| Rank | Author | Affiliated with |
| 1 | Ben S. Bernanke | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States, Washington |
| 2 | George A. Akerlof | Brookings Institution, Washington Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington |
| 3 | Vernon L. Smith | Cato Institute, Washington |
| 4 | Raghuram G. Rajan | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington |
| 5 | Athanasios Orphanides | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States, Washington |
| 6 | Shang-Jin Wei | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington |
| 7 | Christopher Carroll | Brookings Institution, Washington Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, Brookings Institution, Washington |
| 8 | Robert P. Flood | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington |
| 9 | Simon Johnson | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington |
| 10 | Simeon Djankov | World Bank Group, Washington |
| 11 | Michael Kremer | Brookings Institution, Washington Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington |
| 12 | Graciela Laura Kaminsky | Department of Economics, George Washington University, Washington |
| 13 | Stijn Claessens | World Bank Group, Washington |
| 14 | Andrew Theo Levin | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States, Washington |
| 15 | Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington |
| 16 | Paolo Mauro | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington |
| 17 | David Dollar | Economic Growth Research, World Bank Group, Washington World Bank Group, Washington Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group, Washington Development Economics, World Bank Group, Washington |
| 18 | Paul Robert Masson | Brookings Institution, Washington |
| 19 | Martin Evans | Economics Department, Georgetown University, Washington |
| 20 | Hali Edison | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington |
| 21 | Lant Pritchett | World Bank Group, Washington Economic Growth Research, World Bank Group, Washington |
| 22 | Neil R. Ericsson | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States, Washington |
| 23 | Timothy H. Hannan | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States, Washington |
| 24 | Marcus H Miller | Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington |
| 25 | Warwick J. McKibbin | Brookings Institution, Washington Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington |
| 26 | Clifford M. Winston | Brookings Institution, Washington Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington |
| 27 | Patrick Honohan | World Bank Group, Washington Development Economics, World Bank Group, Washington |
| 28 | Keith E. Maskus | Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington |
| 29 | Eswar Prasad | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington |
| 30 | Sergio Luis Schmukler | World Bank Group, Washington Policy Research Department, World Bank Group, Washington |