 | 23 |
| 34 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 472.71 | 15 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 471.99 | 19 |
| 36 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 460.48 | 21 |
| (36) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 452.2 | 34 |
| 37 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 441.63 | 121 |
| 38 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 427.01 | 37 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 424.5 | 13 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 421.41 | 21 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 419.86 | 33 |
| 42 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 419.72 | 14 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 394.88 | 36 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 393.71 | 30 |
| 45 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 383.55 | 27 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 376.77 | 22 |
| 47 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 366.21 | 27 |
| 48 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 362.62 | 10 |
| (48) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 362.23 | 11 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 350.62 | 35 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 345.42 | 15 |
| 51 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 343.14 | 36 |
| 52 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 336.52 | 12 |
| 53 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 319.37 | 3 |
| 54 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 318.48 | 60 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 314.81 | 27 |
| 56 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 314.43 | 17 |
| 57 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 305.73 | 46 |
| 58 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 302.68 | 11 |
| 59 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 300.86 | 38 |
| 60 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 298.06 | 24 |
| 61 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 294.23 | 10 |
| 62 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 293.3 | 30 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 292.98 | 22 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 291.17 | 21 |
| 65 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 290.79 | 41 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 281.95 | 30 |
| (66) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 281.91 | 16 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 280.96 | 24 |
| 68 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 278.97 | 30 |
| 69 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 278.83 | 35 |
| (69) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 278.76 | 27 |
| 70 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 276.2 | 28 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 272.85 | 11 |
| 72 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 271.83 | 13 |
| 73 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 248.11 | 48 |
| 74 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 248.1 | 6 |
| 75 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 244.46 | 10 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 240.94 | 24 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 240.51 | 8 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 233.68 | 16 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 229.78 | 11 |
| 79 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 227.78 | 13 |
| (79) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 227.03 | 27 |
| 80 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 227.03 | 27 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 225.68 | 9 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 225.33 | 11 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 223.92 | 27 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 217.88 | 15 |
| (82) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 209.71 | 6 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 209.48 | 20 |
| 84 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 207.11 | 24 |
| 85 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 206.61 | 49 |
| 86 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 206.58 | 7 |
| 87 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 204.93 | 9 |
| (87) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 201.28 | 9 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 200.14 | 19 |
| 89 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 198.89 | 9 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 195.21 | 20 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 190.85 | 12 |
| 91 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 189.14 | 8 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 188.4 | 9 |
| (92) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 187.62 | 5 |
| 93 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 184.94 | 24 |
| 94 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 182.6 | 30 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 180.15 | 13 |
| 96 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 178.29 | 12 |
| 97 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 176.67 | 11 |
| (97) | Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 175.24 | 3 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 175.01 | 19 |
| 99 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 172.98 | 59 |
| (99) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 171.95 | 19 |
| (99) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 171.86 | 15 |
| (99) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 171.17 | 5 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 170.15 | 19 |
| 101 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 168.25 | 23 |
| 102 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 166.06 | 12 |
| (102) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 165.93 | 14 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 163.96 | 23 |
| 104 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 163.93 | 12 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 163.23 | 7 |
| 106 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 163.03 | 9 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 160.71 | 36 |
| 108 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 158.77 | 28 |
| (108) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 158.18 | 9 |
| 109 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 157.55 | 7 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 157.03 | 27 |
| 111 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 156.32 | 20 |
| 112 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 155.62 | 43 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 153.84 | 34 |
| (113) | Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 152.8 | 6 |
| (113) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 151.67 | 33 |
| 114 | RAND | Santa Monica, California (USA) | 150.49 | 15 |
| (114) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 149.9 | 13 |
| 115 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 149.9 | 14 |
| 116 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 148.63 | 25 |
| 117 | Swiss Finance Institute | Genève/Zürich, Switzerland | 147.24 | 7 |
| (117) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 146.52 | 4 |
| (117) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 146.05 | 9 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 145.78 | 17 |
| (118) | Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 143.95 | 2 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 143 | 39 |
| (119) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 142.95 | 28 |
| 120 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 141.07 | 10 |
| 121 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 140.62 | 12 |
| (121) | Applied Economics Workshop, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 140.26 | 5 |
| 122 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 139.25 | 27 |
| 123 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 139.15 | 8 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine | Irvine, California (USA) | 138.15 | 13 |
| 125 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 137.89 | 39 |
| (125) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 136.88 | 8 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 136.79 | 14 |
| 127 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 136.63 | 18 |
| (127) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 135.77 | 2 |
| (127) | Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 134.74 | 7 |
| 128 | Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 134.74 | 8 |
| 129 | Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky (USA) | 133.98 | 10 |
| 130 | Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 133.83 | 8 |
| (130) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 133.67 | 17 |
| 131 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 133.08 | 6 |
| 132 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 131.74 | 38 |
| 133 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 131.24 | 29 |
| (133) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 129.98 | 11 |
| 134 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 129 | 15 |
| 135 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 128.74 | 104 |
| (135) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 127.97 | 2 |
| 136 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 127.16 | 94 |
| (136) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 126.55 | 4 |
| 137 | International Business School, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 126.21 | 14 |
| 138 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 126.06 | 15 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 124.81 | 10 |
| 140 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 124.56 | 17 |
| 141 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 124.1 | 26 |
| 142 | Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 124.03 | 9 |
| 143 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 123.74 | 14 |
| (143) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 123.29 | 5 |
| (143) | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 122.55 | 3 |
| 144 | Center for Economic Design, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi | İstanbul, Turkey | 121.66 | 3 |
| 145 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 121.09 | 24 |
| 146 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 120.99 | 25 |
| 147 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 119.58 | 25 |
| 148 | Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 119.24 | 4 |
| 149 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 118.77 | 13 |
| 150 | Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD) | Fontainebleau, France | 117.79 | 13 |
| 151 | Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 117.7 | 3 |
| (151) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 117.62 | 3 |
| (151) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 116.2 | 6 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 115.99 | 24 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, Rice University | Houston, Texas (USA) | 115.86 | 8 |
| 154 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 114.82 | 6 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 114.32 | 27 |
| 156 | Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) | Madrid, Spain | 113.86 | 13 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 113.79 | 25 |
| 158 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 112.48 | 18 |
| 159 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 110.98 | 63 |
| 160 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 109.63 | 15 |
| 161 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 109.47 | 17 |
| 162 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 109.41 | 38 |
| 163 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University | Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 109.41 | 9 |
| 164 | Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 108.99 | 5 |
| 165 | Department of Economics, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 108.75 | 22 |
| 166 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 108.73 | 15 |
| 167 | Department of Economics, George Washington University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 108.43 | 16 |
| 168 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 107.67 | 30 |
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