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Torsten Persson

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PhD Economics Stockholm University
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According to Wikipedia, Torsten Persson is a Swedish economist who is the Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University and Centennial Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and has held visiting positions at leading universities as Harvard, Princeton and Berkeley.

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Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy (2000) (3821)
Is Inequality Harmful for Growth (1994) (3312)
Separation of Powers and Political Accountability (1997) (1184)
Why a Stubborn Conservative would Run a Deficit: Policy with Time-Inconsistent Preferences (1989) (1159)
Electoral Rules and Corruption (2001) (839)
The Economic Effects of Constitutions (2003) (817)
Macroeconomic policy, credibility and politics (1990) (779)
Comparative Politics and Public Finance (1997) (777)
The Size and the Scope of Government: Comparative Politics with Rational Politicians (1998) (766)
State Capacity, Conflict and Development (2009) (728)
Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? Theory and Evidence (1991) (696)
Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters (2011) (696)
Democratic Capital: The Nexus of Political and Economic Change (2006) (612)
Designing institutions for monetary stability (1993) (566)
Currency unions and trade: how large is the treatment effect? (2001) (471)
The size and scope of government (1999) (455)
Why Do Developing Countries Tax So Little (2014) (443)
Political Economics and Macroeconomic Policy (1997) (436)
The Logic of Political Violence (2011) (436)
Constitutional Rules and Fiscal Policy Outcomes (2004) (433)
Does a Currency Union affect Trade? The Time Series Evidence Reuven Glick and Andrew K. Rose* (2002) (417)
The Politics of 1992: Fiscal Policy and European Integration (1990) (391)
Federal Fiscal Constitutions: Risk Sharing and Moral Hazard (1996) (387)
Political Competition, Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the US (2010) (375)
Electoral Rules and Government Spending in Parliamentary Democracies (2007) (369)
Federal Fiscal Constitutions: Risk Sharing and Redistribution (1996) (358)
Political Economics and Public Finance (1999) (343)
Constitutions and Economic Policy (2004) (310)
Growth, Distribution and Politics (1991) (246)
WARS AND STATE CAPACITY (2008) (219)
The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence (2008) (217)
Pillars of Prosperity (2011) (216)
Political Institutions and Policy Outcomes: What are the Stylized Facts? (2001) (208)
The Economic Effect of Constitutions (2003) (202)
Double-edged incentives: Institutions and policy coordination (1995) (202)
Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development (2005) (201)
Do Electoral Cycles Differ Across Political Systems? (2003) (194)
Current Account Dynamics and the Terms of Trade: Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Two Generations Later (1983) (190)
Time Consistency of Fiscal and Monetary Policy (1987) (190)
Economic Policy and Special Interest Politics (1998) (181)
Representative democracy and capital taxation (1994) (180)
Who Becomes a Politician? (2017) (179)
Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man (2017) (163)
Lobbying and Legislative Bargaining (1998) (156)
Social Contracts as Assets : A Possible Solution to the Time-Consistency Problem (1988) (153)
Political Competition and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence from the United States (2005) (150)
Taxation and Development (2013) (150)
Does centralization increase the size of government (1994) (148)
Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden (2013) (148)
Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa (2012) (147)
Deficits and Intergenerational Welfare in Open Economies (1983) (143)
Political Competition, Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the United States (2010) (142)
Fragile States and Development Policy (2011) (119)
Markets with Asymmetric Information: The Contributions of George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz (2002) (115)
Repression or Civil War (2009) (107)
Exchange rate policy, wage formation and credibility (1988) (106)
The Swedish Business Cycle: Stylized facts over 130 years (1992) (95)
The Primary Effect: Preference Votes and Political Promotions (2016) (94)
Economic Losers and Political Winners: Sweden’s Radical Right (2018) (94)
State Capacity, Con‡ict and Development (2009) (93)
Swedish Business Cycles : 1861-1988 (1992) (92)
Credibility of Macroeconomic Policy : An Introduction and a Broad Survey (1987) (92)
Education and Military Rivalry (2012) (89)
Weak States and Steady States: The Dynamics of Fiscal Capacity (2013) (87)
Monetary and Fiscal Policy (1994) (78)
Monetary Cohabitation in Europe (1996) (78)
The Causes and Consequences of Development Clusters: State Capacity, Peace, and Income (2014) (77)
Towards micropolitical foundations of public finance (1998) (77)
Do constitutions cause large governments? Quasi-experimental evidence (2002) (75)
One money, many countries: monitoring the European Central Bank (2000) (73)
Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy (Zeuthen Lectures) (2000) (71)
Democratic Values and Institutions (2019) (70)
Advances in economics and econometrics : theory and applications, Ninth World Congress (2006) (67)
Norms, Enforcement, and Tax Evasion (2015) (65)
An introduction and a broad survey (1988) (63)
Debt, Cash Flow and Inflation Incentives: A Swedish Example (1996) (57)
Options for economic and political reform in Sweden (1993) (55)
Advances in Economics and Econometrics (2007) (54)
Data-Intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from Ai Firms in China (2020) (49)
Time-Consistent Fiscal Policy and Government Cash-Flow : A Note (1984) (47)
Electoral Systems and Economic Policy (2008) (45)
Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Nonadditive Models with Endogenous Regressors (2007) (40)
Federal Fiscal Constitutions; Part I: Risk Sharing and Moral Hazard (1992) (39)
Exchange Rate Variability and Asset Trade (1989) (39)
Studies of alternative exchagne rate systems : an intertemporal general equilibrium approach (1982) (35)
Chapter 22 Political economics and macroeconomic policy (1999) (35)
Separation of Powers and Accountability: Towards a Formal Approach to Comparative Politics (1996) (35)
Dynastic Political Rents? Economic Benefits to Relatives of Top Politicians (2017) (35)
Resilient Leaders and Institutional Reform: Theory and Evidence (2016) (33)
One money, many countries (2000) (33)
International Borrowing and Time- Consistent Fiscal Policy* (1986) (31)
A social network analysis of research collaboration in the economics community (2006) (30)
Signalling, Wage Controls and Monetary Disinflation Policy (1989) (26)
A formulation and test of a simple model of world bank behavior (1985) (24)
Individual vs. Social Motives in Identity Choice: Theory and Evidence from China (2019) (23)
The Rise of Identity Politics ∗ (2019) (23)
Real transfers in fixed exchange rate systems and the international adjustment mechanism (1984) (22)
Constitutions , Politics and Economics : A Review (2005) (22)
Reply to Blankart and Koester's Political Economics Versus Public Choice Two Views of Political Economy in Competition (2006) (22)
Lobbying and Legistlative Bargaining (1998) (21)
Global Effects of National Stabilization Policies under Fixed and Floating Exchange Rates (1982) (19)
Advances in economics and econometrics: theory and applications: Volume 1 (2006) (18)
Checks and Balances on the Government Budget (1987) (17)
The art of targeting inflation (17)
Is Optimism Good in a Keynesian Economy? (1983) (16)
Inflation, Interest Rates, and Welfare (1985) (16)
Chapter 24 - Political Economics and Public Finance** (2002) (14)
Preferential Voting, Accountability and Promotions into Political Power: Evidence from Sweden (2014) (14)
Optimal subsidies to declining industries: Efficiency and equity considerations (1983) (14)
Uncertainty, Climate Change and the Global Economy (2008) (12)
Monetary Policy and Wage/Price Bargaining: Macro-Institutional Interactions in the Traded, Public, and Sheltered Sectors (1997) (12)
Organizational Dynamics: Culture, Design, and Performance∗ (2018) (12)
Choosing Ethnicity: The Interplay Between Individual and Social Motives (2017) (11)
JEEA-FBBVA LECTURE 2017: The Dynamics of Environmental Politics and Values (2019) (11)
Culture, Institutions and Policy (2020) (10)
New methods in the Swedish medium-term survey (1987) (10)
The dynamics of environmental politics and values (2019) (9)
The Politics of 1992: scal Po lcy and European (1992) (9)
Ethnicity in Children and Mixed Marriages: Theory and Evidence from China∗ (2013) (9)
Empirical Examinations of the Information Sets of Economic Agents (1988) (8)
Economic Approaches to Political Institutions (2008) (8)
Escaping the Climate Trap? Values, Technologies, and Politics (cid:3) (2020) (7)
Who Becomes a Politican (2016) (7)
Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Vol. 2: Politics (1994) (7)
Federal Fiscal Constitutions. Part II: Risk Sharing and Redistribution (1995) (7)
Economic and Social Outsiders but Political Insiders: Sweden's Populist Radical Right (2022) (6)
Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Paper The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence (2009) (5)
Replication data for: Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden (2019) (5)
Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Ninth World Congress, Volume III (2007) (5)
Is Optimism Good in a Keynesian Economy (1983) (5)
Regulation, financial buffer stocks, and short-run adjustment: An econometric case-study of Sweden, 1970–1982☆ (1989) (5)
The Growth Effect of Democracy: (2008) (4)
Foreign Aid and Rent-Seeking Whyhasforeignaidhadso (2001) (4)
Inflation, Monetary Velocity, and Welfare (1982) (4)
Politics and economic policy (1992) (4)
Laws as Assets: a Possible Solution to the Time Consistency Problem (1986) (4)
HOW DO ELECTORAL RULES SHAPE PARTY (2004) (3)
Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-government (2016) (3)
Debt, cash ‡ow and in‡ation incentives: A Swedish example ¤ (1996) (2)
Nobel Lectures in Economic Sciences, 1996-2000 (2003) (2)
Misperceptions, rigidity and welfare (1984) (2)
[Fiscal Policy in Latin America]: Comment (1997) (2)
On Economics: A Review of Why Nations Fail by D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson and Pillars of Prosperity by T. Besley (2013) (2)
Political Quotas and Governance (2020) (2)
ESS Energy Design Report (2013) (2)
Political Institutions, Economic Approaches To (2008) (2)
Price Discrimination and Irrational Consumers: Discussion of Armstrong and Ellison (2006) (2)
Nobel Lectures in Economic Sciences 1991 – 1995 (1997) (2)
The Rise of the Radical Right in Sweden : Consequences for Political Selection ∗ (2018) (1)
Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Paper Fragile States and Development Policy (2011) (1)
International Seminar on Macroeconomics (1997) (1)
Preferential Voting and the Selection of Party Leaders : Evidence from Sweden * (2013) (1)
Advances in economics and econometrics: theory and applications: Volume 3 (2007) (1)
IFN Working Paper No (2013) (1)
Workbook to accompany Political Economics : explaining economic policy (2000) (1)
A Reply Of: Time Consistency Of Fiscal And Monetary Policy, A Comment (1989) (1)
Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Introduction by the Editors (2006) (1)
Misperceptions and Welfare (1982) (1)
Sweden's COVID-19 Recession: How Foreign and Domestic Infections Struck Against Firms and Workers (2022) (1)
Political Rules and Fiscal Policy (2001) (0)
Linking climate, economy and ecosystem models (2009) (0)
Web Appendix for Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa (2012) (0)
Ignitor for non-electrical ignite an explosive charge. (1987) (0)
Social Institutions and Credible Tax Policy (2012) (0)
Alternative transactions variables and the empirical evidence of economies of scale in money holdings (1979) (0)
Economic sciences, 1991-1995 (1997) (0)
REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT 2003 (2004) (0)
Active Regions and Solar Cycles: Topologically Explored (2008) (0)
Advances in economics and econometrics: theory and applications: Volume 2 (2007) (0)
Replication data for: Democratic Values and Institutions (2019) (0)
Exchange rate theory and practice: John F.O. Bilson and Richard C. Marston, eds., (University of chicago press for the national bureau of economic research, chicago, 1984) pp. ix + 528, $58.00 (1986) (0)
General Discussion: What Have We Learned? (1983) (0)
Economic Policy as a Game (2012) (0)
Advances in Economics and Econometrics 3 Volume Paperback Set (2007) (0)
www.econstor.eu The political economics of not paying taxes (2003) (0)
Culture, institutions, and policy (2021) (0)
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with Funding from Boston Library Consortium Iviember Libraries Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions^ Association Annual Meetings for Comments. Acemoglu Gratefully Acknowledges Financial Support from The (0)
including © notice, is given to the source. Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up? (2006) (0)
Chapter 1. Development Clusters (2011) (0)
Alleviating global poverty (2021) (0)
Economic sciences, 1996-2000 (2003) (0)
Commitment Versus Discretion in Wealth Taxation (2012) (0)
Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Contents (2006) (0)
International Seminar on Macroeconomics 1996 (1997) (0)
List of contributors (2021) (0)
Elections and Monetary Policy (2012) (0)
Appendix Democratic Values and Institutions (2018) (0)
ABSTRACT Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment * (2012) (0)
International Monetary Policy Coordination (2001) (0)
Economic Policy in the International Economy: Do Political Institutions Shape Economic Policy? (2003) (0)
The Macroeconomic Tradeoffs of Price and Income Policies: Comment (1990) (0)
Economic Benefits to Relatives of Top Politicians (2016) (0)
Capital Market "Imperfections" and the Consumption Function: Comment (1986) (0)
Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Titles in the series (2006) (0)
Alternative Transactions Variables in Money Demand Equations : A Note on the Baumol-Tobin Theory (1979) (0)
Chapter 7. Political Reform (2011) (0)
Chapter 4. Political Violence (2011) (0)
T HE G ROWTH E FFECT OF D EMOCRACY : I S IT H ETEROGENOUS AND HOW CAN IT BE E STIMATED ? (2007) (0)
ESSAYS ON CULTURE AND TRADE by Ulrika Stavlöt INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC STUDIES (2004) (0)
Introduction by the editors (2009) (0)
Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten und Sturm, Daniel: Political Competition and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence from the United States (2020) (0)
Chapter 2. Fiscal Capacity (2011) (0)
Cooperation Across the Atlantic and Across the Rhine (1995) (0)
Chapter 3. Legal Capacity (2011) (0)
Chapter 5. State Spaces (2011) (0)
Chapter 8. Lessons Learned (2019) (0)
Repression or civil war? [Conference paper] (2009) (0)
Buchheim, Lukas und Ulbricht, Robert: Dynamics of Political Systems (2020) (0)
The power to tax is taken for granted in a great deal of mainstream public (2016) (0)
Chapter 6. Development Assistance (2011) (0)
Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes and the Transmission of Disturbances : A general Equilibrium Approach (1980) (0)

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