| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 132215 | 281 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 85858 | 237 |
| 3 | Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 77347 | 352 |
| 4 | CESifo | München, Germany | 33189 | 93 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25917 | 39 |
| 6 | London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 25111 | 119 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 21347 | 103 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 20695 | 41 |
| 9 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 20192 | 120 |
| 10 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17596 | 148 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 17401 | 34 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 16102 | 31 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 14354 | 41 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 14208 | 32 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14142 | 34 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 13354 | 26 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 13137 | 34 |
| 18 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 12918 | 65 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12906 | 25 |
| 20 | Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA) | Rimini, Italy | 12626 | 51 |
| 21 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 12347 | 104 |
| 22 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12230 | 33 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) | La Jolla, California (USA) | 11902 | 31 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11627 | 37 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 11599 | 50 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 11472 | 28 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11452 | 30 |
| 28 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 11361 | 55 |
| (28) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 11288 | 36 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 11192 | 41 |
| (29) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 11129 | 27 |
| 30 | Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 10753 | 14 |
| 31 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10691 | 47 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 10491 | 23 |
| 33 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 10462 | 35 |
| (33) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 10267 | 20 |
| 34 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 10194 | 49 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 9829 | 23 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 9782 | 41 |
| 37 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 9148 | 49 |
| 38 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 9121 | 41 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 9099 | 30 |
| 40 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 9008 | 20 |
| 41 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 8984 | 23 |
| 42 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 8971 | 47 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 8790 | 29 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 8639 | 27 |
| (44) | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 8539 | 42 |
| 45 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 8536 | 57 |
| 46 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 8497 | 32 |
| 47 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 8470 | 40 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 8399 | 22 |
| 49 | Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 8375 | 47 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 8252 | 21 |
| 51 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 8099 | 29 |
| 52 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 8022 | 18 |
| (52) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 8015 | 32 |
| 53 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 7965 | 33 |
| 54 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 7865 | 15 |
| 55 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7859 | 18 |
| 56 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 7834 | 28 |
| 57 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 7738 | 24 |
| (57) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 7545 | 36 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 7396 | 18 |
| 59 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 7269 | 78 |
| 60 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 7249 | 28 |
| 61 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 7244 | 65 |
| 62 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 7210 | 13 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 7048 | 34 |
| 64 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 6990 | 40 |
| 65 | Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 6959 | 95 |
| 66 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 6952 | 30 |
| 67 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 6874 | 37 |
| 68 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis | Davis, California (USA) | 6828 | 22 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 6824 | 26 |
| 70 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6785 | 52 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6777 | 16 |
| 72 | Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 6776 | 11 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 6721 | 30 |
| 74 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 6702 | 31 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 6684 | 22 |
| 76 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 6621 | 39 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 6598 | 27 |
| 78 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 6564 | 14 |
| 79 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" | Roma, Italy | 6421 | 39 |
| 80 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 6375 | 52 |
| (80) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 6243 | 27 |
| 80 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 6243 | 27 |
| 82 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 6221 | 28 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 6202 | 24 |
| 84 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 6189 | 36 |
| 85 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 6035 | 12 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 6028 | 28 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 6026 | 34 |
| 88 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5829 | 18 |
| 89 | College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 5757 | 25 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 5729 | 26 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 5679 | 49 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 5659 | 13 |
| 93 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 5654 | 20 |
| 94 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 5652 | 22 |
| 95 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 5644 | 24 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 5592 | 18 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London | Egham, United Kingdom | 5578 | 28 |
| 98 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 5511 | 27 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 5506 | 42 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 5405 | 21 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 5373 | 23 |
| 102 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) | Toulouse, France | 5370 | 51 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 5368 | 9 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, McGill University | Montréal, Canada | 5350 | 24 |
| (104) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 5337 | 13 |
| 105 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5326 | 16 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado | Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 5311 | 20 |
| 107 | Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5266 | 16 |
| 108 | Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5154 | 26 |
| (108) | Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 5138 | 13 |
| 109 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 5063 | 25 |
| (109) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 4988 | 19 |
| 110 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4969 | 37 |
| 111 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 4923 | 45 |
| (111) | Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4905 | 20 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 4799 | 12 |
| 113 | Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Jena, Germany | 4791 | 46 |
| 114 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 4786 | 19 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 4768 | 26 |
| 116 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 4762 | 9 |
| 117 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4761 | 15 |
| 118 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 4740 | 28 |
| (118) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4713 | 29 |
| 119 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4701 | 11 |
| 120 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 4687 | 32 |
| 121 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4680 | 11 |
| 122 | Economics Department, University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 4657 | 26 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Guelph | Guelph, Canada | 4609 | 28 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 4574 | 13 |
| 124 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 4527 | 27 |
| 125 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 4492 | 15 |
| 126 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 4490 | 12 |
| 127 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna | Bologna, Italy | 4455 | 47 |
| 128 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 4441 | 29 |
| 129 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 4436 | 10 |
| (129) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 4398 | 9 |
| 130 | Economics, University of Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 4397 | 20 |
| 131 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 4381 | 23 |
| 132 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität | Berlin, Germany | 4380 | 67 |
| 133 | Collegio Carlo Alberto | Moncalieri, Italy | 4378 | 41 |
| 134 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 4340 | 16 |
| 135 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 4324 | 18 |
| 136 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4311 | 13 |
| 137 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4302 | 24 |
| 138 | United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) | Maastricht, Netherlands | 4284 | 34 |
| (138) | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 4266 | 19 |
| 139 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 4219 | 26 |
| 140 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 4218 | 19 |
| 141 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 4186 | 12 |
| (141) | Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 4136 | 17 |
| 142 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 4134 | 11 |
| 143 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 4102 | 26 |
| 144 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 4101 | 51 |
| 145 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 4085 | 16 |
| 146 | Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales | Sydney, Australia | 4018 | 19 |
| 147 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 4011 | 30 |
| 148 | Department of Economics, National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore | 3983 | 27 |
| (148) | Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Canberra, Australia | 3974 | 18 |
| 148 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 3974 | 80 |
| 150 | Sveriges Riksbank | Stockholm, Sweden | 3967 | 19 |
| 151 | École d'Économie de Paris | Paris, France | 3963 | 26 |
| (151) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 3936 | 13 |
| 152 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 3930 | 12 |
| 153 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 3903 | 40 |
| 154 | Management School, Lancaster University | Lancaster, United Kingdom | 3886 | 15 |
| (154) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 3840 | 9 |
| (154) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 3829 | 11 |
| 155 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 3812 | 14 |
| 156 | Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin | Austin, Texas (USA) | 3778 | 21 |
| 157 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 3773 | 17 |
| 158 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 3761 | 15 |
| 159 | Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University | Ramat-Gan, Israel | 3757 | 10 |
| (159) | Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 3714 | 15 |
| (159) | Economics Section, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 3683 | 20 |
| (159) | ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 3652 | 6 |
| 160 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 3622 | 16 |
| 161 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3615 | 15 |
| 162 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 3586 | 28 |
| 163 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) | Fisciano, Italy | 3577 | 24 |
| 164 | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 3574 | 13 |
| (164) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3559 | 6 |
| 165 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 3543 | 14 |
| 166 | Geary Institute, University College Dublin | Dublin, Ireland | 3522 | 6 |
| 167 | Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3489 | 7 |
| 168 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 3474 | 10 |
| 169 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 3472 | 11 |
| 170 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 3440 | 14 |
| (170) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3435 | 13 |
| 171 | Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3413 | 17 |
| 172 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 3398 | 4 |
| (172) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 3398 | 4 |
| 173 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 3370 | 18 |
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