| Rules rather than discretion: The inconsistency of optimal plans FE Kydland, EC Prescott Journal of political economy 85 (3), 473-491, 1977 | 12863 | 1977 |
| Postwar US business cycles: an empirical investigation RJ Hodrick, EC Prescott Journal of Money, credit, and Banking, 1-16, 1997 | 12276 | 1997 |
| Time to build and aggregate fluctuations FE Kydland, EC Prescott Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1345-1370, 1982 | 9449 | 1982 |
| The equity premium: A puzzle R Mehra, EC Prescott Journal of monetary Economics 15 (2), 145-161, 1985 | 8908 | 1985 |
| Theory ahead of business-cycle measurement EC Prescott Carnegie-Rochester conference series on public policy 25, 11-44, 1986 | 3110 | 1986 |
| Financial intermediary-coalitions JH Boyd, EC Prescott Journal of Economic theory 38 (2), 211-232, 1986 | 2561 | 1986 |
| Economic growth and business cycles TF Cooley, EC Prescott Frontiers of business cycle research 1, 1-38, 1995 | 2267 | 1995 |
| Business cycles: Real facts and a monetary myth FE Kydland, EC Prescott Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review 14 (2), 3-18, 1990 | 1826 | 1990 |
| Barriers to technology adoption and development SL Parente, EC Prescott Journal of political Economy 102 (2), 298-321, 1994 | 1734 | 1994 |
| Why do Americans work so much more than Europeans? EC Prescott National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004 | 1676 | 2004 |
| Investment under uncertainty RE Lucas Jr, EC Prescott Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 659-681, 1971 | 1613 | 1971 |
| Lawrence R. Klein lecture 1997: Needed: A theory of total factor productivity EC Prescott International economic review, 525-551, 1998 | 1400 | 1998 |
| Frontiers of business cycle research TF Cooley Princeton University Press, 1995 | 1389 | 1995 |
| The 1990s in Japan: A lost decade F Hayashi, EC Prescott Review of Economic Dynamics 5 (1), 206-235, 2002 | 1358 | 2002 |
| Malthus to solow GD Hansen, EC Prescott American economic review 92 (4), 1205-1217, 2002 | 1335 | 2002 |
| Barriers to riches SL Parente, EC Prescott MIT press, 2002 | 1282 | 2002 |
| Equilibrium search and unemployment RE Lucas Jr, EC Prescott Uncertainty in economics, 515-540, 1978 | 1020 | 1978 |
| Organization capital EC Prescott, M Visscher Journal of political Economy 88 (3), 446-461, 1980 | 946 | 1980 |
| Sequential location among firms with foresight EC Prescott, M Visscher The Bell Journal of Economics, 378-393, 1977 | 865 | 1977 |
| Pareto optima and competitive equilibria with adverse selection and moral hazard EC Prescott, RM Townsend Econometrica: journal of the econometric society, 21-45, 1984 | 759 | 1984 |
