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National Ranking
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Overview

Nathan M. Jensen is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within economics and social sciences, with notable contributions in areas that intersect economics, political science, and development studies.

The researcher's main fields of study include Economics, Econometrics and Finance as well as Social Sciences. Their work further breaks down into subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, and Soil Science. This diverse range of subfields highlights their engagement with both quantitative economic analysis and political-social dynamics.

Their research addresses a variety of topics, including:

  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies
  • Corruption and Economic Development
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Nathan M. Jensen has published in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Business and Politics
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Food Policy
  • Quarterly Journal of Political Science
  • Journal of Arid Environments

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Jensen include:

  • "Electoral Institutions and Electoral Cycles in Investment Incentives: A Field Experiment on Over 3,000 U.S. Municipalities," 2020, American Journal of Political Science
  • "Who's Afraid of Sunlight? Explaining Opposition to Transparency in Economic Development," 2021, Business and Politics

Jensen has also been linked as a co-author with several researchers, with multiple collaborations noted with Daniel Nielson and Calvin Thrall, as well as partnerships with Elizabeth Bageant, Erin Lentz, and Sudha Narayanan.

Their contributions highlight an engagement with empirical research methods, field experiments, and policy analysis, reflecting a combination of quantitative assessment and qualitative insights into governance, transparency, and economic outcomes at local and international levels.

Best Publications

  • Democratic Governance and Multinational Corporations: Political Regimes and Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment

    Nathan M. Jensen

  • Resource Wealth and Political Regimes in Africa

    Nathan Jensen;Leonard Wantchekon

  • Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation

    Nathan M. Jensen

  • Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment

    Nathan M. Jensen

  • Political Risk, Democratic Institutions, and Foreign Direct Investment

    Nathan Jensen

  • Independent Actor or Agent? An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of U.S. Interests on International Monetary Fund Conditions

    Axel Dreher;Nathan M. Jensen

  • Independent Actor or Agent? An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of US Interests on IMF Conditions

    Axel Dreher;Nathan Jensen

  • Foreign Direct Investment and Income Inequality in Mexico, 1990–2000

    Nathan M. Jensen;Guillermo Rosas

  • Understanding corruption and firm responses in cross-national firm-level surveys

    Nathan M Jensen;Quan Li;Aminur Rahman

  • Politics and Foreign Direct Investment

    Nathan M. Jensen;Glen Biglaiser;Quan Li;Edmund Malesky

  • Crisis, Conditions, and Capital The Effect of International Monetary Fund Agreements on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows

    Nathan M. Jensen

  • Field experiments in strategy research

    Aaron K. Chatterji;Michael Findley;Nathan M. Jensen;Stephan Meier

  • Political Risk, Reputation, and the Resource Curse:

    Nathan M. Jensen;Noel P. Johnston

  • Unbundling the Relationship between Authoritarian Legislatures and Political Risk

    Nathan M. Jensen;Edmund Malesky;Stephen Weymouth

  • Market Responses to Politics: The Rise of Lula and the Decline of the Brazilian Stock Market

    Nathan M. Jensen;Scott Schmith

  • Electoral Competition and Agricultural Support in OECD Countries

    Jong Hee Park;Nathan Jensen

  • Monopoly Money: Foreign Investment and Bribery in Vietnam, a Survey Experiment

    Edmund J. Malesky;Dimitar D. Gueorguiev;Nathan M. Jensen

  • Country or leader? Political change and UN general assembly voting

    Axel Dreher;Nathan M. Jensen

  • Globalization and the Politics of Natural Resources

    Nita Rudra;Nathan M. Jensen

  • Incentives to Pander: How Politicians Use Corporate Welfare for Political Gain

    Nathan M. Jensen;Edmund J. Malesky

  • Federal Institutions and Multinational Investors: Federalism, Government Credibility, and Foreign Direct Investment

    Nathan Jensen;Fiona McGillivray

  • A Violent Future? Political Risk Insurance Markets and Violence Forecasts

    Nathan M. Jensen;Daniel J. Young

  • Can Results-Free Review Reduce Publication Bias? The Results and Implications of a Pilot Study:

    Michael G. Findley;Nathan M. Jensen;Edmund J. Malesky;Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • Nonstate Actors and Compliance with International Agreements: An Empirical Analysis of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

    Nathan M. Jensen;Edmund J. Malesky

  • Political Liabilities Surviving Banking Crises

    Adriana Crespo-Tenorio;Nathan M. Jensen;Guillermo Rosas

  • Incentives to Pander

    Nathan M. Jensen;Edmund J. Malesky

  • Competing for global capital or local voters? The politics of business location incentives

    Nathan M. Jensen;Edmund J. Malesky;Matthew Walsh

  • Economic reform, state capture, and international investment in transition economies

    Nathan Jensen;Nathan Jensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Edmund J. Malesky
Edmund J. Malesky Duke University
Axel Dreher
Axel Dreher Heidelberg University
Stephan Meier
Stephan Meier Columbia University
Michael G. Findley
Michael G. Findley The University of Texas at Austin
Daniel L. Nielson
Daniel L. Nielson Brigham Young University
Brian F. Crisp
Brian F. Crisp Washington University in St. Louis
Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Gary Clyde Hufbauer Peterson Institute for International Economics
William L. Megginson
William L. Megginson University of Oklahoma
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik University of Oxford
Carla P. Gomes
Carla P. Gomes Cornell University

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