Professor
MSc (Econ), University of Aarhus, 2001
PhD (Econ), Aarhus School of Business, 2005

Member of the Economics Section
Research Secretary: Malene Vindfeldt Skals

Research Interests

• Social Trust and Informal Institutions
• Public Choice / New Institutional Economics
• Subjective Well-Being and Life Satisfaction
• Trade Theory / International Economics 

Teaching

• International Economics
• Development Economics
• Political Economy / Public Choice
• General Economics
• Institutional Economics

 
Recent Publications

• Coups, Regime Transitions, and Institutional Quality. Forthcoming in Journal of Comparative Economics. (With Daniel L. Bennett and Stephan F. Gohmann)
• Why do Military Dictatorships Become Presidential Democracies? Mapping the Democratic Interests of Autocratic Regimes. Forthcoming in Public Choice.
• Does Big Government Hurt Growth Less in High-Trust Countries? Forthcoming in Contemporary Economic Policy. (With Andreas Bergh)
• Regime Types and Regime Change: A New Dataset on Democracy, Coups, and Political Institutions. Review of International Organizations, vol. 15 (2020), 531-551. (With Martin Rode)

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