Asger Lau Andersen, David Dreyer Lassen and Lasse Holbøll Westh
Nielsen. Forthcoming. "Late Budgets." American Economic Journal: Economic
Policy. Earlier version available as
EPRU Working Paper 2010-4.
David Dreyer Lassen and Søren Serritzlew.
2011.
“Jurisdiction Size and Local Democracy: Evidence on Internal Political Efficacy
from Large-scale Municipal Reform.” American Political
Science Review 105, 238-58.
Final gated version.
David Dreyer Lassen and Søren Serritzlew.
2011.
“Size and Equal Opportunity in the Democratic Process: The Effect of the Danish
Local Government Reform on Inequality in Internal Political Efficacy.”
World Political
Science Review 7, art. 8.
Final published version.
David Dreyer Lassen and Søren Serritzlew. 2010. ‘’Kommunalreformen og
lokalpolitisk effektivitetsfølelse.” Politica 42, 145-162. Selected as
Best Politica paper in 2010.
David Dreyer Lassen. 2010. Fiscal
Consolidations in Advanced Industrialized Democracies: Economics, Politics, and
Governance. Background report 2010/04 for the Swedish
Fiscal Policy Council.
James E. Alt and David Dreyer Lassen. 2008.
"Political and Judicial Checks on Corruption: Evidence from American State
Governments." Economics & Politics. Final (gated)
version.
Vold mod offentligt ansatte,
University Press Denmark. [with Peter Kruize og
Dave Sorenson]. 2008.
David Dreyer Lassen. 2007. "Ethnic Divisions, Trust, and
the Size of the Informal Sector." Journal of Economic Behavior
and Organization.
Published (gated) version
(at
JEBO website, requires subscription)
James E. Alt, David Dreyer Lassen and Shanna Rose.
2006. "The Causes of Fiscal Transparency: Evidence from the American
States." IMF Staff Papers 53(September), 30-57. Latest
version here.
James E. Alt and David Dreyer Lassen. 2006. "Transparency, Political Polarization, and Political
Budget Cycles in OECD Countries."* American Journal of Political Science 50(3), 530-550. (Previously titled: The Political Budget Cycle is Where You Can't
See It).
James E. Alt and David Dreyer Lassen. 2006.
"Fiscal Transparency, Political Parties, and Debt in OECD Countries."
European Economic Review 50(6), 1403-1439.
Published version (requires subscription).
David Dreyer Lassen. 2005. "The
Effect of Information on Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Natural
Experiment."* American Journal of
Political Science 49(1).
James E. Alt and David Dreyer Lassen. 2003.
"The Political Economy of Institutions and Corruption in American
States." Journal of Theoretical Politics 15(3).
EPRU Working paper version available through SSRN.
Published version (requires
subscription).
David Dreyer Lassen and Peter Birch Sørensen. 2002.
Financing the Nordic Welfare States: The Challenge of Globalisation
to Taxation in the Nordic Countries. Prepared for the Nordic Council of Ministers. [Part of the larger report Det framtida
nordiska välfärdssamhället
- utmaninger och möjligheter, Nord 2003:12, available here]
James E. Alt, David Dreyer Lassen
and David Skilling. 2002. "Fiscal Transparency, Gubernatorial
Popularity, and the Scale of Government: Evidence from the States." State Politics & Policy Quarterly vol. 2. Working Paper version [PDF, 135 Kb].
Niels
Kleis Frederiksen, David Dreyer Lassen and Søren Bo Nielsen. 1999. "Would the Flat Tax Fall Flat in
Denmark?" in T.M. Andersen, S.E.H. Jensen and O. Risager
(eds.), Macroeconomic Perspectives on Danish Economic Policy, London:
Macmillan Press, 1999.
David
Dreyer Lassen and Søren Bo Nielsen. 1996.
"Er skattebyrden i Danmark højere end i andre
europæiske lande?" Nationaløkonomisk
Tidsskrift, 1996 ("Is the tax burden in
Denmark higher than in other European countries?",
Danish Economic Journal, 1996)
Papers
Informal Institutions and Intergenerational
Contracts: Evidence from Schooling and Remittances in Rural Tanzania [with Helene Bie Lilleør].
CAM Working Paper
2008-03. July 2008. Under revision.
Inequality
and Corruption: Evidence from American States [with Jim Alt].
EPRU Working Paper 2008-02. August 2008. Under revision.
Political Influence [with Bennedsen and Feldmann]. First version, November 2009. Submitted.
Divided We Stand, Divided We Fall. Political Deadlock and Electoral Accountability [with Asger Lau
Andersen and Lasse Holbøll Westh Nielsen]. Draft.
The
Impact of Fiscal Governance on Bond Markets: Evidence from Late Budgets and
State Government Borrowing Costs [with Asger Lau Andersen and Lasse Holbøll
Westh Nielsen].
EPRU Working Paper 2010-11.
Submitted.
Current Projects and Work-in-progress
(email me for drafts not posted)
True
Profit Shifting [with
Delia Ionascu, Lakis Raimondos-Møller and Søren Bo
Nielsen], in progress, 2012.
Consumption Responses to Fiscal Stimulus
Policy and Household Price of Liqudity. [with
Søren Leth-Petersen and Claus Thustrup Kreiner], first
incomplete draft, March 2012.
Individual
attitudes to stimulus policies and fiscal consolidation
Hard Times: Voters and the Economy in Times of Economic
Hardship. Project sponsored by a
DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader grant.
Oil rents and hidden wealth in autocracies and
democracies [with Andersen, Johannesen and Paltseva], in progress, April
2012
The Politics and Economics of Fiscal Gimmickry in Europe
[with Jim Alt and Joachim Wehner] Draft, April 2012
Current Teaching (Spring 2012) / Nuværende undervisning:
Political Economics,
Master's course @ Econ department
International Political
Economy from a Corporate Perspective, ILECMA @ Faculty of Law
Past teaching
Parts of Public Finance, 3rd
year.
Seminars on political economics, advanced public economics, conflict economics,
economics of the media
Public Expenditures / Offentlig Udgiftspolitik
International Political Economy from a Corporate Perspective (at ILECMA)
Micro 3
Omkring
Specialevejledning
Debat og andet (in Danish)
Various op-eds in
Børsen
in 2011, on time inconsistency problems in deregulation of mortgage financing,
the new Danish budget law, cyclical fiscal policy and rainy day funds, and EU
governance.
Earlier:
”Brems det offentlige forbrug.” Kronik i
Berlingske Tidende 26.9.2010.
”Tør vi lade falde hvad ej kan stå”
Debatindlæg i Politiken om banker i krise, 4.9.09.
"Fejlslutninger." Debatindlæg i Weekendavisen 19.6.2009.
"Forbandelse." Debatindlæg i Weekendavisen nr. 24, d. 13.6.08.
"Stud.gæld." Mening i
Jyllands-Posten d. 11.8.06.
"Økonomernes Indiana
Jones"
Anmeldelse af Levitt & Dubner's
Freakonomics,
Weekendavisen Ideer d. 9.9.05. (m.
Henrik J. Kleven).
"Skrækhistorier" Artikel i
Weekendavisen Ideer d. 9.9.05. (m.
Henrik J. Kleven).
"Velfærd på
amerikansk?"
Artikel i
Weekendavisen Ideer d. 18.02.05. (m. Claus Thustrup Kreiner og
Henrik J. Kleven) og vores efterfølgende svar
"Misforstået
solidaritet?"
"Økonomiske læseheste?"
Institutstafet i
Politen, Maj 2004.
"Antiantipaternalisme" (pdf, 17kb). Debatindlæg bragt i
Weekendavisen Bøger d. 23.04.04 (lidt vel redigeret) under
titlen "På med selen."
"Bliver man rig af at læse Weekendavisen?"
Debatindlæg som burde være bragt i Weekendavisen, februar 2004.
"Er gæld godt?" (pdf, 73kb). Debatindlæg bragt i
Weekendavisen d. 20.12.02 under titlen "Offentlig
gæld uholdbar."
"Pressefrihed eller
Pressionsfrihed?" 22.05.02. Vil regeringens nye medieoplæg give politisk kontrol med DR?
(pdf, 35kb). (December 2002: Det har det gjort!)
"Medicin til verdens
fattige" (pdf, 8kb). Debatindlæg bragt i
Politiken d. 18.03.01 under den svært misvisende
titel Frigiv Patenterne.
Good
and Bad Government
The Allegory of
Good and
Bad Government (1338-40), by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Siena.
Updated
2012.
*
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