Jørn Rattsø Keynote slides at
European Public Choice Society meeting in Rennes, April 2011
Local policy, agglomeration, and income
convergence
Recent unpublished
papers
Public Finance
* Political control of government
enterprises: Who controls whom? (with Rune
Sørensen, January 2012)
* Capitalization of property taxes
in Norway (with Lars-Erik Borge, August 2011)
* Local adjustment to temporary matching grant
programs: A dynamic analysis (with Lars-Erik Borge, September 2008)
* Young and old competing for public
welfare services (with Lars-Erik Borge, May 2007)
* Fiscal federation or confederation in the European
Union: The challenge of the common pool problem
Urban Economics
* Migration and dynamic agglomeration
economies: Regional income growth in Norway (with Hildegunn Stokke,
February 2011)
* The limited role of education for income
convergence: Evidence from Norway (with Hildegunn Stokke, August 2011)
* Regional income convergence, skilled
migration and productivity response: Explaining relative stagnation in the
periphery (with
Hildegunn Stokke, January 2009)
* Puzzles of convergence and catching up: Regional
income growth in Norway ( November 2008)
Development Economics
* Quantifying the effects of
comparative advantage and skill biased technical change for wage inequality:
Calibrating a growth model for South Africa (with Hildegunn E. Stokke,
August 2010)
* Looking abroad, but
lagging behind: How the world technology frontier affects South Africa
(with Torfinn Harding, April 2009)
Committee report
produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, in 2006 (Rattso report on NGOs):
New roles for non-governmental
organizations in development cooperation
Populist interventions in the public debate (in Norwegian)
Krisepengespillet, innlegg DN, 26/11/10
De elder taper på eldrebølgen (med Rune Sørensen), kronikk avvist i VG august 2009
Politikerne må rydde opp i bistandsindustrien (med Rune Jansen Hagen), kronikk Dagbladet, 14/5/09
Strategisk bistand (med Rune Jansen Hagen), kronikk VG, 15/4/09
Pengerikelighetens utfordringer i offentlig sektor (med Rune Sørensen), MAGMA 4/2008
Politikernes pengebruk, kronikk, Dagens Næringsliv, 4/9/07
Snu flyttestrømmen, kronikk, Dagens Næringsliv, 22/8/07
Utdelingspolitikk, kronikk, Dagens Næringsliv, 29/3/07
Frivillige organisasjoner i bistand (med Rune Jansen Hagen), økonomikommentar, Aftenposten, 19/4/07
Regioner gir svekket demokrati (med Rune Sørensen), kronikk VG, 11/4/07
Region søker oppgaver (med Rune Sørensen), utredning CIVITA, april 2007
Forståelig kritikk, innlegg, Bistandskaktuelt, september 2006
Region på jakt etter oppgave, innlegg, Adresseavisen, 9/9/06
Den harmoniske bistanden (med Per Selle), debattinnlegg, Dagbladet, 27/8/06
Bistandsreform, kronikk, VG, 22/8/06
Kommune-Norge i omstilling (med Arild Hervik), kronikk, Nationen, 13/6/05
Det nye store rikstrygdeverket (med Kåre Hagen), kronikk, Dagbladet, 4/4/05
Regionale luftslott (med Arild Hervik), kronikk, Aftenposten, 13/1/05
Vil vi ha landsdelsregioner? (med Arild Hervik), Økonomisk Forum nr. 9 2004
Den besværlige offentlige sektor, Tidsskriftet Horisont 3/ 2004
NOU 2004:13 En ny arbeids- og velferdsforvaltning (med Lars Wilhelmsen), Økonomisk Forum nr. 6 2004
Norsk løsning på danske sykehusproblemer? (med Terje P. Hagen) Tidsskriftet Dagens Medicin, 8 mai 2004
Kommuner i veien for distriktspolitikk, Tidsskriftet Horisont 2/2003
Den idylliske tid er slutt (Kommune-konkurranse), Tidsskriftet Horisont 1/2003
Det er ikke penger som er problemet i norsk skole, Tidsskriftet Horisont 1/2002
Hvordan få mer glede ut av kommunene, Tidsskriftet Horisont 1/2001
Trenger vi kommunene? (med Terje P. Hagen), Kronikk, Aftenposten, 1/7 2002
Brytningstid, Kommunal Rapport, november 2002
Standardstatsbarnehagen, Kommunal Rapport, september 2002
Sett pris på veien, Kommunal Rapport, juni 2002
Generalistkommunenes fall? Kommunal Rapport, april 2002
Offentlig fornyelse, igjen, Kommunal Rapport, februar 2002
Kommunestortingsvalgkampen, Kommunal Rapport, juni 2001
Kommunenes egen lille skatt, Kommunal Rapport, april 2001
OECD-gjennomsnittet, Kommunal Rapport, februar 2001
Ledig for oppdrag (fylkeskommunen), Kommunal Rapport, januar 2001
Recent publications
(since 1997)
Public Finance
1. (
2. (Lars-Erik Borge and
3. (Jorid
Kalseth and
4. Aggregate Local Public Investments and Shocks:
Norway 1946-1990, Applied
Economics, 31, 5, 1999, 577-584|.
5. (
6. (Lars-Erik Borge and
7. (
8. (Lars-Erik Borge and
9. (
10. (Lars-Erik Borge and
Jørn Rattsø) Local Government Budgeting and Borrowing: Norway, in B. Dafflon (ed.), Local Public Finance: Balanced
Budget and Debt Control in European Countries, Cheltenham: Edvard Elgar, 2002.
11. Fiscal Controls in Europe: A Summary, in
B. Dafflon (ed.), Local Public Finance: Balanced
Budget and Debt Control in European Countries,
12. Vertical Fiscal Imbalance in a Welfare State:
Norway, in J. Rodden, G. Eskeland and J. Litvack (eds.), Fiscal Decentralization and The
Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003.
13. (
14. Fiscal Adjustment under Centralized Federalism:
Empirical Evaluation of the Response to Budgetary Shocks, FinanzArchiv, 60, 2, 2004, 240-261.
15. (Lars-Erik Borge and
16. (Lars-Erik Borge and
17. Economic General
Report, Local tax financing in the Nordic
countries, Yearbook for Nordic Tax
Research 2005 (Robert Påhlsson, ed.), 33-50
18. (
19. (Jon H. Fiva and
20. (Jon H. Fiva and
21. (Matz Dahlberg, Eva
Mörk,
24. (Jørn Rattsø and Rune Sørensen) Grey power and public budgets: Family altruism
helps children, but not elderly, European
Journal of Political Economy 26,2, 2010,
222-234.
Development
Macroeconomics
25. (Rob Davies,
26. (
27. (
28. (
29. Income Distribution, Growth and
Protectionism in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Case of Zimbabwe, in S. Storm
and C. Naastepad (eds.), Globalization and
Economic Development, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001.
30. (Rob Davies and
31. (Halvor Mehlum,
32. (
33. (
34. The Macroeconomic Role of Speculative
Assets under Import Compression and Financial Repression, in A. Dutt
and J. Ros (eds.), Development Economics and Structuralist Macroeconomics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,
2003
35. Book review: The
Economic decline of Zimbabwe: Neither Growth nor Equity, Journal
of African Economies, 12, 2, 2003, 298-301
36. (Xinshen Diao,
37. (Xinshen Diao,
38. (
39. (Torfinn Harding and Jørn
Rattsø)
Industrial labor
productivities and tariffs in South Africa: Identification based on
multilateral liberalization reform, Economics of
Transition 18, 3, 2010, 459-485.
40. (Jørn Rattsø and Hildegunn E.
Stokke) Trade policy in a growth model with
technology gap dynamics and simulations for South Africa, Journal of
Economic Dynamics and Control, forthcoming 2012.
Good old most cited
paper
Different macroclosures of the original Johansen model and their
impact on policy evaluation, Journal of Policy Modeling 4, 1982, 85-97.
Book edited on
Scandinavian fiscal federalism
Jørn Rattsø (ed.), Fiscal
Federalism and State-Local Finance: The Scandinavian Perspective,
Editor: Kilroy
was here Contact address: Jorn.Rattso@svt.ntnu.no, Updated: April
2010