I am a professor of economics at the Norwegian Business School (BI), also affiliated with ESOP at the University of Oslo. I received my Ph.D. from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2006.

My research lies in the intersection between political economy and applied microeconomics. I currently study questions such as: Does political power self-perpetuate? Do parties in power direct spending to the hometowns of its representatives? Why did Europe adopt proportional representation?

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