Torsten Persson

Summary

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.

Torsten Persson
Born (1954-04-18) 18 April 1954 (age 69)
Stockholm, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Academic career
InstitutionUniversity of Stockholm
London School of Economics
FieldPolitical economics
Macroeconomics
International economics
Public economics
School or
tradition
Constitutional economics
Alma materUniversity of Stockholm
Doctoral
advisor
Lars E. O. Svensson
AwardsYrjö Jahnsson Award (1997)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

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 edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ "About". The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  2. ^ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2022

External links edit

  • Torsten Persson's website