Jakob Svensson ~ IIES

Publications

Articles

[1] “Bribes, Lobbying, and Development”, American Political Science Review, 2011, 105(1): 1-18 (with B. Harstad).

[2] “Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of Community-Based Monitoring in Uganda”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124:2 (with M. Bjorkman).

[3] “Working for God? Evidence from a change in financing of not-for-profit health care providers in Uganda”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010 8(6):1159–1178 (with R. Reinikka).

[4] “The Power of Information in Public Services: Evidence from Education in Uganda”, Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) (with R. Reinikka).

[5] “When is community-based monitoring effective? Evidence from a randomized experiment in primary health in Uganda”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, vol. 8, issue 2-3, pages 571-581 (with M. Björkman).

[6] “Getting Prices Right: The Impact of the Market Information Service in Uganda”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7 (2–3): 435–445 (with D. Yanagizawa).

[7] “Eight questions about Corruption”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19 (5): 19-42. [The article has also been translated and reprinted in Polish in Gospodarka Narodowa (National Economy), vol. 9, pp. 77-106, 2006, and a shorter edited version was translated into Chinese and published in 21st Century Business Herald (China’s Wall Street Journal), Feb 2, 2006]

[8] “Are corruption and taxation really harmful to growth? Firm level evidence”, Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 83 (1): 63-75, 2007 (with Ray Fisman).

[10] “The institutional economics of foreign aid”, Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2006, 13(2): 115-137.

[11] “Political Budget Cycles: Do They Differ Across Countries and Why?”, Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90 (8-9): 1367-1389, 2006 (with Min Shi).

[12] “Fighting corruption to improve schooling: Evidence from a newspaper campaign in Uganda”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (2-3): 259-267 (with Ritva Reinikka).

[13] “Using Micro-Surveys to Measure and Explain Corruption”, World Development, 2006, 34 (2): pp. 359–370 (with Ritva Reinikka).

[14] “Local Capture: Evidence from a Central Government Transfer Program in Uganda”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, vol. 119 (2): 679-706 (with Ritva Reinikka).

[15] “Who Must Pay Bribes and How Much? Evidence from a Cross Section of Firms”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, vol. 118 (1): 207-30.

[16] “Why Conditional Aid Doesn’t Work and What Can Be Done About It?”, Journal of Development Economics, 2003, vol. 70 (2): 381-402.

[17] “Political Instability, Corruption and Policy Formation”, Journal of Public Economics, 2003, vol. 87 (7-8): 1335-1837 (with P. Fredriksson).

[18] “What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programs?” Economic Journal, 2000, vol. 110 (October), 894-917 (with D. Dollar).

[19] “When is Foreign Aid Policy Credible? Aid Dependence and Conditionality”, Journal of Development Economics, 2000, vol. 61 (1): 61-84.

[20] “Foreign Aid and Rent-Seeking”, Journal of International Economics, 2000, Vol. 51 (2): 437-461. [Reprinted in Congleton, R:D., A.L. Hillman, K.A.Konrad (eds.), 2008, Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2, Springer Heidelberg]

[21] “Political Budget Cycles: A review of recent development”, Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 2003, vol. 29 (1): 67-76 (with M. Shi).

[22] “Coping with Poor Public Capital”, Journal of Development Economics, 2002, vol. 69 (1): 51-69 (with R. Reinikka).

[23] “Is the bad news principle for real?”, Economic Letters, 2000, 66(3): 327-331.

[24] “Aid, Growth and Democracy”, Economics & Politics, 1999, vol. 11(3): 275-297.

[25] “Investment, Property Rights and Political Instability: Theory and Evidence”, 1998, European Economic Review, Vol. 42 (7), pp. 1317-1341.

Reports

[26] “Health Care on the Frontline: Survey Evidence on Public and Private Providers in Uganda”, Africa Region Human Development Working Paper Series no. 38, The World Bank, Washington, D.C. [with M. Lindelöw and R. Reinikka].

[27] “Impact Evaluation of Service Delivery Programs: Methods and Concepts for Impact Evaluation in Basic Education, Health, Water and Sanitation”, Paper prepared for the African Economic Research Consortium. [with P. Pettersson-Lidbom].

[28] “Service Delivery Indicators: Pilot in Education and Health Care in Africa ”, 2010, World Bank, AERC, Hewlett Foundation (with T. Bold, B. Gauthier, O. Maestad, W. Wane).

Book chapters

[29] “The Cost of Doing Business: Ugandan Firms’ Experiences with Corruption”, in R. Reinikka and P. Collier (eds.), 2001, Uganda’s Recovery: The Role of Farms, Firms, and Government, Washington DC: The World Bank.

[30] “Confronting Competition: Investment, Profit, and Risk”, in R. Reinikka and P. Collier (eds.), 2001, Uganda’s Recovery: The Role of Farms, Firms, and Government, Washington DC: The World Bank (with R. Reinikka).

[31] “Improving Governance and Controlling Corruption: Introduction”, in D. Kaufmann, M. Gonzalez de Asis, and P. Dininio (eds), 2002, Improving Governance and Controlling Corruption: Towards a participatory and action-oriented approach, Washington, D.C., The World Bank (with D. Kaufmann, M. Gonzalez de Asis, P. Dininio).

[32] “Measuring and Understanding Corruption at the Micro Level”, in D. Della Porta and S. Rose-Ackerman (eds.), 2002, Corrupt Exchanges: Empirical Themes in the Politics and the Political Economy of Corruption, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (with R. Reinikka).

[33] “Survey Tools for Assessing Performance in Service Delivery”, 2003, in Bourguignon, Francois and Luiz Pereira da Silva (eds.), Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies, Oxford University Press (with J. Dehn and R. Reinnika).

[34] “Efficiency of Public Spending: New Microeconomic Tools to Assess Service Delivery”, 2004, in Tony Addison and Alan Roe (eds.), Fiscal Policy for Development: Poverty, Reconstruction and Growth, Palgrave Macmillan (with R. Reinikka).

[35] “The power of information: evidence from public expenditure tracking surveys”, Global Corruption Report 2004, Transparency International, London: Pluto Press.

[36] “How Corruption Affects Service Delivery and What Can Be Done About It?”, 2006, in Rose-Ackerman, S. (ed.) International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (with Ritva Reinikka).

[37] “Absorption Capacity and Disbursement Constraints”, 2006, in Financing Development: What are the Challenges in Expanding Aid Flows? Proceedings of the 3rd AFD-EUDN Conference, 2005, Agence Française de Développement.

[38] “Absorption Capacity and Disbursement Constraints”, 2008, in Easterly, W. (ed.), 2008, Reinventing Foreign Aid, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

[39] “Local Accountability”, 2010, in T. Besley and R. Jayaraman (eds) Institutional Microeconomics of Development, MIT Press (with M. Bjorkman and R. Reinikka)