Kaj Thomsson (K.M.)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“The Political Economy of Private Sector Development in Emerging Markets”, chapter in Private Sector Development in an Emerging World, De Gruyter, Dec 4, 2023.

Holding on? Ethnic divisions, political institutions and the duration of economic declines”, with Richard Bluhm. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 144, May 2020.

"Small-World Consevatives and Rigid Liberals: Attitudes towards Sharing in Self-Proclaimed Left and Right", with Alexander Vostroknutov. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 135, March 2017, pages 181-192.

“The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt: Global Finance and Electoral Cycles”, with Stephen Kaplan. Journal of Politics, Volume 79, Issue 2, April 2017.

“Minding Weber More than Ever? The Impacts of State Capacity and Bureaucratic Autonomy on Development Goals”, with Luciana Cingolani and Denis de Crombrugghe. World Development, Volume 72, August 2015, Pages 191–207.

“Occupational and Job Mobility in the US”, with Giuseppe Moscarini, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 109, Issue 4, Page 807-836, March 2008.

Completed Working Papers

 “Public and Private Welfare State Institutions - A Formal Theory of American Exceptionalism,” IFN Working Paper No. 822.

“Bargaining Over a New Welfare State: A Model of the Regional Distribution of New Deal Funds,” with Alessandro Bonatti, IFN Working Paper No. 713.

“Legislative Vetoes and Economic Reform – Theory and Evidence from the History of American Labor Regulation”

“Brazil Above Everything, God Above Everyone: The Drivers of the Populist Vote in the 2018 Brazilian Elections”, with Stefanie Roost.

“Affective Polarization and Election Expectations – Evidence from the 2020 US Presidential Election”, with Maxim Doiron, Alexander Vostroknutov and Elias Tsakas.

“Precolonial Centralization and State Capacity in Africa” with Tobias Broich and Eddy Szirmai. United Nations University UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2015-025.

“Foreign Aid and Bureaucratic Quality in Africa”, with Tobias Broich and Eddy Szirmai.

“China’s entry into the foreign aid game and its implications for donor-recipient relationships – A game theoretical approach”, with Tobias Broich. 

“Historical path dependence in fiscal institutions: Explaining the level of tax (de)centralization”, with Rose Camille Vincent.

 Ongoing (Non-Completed) Research Projects

“Interest Group Politics and Governance in Latin America”, with Carlos Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi.

“Global Investors and Domestic Politics in Developing Countries”, with Stephen Kaplan.

“Belief Formation and Political Polarization in American Elections”, with Alexander Vostroknutov and Elias Tsakas.

“Measuring and Understanding the Sources of State Fragility”, with Gulzhan Kyzy, Zina Nimeh and Gary Milante.

Research Reports/Other Writings

Editorial Letter, for Special Issue on Political Economy, with Biniam Bedasso, Journal of Development Perspectives, Vol. 2 (1-2), pages 1-2, 2018.

 Book Review of Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research: A Unified Typology of Capitalisms by Martin Schroeder, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 120 (1), 2014.

“Karriär i Handeln – En Dynamisk Studie av Handelns Arbetsmarknad,” with Fredrik Bergström, Research Report S75, The Research Institute of Retail Trade (HUI), Stockholm, 2002.

”Income Mobility in Sweden: A Study on Immigrants and Native Swedes,” with Andre Lippman, Research Report S72, The Research Institute of Retail Trade (HUI), Stockholm, 2002.

“Integrating Bluetooth Access in Wireless LANs,” with Mats Arvedsson and Magnus Edlund, KTH, Stockholm, 2002. [Written for Swedish wireless product developer Possio AB’s white paper series]