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 Martin Browning FBA
Applied microeconometrics with an emphasis on structural modelling of individual behaviour; intra-household decision making; demand analysis; accounting for heterogeneity; survey design
Professor Elhanan Helpman FBA
International trade & foreign direct investment; economic growth in an interdependent world economy; political economy with an emphasis on the formation of trade policies.
