| Rank | Author | Affiliated with |
| 1 | Edward C. Prescott | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis |
| 2 | Ross Levine | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis |
| 3 | Patrick Kehoe | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis |
| 4 | Varadarajan Chari | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis |