Kaj Thomsson (K.M.)

Courses Taught as Primary Instructor:

• Socio-Economic Development in Emerging Markets (MSc course), Maastricht University
• Institutions, Politics and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (BSc course), Maastricht University
• Culture, Society and Politics in Latin America (BSc course), Maastricht University
• Management and Organization of Latin American Enterprises (BSc course), Maastricht University
• Business in the Global Political Environment (BSc course), The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Development Economics (BSc course), University College Maastricht
• Globalisation Debate (BSc course), Maastricht University
• Strategic Firm Behaviour and Competition Policy (MSc course), Maastricht University
• Political Economy (Phd course), Maastricht Graduate School of Governance / UNU-MERIT
• Political Economy (MSc course), Maastricht University
• Information, Justice and the Political Process (BA course), Maastricht University
• Intermediate Microeconomics (BA course), Maastricht University
• International Competitiveness and Antitrust Policy (MSc course), Maastricht University
• Internet Economics (MSc course), Maastricht University

Courses Taught as Teaching Assistant:

• Game Theory (BA course), Yale University
• Mathematical Game Theory (BA course), Yale University
• Introducton to Microeconomics (BA course), Stockholm University

Supervision of PhD theses:

• Biniam Bedasso: The Arc of Institutional Change in the Long Shadow of Elites (2013)
• Luciana Cingolani; Bureaucracies for Development: Oxymoron or Reality? (2014)
• Tobias Broich; New Actors in the Global Economy: Chinese Development Finance in Africa (2017)
• Rose Camille Vincent; Essays in Public Economics: Multi-Layer Tax Structure (2020)
• Bart Kleine Deters; A Quantitative Approach to the Right to Education (2021)
• Dina Kamal; (External) PhD student at Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (ongoing)
• Stefanie Cipriano Roost; PhD student at Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (ongoing)
• Gulzhan Kyzy; PhD student at Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (ongoing)

Supervision of master’s theses:

• Talin Holtermann: An empirical evaluation of the European Leniency Program
• Catalin Teodorescu: Compatibility Choice in an Open Source Environment
• Georgi Deyanov: Why do Societies Fail to Adopt Efficient Policies
• Tobias Broich: State Capacity and Economic Performance
• Nina Stephan: Political Budget Cycles in Europe
• Laura Ioana Bidea: Colonialism, Trust and Institutional Development in Africa
• Daan de Koning: Partisanship and Political Business Cycles  
• Nathalie Wiersma: The pass-through of petrol prices into output prices
• Guy Puylaert: Why good revolutions lead to bad economies
• Linda de Jongh: Modernization Hypothesis Revisited
• Imke Verbeek: Aid for Free Press
• Elias Sobotka: A Political Economy Analysis of Harmful Voter Manipulation
• Anne Lina Tholen: Electoral Cycles in Fiscal Policy, Maastricht University
• Morten Normann: Midterm Loss in a Unitary State
• Sara Munaretto: E-Government in Developing Countries
• Silvia Biancorosso: The European Debt Crisis and the Rise of Populist Parties
• Daniel Waters: China’s Growing Influence in Sub-Saharan Academia 
• Alina Buscher: Does Investment in Public Goods Reduce Internal Conflict?
• Francesco Poletto Cortese: Corruption and Multidimensional Poverty
• Felix Rösner: An Empirical Study on Institutional Quality and Environmental Policy
• Hang Vu: The Development of Chinese-Operated Special Economic Zones in Africa
• George Sturzenbecher: Socio-economic technology effects of socialist industrialization on innovation
• Stefanie Roost: The determinants of populist voting in the 2018 Brazilian election
• Francesco Poletto Cortese: Corruption and Multidimensional Poverty
• Louis de Muyser: Foreign Aid Effectiveness in the Education Sector
• Julius Hoffman: Foreign Aid and State Capacity in Developing Countries
• Alexandra Bassermann: A game-theoretic analysis of the US’ troop withdrawal from Afghanistan