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Torsten Persson

Torsten Persson

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Economics and Finance
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
87
Citations
74453
World Ranking
192
National Ranking
2

Torsten Persson publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Torsten Persson sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 227 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Torsten Persson D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Torsten Persson sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 126 scientists 31 D-Index: 147 scientists 32 D-Index: 157 scientists 33 D-Index: 178 scientists 34 D-Index: 171 scientists 35 D-Index: 141 scientists 36 D-Index: 132 scientists 37 D-Index: 129 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 120 scientists 40 D-Index: 117 scientists 41 D-Index: 113 scientists 42 D-Index: 114 scientists 43 D-Index: 97 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 86 scientists 46 D-Index: 78 scientists 47 D-Index: 83 scientists 48 D-Index: 62 scientists 49 D-Index: 74 scientists 50 D-Index: 50 scientists 51 D-Index: 66 scientists 52 D-Index: 69 scientists 53 D-Index: 55 scientists 54 D-Index: 67 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 62 scientists 57 D-Index: 45 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 47 scientists 60 D-Index: 46 scientists 61 D-Index: 36 scientists 62 D-Index: 37 scientists 63 D-Index: 56 scientists 64 D-Index: 50 scientists 65 D-Index: 32 scientists 66 D-Index: 28 scientists 67 D-Index: 30 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 25 scientists 70 D-Index: 22 scientists 71 D-Index: 21 scientists 72 D-Index: 26 scientists 73 D-Index: 24 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 12 scientists 76 D-Index: 14 scientists 77 D-Index: 15 scientists 78 D-Index: 15 scientists 79 D-Index: 17 scientists 80 D-Index: 17 scientists 81 D-Index: 11 scientists 82 D-Index: 10 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 11 scientists 85 D-Index: 5 scientists 86 D-Index: 9 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 9 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 6 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 8 scientists 93 D-Index: 10 scientists 94 D-Index: 11 scientists 95 D-Index: 6 scientists 96 D-Index: 4 scientists 97 D-Index: 4 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100 D-Index: 8 scientists 101+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 87 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

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
  • 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

  • Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? Theory and Evidence

    Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini

  • The Economic Effects of Constitutions

    Torsten Persson;Guido Enrico Tabellini

  • Is inequality harmful for growth

    Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini

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

    Timothy Besley;Torsten Persson

  • Separation of Powers and Political Accountability

    Torsten Persson;Gerard Roland;Guido Tabellini

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

    Torsten Persson;Lars E. O. Svensson

  • Macroeconomic policy, credibility and politics

    Torsten Persson;Guido Enrico Tabellini

  • ELECTORAL RULES AND CORRUPTION

    Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini;Francesco Trebbi

  • State Capacity, Conflict and Development ∗

    Timothy J Besley;Torsten Persson

  • Democratic capital: The nexus of political and economic change

    Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini

  • Pillars of Prosperity

    Timothy Besley;Torsten Persson

  • Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters

    Timothy Besley;Torsten Persson

  • Comparative Politics and Public Finance

    Torsten Persson;Gérard Roland;Guido Tabellini

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

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

  • Electoral Rules and Government Spending in Parliamentary Democracies

    Torsten Persson;Gerard Roland;Guido Tabellini

  • Designing institutions for monetary stability

    Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini

  • Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details

    Torsten Persson;Guido Tabellini

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

    Torsten Persson

  • Why Do Developing Countries Tax So Little

    Timothy Besley;Torsten Persson

  • The Logic of Political Violence

    Timothy Besley;Torsten Persson

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido Tabellini
Guido Tabellini Bocconi University
Timothy Besley
Timothy Besley London School of Economics and Political Science
Gérard Roland
Gérard Roland University of California, Berkeley
Olle Folke
Olle Folke Uppsala University
Lars E.O. Svensson
Lars E.O. Svensson Stockholm School of Economics
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman Princeton University
Elhanan Helpman
Elhanan Helpman Harvard University
Jörgen W. Weibull
Jörgen W. Weibull Stockholm School of Economics
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science

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