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Nationality
  
Swedish

Name
  
Torsten Persson


Role
  
Economist

Education
  
Stockholm University

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Born
  
18 April 1954 (age 70) (
1954-04-18
)
Stockholm, Sweden

Institution
  
University of Stockholm

School or tradition
  
Constitutional economics

Alma mater
  
University of Stockholm

Awards
  
Yrjo Jahnsson Award (1997)

Fields
  
Political Economy, Macroeconomics, International Economics, Public economics

Books
  
Political Economics: Explainin, The Economic Effects of, Pillars of Prosperity: The Politi, Workbook to Accompa, Growth - Distribution and Politics

Similar People
  
Guido Tabellini, Tim Besley, Lars E O Svensson, Richard Blundell, Whitney K Newey

SSES Annual Congress 2016 - Prof. Torsten Persson


Torsten Persson (born 18 April 1954) is a Swedish economist at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. He has also taught in England, the United States, and Israel. He has collaborated extensively with Guido Tabellini.

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Persson is a past director of the Institute for International Economic Studies, President of the European Economic Association, a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and serves on The Prize Committee for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Work

  • Political Economics – Explaining Economic Policy (with Guido Tabellini), MIT Press, 2000.
  • The Economic Effects of Constitutions (with Guido Tabellini), MIT Press 2003.
  • References

    Torsten Persson Wikipedia