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Overview

Jakob B. Madsen is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance, with a particular concentration on economics and econometrics as well as interdisciplinary areas encompassing sociology and political science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably economic growth and productivity, fiscal policy and economic growth, culture, economy, and development studies, historical economic and social studies, corruption and economic development, economic theories and models, and monetary policy and its economic impact.

Madsen has contributed to numerous academic publications, including journals and electronic platforms. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Australian Economic Papers
  • Journal of Economic Growth
  • Economica
  • European Economic Review

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Madsen demonstrate diverse interests within economics. Notable works include:

  • Testing unified growth theory: Technological progress and the child quantity-quality tradeoff, 2023, Quantitative Economics
  • Declining research productivity and income inequality: A centenary perspective, 2024, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Other significant papers in the broader research network closely associated with Madsen's field include:

  • Rice farming, culture and democracy, 2021, European Economic Review
  • Markups, Tobin's q, and the Increasing Capital Share, 2023, Journal of money credit and banking
  • Physiological constraints and the transition to growth: implications for comparative development, 2021, Journal of Economic Growth

Jakob B. Madsen often collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Holger Strulik, Antonio Minniti, Francesco Venturini, John Quiggin, and Edward B. Barbier. These collaborations highlight a network of research activity within economics that spans multiple topics and methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Technology spillover through trade and TFP convergence: 135 years of evidence for the OECD countries

    Jakob Brochner Madsen

  • The Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis: Four centuries of evidence

    David I. Harvey;Neil M. Kellard;Jakob B. Madsen;Mark E. Wohar

  • Semi-endogenous versus Schumpeterian growth models: testing the knowledge production function using international data

    Jakob Brochner Madsen;Jakob Brochner Madsen

  • Can Second-Generation Endogenous Growth Models Explain the Productivity Trends and Knowledge Production in the Asian Miracle Economies?

    James B. Ang;Jakob B. Madsen

  • Four Centuries of British Economic Growth: The Roles of Technology and Population

    Jakob B. Madsen;James B. Ang;Rajabrata Banerjee

  • Trade Barriers and the Collapse of World Trade During the Great Depression

    Jakob Brochner Madsen

  • Inequality, financial development and economic growth in the OECD, 1870–2011

    Jakob B. Madsen;Md. Rabiul Islam;Hristos Doucouliagos

  • The Indian growth miracle and endogenous growth

    Jakob B. Madsen;Shishir Saxena;James B. Ang

  • The effects of human capital composition on technological convergence

    James B. Ang;Jakob B. Madsen;Md. Rabiul Islam

  • The anatomy of growth in the OECD since 1870

    Jakob B. Madsen

  • Does democracy drive income in the world, 1500–2000?

    Jakob Brochner Madsen;Paul Raschky;Ahmed Skali

  • Catching up to the technology frontier: the dichotomy between innovation and imitation

    Jakob B. Madsen;Md. Rabiul Islam;James B. Ang

  • The Cambridge Economic History of Australia

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  • Finance-LED growth in the OECD since the nineteenth century: How does financial development transmit to growth?

    Jakob B. Madsen;James B. Ang

  • Trade barriers, openness, and economic growth

    Jakob Brochner Madsen

  • INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS AND PRODUCTIVITY TRENDS IN THE ASIAN MIRACLE ECONOMIES

    James B. Ang;Jakob B. Madsen

  • The causality between investment and economic growth

    Jakob Brochner Madsen

  • Tests of rationality versus an “over optimist” bias

    Jakob Brøchner Madsen

  • Human Capital and the World Technology Frontier

    Jakob Brochner Madsen

  • Economic Growth, TFP Convergence and the World Export of Ideas: A Century of Evidence

    Jakob Brochner Madsen

  • Four centuries of British economic growth: the roles of technology and population

    Jakob B. Madsen;James B. Ang;Rajabrata Banerjee

  • Technology Spillover through Trade and TFP Convergence: 120 Years of Evidence for the OECD Countries

    Jakob Brøchner Madsen

  • Semi-endogenous versus Schumpeterian growth models: testing the knowledge production function using

    Jakob B. Madsen

Frequent Co-Authors

James B. Ang
James B. Ang Nanyang Technological University
David I. Harvey
David I. Harvey University of Nottingham
Mark E. Wohar
Mark E. Wohar University of Nebraska at Omaha
Holger Strulik
Holger Strulik University of Göttingen
E. Philip Davis
E. Philip Davis Brunel University London
Russell Smyth
Russell Smyth Monash University
Hristos Doucouliagos
Hristos Doucouliagos Deakin University
Les Oxley
Les Oxley University of Waikato
Michael McAleer
Michael McAleer Erasmus University Rotterdam

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