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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.

Elected 2012

Fellow type
Corresponding Fellow
Year elected
2012
Sections
Economics and Economic History
Website
http://people.su.se/~tpers/

Current post

Torsten and Ragnar Soderberg Chair in Economic Sciences, Stockholm University

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