| Rank | Institution |
1 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | (3) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | (3) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 4 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA) |
| Rank | Author | Affiliated with (in this region) |
| 1. | Ross Levine | Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) |
| 2. | Edward C. Prescott | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) |
| 3. | Patrick Kehoe | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) |
| 4. | Ellen R. McGrattan | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) |
| 5. | William Poole | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (USA) Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (USA) |
| 6. | Varadarajan Chari | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) |
| 7. | Anjan V. Thakor | Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (USA) |
| 8. | Robert A. Pollak | Department of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (USA) Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (USA) |
| 9. | Ronald A. Wirtz | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) |
| 10. | Narayana Kocherlakota | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) |
| 11. | Dermot Hayes | Department of Finance, College of Business, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA) Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA) College of Business, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA) |
| 12. | Timothy J. Kehoe | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) |
| 13. | William Arnold Barnett | Department of Economics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (USA) |
| 14. | Daniel L Thornton | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (USA) Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (USA) |
| 15. | Bruce Alan Babcock | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA) Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA) |
| 16. | Samuel Kortum | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) |
| 17. | Helen H. Jensen | Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA) |
| 18. | Ping Wang | Department of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (USA) |