Associate Professor
MSc (Econ), University of Aarhus, 2001
PhD (Econ), Aarhus School of Business, 2005
Research Interests
- Social Capital
- International Trade
- Development Economics
Teaching
Recent Publications
- Growth, Debt Burdens and Alleviating Effects of Foreign Aid in Least Developed Countries. Forthcoming in European Journal of Political Economy (joint with Christina Bjerg and Anne Holm)
- The Spirit of Capitalism and Socialism: A Cross-Country Study of Ideology. Forthcoming in Public Choice (joint with Martin Paldam)
- Formal Institutions and Subjective Wellbeing: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence. Forthcoming in European Journal of Political Economy (joint with Axel Dreher and Justina Fischer)
- Combating Corruption: On the Interplay between Institutional Quality and Social Trust. Forthcoming 2011 in Journal of Law and Economics
- How Does Social Trust Affect Economic Growth? Forthcoming in Southern Economic Journal
Current Research
- Social Capital
- Ongoing WTO negotiations
Full CV and publication list (including recent papers)