| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1707484 | 274 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 985390 | 230 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 973193 | 340 |
| 4 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 415607 | 38 |
| 5 | CESifo | München, Germany | 293174 | 84 |
| 6 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 285143 | 123 |
| 7 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 251959 | 112 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 243393 | 43 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 230694 | 145 |
| 10 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 216840 | 103 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 203392 | 33 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 184382 | 105 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 180299 | 34 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 168332 | 31 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 167833 | 23 |
| 16 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 165267 | 31 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 157863 | 27 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 141203 | 32 |
| 19 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 136358 | 32 |
| 20 | Banco de la Republica de Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia | 136194 | 37 |
| 21 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 133233 | 13 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 131748 | 34 |
| 23 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 127440 | 48 |
| (23) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 126095 | 35 |
| 24 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 120325 | 54 |
| (24) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 118483 | 34 |
| 25 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 117073 | 48 |
| 26 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 114647 | 60 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 114458 | 37 |
| 28 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 114272 | 47 |
| 29 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 110871 | 21 |
| 30 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 110246 | 38 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 108536 | 31 |
| (31) | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 106463 | 13 |
| (31) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 104439 | 19 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 103288 | 26 |
| 33 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 103070 | 42 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 102216 | 46 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 101520 | 31 |
| 36 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 99232 | 31 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 99016 | 36 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 98100 | 15 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 96726 | 22 |
| 40 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 96537 | 53 |
| (40) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 95700 | 42 |
| 41 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 94441 | 22 |
| 42 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 93723 | 14 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 92697 | 51 |
| 44 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 91949 | 30 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 91389 | 29 |
| 46 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 91101 | 30 |
| 47 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 90638 | 17 |
| 48 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 90512 | 23 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 89035 | 48 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 88163 | 37 |
| (50) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 87677 | 27 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 87655 | 34 |
| 52 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 87289 | 63 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 85017 | 26 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 83707 | 20 |
| 55 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 82298 | 31 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 80138 | 24 |
| 57 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 80049 | 11 |
| 58 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 78525 | 25 |
| 59 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 77893 | 28 |
| 60 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 75666 | 28 |
| 61 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 75528 | 46 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 75287 | 22 |
| 63 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 73007 | 15 |
| 64 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 72099 | 74 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 72098 | 22 |
| 66 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 71800 | 19 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 71665 | 13 |
| 68 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 70321 | 46 |
| 69 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 69939 | 27 |
| 70 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 69589 | 14 |
| (70) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 68559 | 11 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 68407 | 36 |
| 72 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 68182 | 28 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 67718 | 27 |
| 74 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 67490 | 94 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 67479 | 28 |
| 76 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 66943 | 44 |
| 77 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 64392 | 65 |
| 78 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 63574 | 11 |
| (78) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 62995 | 19 |
| 79 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 62532 | 41 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 61660 | 16 |
| 81 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 60285 | 28 |
| 82 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 60156 | 33 |
| (82) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 59561 | 11 |
| 83 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 59182 | 44 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 58603 | 21 |
| (84) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 58354 | 28 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 58211 | 22 |
| 86 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 58160 | 36 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 57515 | 22 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 57403 | 40 |
| 89 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 56987 | 26 |
| 90 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 55921 | 24 |
| 91 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 55465 | 27 |
| 92 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 55363 | 26 |
| 93 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 55102 | 22 |
| 94 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 54731 | 28 |
| 95 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 54602 | 60 |
| 96 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 53984 | 20 |
| 97 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 53637 | 12 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 53443 | 34 |
| 99 | IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra | Pamplona, Spain | 53143 | 8 |
| 100 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 52108 | 38 |
| 101 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 51062 | 11 |
| 102 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 50740 | 17 |
| 103 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 50469 | 33 |
| 104 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 50441 | 37 |
| (104) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 49500 | 16 |
| 105 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 49458 | 19 |
| (105) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 49217 | 5 |
| 106 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) | Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 48653 | 5 |
| (106) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 48382 | 27 |
| 106 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 48382 | 27 |
| (107) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 48240 | 14 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 47653 | 7 |
| 109 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 47377 | 11 |
| 110 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) | Stockholm, Sweden | 47347 | 19 |
| 111 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 47303 | 25 |
| 112 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 47232 | 24 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 46825 | 23 |
| 114 | Laboratoire d'Économie et de Gestion (LEG), Université de Bourgogne | Dijon, France | 46506 | 21 |
| 115 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 46334 | 12 |
| (115) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 46025 | 32 |
| 116 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 45630 | 38 |
| 117 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 44833 | 18 |
| 118 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 44789 | 28 |
| (118) | Längschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 44465 | 24 |
| 119 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 44204 | 29 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 44196 | 15 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 44170 | 11 |
| 122 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 43884 | 13 |
| 123 | Bank of Canada | Ottawa, Canada | 43664 | 45 |
| 124 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 43544 | 17 |
| 125 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 43245 | 26 |
| (125) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 42533 | 39 |
| 126 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 42516 | 39 |
| 127 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 42498 | 26 |
| 128 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 42383 | 30 |
| (128) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 42290 | 11 |
| 129 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 42087 | 30 |
| (129) | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 41984 | 41 |
| 130 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 41941 | 23 |
| 131 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 41787 | 27 |
| 132 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 41597 | 20 |
| (132) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 40985 | 6 |
| (132) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 40932 | 20 |
| 133 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 40619 | 6 |
| (133) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 40520 | 17 |
| 134 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 40419 | 27 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 40397 | 23 |
| 136 | Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Trinity College, University of Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 40303 | 16 |
| 137 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 40112 | 15 |
| 138 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Milano | Milano, Italy | 39804 | 59 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 39458 | 20 |
| 140 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 39175 | 13 |
| (140) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 38967 | 10 |
| 141 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 38866 | 42 |
| (141) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 38618 | 19 |
| 142 | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität | Linz, Austria | 38365 | 19 |
| 142 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 38365 | 42 |
| 144 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 38219 | 20 |
| 145 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 37999 | 38 |
| 146 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 37893 | 34 |
| 147 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 37831 | 30 |
| 148 | Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 37699 | 8 |
| 149 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 37238 | 25 |
| 150 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 37176 | 23 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Graduate School, City University of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 37021 | 12 |
| (151) | Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 36913 | 6 |
| 152 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 36892 | 3 |
| 153 | Handelshøjskolen i Århus | Aarhus, Denmark | 36850 | 26 |
| 154 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 36681 | 10 |
| 155 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 36543 | 25 |
| 156 | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Pisa, Italy | 36423 | 29 |
| (156) | Centro de Estudios de Organizaciones y Productividad (CEOP), Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 35701 | 2 |
| 157 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol | Bristol, United Kingdom | 35625 | 13 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine | Irvine, California (USA) | 35540 | 13 |
| 159 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 35351 | 7 |
| 160 | Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Économiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 35204 | 38 |
| 161 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 35099 | 18 |
| 162 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent | Gent, Belgium | 35064 | 19 |
| (162) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 35048 | 17 |
| 163 | Waikato Management School, University of Waikato | Hamilton, New Zealand | 34977 | 19 |
| 164 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 34891 | 16 |
| (164) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 34856 | 16 |
| 165 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 34746 | 22 |
| 166 | Banca d'Italia | Roma, Italy | 34707 | 51 |
| 167 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 34548 | 27 |
| 168 | Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino | Torino, Italy | 34507 | 21 |
| 169 | Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) | Barcelona, Spain | 34359 | 8 |
| (169) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 34237 | 4 |
| 170 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 34126 | 18 |
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