| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 126189 | 273 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 79688 | 227 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 72589 | 338 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 29934 | 83 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 24714 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 22822 | 111 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 20725 | 42 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 20712 | 102 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19436 | 121 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16644 | 145 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 16403 | 34 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15468 | 33 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 13670 | 36 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13469 | 31 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13135 | 31 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12659 | 28 |
| 17 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12376 | 60 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12224 | 29 |
| 19 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 12015 | 104 |
| 20 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 11511 | 55 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11380 | 23 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 11379 | 30 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11376 | 28 |
| 24 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11327 | 30 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 11150 | 51 |
| (25) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11019 | 27 |
| 26 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 10546 | 14 |
| (26) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10453 | 34 |
| 27 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10197 | 48 |
| (27) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10064 | 17 |
| 28 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 9915 | 21 |
| 29 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 9845 | 31 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 9389 | 38 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9333 | 35 |
| 32 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 9142 | 46 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 9022 | 21 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 8766 | 21 |
| 35 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 8663 | 24 |
| (35) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 8663 | 23 |
| 36 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 8613 | 49 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 8611 | 33 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8559 | 30 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 8481 | 36 |
| 40 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 8478 | 41 |
| 41 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 8354 | 45 |
| 42 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 8171 | 30 |
| 43 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 8119 | 36 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 8103 | 23 |
| (44) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8085 | 41 |
| 45 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8066 | 37 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7797 | 22 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 7757 | 30 |
| 48 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7752 | 15 |
| (48) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7724 | 33 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 7698 | 25 |
| 50 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7616 | 24 |
| 51 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7543 | 30 |
| 52 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 7471 | 25 |
| 53 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 7065 | 94 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 6985 | 15 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 6957 | 36 |
| 56 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 6863 | 44 |
| 57 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6836 | 27 |
| 58 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 6725 | 30 |
| 59 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 6685 | 22 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6659 | 15 |
| 61 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 6491 | 59 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 6464 | 27 |
| 63 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 6413 | 12 |
| 64 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6388 | 14 |
| 65 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6377 | 16 |
| 66 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 6348 | 53 |
| 67 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6347 | 27 |
| 68 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 6288 | 39 |
| 69 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 6282 | 38 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6235 | 46 |
| 71 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 6169 | 9 |
| 72 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 6149 | 35 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6101 | 19 |
| 74 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 6093 | 30 |
| (74) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 6025 | 27 |
| 74 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 6025 | 27 |
| 76 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 5982 | 24 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5955 | 24 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 5893 | 34 |
| 79 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 5875 | 27 |
| 80 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 5811 | 63 |
| (80) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 5779 | 31 |
| 81 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5730 | 28 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 5671 | 24 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 5536 | 27 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 5535 | 11 |
| 85 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5513 | 19 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5496 | 13 |
| 87 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5489 | 23 |
| 88 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 5454 | 38 |
| 89 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5438 | 28 |
| 90 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 5236 | 10 |
| 91 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5222 | 15 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 5195 | 47 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 5097 | 21 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 5092 | 23 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 5044 | 27 |
| 96 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5028 | 24 |
| 97 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 4944 | 26 |
| (97) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4894 | 13 |
| 97 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4894 | 14 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 4893 | 19 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4884 | 20 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 4832 | 16 |
| (101) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4803 | 19 |
| 102 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4770 | 35 |
| (102) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4767 | 20 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 4752 | 39 |
| 104 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 4725 | 9 |
| 105 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 4714 | 45 |
| 106 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4688 | 25 |
| 107 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4659 | 7 |
| 108 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4627 | 17 |
| 109 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 4620 | 20 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 4602 | 27 |
| (110) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4539 | 11 |
| 111 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4529 | 12 |
| 112 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 4497 | 29 |
| 113 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 4487 | 25 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 4463 | 28 |
| 115 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4447 | 10 |
| 116 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4428 | 12 |
| 117 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4413 | 11 |
| 118 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4391 | 13 |
| 119 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4351 | 13 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 4343 | 19 |
| 121 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 4339 | 29 |
| 122 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4322 | 10 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 4308 | 11 |
| 124 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4287 | 14 |
| 125 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 4254 | 25 |
| (125) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4204 | 11 |
| 126 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 4178 | 43 |
| (126) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4163 | 28 |
| 127 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 4156 | 26 |
| (127) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4144 | 8 |
| 128 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 4053 | 38 |
| 129 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 4048 | 33 |
| (129) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4048 | 16 |
| 130 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4033 | 12 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 4001 | 21 |
| 132 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3968 | 24 |
| 132 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 3968 | 17 |
| (132) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3968 | 17 |
| 134 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3964 | 39 |
| 135 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 3932 | 64 |
| 136 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3925 | 12 |
| 137 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 3921 | 26 |
| 138 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 3868 | 23 |
| 139 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 3855 | 26 |
| 140 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 3843 | 25 |
| 141 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 3793 | 47 |
| 142 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3787 | 11 |
| (142) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3778 | 9 |
| (142) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3778 | 11 |
| (142) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3749 | 12 |
| 143 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 3726 | 15 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 3718 | 25 |
| 145 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 3712 | 13 |
| 146 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 3691 | 38 |
| (146) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 3664 | 17 |
| 147 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 3635 | 15 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 3632 | 17 |
| 149 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 3627 | 42 |
| (149) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 3603 | 15 |
| (149) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 3587 | 21 |
| 150 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 3549 | 18 |
| 151 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3494 | 15 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 3489 | 19 |
| 153 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 3466 | 27 |
| 154 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 3457 | 29 |
| 155 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 3450 | 15 |
| 156 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3439 | 3 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University | Ramat-Gan, Israel | 3429 | 9 |
| (157) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3428 | 9 |
| 158 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 3424 | 17 |
| 159 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 3414 | 13 |
| 159 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 3414 | 24 |
| 161 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 3387 | 13 |
| 162 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 3380 | 15 |
| (162) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3379 | 14 |
| (162) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3360 | 6 |
| 163 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3355 | 12 |
| 164 | Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3353 | 8 |
| 165 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 3322 | 6 |
| 166 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 3304 | 25 |
| 167 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 3268 | 5 |
| 168 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 3255 | 4 |
| (168) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 3255 | 4 |
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