Recent Articles
"Democratic values and institutions" forthcoming in American Economic
Review Insights (with T.
Besley).
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"Education and military rivalry", forthcoming in Journal of the
European Economic Association (with
P. Aghion and
D. Rouzet)
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"Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man:
Theory and evidence from Sweden" American Economic Review 107,
2204-2242, 2017 (with T.
Besley,
O. Folke and
J. Rickne)
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"Who becomes a politician?" Quarterly Journal of Economics
132, 1877-1914, 2017 (with
E. Dal Bó,
F. Finan,
O. Folke and
J. Rickne)
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"Dynastic political rents" Economic Journal 127, F495-517,
2017 (with
O. Folke and
J. Rickne)
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"The primary effect: Preference votes and political promotions" American Political Science Review 110, 559-578, 2016 (with
O. Folke and
J. Rickne)
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"Resilient leaders and institutional reform: Theory
and evidence" Economica 83, 584-623, 2016 (with T. Besley and
M. Reynal-Querol)
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"The
causes and consequences of
development clusters: State capacity, peace and income",
Annual Review of Economics 6, 927-948, 2014
(with
T. Besley)
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"Weak states and steady states: The dynamics of fiscal capacity"
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
5, 205-235
(with T. Besley
and E. Ilzetzki)
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"Taxation and Develoment"
in Auerbach, A, R. Chetty, M.
Feldstein, and E. Saez (eds.) Handbook of Public Economics, 2013
(with T. Besley)
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"Fragile states and development policy"
Journal of the European Economic Association
9, 371-398, 2011 (with T. Besley)
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The logic of political violenc",
Quarterly Journal of Economics
126, 1411-1445, 2011(with T. Besley)
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version (0.5 MB)
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"Political competition, policy and growth: Theory and evidence from the United States",
Review of Economic Studies 77, 1329-1352, 2010 (with
T. Besley
and D. Sturm)
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version (0.2 MB)
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"State capacity, conflict and development",
Econometrica 78, 1-34, 2010 (with
T. Besley)
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"Repression or Civil War", American
Economic Review 99, Papers and Proceedings, 292-297, 2009 (with T. Besley)
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"Democractic capital: The nexus of political
and economic change", American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 1,
88-126, 2009 (with G. Tabellini)
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paper version (0.4 MB)
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"The origins of state capacity: Property rights,
taxation, and policy", American Economic Review 99,
1218-1244, 2009 (with T. Besley)
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"The growth effects of democracy: Is it heterogenous
and how can it be estimated?", in Helpman, E. (ed.),
Institutions and Economic Performance, Harvard University Press, 2008 (with G. Tabellini)
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"Wars and state capacity",
Journal of the European Economic Association 6, 522-530, 2008 (with
T. Besley)
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"Electoral rules and government spending in parliamentary
democracies", Quarterly Journal of Political Science 2, 155-188,
2007 (with G.
Roland and G. Tabellini)
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"Economic approaches
to political institutions", forthcoming in Durlauf, S. and L. Blume (eds.), New Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics, 2007, 2nd Edition, McMillan.
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"Democracy and development:
The devil in the details", American Economic Review 96, Papers
and Proceedings, 319-324, 2006 (with G. Tabellini).
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"Time consistency of fiscal and monetary policy: A
solution", Econometrica 74, 193-212, 2006 (with M. Persson and
L.E.O. Svensson)
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"Electoral
systems and economic policy", in Weingast,
B. and D. Wittman, (eds.), Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford),
2006 (with G. Tabellini).
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"Consequences of constitutions", Journal of European Economic Association
2, 139-161, 2004.
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"Constitutions and economic policy", Journal of Economic Perspectives
18, 75-98, 2004 (with G. Tabellini)
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"Constitutional
rules and fiscal policy outcomes" American Economic
Review 94, 25-46, 2004 (with G. Tabellini)
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"Electoral
rules and corruption", Journal of the European
Economic Association 1, 958-989, 2003 (with G.
Tabellini and F. Trebbi)
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"Markets
with Asymmetric Information: The Contributions of George Michael Spence and
Joseph Stiglitz" Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 104(2)
195-211, 2002 (with K-G. Lofgren and
J.W. Weibull).
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"Do constitiutions cause large governments?
Quasi-experimental evidence? European Economic Review 46, 2002, 908-918 (with G. Tabellini).
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"Do political institutions shape economic
policy?", Econometrica 70, 2002, 883-905.
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Political economics and public finance", in Auerbach, A. and M. Feldstein (eds.), Handbook
of Public Economics, Vol III, North-Holland: Amsterdam, 2002, (with G. Tabellini).
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"Lobbying and legislative bargaining", Advances in Economic Analysis and
Policy 1, 2001 (with E. Helpman).
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"Currency unions and trade: How large is the treatment effect?" in Economic
Policy 33, 433-448, 2001.
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"Comparative politics and public finance", in Journal of Political
Economy 108, 1121-1161, 2000 (with G.Roland and G. Tabellini).
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"Political economics and macroeconomic policy", in Taylor, J. and M. Woodford
(eds.), Handbook of
Macroeconomics, North-Holland: Amsterdam, 2000 (NBER Working Paper No. 6329) (with G. Tabellini).
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"The size and scope of government: Comparative politics with rational
politicians", 1998 Marshall Lecture, in European Economic Review 43,
699-735, 1999 (NBER Working Paper No.
6848) (with G.
Tabellini)
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"Towards micropolitical foundations of public finance," European Economic
Review 42, 685-694, 1998 (with G. Roland and G. Tabellini).
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"Economic policy and special interest politics," Economic Journal,
108, 310-327, 1998 (NBER Working Paper
No. 6329).
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"Separation of powers and political accountability," Quarterly Journal of
Economics 112 (4), 1163-1202, 1997 (with G. Roland and G. Tabellini).
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Debt, cash flow and inflation incentives: A Swedish example," in The Debt
Burden and its Consequences for Monetary Policy, 28-62, MacMillan: London, 1998, (with
M. Persson and L. Svensson).
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"The theory of fiscal federalism: What does it mean for Europe?," in Siebert, H. (ed.), Quo Vadis Europe?, 1997, J.C.B. Mohr: Tübingen (with G. Roland and G. Tabellini).
"Federal fiscal constitutions: Risk sharing and redistribution," Journal
of Political Economy 104, 979-1009, 1996 (with G. Tabellini).
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"Monetary cohabitation in Europe", American Economic Review 86,
111-116, 1996
(with G. Tabellini).
Longer version available as NBER Working paper, No. 5532.
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"Federal fiscal constitutions: Risk sharing and moral hazard," Econometrica
64, 623-646, 1996 (with G.
Tabellini).
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"Double-edged incetives: Institutions and policy coordination," Chapter 38 in Grossman, G. and K. Rogoff (eds.), Handbook of International Economics, Vol III, North-Holland: Amsterdam, 1995 (with G. Tabellini).
"Is inequality harmful for growth?" American Economic Review 84,
600-621, 1994
(with G. Tabellini).
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"Does centralization increase the size of government?" European Economic
Review 38, 765-773, 1994 (with G. Tabellini).
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"Representative democracy and capital taxation," Journal of Public
Economics 55, 53-70, 1994 (with G. Tabellini).
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"The Swedish business cycle: Stylized facts over 130 years," in Bergström,
V. and A Vredin (eds.) FIEF Studies in Labor Markets and Economic Policy: Measuring
and Interpreting Business Cycles, 9-113, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1994 (with J. Hassler, P. Lundvik and
P. Söderlind).
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