LSE creators

Number of items: 32.
2025
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2025). From liberal economic policies to liberal political institutions? Democracy, development clusters and wellbeing. In Besley, Tim, Bucelli, Irene, Velasco, Andrés (Eds.), The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century (pp. 535 - 572). LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tlc.p picture_as_pdf
    • 2024
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2024). Organizational dynamics: culture, design, and performance. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 40(2), 394 – 415. https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewac020 picture_as_pdf
    • 2023
  • Altmejd, Adam, Östergren, Olof, Björkegren, Evelina, Persson, Torsten (2023). Inequality and COVID-19 in Sweden: relative risks of nine bad life events, by four social gradients, in pandemic vs. prepandemic years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(46). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2303640120 picture_as_pdf
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2023). The political economics of green transitions. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(3), 1863 - 1906. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjad006 picture_as_pdf
    • 2021
  • Besley, Timothy, Jensen, Anders Ditlev, Persson, Torsten (2021). Norms, enforcement, and tax evasion. Review of Economics and Statistics, 1 - 28. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01123 picture_as_pdf
    • 2019
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2019). JEEA-FBBVA lecture 2017: The dynamics of environmental politics and values. Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(4), 993 - 1024. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvz040 picture_as_pdf
  • Aghion, Philippe, Jaravel, Xavier, Persson, Torsten, Rouzet, Dorothee (2019). Education and military rivalry. Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(2), 376 – 412. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvy022
    • 2017
  • Bò, Ernesto Dal, Finan, Frederico, Folke, Olle, Persson, Torsten, Rickne, Johanna (2017). Who becomes a politician? Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132(4), 1877 - 1914. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjx016 picture_as_pdf
  • Besley, Timothy, Folke, Olle, Persson, Torsten, Rickne, Johanna (2017). Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man: theory and evidence from Sweden. American Economic Review, 107(8), 2204-2242. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20160080
  • Besley, Timothy, Folke, Olle, Persson, Torsten, Rickne, Johanna (2017). Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man.
    • 2016
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten, Reynal-Querol, Marta (2016). Resilient leaders and institutional reform: theory and evidence. Economica, 83(332), 584-623. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12208
    • 2014
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2014). The causes and consequences of development clusters: state capacity, peace, and income. Annual Review of Economics, 6(1), 927-949. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080213-041128
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2014). Why do developing countries tax so little? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28(4), 99-120. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.28.4.99
    • 2013
  • Besley, Timothy, Ilzetzki, Ethan, Persson, Torsten (2013). Weak states and steady states: the dynamics of fiscal capacity. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 5(4), 205 - 235. https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.5.4.205
    • 2011
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2011). Pillars of prosperity: the political economics of development clusters. Princeton University Press.
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2011). Fragile states and development policy. Journal of the European Economic Association, 9(3), 371-398. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-4774.2011.01022.x
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2011). The logic of political violence. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(3), 1411-1445. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjr025
    • 2010
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten, Sturm, Daniel (2010). Political competition, policy and growth: theory and evidence from the United States. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1009). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten, Sturm, Daniel M. (2010). Political competition, policy and growth: theory and evidence from the US. Review of Economic Studies, 77(4), 1329-1352. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-937X.2010.00606.x
  • Besley, Timothy, Ilzetzki, Ethan, Persson, Torsten (2010-04-30 - 2010-05-01) Weak states and steady states: the dynamics of fiscal capacity [Paper]. The Political Economy of Economic Development, Manresa, Spain, ESP.
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2010). State capacity, conflict, and development. Econometrica, 78(1), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA8073
    • 2009
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2009). State capacity, conflict and development. (Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers EOPP 10). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2009). Repression or civil war? American Economic Review, 99(2), 292-297. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.99.2.292
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2009). The incidence of civil war: theory and evidence. (Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers EOPP 005). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Persson, Torsten, Tabellini, Guido (2009). Democratic capital: the nexus of political and economic change. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 1(2), 88-126. https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.1.2.88
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2009). The origins of state capacity: property rights, taxation and politics. American Economic Review, 99(4), 1218-1244. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.99.4.1218
    • 2008
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten (2008). Wars and state capacity. Journal of the European Economic Association, 6(2-3), 522-530. https://doi.org/10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.522
    • 2005
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten, Sturm, Daniel.M (2005). Political competition and economic performance: theory and evidence from the United States. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten, Sturm, Daniel (2005-04-22 - 2005-04-24) Political competition and economic performance: theory and evidence from the United States [Paper]. Public Sector Economics, Munich, Germany, DEU.
    • 2000
  • Persson, Torsten, Roland, Gérard, Tabellini, Guido (2000). Comparative politics and public finance. Journal of Political Economy, 108(6), 1121-1161. https://doi.org/10.1086/317686
  • Persson, Torsten, Favero, Carlo, Freixas, Xavier, Wyplosz, Charles (2000). One money, many countries: monitoring the European Central Bank. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain).
  • Persson, Torsten, Tabellini, Guido E (2000). Political economics: explaining economic policy. MIT Press.