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Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistikOm Ola Olsson
Jag är professor i nationalekonomi och prefekt för Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik. Mina forskningsområden är ekonomisk tillväxt, ekonomisk historia, utvecklingsekonomi samt konfliktekonomi. Jag undervisar framför allt i makroekonomi och kommenterar regelbundet frågor kring makroekonomi och politisk ekonomi i svenska och internationella medier.
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Forskningsområden
- Ekonomisk tillväxt, ekonomisk historia, utvecklingsekonomi, politisk ekonomi, konfliktekonomi.
Undervisningsområden
- Makroekonomi, utvecklingsekonomi
Utvalda publikationer
Floods, Droughts, and Environmental Circumscription in Early State Development: The Case of Ancient Egypt (2025) (with Laura Mayoral) Journal of Economic Growth 30: 271-305.
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel (2024) (with Michelle D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya) (2024) Journal of Political Economy 132(11), 3785-3826. (replication)
Paleoeconomics: Climate Change and Economic Development in Prehistory, Palgrave MacMillan/Springer: Podcasts: Economic and Political History Podcast; Our Long Walk
Roman Roads to Prosperity: Persistence and Non-Persistence of Public Infrastructure (2022) (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Nicolai Kaarsen, and Pablo Selaya) Journal of Comparative Economics 50(4), 896-916. Media coverage: Washington Post; The Telegraph; BBC (Spanish); The Times; Daily Mail; Vox; Corriere della Serra; The NEP-HIS Blog; World Economic Forum; KRWG; NZ Herald; Göteborgs-Posten
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons (2017) (with Arcangelo Dimico and Alessia Isopi) Journal of Economic History 77(4), 1083-1115. 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
The Roots of Ethnic Diversity (2012) (with Pelle Ahlerup), Journal of Economic Growth 17(2), 71-102.
Biogeography and Long-Run Economic Development (2005) (with Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr), European Economic Review 49(4): 909-938.
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Floods, droughts, and environmental circumscription in early state development: the case of ancient
Egypt
Laura Mayoral, Ola Olsson
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH - 2025 -
Sustainable economic growth: A critical assessment of Target
8.1
Pelle Ahlerup, Ola Olsson
Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 8: Economic Growth and Decent Work For All - 2025 -
Paleoeconomics
Ola Olsson
2024 -
Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country
Panel
Michelle D'Arcy, Marina Nistotskaya, Ola Olsson
Journal of Political Economy - 2024 -
The Political Economy of Bread and Circuses: Weather Shocks and Classic Maya Monument
Construction
Melissa Rubio-Ramos, Christian Isendahl, Ola Olsson
2024 -
Conditional Persistence? Historical Disease Exposure and Government Response to
COVID-19
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Roman roads to prosperity: Persistence and non-persistence of public
infrastructure
C. J. Dalgaard, N. Kaarsen, Ola Olsson, P. Selaya
Journal of Comparative Economics - 2022 -
The origins of cultural divergence: evidence from
Vietnam
H. A. Ho, Peter Martinsson, Ola Olsson
Journal of Economic Growth - 2022 -
Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global
analysis
Oana Borcan, Ola Olsson, Louis Putterman
Explorations in Economic History - 2021 -
A Western Reversal Since the Neolithic? The Long-Run Impact of Early
Agriculture
Ola Olsson, C. Paik
Journal of Economic History - 2020 -
Fiscal capacity in "post"-conflict states: Evidence from trade on Congo
river
Ola Olsson, Maria Eriksson Baaz, Peter Martinsson
Journal of Development Economics - 2020 -
Tillväxtens djupa
bestämningsfaktorer
Ola Olsson
Ekonomisk Debatt - 2019 -
State history and economic development: evidence from six
millennia
O. Borcan, Ola Olsson, L. Putterman
Journal of Economic Growth - 2018 -
Navigating 'taxation' on the Congo River: the interplay of legitimation and
'officialisation'
Maria Eriksson Baaz, Ola Olsson, J. Verweijen
Review of African Political Economy - 2018 -
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for
Lemons
Arcangelo Dimico, Alessia Isopi, Ola Olsson
Journal of Economic History - 2017 -
Long-Run Cultural Divergence: Evidence From the Neolithic
Revolution
Ola Olsson, Christopher Paik
Journal of Development Economics - 2016 -
Climate Change and Market Collapse: A Model Applied to
Darfur
Ola Olsson
Games - 2016 -
Nu behöver vi breda politiska
lösningar
Ola Olsson
Dagens samhälle - 2016 -
Long-Run Cultural Divergence: Evidence From the Neolithic
Revolution
Ola Olsson, Christopher Paik
2015 -
State History and Economic Development: Evidence from Six
Millennia
Oana Borcan, Ola Olsson, Louis Putterman
2014 -
Ethnic Cleansing or Resource Struggle in Darfur? An Empirical
Analysis
Ola Olsson, Eyerusalem G. Siba
Journal of Development Economics - 2013 -
Det nya
samhällskontraktet
Ola Olsson
Ekonomisk Debatt - 2013 -
Why Are Rich Countries More Politically
Cohesive?
C. J. Dalgaard, Ola Olsson
Scandinavian Journal of Economics - 2013 -
The Roots of Ethnic
Diversity
Pelle Ahlerup, Ola Olsson
Journal of Economic Growth - 2012 -
Institutionernas roll för ekonomisk
utveckling
Ola Olsson
Ekonomisk Debatt - 2012 -
Essentials of Advanced Macroeconomic
Theory
Ola Olsson
2012 -
Feeding the Horse: Unofficial Economic Activities within the Police Force in the DR
Congo
Maria Eriksson Baaz, Ola Olsson
African Security, Routledge - 2011 -
Är förbannelsen
bruten?
Ola Olsson
Internationella Studier - 2011 -
Country Size and the Rule of Law: Resuscitating
Montesquieu
Ola Olsson, Gustav Hansson
European Economic Review - 2011 -
After Janjaweed? Socioeconomic Impacts of the Conflict in
Darfur
Ola Olsson
2010 -
Social Capital vs Institutions in the Growth
Process
Pelle Ahlerup, Ola Olsson, David Yanagizawa
European Journal of Political Economy - 2009 -
Ethnic Cleansing or Resource Struggle in Darfur? An empirical
analysis
Ola Olsson, Eyerusalem G. Siba
2009 -
On the democratic legacy of
colonialism
Ola Olsson
Journal of Comparative Economics - 2009 -
Windfall Gains, Political Economy, and Economic
Development
Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Ola Olsson
Journal of African Economies - 2008 -
Klimatet och
samhällsekonomin
Ola Olsson, Fredrik Andersson
Ekonomisk Debatt - 2008 -
Mot en ny fördelning av svenska
forskningsresurser
Ola Olsson, Fredrik Andersson
Ekonomisk Debatt - 2008 -
Endogenous Institutional Change after
Independence
Heather Congdon Fors, Ola Olsson
European Economic Review - 2007 -
The Roots of Ethnic
Diversity
Pelle Ahlerup, Ola Olsson
2007 -
Social Capital vs Institutions in the Growth
Process
Pelle Ahlerup, Ola Olsson, David Yanagizawa
2007 -
Diamonds are a rebel's best
friend
Ola Olsson
The World Economy - 2006 -
Country Size and the Rule of Law: Resuscitating
Montesquieu
Gustav Hansson, Ola Olsson
2006 -
Conflict
Diamonds
Ola Olsson
Journal of Development Economics - 2006 -
Biogeography and Long-Run Economic
Development
Ola Olsson, Douglas A., Jr. Hibbs
European Economic Review - 2005 -
Geography and Institutions: Plausible and Implausible
Linkages
Ola Olsson
Journal of Economics - 2005 -
Endogenous Institutional Change After
Independence
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Technological Opportunity and
Growth
Ola Olsson
Journal of Economic Growth - 2005 -
Geography, Biogeography and Why Some Countries are Rich and Others
Poor
Douglas A., Jr. Hibbs, Ola Olsson
2004 -
Geography, Biogeography and Why Some Countries are Rich and Others
Poor
Douglas A., Jr. Hibbs, Ola Olsson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the US (PNAS) - 2004 -
Unbundling Ex-Colonies: A Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson
2001
Ola Olsson
2004 -
Reference-Dependent Utilityin an Industrial
Cluster
Ola Olsson
2003
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