Jan Pettersson
Researcher

Primary fields of interest and research topics:

Development Economics, Public Economics, Political Economics, Economic Growth

Articles in refereed journals:

Foreign Sectoral Aid Fungibility, Growth and Poverty Reduction. Journal of International Development, 19(8): 1074-1098, November 2007 (doi: 10.1002/jid.1378).

Resource Curse or Not: A Question of Appropriability. (With Anne D. Boschini and Jesper Roine). Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 109(3): 593-617, September 2007 (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2007.00509.x).

Child Mortality: Is Aid Fungibility in Pro-Poor Expenditure Sectors Decisive? Review of World Economics - WIDER Special Issue on Foreign Aid Heterogeneity, 143(4): 673-693, 2007 (doi: 10.1007/s10290-007-0127-7).

Learning to Lose a Leg: Casualties of PhD Economics Training in Stockholm (with Anne D. Boschini, Matthew J. Lindquist and Jesper Roine). Econ Journal Watch 1(2): 369-379, August 2004.

Other Publications:

Det internationella biståndets roll för demokratisk och ekonomisk utveckling. I Oskarsson, Sven and Sten Widmalm (Ed.), Myt eller verklighet? Om samband mellan demokrati och ekonomisk tillväxt. Norstedts (forthcoming).

The Constitutional Channels of the Resource Curse.(With Anne D. Boschini and Jesper Roine. Proceedings from "Meeting Global Challenges in Research Cooperation", May 27-29, 2008, Uppsala. Utsikter mot utveckling 32: 449-456, 2009. The Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development.

"Uganda: Aid and Trade." (With Lars Johansson, Ulrika Stavlöt and Justine Nannyonjo). Case study for the OECD Policy Dialogue with Non-Member on Aid for Trade: From Policy to Practice, 6-7 November 2006, Qatar. OECD, Paris.

"Evaluating Total ODA Effectiveness: statistical profiles and review of evaluation and studies for Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique and Zambia". (With Lars Johansson and Alberto Lopes da Costa). Report for the Secretariat for Evaluation and Internal Audit, Sida, 2006.

Framtidens nationalekonomer. Vilka är deras incitament till "tvåbenthet". (With Anne D. Boschini, Matthew J. Lindquist och Jesper Roine). Ekonomisk Debatt 2002:2.

Unpublished work:

The relation Between Aid and Bilateral Trade: Are Nordic Donors Different? (With Lars Johansson) Sida UTV Working Paper 2009:1. Sida, 2009.

Tied Aid, Trade-Facilitating Aid or Trade-Diverting Aid? (With Lars Johansson) Working Paper No 2009:5, Department of Economics, Uppsala University. 2009.

Democracy, Consolidation and Growth (2004)

The Incentives of Future Economists - Balancing Tools and Relevance. (With Anne D. Boschini, Matthew J. Lindquist and Jesper Roine). SSE/EFI Working Papers in Economics and Finance no. 550, 2004.