| Rank | Institution |
1 | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2 | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 3 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4 | Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) | (4) | Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 5 | Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA) | (6) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 7 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 8 | Economics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | (8) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 9 | Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 10 | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 11 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 12 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 13 | Department of Economics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 14 | Department of Economics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | (14) | Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | (14) | Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 15 | Department of Economics, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 16 | Economics Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | (16) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 17 | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina (USA) | 18 | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) |
| Rank | Author | Affiliated with (in this region) |
| 1. | Ben S. Bernanke | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 2. | Raghuram G. Rajan | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 3. | George A. Akerlof | Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 4. | Tim Bollerslev | Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) |
| 5. | Christopher Carroll | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) |
| 6. | Asli Demirguc-Kunt | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 7. | Andrew Hughes Hallett | School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA) |
| 8. | Martín Uribe | Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) |
| 9. | Campbell Harvey | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) |
| 10. | Robert Moffitt | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) |
| 11. | Craig Burnside | Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) |
| 12. | John Haltiwanger | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA) |
| 13. | Athanasios Orphanides | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 14. | Vernon L. Smith | Cato Institute, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA) Economics Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA) |
| 15. | Carmen M. Reinhart | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA) School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA) |
| 16. | Shang-Jin Wei | Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 17. | Steven N. Durlauf | Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 18. | François J. Bourguignon | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 19. | David Dollar | Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 20. | Aart Kraay | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 21. | Graciela Laura Kaminsky | Department of Economics, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 22. | Stijn Claessens | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 23. | Katharine Gail Abraham | University of Maryland |
| 24. | John List | Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 25. | Robert D. Tollison | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina (USA) |
| 26. | Thorsten Beck | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 27. | Paolo Mauro | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 28. | Robert P. Flood | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 29. | David E. M. Sappington | Economics Department, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (USA) Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (USA) |
| 30. | David Blau | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) Carolina Population Center (CPC), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) |
| 31. | Eric Ghysels | Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA) |
| 32. | Albert S. Kyle | Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) |
| 33. | Olivier Jeanne | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 34. | Andrew Theo Levin | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 35. | Matthew Buford Canzoneri | Economics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 36. | John H. Rogers | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 37. | George Tauchen | Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) |
| 38. | Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 39. | Allan Drazen | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA) |
| 40. | Simeon Djankov | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 41. | Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé | Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) |
| 42. | William R. Johnson | Department of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) |
| 43. | Tamim A Bayoumi | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 44. | Simon Anderson | Department of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) |
| 45. | Branko Milanovic | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 46. | Marvin Goodfriend | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (USA) Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (USA) |
| 47. | Christopher Ruhm | Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina (USA) Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina (USA) |
| 48. | Michael Kremer | Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 49. | David B. Gordon | John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina (USA) |
| 50. | David Malin Roodman | Center for Global Development (CGD), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 51. | Warwick J. McKibbin | Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 52. | Marc Nerlove | University of Maryland |
| 53. | Peter Cramton | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA) |
| 54. | Glenn W. Harrison | University of Central Florida |
| 55. | Leonard Jay Mirman | Department of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) |
| 56. | Kym Anderson | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 57. | Harry J. Holzer | Urban Institute, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 58. | Joseph E. Harrington Jr. | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) |
| 59. | James M. Buchanan | James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA) |
| 60. | Hali Edison | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 61. | Martin Evans | Economics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 62. | Marcus H Miller | Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 63. | Jay R. Ritter | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (USA) |
| 64. | Arvind Subramanian | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 65. | Vojislav Maksimovic | Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA) |
| 66. | Steven Stern | Department of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) |
| 67. | Keith E. Maskus | Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 68. | Timothy H. Hannan | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 69. | John Rust | Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA) |
| 70. | Tao Zha | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (USA) Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (USA) |
| 71. | Lant Pritchett | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Macroeconomics and Growth Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 72. | Lixin Colin Xu | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 73. | John Addison | Economics Department, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina (USA) Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina (USA) |
| 74. | Jinill Kim | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 75. | Jay Shanken | Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (USA) |
| 76. | Luc Laeven | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 77. | Sergio Luis Schmukler | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Policy Research Department, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 78. | Enrica Detragiache | International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 79. | Arik Levinson | Economics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 80. | Ian Parry | Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 81. | R. Mark Isaac | Department of Economics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (USA) |
| 82. | H. Peyton Young | Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) |
| 83. | Bob Chirinko | Department of Economics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (USA) |
| 84. | Donald O. Parsons | Department of Economics, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 85. | John M. Roberts | Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section, Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 86. | Alexander L. Wolman | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (USA) Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (USA) |
| 87. | Neil R. Ericsson | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 88. | Patrick Honohan | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) |
| 89. | Richard Evans Romano | University of Florida |