Torsten Persson
Torsten Persson | |
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Born | (1954-04-18) 18 April 1954 (age 70) Stockholm, Sweden |
Nationality | Swedish |
Academic career | |
Field | Political economics Macroeconomics International economics Public economics |
Institution | University of Stockholm London School of 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) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
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
External links
- Torsten Persson's website
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- 1993 Jean-Jacques Laffont / Jean Tirole
- 1995 Richard Blundell
- 1997 Torsten Persson
- 1999 Nobuhiro Kiyotaki / John Moore
- 2001 Philippe Aghion / Guido Tabellini
- 2003 Mathias Dewatripont
- 2005 Tim Besley / Jordi Galí
- 2007 Gilles Saint-Paul
- 2009 John Van Reenen / Fabrizio Zilibotti
- 2011 Armin Falk
- 2013 Hélène Rey / Thomas Piketty
- 2015 Botond Kőszegi
- 2017 Ran Spiegler / Michèle Tertilt
- 2019 Oriana Bandiera / Imran Rasul
- 2021 Ricardo Reis / Silvana Tenreyro
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