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Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
About Torsten Persson
- Torsten Persson (born 18 April 1954) is a Swedish economist at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University.
- He has also taught in England, the United States, and Israel.
- He has collaborated extensively with Guido Tabellini. Persson is a past director of the Institute for International Economic Studies, President of the European Economic Association, a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and serves on The Prize Committee for the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is a member of the council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.
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