Better the Blue Devil you know: Duke University faculty rule the St. Louis Fed's ranking of Tar Heel economic research.

• Position: TAKING INVENTORY

Dukies don't just think they're better than the rest of us, they can prove it--at least when it comes to economics research that7s popular with scholars. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ranks authors by state based on their number of articles and how often they've been cited. Duke--which has North Carolina's best business school, according to U.S. News & World Report--dominates this one. Then again, the Durham university has more scholars registered with the service than any other institution in the state.

1. Tim Bollerslev Duke University

   Journal article downloads: 31,200

   Most cited work: "Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity" (1986)

   Translation: The introduction of GARCH, probably the most commonly used time-series model for measuring stock volatility

2. Campbell Harvey Duke University

   Journal article downloads: 13,063

3. Duncan Thomas Duke University

   Journal article downloads: 8,222

4. Craig Burnside Duke University

   Journal article downloads: 7,937

5. Eric Ghysels UNC Chapel Hill

   Journal article downloads: 2,826

6. Tracy Lewis Duke University

   Journal article downloads: 4,947

7. George Tauchen Duke University

   Journal article downloads: 3,787

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