Professor Torsten Persson FBA
The political economics of economic policy; applications to inequality & growth, public debt, central-bank independence, constitutions, development, state capacity, violent conflict & reforms of economic & political institutions.
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- Economics, Politics
- Sections
- Economics and Economic History
- Website
- http://people.su.se/~tpers/
Current post
Torsten and Ragnar Soderberg Chair in Economic Sciences, Stockholm University
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Sonia Bhalotra FBA
Sonia Bhalotra focuses on gender, violence, health, mental health, child development, family formation, leadership, social mobility, with a recurring focus on skills, the labour market and on legal, cultural, technological and political institutions.
Professor Vincent Crawford FBA
Game-theoretic microeconomics, with emphases on bargaining & arbitration, strategic communication, matching markets, learning & coordination. Current research areas are behavioural & experimental game theory & behavioural economics more generally.
