Thomas Markussen

Short presentation

Research Fields

Collective action, economic development, political economy, experimental economics, land rights, good governance, democracy

Research groups

Development Economics Research Group (DERG), University of Copenhagen

Center for Experimental Economics (CEE), University of Copenhagen

Copenhagen Network for Experimental Economics (CNEE)

Academic contributions 

A part of my work focuses on endogenous institutions in social dilemmas. I use laboratory experiments to study whether and when groups are willing to implement institutions that help them solve collective action problems. I have focused on institutions such as competition, peer-to-peer punishment and centralized sanctions. Another part of my work focuses on political economy and institutions in developing countries. I have for example investigated, in the context of Vietnam, whether households with political connection have more secure property rights and better access to finance than other households. Another example is a paper studying how voting alignment with the U.S. in the UN General Assembly affects allocation of World Bank concessional lending.

 Personal webpage: http://www.econ.ku.dk/markussen/default.htm

Google Scholar profile; http://scholar.google.dk/citations?user=jKRQA4YAAAAJ&hl=da&oi=ao

CV

Born: 02-04-1976

Education

PhD in Economics (University of Copenhagen)

MSc in Economics (University of Copenhagen)

MSc in Comparative Politics (London School of Economics) 
 

Previous positions

Mar. 2011 – Nov. 2012:Assistant Professor in Development Economics, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

Mar. 2009 – Feb. 2011: Assistant Research Professor (post-doc), Development Economics Research Group (DERG), Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

Current position

Associate Professor and International Coordinator, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.

Research grants

"Understanding the Effects of Democracy - Theory and Laboratory Experiments", 2015-2018, DKr. 1.7 mill, funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF).

PhD-supervision

James Osei Mensah, "Constraints to Growth of Street Food Enterprises in Ghana", 2012-2015

PhD-assessment since 2010

Chairman of three PhD assessement committees at University of Copenhagen, 2014-2015