| 1 | London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom | 1.00 | 31 | 3.78 |
| 2 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 2 | 55 | 1.42 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom | 3.00 | 18 | 1.32 |
| 3 | University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 3.23 | 5 | 0.98 |
| 4 | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 3.64 | 185 | 4.62 |
| - | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 4.64 | 183 | 3.72 |
| 5 | Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States) | 5.83 | 6 | 1.44 |
| 6 | Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland | 6.76 | 20 | 4.66 |
| 7 | Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 7.39 | 4 | 0.48 |
| 8 | University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom | 7.96 | 4 | 0.26 |
| 9 | University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States) | 7.97 | 6 | 0.44 |
| 10 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany | 8.89 | 15 | 4.26 |
| - | Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland | 9.82 | 10 | 1.83 |
| 11 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 10.89 | 6 | 0.73 |
| 12 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States) | 13.90 | 3 | 0.28 |
| 13 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany | 14.16 | 7 | 1.65 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom | 14.22 | 7 | 0.67 |
| 14 | Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands | 15.39 | 8 | 2.36 |
| 15 | University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 15.41 | 3 | 1.12 |
| 16 | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States) | 15.42 | 1 | 0.22 |
| 17 | University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) | 15.99 | 3 | 1.69 |
| - | University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) | 17.74 | 1 | 0.44 |
| 18 | Government of the United States → Department of Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 18.83 | 4 | 1.08 |
| - | Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 18.83 | 4 | 1.08 |
| 19 | Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States) | 19.68 | 3 | 0.63 |
| 20 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom | 21.43 | 52 | 0.92 |
| 21 | University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada | 21.89 | 4 | 0.95 |
| 22 | University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada | 22.17 | 3 | 0.43 |
| 23 | ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany | 22.88 | 8 | 1.41 |
| 24 | Indiana University → School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana (United States) | 23.31 | 1 | 0.17 |
| 25 | Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 23.55 | 4 | 0.75 |
| 26 | Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 24.22 | 5 | 1.12 |
| 27 | Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States) | 25.29 | 4 | 0.48 |
| 28 | Paris School of Economics, Paris, France | 26.97 | 6 | 0.57 |
| 29 | Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia | 27.53 | 7 | 1.39 |
| - | Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia | 30.62 | 6 | 1.37 |
| 30 | Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany | 30.70 | 10 | 2.52 |
| 31 | Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Canberra, Australia | 31.66 | 1 | 0.06 |
| 32 | University College London (UCL) → Institute of Education → Social Research Institute, London, United Kingdom | 31.73 | 2 | 0.60 |
| 33 | University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom | 32.77 | 7 | 1.03 |
| 34 | Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 32.91 | 1 | 0.45 |
| 35 | Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy | 32.97 | 5 | 0.26 |
| 36 | Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France | 34.72 | 2 | 0.24 |
| - | Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France | 35.75 | 2 | 0.24 |
| 37 | CESifo, München, Germany | 35.78 | 45 | 0.86 |
| - | Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Capaciteitsgroep Algemene Economie, Rotterdam, Netherlands | 36.76 | 4 | 1.85 |
| 38 | Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 37.97 | 3 | 0.77 |
| 39 | Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands | 38.85 | 9 | 0.95 |
| 40 | University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom | 38.87 | 6 | 1.14 |
| 41 | Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States) | 40.42 | 5 | 0.40 |
| - | Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft → Abteilung Management und Mikroökonomik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 40.60 | 3 | 1.00 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom | 41.24 | 2 | 0.75 |
| 42 | Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark | 41.46 | 7 | 1.19 |
| 43 | Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway | 41.68 | 8 | 1.29 |
| 44 | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain | 41.99 | 6 | 1.26 |
| 45 | Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy | 43.52 | 5 | 2.04 |
| 46 | Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States) | 43.84 | 3 | 0.24 |
| 47 | University of Rochester → William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, Rochester, New York (United States) | 44.07 | 1 | 0.50 |
| 48 | University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom | 45.68 | 3 | 0.26 |
| 49 | Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 46.19 | 5 | 0.31 |
| 50 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom | 46.49 | 9 | 0.58 |
| 51 | University of Wisconsin → Economics Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (United States) | 47.50 | 1 | 0.46 |
| 52 | Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States) | 48.71 | 4 | 0.65 |
| 53 | Stanford University → Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford, California (United States) | 49.40 | 3 | 0.16 |
| 54 | University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada | 49.63 | 3 | 0.68 |
| - | Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 51.26 | 3 | 0.81 |
| 55 | Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy | 51.44 | 6 | 1.02 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Management, London, United Kingdom | 51.95 | 2 | 0.26 |
| - | Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States) | 54.96 | 2 | 0.41 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States) | 54.98 | 3 | 0.52 |
| 57 | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 55.20 | 5 | 0.94 |
| 58 | Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States) | 55.78 | 1 | 0.19 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain | 56.37 | 3 | 0.41 |
| - | University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom | 56.82 | 2 | 0.18 |
| 59 | University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada | 56.86 | 3 | 1.08 |
| 60 | Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland | 58.03 | 3 | 0.89 |
| - | Harvard University → Department of Economics → Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 58.66 | 1 | 0.05 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London, United Kingdom | 58.87 | 2 | 0.16 |
| 61 | Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States) | 59.04 | 3 | 0.54 |
| - | University of Georgia → Terry College of Business → Department of Economics, Athens, Georgia (United States) | 60.82 | 2 | 0.78 |
| 61 | University of Georgia → Terry College of Business, Athens, Georgia (United States) | 60.82 | 2 | 0.78 |
| 63 | Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria | 62.46 | 7 | 2.32 |
| 64 | Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany | 62.74 | 4 | 1.59 |
| - | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → LISER Resident Research Staff, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 62.85 | 4 | 0.91 |
| 65 | Florida State University → Department of Economics, Tallahassee, Florida (United States) | 63.28 | 1 | 0.42 |
| 66 | University of Bristol → School of Economics, Bristol, United Kingdom | 63.64 | 4 | 1.13 |
| 67 | Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States) | 63.78 | 1 | 0.17 |
| 68 | University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) | 64.53 | 2 | 0.50 |
| 69 | Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany | 65.70 | 6 | 1.39 |
| 70 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain | 66.52 | 3 | 0.52 |
| 71 | Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States) | 67.88 | 1 | 0.16 |
| 72 | George Mason University → Schar School of Policy and Government, Arlington, Virginia (United States) | 67.93 | 1 | 0.11 |
| - | Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Strategy Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 68.58 | 2 | 0.47 |
| - | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom | 70.17 | 7 | 0.27 |
| - | Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway | 71.55 | 4 | 0.75 |
| 73 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy | 71.64 | 5 | 0.49 |
| 74 | Oxford University → Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Oxford, United Kingdom | 73.81 | 2 | 0.33 |
| 75 | European University Institute → Department of Economics, Firenze, Italy | 75.04 | 5 | 1.36 |
| 76 | Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland | 75.16 | 5 | 1.48 |