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Torsten Persson

Global rank #383 99%

Institution: Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Primary Field: Macro (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://www.iies.su.se/~perssont/

First Publication: 1979

Most Recent: 2017

RePEc ID: ppe28 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Last 10 Years 0.90 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.95
All Time 16.32 12.07 10.05 0.00 100.81

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 42
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 41.30

Publications (42)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2017 Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden American Economic Review S 4
2017 Who Becomes A Politician? Quarterly Journal of Economics S 5
2016 Resilient Leaders and Institutional Reform: Theory and Evidence Economica C 3
2013 Weak States and Steady States: The Dynamics of Fiscal Capacity American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 3
2011 The Logic of Political Violence Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2010 Political Competition, Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the US Review of Economic Studies S 3
2009 Repression or Civil War? American Economic Review S 2
2009 The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics American Economic Review S 2
2009 Democratic Capital: The Nexus of Political and Economic Change American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 2
2006 Reply to Blankart and Koester's Political Economics versus Public Choice Two Views of Political Economy in Competition Kyklos C 3
2006 Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details American Economic Review S 2
2004 Constitutional Rules and Fiscal Policy Outcomes American Economic Review S 2
2002 Markets with Asymmetric Information: The Contributions of George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 3
2002 Do constitutions cause large governments? Quasi-experimental evidence European Economic Review B 2
2000 Comparative Politics and Public Finance Journal of Political Economy S 3
1999 The size and scope of government:: Comparative politics with rational politicians European Economic Review B 2
1998 Towards micropolitical foundations of public finance European Economic Review B 3
1997 Separation of Powers and Political Accountability Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
1996 Monetary Cohabitation in Europe. American Economic Review S 2
1996 Federal Fiscal Constitutions: Risk Sharing and Redistribution. Journal of Political Economy S 2
1994 Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? American Economic Review S 2
1994 Does centralization increase the size of government? European Economic Review B 2
1994 Representative democracy and capital taxation Journal of Public Economics A 2
1992 Growth, distribution and politics European Economic Review B 2
1992 Swedish business cycles: 1861-1988 Journal of Monetary Economics A 3
1992 The Politics of 1992: Fiscal Policy and European Integration Review of Economic Studies S 2
1989 Regulation, financial buffer stocks, and short-run adjustment : An econometric case-study of Sweden, 1970-1982 European Economic Review B 3
1989 Exchange rate variability and asset trade Journal of Monetary Economics A 2
1989 Why a Stubborn Conservative would Run a Deficit: Policy with Time-Inconsistent Preferences Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
1988 Empirical Examinations of the Information Sets of Economic Agents Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
1988 Social Contracts as Assets: A Possible Solution to the Time-Consistency Problem. American Economic Review S 3
1988 Exchange rate policy, wage formation and credibility European Economic Review B 2
1988 An introduction and a broad survey European Economic Review B 1
1986 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 Journal of International Economics A 1
1985 Current Account Dynamics and the Terms of Trade: Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Two Generations Later. Journal of Political Economy S 2
1985 Deficits and intergenerational welfare in open economies Journal of International Economics A 1
1985 Inflation, Interest Rates, and Welfare Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
1984 Misperceptions, rigidity and welfare European Economic Review B 2
1984 Real transfers in fixed exchange rate systems and the international adjustment mechanism Journal of Monetary Economics A 1
1984 Time-consistent fiscal policy and government cash-flow Journal of Monetary Economics A 2
1983 Optimal subsidies to declining industries : Efficiency and equity considerations Journal of Public Economics A 3
1979 Alternative transactions variables and the empirical evidence of economies of scale in money holdings Economics Letters C 1