| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 127551 | 274 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 81894 | 230 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 73796 | 340 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 30225 | 84 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 24833 | 38 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 23131 | 112 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 20951 | 105 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 20584 | 43 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 19611 | 123 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 17143 | 34 |
| 11 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16928 | 145 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 15600 | 33 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 13703 | 37 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13574 | 31 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13459 | 34 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 12888 | 32 |
| 17 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12816 | 27 |
| 18 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12567 | 60 |
| 19 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 11941 | 103 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11672 | 23 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 11632 | 31 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 11409 | 51 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11392 | 30 |
| 24 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 11322 | 54 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11265 | 26 |
| 26 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11218 | 31 |
| (26) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11082 | 27 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 10727 | 37 |
| 28 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10674 | 48 |
| 29 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 10633 | 14 |
| (29) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10543 | 35 |
| 30 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 10304 | 22 |
| (30) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10132 | 19 |
| 31 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 9591 | 47 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 9453 | 34 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 9434 | 22 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 9389 | 41 |
| 35 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 8902 | 23 |
| 36 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 8810 | 42 |
| 37 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 8778 | 20 |
| 38 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 8728 | 46 |
| 39 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 8679 | 48 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8614 | 29 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 8489 | 32 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 8340 | 22 |
| 43 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 8329 | 27 |
| 44 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 8223 | 31 |
| 45 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8206 | 38 |
| (45) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8196 | 42 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 8048 | 31 |
| (46) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8005 | 34 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 7825 | 26 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 7811 | 22 |
| 49 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 7794 | 33 |
| 50 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7726 | 17 |
| 51 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7658 | 30 |
| 52 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7616 | 24 |
| 53 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7578 | 15 |
| 54 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 7534 | 25 |
| 55 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7130 | 13 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7095 | 15 |
| 57 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 7085 | 94 |
| 57 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7085 | 28 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 7085 | 36 |
| 60 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 6904 | 44 |
| 61 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 6791 | 30 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6747 | 16 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 6732 | 11 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 6731 | 22 |
| 65 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 6658 | 60 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6560 | 22 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 6514 | 27 |
| 68 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 6474 | 38 |
| 69 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6454 | 14 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6447 | 28 |
| 71 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 6421 | 31 |
| 72 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 6400 | 53 |
| 73 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 6348 | 36 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6265 | 46 |
| 75 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 6159 | 38 |
| (75) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 6152 | 27 |
| 75 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 6152 | 27 |
| 77 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 6073 | 24 |
| 78 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 5995 | 12 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 5955 | 23 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 5938 | 34 |
| 81 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 5934 | 63 |
| 82 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 5912 | 27 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 5833 | 32 |
| 83 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5775 | 26 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 5710 | 24 |
| 85 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 5616 | 26 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 5590 | 12 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5573 | 13 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 5573 | 27 |
| 89 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 5536 | 37 |
| 90 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5513 | 19 |
| 91 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5449 | 28 |
| 92 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5335 | 22 |
| 93 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5295 | 15 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 5200 | 48 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 5180 | 27 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 5133 | 23 |
| 97 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5128 | 24 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 5125 | 21 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 5089 | 20 |
| 100 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 4992 | 26 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 4947 | 20 |
| (101) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4919 | 14 |
| 101 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 4919 | 15 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 4913 | 16 |
| (103) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4893 | 19 |
| (103) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4834 | 20 |
| 104 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4822 | 36 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 4778 | 40 |
| 106 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 4767 | 46 |
| 107 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 4748 | 9 |
| 108 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4718 | 25 |
| 109 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 4692 | 20 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 4660 | 7 |
| (110) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4649 | 11 |
| 111 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4627 | 17 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4616 | 12 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 4602 | 27 |
| 114 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4511 | 13 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 4497 | 28 |
| 116 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4472 | 11 |
| 117 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4468 | 10 |
| 118 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 4449 | 44 |
| 119 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 4404 | 42 |
| 120 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 4374 | 19 |
| (120) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4364 | 28 |
| 121 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4356 | 10 |
| 122 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 4352 | 30 |
| 123 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4351 | 14 |
| 124 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4346 | 13 |
| (124) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4324 | 11 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 4308 | 11 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 4285 | 22 |
| 127 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 4271 | 25 |
| 128 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 4258 | 27 |
| 129 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 4242 | 39 |
| 130 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 4208 | 28 |
| 131 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4180 | 11 |
| 131 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 4180 | 26 |
| (132) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4165 | 8 |
| (132) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4133 | 19 |
| (132) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4129 | 16 |
| 133 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 4065 | 17 |
| 134 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4064 | 12 |
| 135 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | | 4048 | 33 |
| 136 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4039 | 23 |
| 137 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 4024 | 65 |
| 138 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 3994 | 23 |
| (138) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 3957 | 16 |
| 139 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 3935 | 26 |
| 140 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3930 | 12 |
| 141 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 3904 | 26 |
| 142 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 3895 | 49 |
| 143 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 3888 | 19 |
| 144 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 3881 | 27 |
| (144) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3812 | 9 |
| (144) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3795 | 12 |
| (144) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3778 | 11 |
| 145 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 3777 | 15 |
| 146 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 3771 | 28 |
| 147 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 3748 | 38 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 3740 | 13 |
| (148) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 3701 | 17 |
| 149 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 3696 | 42 |
| 150 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 3692 | 16 |
| 151 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 3686 | 17 |
| 152 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 3635 | 15 |
| (152) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 3617 | 21 |
| 153 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 3586 | 16 |
| 154 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3554 | 15 |
| 155 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3550 | 10 |
| 156 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 3549 | 18 |
| 157 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 3515 | 28 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 3515 | 20 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 3498 | 15 |
| 160 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 3483 | 13 |
| 161 | Faculty of Commerce and Economics, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 3479 | 18 |
| (161) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3450 | 14 |
| 162 | Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University | Ramat-Gan, Israel | 3449 | 9 |
| 163 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3439 | 3 |
| 164 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 3426 | 24 |
| (164) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3401 | 9 |
| 165 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 3387 | 13 |
| 165 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3387 | 12 |
| 167 | Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3369 | 8 |
| (167) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3360 | 6 |
| 168 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3333 | 17 |
| 169 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 3329 | 25 |
| 170 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 3322 | 6 |
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