| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 1 | 30 | 1.68 |
| 2 | Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 2.80 | 5 | 0.56 |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 2.95 | 2 | 0.76 |
| 4 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy | 3.95 | 9 | 2.01 |
| 5 | London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom | 5.52 | 14 | 4.05 |
| 6 | University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States) | 5.91 | 5 | 1.34 |
| 7 | Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States) | 6.04 | 8 | 1.82 |
| 8 | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain | 6.07 | 22 | 6.73 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom | 8.08 | 5 | 0.62 |
| - | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy | 8.74 | 5 | 0.66 |
| 9 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom | 9.22 | 38 | 0.98 |
| 10 | Paris School of Economics, Paris, France | 10.99 | 19 | 2.88 |
| 11 | University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 11.05 | 2 | 0.65 |
| 12 | California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences, Pasadena, California (United States) | 11.40 | 3 | 1.82 |
| 13 | SKEMA Business School, Lille, France | 11.92 | 2 | 0.45 |
| 14 | Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland | 15.04 | 9 | 2.37 |
| 15 | University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom | 15.30 | 13 | 3.31 |
| - | Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland | 16.22 | 7 | 1.91 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain | 16.61 | 8 | 2.60 |
| 16 | Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States) | 17.95 | 2 | 0.57 |
| 17 | University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States) | 18.56 | 2 | 0.63 |
| 18 | Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States) | 18.96 | 5 | 0.84 |
| 19 | Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States) | 19.34 | 2 | 0.39 |
| 20 | University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom | 19.58 | 10 | 1.64 |
| 21 | New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States) | 20.36 | 2 | 0.86 |
| 22 | Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 21.33 | 5 | 1.37 |
| 23 | University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada | 22.84 | 5 | 1.40 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona → Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica → Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Barcelona, Spain | 26.14 | 5 | 2.07 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona → Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Barcelona, Spain | 26.14 | 5 | 2.07 |
| 24 | Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States) | 27.56 | 3 | 0.70 |
| 25 | Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 27.71 | 7 | 3.24 |
| 26 | Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States) | 28.14 | 1 | 0.18 |
| 27 | Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia | 28.37 | 9 | 1.60 |
| - | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Analisi delle Politiche e Management Pubblico, Milano, Italy | 28.60 | 4 | 0.99 |
| 28 | Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden | 28.90 | 1 | 0.16 |
| 29 | ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany | 29.37 | 14 | 1.53 |
| - | Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia | 30.11 | 8 | 1.26 |
| 30 | University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom | 30.35 | 3 | 1.66 |
| 31 | Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium | 30.85 | 8 | 2.22 |
| 32 | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 31.61 | 56 | 0.61 |
| 33 | George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States) | 31.75 | 3 | 0.90 |
| 34 | Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany | 32.25 | 3 | 0.51 |
| 35 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bologna, Italy | 33.12 | 7 | 2.12 |
| - | Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain | 33.28 | 8 | 1.18 |
| 36 | Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States) | 34.18 | 4 | 2.59 |
| 37 | Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Beijing, China | 34.97 | 1 | 0.12 |
| - | Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) → China Economics and Management Academy, Beijing, China | 36.00 | 1 | 0.12 |
| - | Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management → European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Bruxelles, Belgium | 36.18 | 5 | 1.07 |
| - | University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom | 36.71 | 7 | 0.66 |
| 38 | University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States) | 37.24 | 2 | 0.14 |
| 39 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France | 39.12 | 8 | 1.51 |
| 40 | Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 40.22 | 6 | 0.96 |
| 41 | Universität Basel → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Basel, Switzerland | 41.67 | 3 | 0.49 |
| 42 | Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France | 42.37 | 7 | 1.86 |
| 43 | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft → Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche Finanzen, München, Germany | 42.47 | 3 | 0.52 |
| 44 | UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia | 42.60 | 4 | 1.37 |
| - | UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School → School of Economics, Sydney, Australia | 43.60 | 4 | 1.37 |
| 45 | Bar Ilan University → Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan, Israel | 43.67 | 2 | 0.52 |
| - | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 43.73 | 54 | 0.39 |
| - | Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 44.10 | 5 | 0.88 |
| 46 | Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wien, Austria | 44.86 | 6 | 2.38 |
| - | Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France | 45.27 | 6 | 1.81 |
| 47 | New York University Abu Dhabi → Economics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 45.47 | 5 | 2.22 |
| 48 | University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States) | 45.52 | 2 | 0.34 |
| 49 | Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy | 46.11 | 3 | 0.22 |
| 50 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 46.15 | 5 | 0.41 |
| 51 | Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States) | 48.41 | 2 | 0.51 |
| 52 | Università degli Studi di Verona → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Verona, Italy | 53.41 | 7 | 2.37 |
| 53 | Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 53.54 | 5 | 0.75 |
| 54 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany | 54.15 | 1 | 0.28 |
| - | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich → Wirtschaftstheoretische Abteilung II, Bonn, Germany | 55.16 | 1 | 0.28 |
| 55 | Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom | 55.80 | 5 | 1.47 |
| - | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften → Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany | 55.93 | 4 | 0.88 |
| 55 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany | 55.93 | 4 | 0.88 |
| 57 | CESifo, München, Germany | 56.00 | 45 | 0.84 |
| 58 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany | 58.84 | 11 | 2.09 |
| - | University of Cyprus → Faculty of Economics and Management → Department of Economics, Nicosia, Cyprus | 58.91 | 3 | 1.51 |
| 58 | University of Cyprus → Faculty of Economics and Management, Nicosia, Cyprus | 58.91 | 3 | 1.51 |
| 60 | University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States) | 59.03 | 2 | 0.34 |
| 61 | Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 63.71 | 8 | 0.39 |
| 62 | Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands | 64.14 | 3 | 0.61 |
| 63 | Indiana University → Department of Economics, Bloomington, Indiana (United States) | 66.49 | 1 | 0.22 |
| 64 | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France | 69.17 | 4 | 1.59 |
| 65 | University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 70.48 | 3 | 0.44 |
| 66 | Universitá della Svizzera Italiana (USI) → Facoltá di scienze economiche, Lugano, Switzerland | 71.64 | 2 | 0.62 |
| 67 | Université de Lyon → Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Lyon, France | 72.03 | 10 | 3.04 |
| 68 | Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States) | 72.27 | 2 | 0.44 |
| - | Universitá della Svizzera Italiana (USI) → Facoltá di scienze economiche → Istituto di Economia Politica (IdEP), Lugano, Switzerland | 72.67 | 2 | 0.62 |
| 69 | Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden | 72.68 | 4 | 0.95 |
| 70 | Princeton University → School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey (United States) | 72.69 | 1 | 0.61 |
| - | Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Evanston, Illinois (United States) | 73.28 | 2 | 0.44 |
| - | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Milano, Italy | 73.53 | 1 | 0.23 |
| 71 | Universidade do Minho → Escola de Economia e Gestão, Braga, Portugal | 73.75 | 4 | 1.79 |
| - | Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States) | 74.70 | 3 | 0.28 |
| 71 | Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics, Orange, California (United States) | 74.70 | 3 | 0.28 |
| 73 | University of Birmingham → Department of Economics, Birmingham, United Kingdom | 75.74 | 5 | 1.61 |
| - | Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States) | 76.73 | 1 | 0.19 |
| 73 | Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States) | 76.73 | 1 | 0.19 |
| 75 | University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 77.06 | 3 | 0.40 |
| 76 | BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway | 77.30 | 3 | 0.64 |