Rune Jansen Hagen

Recent teaching

National Responsibility and the Just Distribution of Debt Relief (with Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden). Forthcoming in Ethics and International Affairs.
"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).
“Assessing the Economic Gains of Free Market Access for the Least Developed Countries in the QUAD” (with Ottar Mæstad and Arne Wiig), Nordic Journal of Political Economy 29(1): 3-24 (2003).
“Marginalisation in the Context of Globalisation. Why Is Africa so Poor?” Nordic Journal of Political Economy 28(2): 147-179 (2002).
“The Electoral Politics of Public Sector Institutional Reform”. European Journal of Political Economy 18(3): 449-473 (2002).

Selected publications in Norwegian

In books:

Innledning og oversikt [Introduction and Overview, with Karl Rolf Pedersen], in R.J. Hagen and K.R. Pedersen (eds.): Fordeling og vekst i fattige land [Distribution and Growth in Low-Income Countries]. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 1999.
Politiske institusjoner, inntektsfordeling og økonomisk vekst [Political Institutions, Income Distribution, and Economic Growth], in R.J. Hagen and K.R. Pedersen (eds.): Fordeling og vekst i fattige land [Distribution and Growth in Low-Income Countries]. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 1999.
Gruppeinteresser og interessegrupper i fattige land [Group Interests and Interest Groups in Poor Countries, with Kjetil Bjorvatn], in R.J. Hagen and K.R. Pedersen (eds.): Fordeling og vekst i fattige land [Distribution and Growth in Low-Income Countries]. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 1999.
Politiserte byråkratier i fattige land [Politicised Bureaucracies in Poor Countries], in R.J. Hagen and K.R. Pedersen (eds.): Fordeling og vekst i fattige land [Distribution and Growth in Low-Income Countries]. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 1999.
Finanspolitisk tvangstrøye eller keiserens nye klær? Reformen av Stortingets budsjettbehandling i lys av nyere teori og empiri [A Fiscal Strait Jacket or the Emperor’s New Clothes? An Evaluation of the Reform of Stortinget’s Budget Procedures Based on Recent Theoretical and Empirical Results], in Ø. Thøgersen (ed.): Økonomisk politikk i en turbulent verdensøkonomi [Economic Policy in a Turbulent World Economy]. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 1999.

In journals

Langsiktig bistand og økonomisk utvikling [Long-Term Development Assistance and Economic Development]. Forthcoming in Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift.
Nye roller for frivillige organisasjoner i bistand [New Roles for NGOs in Foreign Aid], Økonomisk Forum 60(8): xx-xx (2006) (with Jørn Rattsø)
Norsk bistand femti år: Resultater og utfordringer [50 Years of Norwegian Foreign Aid: Results and Future Challenges], Økonomisk Forum 56(6): 18-25 (2002) (with Karl R. Pedersen).

Work in progress

Political Will vs. Political Power. On the Political Economy of Economic Reforms in Nascent Democracies. Paper presented at the annual meeting of European Public Choice Society, Aarhus, Denmark, April 26-28, 2003.
Irreversible Investments, Dynamic Inconsistency and Policy Convergence (with Gaute Torsvik).
Basic Analytics of Multilateral Lending and Surveillance. Discussion Paper 24/05, Department of Economics, NHH.
Foreign Aid and Social Sector Spending in Developing Countries (with Magnus Hatlebakk).
A Millennial Effort? Foreign Aid, Public Spending, and the Millennium Development Goals (with Magnus Hatlebakk).
Foreign Aid and Domestic Politics: Implications for Aid Selectivity. Discussion Paper 12/04, Department of Economics, NHH.
Dancing the H-Street Waltz. Policy Choice in Aid Dependent Countries.

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