2026 Torsten Persson: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	87	192	174	2	2	227	74453

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
2016 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997 - Yrjö Jahnsson Award
1997 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Torsten Persson is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to several fields within social sciences, economics, and political science. Their research encompasses topics such as employment and welfare studies, taxation and compliance studies, fiscal policy and economic growth, corporate taxation and avoidance, and climate change policy and economics.

Their recent publications include:

The Political Economics of Green Transitions (2023), The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Economic and Social Outsiders but Political Insiders: Sweden's Populist Radical Right (2022), The Review of Economic Studies
Organizational dynamics: culture, design, and performance (2022), The Journal of Law Economics and Organization
Choosing Ethnicity: The Interplay Between Individual and Social Motives (2020), Journal of the European Economic Association
Inequality and COVID-19 in Sweden: Relative risks of nine bad life events, by four social gradients, in pandemic vs. prepandemic years (2023), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors in their collaborations include:

Timothy Besley
Ernesto Dal Bó
Frederico Finan
Olle Folke
Johanna Rickne

The publication venues where Persson has contributed multiple works comprise:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
The Review of Economic Studies
The Journal of Law Economics and Organization
Journal of the European Economic Association

Their scholarly output mainly focuses on the fields of:

Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these broader fields, their subfield interests include:

Economics and Econometrics
Political Science and International Relations
Sociology and Political Science
Safety Research
General Health Professions

Among the awards received by Torsten Persson are:

Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association (2016)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001)
Yrjö Jahnsson Award (1997)
Fellows of the Econometric Society (1997)
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Best Publications

Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy

Torsten Persson;Guido Enrico Tabellini

11437
Citations
Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? Theory and Evidence

Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini

11340
Citations
The Economic Effects of Constitutions

Torsten Persson;Guido Enrico Tabellini

4738
Citations
Is inequality harmful for growth

Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini

4048
Citations
The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics

Timothy Besley;Torsten Persson

1912
Citations
Separation of Powers and Political Accountability

Torsten Persson;Gerard Roland;Guido Tabellini

1769
Citations
Why a Stubborn Conservative would Run a Deficit: Policy with Time-Inconsistent Preferences

Torsten Persson;Lars E. O. Svensson

1739
Citations
Macroeconomic policy, credibility and politics

Torsten Persson;Guido Enrico Tabellini

1557
Citations
ELECTORAL RULES AND CORRUPTION

Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini;Francesco Trebbi

1357
Citations
State Capacity, Conflict and Development ∗

Timothy J Besley;Torsten Persson

1334
Citations
Democratic capital: The nexus of political and economic change

Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini

1312
Citations
Pillars of Prosperity

Timothy Besley;Torsten Persson

1242
Citations
Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters

Timothy Besley;Torsten Persson

1181
Citations
Comparative Politics and Public Finance

Torsten Persson;Gérard Roland;Guido Tabellini

1056
Citations
The size and scope of government: Comparative politics with rational politicians ¤

Torsten Persson;Torsten Persson;Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini;Guido Tabellini

1031
Citations
Electoral Rules and Government Spending in Parliamentary Democracies

Torsten Persson;Gerard Roland;Guido Tabellini

994
Citations
Designing institutions for monetary stability

Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini

821
Citations
Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details

Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini

699
Citations
Currency unions and trade: how large is the treatment effect?

Torsten Persson

663
Citations
Why Do Developing Countries Tax So Little

Timothy Besley;Torsten Persson

629
Citations
The Logic of Political Violence

Timothy Besley;Torsten Persson

612
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido Tabellini Bocconi University

Timothy Besley London School of Economics and Political Science

Gérard Roland University of California, Berkeley

Lars E.O. Svensson Stockholm School of Economics

Richard Blundell University College London

Paul Krugman Princeton University

Elhanan Helpman Harvard University

Jörgen W. Weibull Stockholm School of Economics

Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science

Laurence J. Kotlikoff Boston University

External Links

Personal website of Torsten Persson Google Scholar page

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