| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 1.22 | 39 | 1.41 |
| 2 | London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom | 1.71 | 22 | 3.00 |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 3.47 | 4 | 0.76 |
| 4 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France | 5.44 | 10 | 2.29 |
| 5 | University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 5.67 | 2 | 0.33 |
| 6 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy | 5.98 | 12 | 2.56 |
| 7 | University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States) | 6.25 | 7 | 0.89 |
| 8 | Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia | 6.85 | 13 | 3.01 |
| 9 | Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland | 8.04 | 13 | 3.61 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom | 8.49 | 6 | 0.84 |
| - | Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia | 8.89 | 9 | 2.16 |
| - | Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland | 9.34 | 11 | 3.20 |
| 10 | University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom | 9.99 | 12 | 3.49 |
| - | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) → Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France | 10.01 | 1 | 0.14 |
| 11 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom | 11.10 | 40 | 1.02 |
| 12 | Paris School of Economics, Paris, France | 12.54 | 13 | 1.56 |
| - | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy | 12.57 | 6 | 1.32 |
| 13 | University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 12.71 | 4 | 0.59 |
| 14 | Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 12.99 | 8 | 1.77 |
| 15 | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 13.10 | 108 | 1.71 |
| 16 | University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada | 13.31 | 5 | 1.60 |
| - | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 15.53 | 107 | 1.61 |
| - | University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom | 16.41 | 10 | 2.61 |
| 17 | Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy | 16.63 | 7 | 0.73 |
| 18 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bologna, Italy | 16.67 | 13 | 3.34 |
| 19 | Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States) | 17.94 | 4 | 1.06 |
| 20 | Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States) | 21.93 | 3 | 0.39 |
| 21 | University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada | 22.41 | 4 | 1.13 |
| 22 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany | 22.66 | 12 | 1.38 |
| 23 | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain | 23.17 | 14 | 4.43 |
| 24 | University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom | 23.41 | 12 | 2.74 |
| 25 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany | 24.41 | 5 | 1.18 |
| 26 | HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France | 24.72 | 1 | 0.45 |
| 27 | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States) | 25.49 | 2 | 0.28 |
| - | HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) → Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, Jouy-en-Josas, France | 25.72 | 1 | 0.45 |
| 28 | Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France | 27.65 | 6 | 0.86 |
| - | Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France | 28.87 | 5 | 0.85 |
| 29 | Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States) | 28.93 | 3 | 1.32 |
| 30 | Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland | 29.99 | 6 | 0.95 |
| 31 | Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 30.66 | 6 | 1.20 |
| 32 | University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 30.86 | 4 | 0.65 |
| 33 | Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden | 31.96 | 5 | 0.60 |
| 34 | Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany | 32.96 | 3 | 1.48 |
| - | Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden | 33.11 | 4 | 0.58 |
| 35 | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 35.28 | 4 | 0.52 |
| 36 | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States) | 35.31 | 2 | 0.40 |
| 37 | Texas A&M University → Department of Economics, College Station, Texas (United States) | 35.77 | 4 | 1.33 |
| - | Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland | 36.97 | 5 | 0.73 |
| 38 | New York University Abu Dhabi → Economics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 37.50 | 6 | 1.14 |
| 39 | Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark | 37.76 | 3 | 1.06 |
| 40 | University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom | 39.48 | 2 | 0.36 |
| 41 | Université de Lyon → Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Lyon, France | 39.66 | 8 | 2.02 |
| 42 | Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States) | 40.01 | 5 | 0.75 |
| 43 | CESifo, München, Germany | 43.38 | 37 | 0.91 |
| 44 | Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France | 43.71 | 4 | 1.36 |
| 45 | Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway | 44.37 | 6 | 0.71 |
| - | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Center for Global Management, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 45.10 | 2 | 0.38 |
| - | Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway | 45.83 | 5 | 0.70 |
| 46 | Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 46.75 | 5 | 0.96 |
| 47 | ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany | 46.99 | 12 | 1.79 |
| 48 | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft → Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Gemeinschaftsgütern, Bonn, Germany | 47.81 | 7 | 1.38 |
| 49 | Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" → Facoltà di Economia, Roma, Italy | 48.30 | 8 | 1.72 |
| 50 | Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany | 48.43 | 6 | 0.66 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain | 49.50 | 5 | 0.87 |
| 51 | Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics, Orange, California (United States) | 49.69 | 11 | 1.68 |
| 52 | University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom | 50.48 | 5 | 1.15 |
| - | Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" → Facoltà di Economia → Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Roma, Italy | 51.63 | 8 | 1.58 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom | 52.05 | 1 | 0.11 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain | 53.06 | 7 | 2.44 |
| 53 | Stanford University → Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California (United States) | 54.93 | 2 | 0.24 |
| 54 | Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States) | 55.47 | 3 | 0.38 |
| 55 | Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden | 55.62 | 2 | 0.24 |
| 56 | Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States) | 56.92 | 1 | 0.22 |
| 57 | Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wien, Austria | 57.45 | 3 | 1.12 |
| 58 | London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom | 58.35 | 3 | 0.38 |
| 59 | Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 58.78 | 3 | 0.64 |
| 60 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 58.99 | 4 | 0.12 |
| 61 | University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States) | 60.12 | 1 | 0.20 |
| 62 | Central European University → Department of Economics and Business, Wien, Austria | 61.14 | 2 | 0.32 |
| 63 | Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States) | 63.04 | 3 | 0.12 |
| 64 | Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 63.23 | 1 | 0.21 |
| 65 | Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Canberra, Australia | 63.56 | 1 | 0.04 |
| - | Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 64.25 | 1 | 0.21 |
| 66 | Pennsylvania State University → Smeal College of Business Administration, State College, Pennsylvania (United States) | 65.89 | 1 | 0.25 |
| 67 | Collège de France → Centre de Recherche sur l'Économie de l'Innovation, Paris, France | 66.81 | 1 | 0.14 |
| - | Pennsylvania State University → Smeal College of Business Administration → Laboratory for Economics Management and Auctions (LEMA), State College, Pennsylvania (United States) | 67.00 | 1 | 0.25 |
| 68 | Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands | 67.20 | 6 | 0.44 |
| 69 | New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States) | 68.06 | 1 | 0.18 |
| - | Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi → Nationalökonomisk Institut, Aarhus, Denmark | 69.40 | 2 | 0.48 |
| 70 | Università degli Studi di Torino → Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Torino, Italy | 69.85 | 6 | 1.21 |
| 71 | Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck → Fakultät für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik, Innsbruck, Austria | 70.23 | 6 | 1.35 |
| 72 | University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States) | 70.56 | 2 | 0.53 |
| 73 | University of Bristol → School of Economics, Bristol, United Kingdom | 70.73 | 5 | 0.96 |
| 74 | University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States) | 70.91 | 2 | 0.17 |
| - | Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States) | 70.96 | 9 | 1.17 |
| - | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Analisi delle Politiche e Management Pubblico, Milano, Italy | 71.63 | 3 | 0.57 |
| 75 | Università degli Studi di Verona → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Verona, Italy | 72.28 | 6 | 1.77 |
| 76 | George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States) | 72.63 | 3 | 0.71 |
| 77 | Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States) | 74.52 | 1 | 0.25 |
| - | Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft → Abteilung Management und Mikroökonomik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 75.42 | 3 | 0.74 |
| 78 | Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → Experimental Economics Center, Atlanta, Georgia (United States) | 76.25 | 2 | 0.37 |
| 79 | Università degli Studi di Bergamo → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bergamo, Italy | 76.85 | 4 | 1.34 |
| 80 | Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, Sweden | 77.46 | 5 | 1.25 |
| - | Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden | 77.46 | 5 | 1.25 |
| 81 | Indiana University → Department of Economics, Bloomington, Indiana (United States) | 78.47 | 2 | 0.42 |
| 82 | Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States) | 80.90 | 2 | 0.22 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Social Policy, London, United Kingdom | 81.08 | 5 | 0.39 |
| 83 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden | 82.35 | 9 | 1.35 |
| 84 | Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia | 82.60 | 3 | 0.26 |