Torsten Persson
Torsten Persson | |
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Born | Stockholm, Sweden | 18 April 1954
Nationality | Swedish |
Academic career | |
Institution | University of Stockholm London School of Economics |
Field | Political economics Macroeconomics International economics Public economics |
School or tradition | Constitutional economics |
Alma mater | University of Stockholm |
Doctoral advisor | Lars E. O. Svensson |
Awards | Yrjö Jahnsson Award (1997) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022) |
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Torsten Persson (born 18 April 1954) 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.
He has collaborated extensively with Guido Tabellini and Tim Besley on political economy.
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.
He is a member of the council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.[1]
For 2022 he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.[2]
Work
- Political Economics – Explaining Economic Policy (with Guido Tabellini), MIT Press, 2000.
- The Economic Effects of Constitutions (with Guido Tabellini), MIT Press 2003.
References
- ^ "About". The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
- ^ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2022
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