As a professor at the Department of Economics, I head the research group Political Economy. Broadly speaking, my research interests cover the following fields

• Development economics
• International economics
• Political economy

Of course, I'm happy to combine these topics. The bulk of my actual research has been on foreign aid and other financial flows to developing countries. I'd label myself an applied theorist. This implies that I'm interested in analysing how the world actually works given what we currently know, which hopefully contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the empirical observations that constituted the starting point. However, I've also done empirical work on e.g. aid dispersion and in my main current project on assisted return programmes both theoretical and empirical methods are applied.

I now teach international macroeconomics (ECON230) at the bachelor level and development economics (ECON315) at the master level.

I'm one of the editors of Samfunnsøkonomen, the journal of the Norwegian Economic Association. My editorials are

• Ute av kurs? Samfunnsøkonomen 5-2024.
• Den gordiske knuten. Samfunnsøkonomen. 2-2024
• Hvor lenge var Adam i paradis? Samfunnsøkonomen 6-2023.
• En prosent her og en prosent der. Samfunnsøkonomen 3-2023.
• Bistand og støtte. Samfunnsøkonomen 6-2022.
• Vil sanksjonene mot Russland være effektive? Samfunnsøkonomen 2-2022.
• Grønn bistand til svarte land? Samfunnsøkonomen 5-2021. 
• Krisens muligheter. Samfunnsøkonomen 2-2021.
• I grenseland. Samfunnsøkonomen 6-2020.
• KRISE. Samfunnsøkonomen 2-2020.
• Norsk bistand: reformert og revitalisert? Samfunnsøkonomen 6-2019.

I'm also a lecturer in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Economics of Globalisation and European Integration, administered by the University of Bari, where I teach a module on development finance. I help organise the annual conference on the Economics of Global Interactions: New Perspectives on Trade, Factor Mobility, and Development, an event that is hosted by Bari.

Spring 2025: ECON315

Autumn 2025: ECON230

Media feature article

• Rune Jansen Hagen; Jørn Rattsø (2009). Strategisk bistand. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Den vanskelige velferdsprofitten. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2016). Det norske bistandstriangelet. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2015). Konsentrasjonsvansker. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). «Team Norway» kan få feil fokus. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). Vi kan inte göra allt överallt. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2021). Om syke mødre, sårbare brødre og barmhjertige samaritanere. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Jørn Rattsø (2009). Bistandens død og oppstandelse. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2009). Den vanskelige bistanden. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2009). Vi trenger bedre bistandskontroll. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Ikke glem globaliseringens vinnere!. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Ikke bistand til vår egen fordel. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). Professor: "Partnerlandsmeldingen står til stryk". (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2024). Journalistikk uten kildekritikk. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Fra fristed for særinteresser til verksted for fattigdomsreduksjon?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2014). Best på bistand, Børge Brende?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). Mangler det 190 millioner eller vilje til reform?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2021). Organisasjonenes (årlige) klagesang. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Hans K. Hvide (2024). Norsk bistand har trolig bidratt til krigen på Gaza. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Hans K. Hvide (2024). Norge bør spille en rolle i gjenoppbyggingen av Gaza. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2019). Faller magidepartementet?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2015). Mer bistand – flere flyktninger?. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Paid to Go or Paid to Come? A Model of Assisted Return Migration. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Gatekeeper? The IMF, Aid Flows, and Policymaking in Low-Income Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Amihai Glazer; Jørn Rattsø (2014). Why Northern NGOs Hire too many Expatriates and What Southern Governments Do about It. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Cathrin Ness Fløgstad (2016). Aid Dispersion: Measurement in Principle and Practice. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). Paid to Go or Paid to Come? A Model of Assisted Return Migration. (external link)
• Nicola D. Coniglio; Rune Jansen Hagen (2024). Cross-Country Asylum Policy Externalities: evidence from Sweden. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2008). Dancing the H-Street Waltz? Policy Choice in Aid-Dependent Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2012). Do Non-Enforceable Contracts Matter? Evidence from and International Lab Experiment. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2010). Dancing the H-Street Waltz? Policy Choice in Aid Dependent Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2011). Certified or Branded? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the IMF's Policy Support Instrument. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Cathrin Ness Fløgstad (2015). Aid Dispersion: Measurement in Principle and Practice. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2015). Gatekeeper? The IMF, Aid Flows, and Policymaking in Low-Income Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Cathrin Ness Fløgstad (2015). Measuring Aid Dispersion. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2008). Basic Analytics of Multilateral Lending and Surveillance. (external link)
• Nicola D. Coniglio; Rune Jansen Hagen (2019). The Carrot or the Stick? Theory and Evidence on the Incentive Effects of Country-Specific Return Programmes. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2010). Certified or Branded? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the IMF’s Policy Support Instrument. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2010). Dancing the H-Street Waltz? Policy Choice in Aid Dependent Countries. (external link)
• Nicola D. Coniglio; Rune Jansen Hagen (2023). Theory and Evidence on the Boomerang Effect of Assisted Return Schemes. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2023). Can Aid Be Used to Finance Global Collective Goods?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Paid to Go or Paid to Come? A Model of Assisted Return Migration. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2013). Gatekeeper? The IMF, Aid Flows, and Policymaking in Low Income Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Jørn Rattsø; Amihai Glazer (2014). Why Northern NGOs Hire too many Expatriates and What Southern Governments Do about It. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Nicola D. Coniglio (2018). Theory and Evidence on the Boomerang Effect of Assisted Return Schemes. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Jørn Rattsø; Amihai Glazer (2016). Why Northern NGOs Hire too many Expatriates and what Southern Governments Do about It. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Nicola D. Coniglio (2018). Theory and Evidence on the Boomerang Effect of Assisted Return Schemes. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Jørn Rattsø (2021). Strategic Interaction in the Market for Charitable Donations: the role of Public Funding. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2009). Dancing the H-Street Waltz? Policy Choice in Aid-Dependent Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2008). Dancing the H-Street Waltz? Policy Choice in Aid Dependent Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2010). Dancing the H-Street Waltz? Policy Choice in Aid Dependent Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Paid to Go or Paid to Come? A Model of Assisted Return Migration. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2009). Dancing the H-Street Waltz? Policy Choice in Aid-Dependent Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Amihai Glazer; Jørn Rattsø (2014). Why Northern NGOs Hire too many Expatriates and What Southern Governments Do about It. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Jørn Rattsø (2021). Strategic Interaction in the Market for Charitable Donations: the role of Public Funding. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2022). Can Aid Be Used for Financing Global Collective Goods?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Cathrin Ness Fløgstad (2015). Aid Dispersion: Measurement in Principle and Practice. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2015). Concentration difficulties? An analysis of Swedish aid proliferation. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2008). Dancing the H-Street Waltz? Policy Choice in Aid Dependent Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2012). Do Non-Enforceable Contracts Matter? Evidence from and International Lab Experiment. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2011). Certified or Branded? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the IMF's Policy Support Instrument. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2011). Certified or Branded? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the IMF's Policy Support Instrument. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2023). Can Aid Be Used to Finance Global Public Goods?. (external link)
• Nicola D. Coniglio; Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Paid to Go or Paid to Come? A Model of Assisted Return Migration. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Alexander Cappelen; Bertil Tungodden et al. (2009). The Invisible Handshake in Contracting for Debt: Results from an International Experiment. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2013). Gatekeeper? The IMF, Aid Flows, and Policymaking in Low Income Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2014). Gatekeeper? The IMF, Aid Flows, and Policymaking in Low Income Countries. (external link)
• Alexander Wright Cappelen; Rune Jansen Hagen; Erik Øiolf Sørensen et al. (2008). Debt repayment: Results from an International Experiment. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). Paid to Go or Paid to Come? A Model of Assisted Return Migration. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Ida Lindkvist (2016). Doing good or feeling good in aid evaluation. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2007). Dancing the H-Street Waltz: Policy Choice in Aid Dependent Countries. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Jørn Rattsø (2021). Strategic Interaction in the Market for Charitable Donations: the role of Public Funding. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Gaute Torsvik (2015). Global Economics and National Politics. (external link)
• Nicola D. Coniglio; Rune Jansen Hagen (2024). Theory and Evidence on the Boomerang Effect of Assisted Return Schemes. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Henrik Wiig (2010). Poverty in Venezuela – Revolutionary Decline or Politics-as-usual?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2011). Certified or Branded? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the IMF's Policy Support Instrument. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2011). Certified or Branded? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the IMF's Policy Support Instrument. (external link)

Academic article

• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Beretningen om et varslet mord: Om skjebnen til regjeringens politikk for geografisk konsentrasjon av bistanden. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2002). Marginalisation in the Context of Globalisation. Why is Africa so poor?. (external link)
• Alexander Cappelen; Rune Jansen Hagen; Bertil Tungodden (2007). National Responsibility and the just Distribution of Debt Relief. (external link)
• Cathrin Ness Fløgstad; Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Aid Dispersion: Measurement in Principle and Practice. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Ottar Mæstad; Arne Wiig (2003). Assessing the economic gains of free market access for the least developed countries in the QUAD. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). Budsjettvinneren bistand. (external link)
• Amihai Glazer; Rune Jansen Hagen; Jørn Rattsø (2017). Help not needed? Optimal host country regulation of expatriate NGO workers. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2006). Buying influence: Aid fungibility in a strategic perspective. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2016). Vil regjeringen klare å konsentrere seg i bistandspolitikken? Lærdommer fra Sverige. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2019). 1-prosentmålet er et virkemiddel som er blitt et mål. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2019). 1-prosentmålet er en del av problemet. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2021). Development policy: Revolution is an illusion?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). Full fart i gal retning?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Hilde Beate Selbervik (2022). Mellom politikk og statistikk: Globale fellesgoder i utviklingspolitikken. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2002). The Electoral Politics of Public Sector Institutional Reform. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Jørn Rattsø (2024). Strategic interaction in the market for charitable donations: The role of public funding. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). Ministeren er ikke målbar. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2009). Basic analytics of multilateral lending and surveillance. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). Losing concentration? Lessons from a Swedish aid policy reform. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2015). Dancing to the donors' tune? Policy choice in aid-dependent countries. (external link)
• Alexander Wright Cappelen; Rune Jansen Hagen; Erik Øiolf Sørensen et al. (2014). Do non-enforceable contracts matter? Evidence from an international lab experiment. (external link)
• Bertil Tungodden; Rune Jansen Hagen; Alexander W. Cappelen (2007). National responsibility and the just distribution of debt relief. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2024). Can we define global collective action problems away?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). UD-reform i hvilket spor?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). Bærekraftig reform?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2012). Certified or branded?. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Anna Skiaker Aschjem; Rune Jansen Hagen (2021). Skattesystemer i utviklingsland. Konsekvenser av økt beskatning for bedrifter. (external link)
• Harald Christian Hoff; Rune Jansen Hagen (2020). For en neve dollars til: Hvilken rolle spiller private pengeoverføringer fra utlandet for husholdninger i Somalia?. (external link)
• Maren Bøe; Rune Jansen Hagen (2020). Drivkreftene bak fordelingen av bistand og andre offisielle kapitalstrømmer fra Kina til Verden: En replikasjonsstudie av Dreher m. fl. (2018). (external link)
• Nicolay F. S. Sandaker; Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Resultatbasert bistand: En teoretisk og praktisk analyse av en insentivbasert bistandsform. (external link)
• Vilde Regine Tellnes; Rune Jansen Hagen (2020). Institusjonene og kulturens rolle i økonomisk utvikling. Sør-Afrika som eksempel. (external link)
• Hedda Jonassen; Rune Jansen Hagen (2021). Fungerer resultatbasert bistand? En teoretisk analyse av vaksinealliansen Gavi sine resultatbaserte programmer. (external link)
• Torgeir Fosen Kallevik; Rune Jansen Hagen (2021). Malaria & fattigdom. (external link)
• Nikolai P. Foss; Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Tertiærnæringsvekst og avindustrialisering i utviklingsland: kan tjenesteyting løfte land ut av fattigdom?. (external link)
• Adrian Solheim Sandvik; Rune Jansen Hagen (2021). Group-based agricultural index insurance: Combining informal networks with formal insurance. (external link)
• Beate Lid Skodje; Rune Jansen Hagen (2020). Resultatbaserte bistandsavtaler i den norske klima- og skogsatsingen: Klimaeffekt og samarbeidsland. (external link)
• Monica Beeder; Rune Jansen Hagen (2020). The effect of a supply shock in the production of cocaine on violence: Evidence from Colombia and Venezuela. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Petter Erikssen Brettingen (2019). Kontanter vs In-kind som bistand og eventuelle effektforskjeller for mottakerland og lokale markeder. Syriske flyktninger i Tyrkia, Libanon og Jordan.. (external link)

Research report

• Rune Jansen Hagen; Hilde B Selbervik (2021). Mellom politikk og statistikk: Globale fellesgoder i utviklingspolitikken. (external link)
• Amihai Glazer; Rune Jansen Hagen; Jørn Rattsø (2017). Help not needed? Optimal Quotas for Expatriate NGO Workers. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Beretningen om et varslet mord: Om skjebnen til regjeringens politikk for geografisk konsentrasjon av bistanden. (external link)
• Cathrin Ness Fløgstad; Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Aid Dispersion: Measurement in Principle and Practice. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2004). Foreign aid and domestic politics : implications for aid selectivity. (external link)
• Alexander Wright Cappelen; Rune Jansen Hagen; Erik Øiolf Sørensen et al. (2012). Do non-enforceable contracts matter? Evidence from an international lab experiment. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Gaute Torsvik (2007). Irreversible Investments, Dynamic Inconsistency, and Policy Convergence. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2003). Samaritan agents? On the delegation of aid policy. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2010). Certified or Branded? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the IMF’s Policy Support Instrument. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (1997). Political Instability, Political Polarisation, and Public Sector Institutional Reform. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Losing Concentration? Lessons from a Swedish Aid Policy Reform. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2014). Rents and the Political Economy of Development Aid. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2004). Buying influence : aid fungibility in a strategic perspective. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2008). Dancing the H-Street Waltz? Policy Choice in Aid Dependent Countries. (external link)
• Alexander Wright Cappelen; Rune Jansen Hagen; Erik Øiolf Sørensen et al. (2012). Do Non-Enforceable Contracts Matter? Evidence from an International Lab Experiment. (external link)

Media interview

• LIV BJERGENE; Rune Jansen Hagen (2008). Resultatstyrt «blå» bistandspolitikk. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2018). Enprosentmålet skygger for viktigere debatter. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Rune Jansen Hagen; Karl Rolf Pedersen (1999). Økonomisk politikk. (external link)
• Kjetil Bjorvatn; Bertil Tungodden; Rune Jansen Hagen et al. (1999). Befolkningsvekst og fattigdom. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2015). Rents and the political economy of development aid. (external link)
• Bertil Tungodden; Erik Øiolf Sørensen; Rune Jansen Hagen et al. (1999). Sultkatastrofer og nødhjelp. (external link)
• Bertil Tungodden; Rune Jansen Hagen; Karl Rolf Pedersen (1999). Hva er utvikling?. (external link)
• Kjetil Bjorvatn; Gaute Torsvik; Rune Jansen Hagen et al. (1999). Økonomiske institusjoner i fattige land. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Karl Rolf Pedersen (1999). Utviklingshjelp. (external link)
• Kjetil Bjorvatn; Rune Jansen Hagen; Karl Rolf Pedersen (1999). Gruppeinteresser og interessegrupper i fattige land. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Karl Rolf Pedersen (1999). Fordeling og vekst i fattige land: Innledning og oversikt. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Karl Rolf Pedersen (1999). Internasjonale kapitalstrømmer, utenlandsgjeld og valutakriser. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Rune Jansen Hagen; Ivar Kolstad; Arne Wiig (2020). Svarte penger som skitner til Norge?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2017). Kunnskap kan koste for mye og bidra for lite. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2015). Nærsynt om Venezuela. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2015). Bistandsopportunisme?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2024). Fiksjon og fakta – Svar til Iunker. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Rune Jansen Hagen (2024). Den gordiske knuten. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2020). I grenseland. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2022). Vil sanksjonene mot Russland være effektive?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2021). Grønn bistand til svarte land?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2024). Ute av kurs?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2023). En prosent her og en prosent der. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2023). Hvor lenge var Adam i paradis?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2021). Krisens muligheter. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2022). Bistand og støtte. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2019). Norsk bistand: Reformert og revitalisert?. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2020). KRISE. (external link)

Lecture

• Rune Jansen Hagen (2015). Aid Dispersion, Donor Coordination, and Selectivity. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen; Cathrin Ness Fløgstad (2015). Konsentrert betasuppe? Bistandsfokus og bistandsspredning. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2024). Assisted Return Policies: The Case of Norway. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2014). Northern NGOs and Southern Governments. (external link)
• Rune Jansen Hagen (2015). Concentration difficulties? An analysis of Swedish aid proliferation. (external link)

Journal review

• Rune Jansen Hagen (2009). Demokrati og effektivitet, L. Helland og R.J. Sørensen. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Rune Jansen Hagen (2007). Langsiktig bistand og økonomisk utvikling. (external link)

Book anthology

• Rune Jansen Hagen; Karl Rolf Pedersen (1999). Fordeling og vekst i fattige land. (external link)

Professional article

• Karl R. Pedersen; Rune Jansen Hagen (2002). Norsk bistand femti år: Resultater og utfordringer. (external link)

Radio or TV participation

• Mathias Slettholm; Catharina Bu; Rune Jansen Hagen (2019). Utviklingspoddensialet, episode 25: Flom og fond. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Cathrin Ness Fløgstad; Rune Jansen Hagen; Espen Bratberg (2017). Aid and public debt: Essays on fo eign and domestic capital flows in developing countries. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Selected international publications:

• Can We Define Global Collective Action Problems Away? Journal of International Development, 37(1), 107-128 (2025).
• Strategic Interaction in the Market for Charitable Donations: the Role of Public Funding (with Jørn Rattsø), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 26(1), e12681 (2024).
• Losing Concentration? Lessons from a Swedish Aid Policy Reform, Development Policy Review, 36, O984-O1003 (2018).
• Help not needed? Optimal Quotas for Expatriate NGO Workers (with Ami Glazer and Jørn Rattsø), Review of International Economics 26, 302–321 (2018).
• Aid Dispersion: Measurement in Principle and Practice (with Cathrin Fløgstad), World Development, 97, 232-250 (2017).
• Rents and the Political Economy of Development Aid, chapter 15 in R.D. Congleton and A.L. Hillman (eds), Companion to Political Economy of Rent Seeking, Edward Elgar, 2015.
• “Dancing to the Donors’ Tune? Policy-Choice in Aid-Dependent Countries,”  Scandinavian Journal of Economics 117(1), 126-163 (2015).
• "Do Non-Enforceable Contracts matter? Evidence from an International Lab Experiment." Review of Income and Wealth 60(1), 100-113 (2014) (with Alexander Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden).
• "Certified or Branded? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the IMF's Policy Support Instrument." Review of International Organizations 7 (2012): 203-230.
• "Basic Analytics of Multilateral Lending and Surveillance." Journal of International Economics 79 (2009):126-136.
• "Buying Influence. Aid Fungibility in a Strategic Perspective." Review of Development Economics 10(2): 267-284 (2006).
• “Samaritan Agents? On the Strategic Delegation of Aid Policy.” Journal of Development Economics 79(1): 249-263 (2006).

 

Recent projects:

• Mellom politikk og statistikk: Globale fellesgoder i utviklingspolitikken (CMI-project financed by Norad where I was one of the authors of the final report).
• Aid Fragmentation, Donor Coordination, and Selectivity, project for the Expert Group for Evaluation and Analysis of Swedish International Aid (output: Concentration Difficulties? An Analysis of Swedish Aid Proliferation, EBA-report 2015:03

Work in progress:

• Theory and Evidence on the Boomerang Effect of Assisted Return Schemes (with Nicola Coniglio). Paper presented at Economics of Global Interactions, University of Bari, September 2023.
• Cross-Boundary Asylum Policy spillovers: evidence from Sweden (with Nicola Coniglio). Paper presented at Economics of Global Interactions, University of Bari, September 2024).
• Optimal Assisted Return Policies Are Dynamically Inconsistent (with Nicola Coniglio), mimeo.
• Gatekeeper? The IMF, Aid Flows, and Policymaking in Low Income Countries. Paper presented at Development Economics and Policy, University of Göttingen, June 2017.