Articles
Economics
"Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel" (with Michelle D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya) (March, 2024) forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy (link) (replication)
"Floods, Droughts, and Environmental Circumscription in Early State Development: The Case of Ancient Egypt" (with Laura Mayoral) forthcoming in Journal of Economic Growth (April, 2024)
"Roman Roads to Prosperity: Persistence and Non-Persistence of Public Infrastructure" (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Nicolai Kaarsen, and Pablo Selaya) Journal of Comparative Economics (May, 2022) (link)
"The Origins of Cultural Divergence: Evidence from Vietnam" (2022) (with Hoang-Anh Ho and Peter Martinsson) Journal of Economic Growth (link)
"Transition to Agriculture and First State Presence: A Global Analysis" (2021) (with Oana Borcan and Louis Putterman) Explorations in Economic History 82(October), article 101404 (link)
"Fiscal Capacity in 'Post'-Conflict States: Evidence from Trade on Congo River" (2020) (with Maria Eriksson Baaz and Peter Martinsson) Journal of Development Economics 146(Sep), 102506 (link)
"A Western Reversal Since the Neolithic? The Long-run Impact of Neolithic Agriculture" (2020) (with Christopher Paik) Journal of Economic History 80(1), 100-135 (link)
"State History and Economic Development: Evidence from Six Millennia" (2018) (with Oana Borcan and Louis Putterman) Journal of Economic Growth 23(1), 1-40 (link; appendix) Media coverage: Broadstreet; The Mandarin
"Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons" (2017) (with Arcangelo Dimico and Alessia Isopi) Journal of Economic History 77(4), 1083-1115 (link) Media coverage: Washington Post; The Times; Daily Mail; Forbes; Belfast Telegraph; Planet Money; Cambridge Core Blog; Deccan Chronicle; LongRoomNews; The Conversation; National Public Radio (UK); PhysOrg; Market Business News
“Long-Run Cultural Divergence: Evidence from the Neolithic Revolution” (2016) (with Christopher Paik) Journal of Development Economics 122(Sep), 197-213. (link)
“Climate Change and Market Collapse: A Model Applied to Darfur” (2016) Games 7(1), 9, 1-27. (link)
“Ethnic Cleansing or Resource Struggle in Darfur? An Empirical Analysis” (2013) (with Eyerusalem Siba) Journal of Development Economics 103 (July), 299-312. (link)
“Why Are Rich Countries More Politically Cohesive?” (2013) (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard) Scandinavian Journal of Economics 115(2), 423-448. (link)
“The Roots of Ethnic Diversity” (2012) (with Pelle Ahlerup), Journal of Economic Growth 17(2), 71-102. (link)
“Country Size and the Rule of Law: Resuscitating Montesquieu” (2011) (with Gustav Hansson) European Economic Review 55(5), 613-629. (link)
“After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in Darfur” (2010) World Bank Economic Review 24(3), 386-411. (link)
“On the Democratic Legacy of Colonialism” (2009) Journal of Comparative Economics 37(4), 534-551. (link)
“Social Capital vs Institutions in the Growth Process” (2009) (with Pelle Ahlerup and David Yanagizawa) European Journal of Political Economy 25(1), 1-14 (lead article). (link)
“Windfall Gains, Political Economy, and Economic Development” (2008) (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard) Journal of African Economies 17, Suppl 1, 72-109. (link)
“Endogenous Institutional Change After Independence” (2007) (with Heather Congdon Fors) European Economic Review 51(8): 1896-1921. (link)
“Conflict Diamonds” (2007) Journal of Development Economics 82(2): 267-286 (lead article). (link)
“Diamonds Are A Rebel’s Best Friend” (2006) The World Economy 29(8): 1133-1150. (link)
“Technological Opportunity and Growth” (2005) Journal of Economic Growth 10: 31-53. (link)
“Biogeography and Long-Run Economic Development” (2005) (with Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr), European Economic Review 49(4): 909-938. (link)
“Geography and Institutions: Plausible and Implausible Linkages” (2005) Journal of Economics Suppl. 10: 167-194 (Special issue). (link)
“Geography, Biogeography, and Why Some Countries Are Rich and Others Are Poor” (with Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr) (2004), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), March 9, 101(10): 3715-3720. (link)
“Entrepreneurship as Recombinant Growth”, (with Bruno S. Frey) (2002) Small Business Economics 19(2): 69-80, (Special issue). (link)
“The Appearance of Knowledge in Growth Theory” (2001) Economic Issues 6(1): 1-20. (link)
“Knowledge as a Set in Idea Space: An Epistemological View on Growth” (2000) Journal of Economic Growth 5: 253-275. (link)
“Product Innovations in Small and Large Enterprises” (1998) (with Charlie Karlsson) Small Business Economics 10: 31-46. (link)
Other social science
“Navigating Taxation on the Congo River: The Interplay of Officialisation and Legitimation” (2017) (with Maria Eriksson Baaz and Judith Verweijen), Review of African Political Economy 45(156), 250-266. (link)
“Feeding the Horse: Unofficial Economic Activities Within the Police Force in the DR Congo” (2011)(with Maria Eriksson Baaz) African Security 4(4), 223-241. (link)
“Congo: The Prize of Predation” (with Heather Congdon Fors) (2004) Journal of Peace Research 41(3): 321-336.
Popular articles, book reviews, book chapters, etc (selected)
"Deep Determinants of Economic Freedom" (2024) forthcoming in Handbook of Research on Economic Freedom (Edward Elgar)
"Tillväxtens djupa bestämningsfaktorer" Ekonomisk Debatt 2/2019. (paper)
"The Big Squeeze: How a Growing Market for Citrus Fruits Spawned the Mafia" (2018) Aeon (link)
”Det nya samhällskontraktet” (2013) Ekonomisk Debatt 4/2013, 43-53.
“The Darfur Conflict: Geography or Institutions?” (2012) Journal of African Development (book review)
“Institutionerna roll för ekonomisk utveckling” (2012) Ekonomisk Debatt , s 89-93, 8/2012 (book review of Acemoglu and Robinson (2012) Why Nations Fail).
“The Economics of Industrial Development” (2012), Papers in Regional Science 91(3), 692-693 (book review).
”Är förbannelse bruten?” (2011) Internationella Studier Höst, s 52-55.
”Political Economy” (with Heather Congdon Fors) (2010) Encyclopedia of Geography, (ed. Barney Warf), Sage Academic Publishers.
“Geography, Structural Change, and Economic Development: Theory and Empirics”, (2010) Papers in Regional Science, 89(4), 882-884 (book review)
“Reference-Dependent Utility in an Industrial Cluster” (2004), in Karlsson, Flensburg, and Hörte (eds), Knowledge Spillovers and Knowledge Management, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p 268-282.
“Vad unionen gör och vad den borde göra – ekonomiska aspekter på en konstitution för Europa”, (2003) in Gustavsson, S., L.Oxelheim, and N.Wahl (eds), Valutaunionen, Författningsfrågan och Östutvidgningen, Europaperspektiv 2003, Stockholm: Santérus Förlag, p 109-132.
“Institutionerna och samhällsekonomin”, (1999) from Globalisering, Forskarvolym IX, Demokratiutredningen (SOU 1999:83) (ed. Erik Amnå) (with Douglas Hibbs and Anna Brink), p 63-103.