Jørn Rattsø                                                   

  • Professor of Economics
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  • Address: Department of Economics, NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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  • Office: Dragvoll University Campus, building 7, level 5, room 7565
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  • Telephone: +47 73 59 19 34 (direct line) +47 73 59 19 40 (department office)
  • Fax: +47 73 59 69 54
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  • CV (english version)
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  • CV (norsk versjon)                                                                

            jorn.rattso@svt.ntnu.no

 

 

Recent unpublished papers  

Public Finance

* Young and old competing for public welfare services (with Lars-Erik Borge, version of May 2007)

* Do grants to state and local governments stimulate economic development? (with Erlend Berg, version of March 2007)

* Fiscal federation or confederation in the European Union: The challenge of the common pool problem

* Fiscal competition and competition reform: Empirical evidence of the incentive effect of household and firm mobility (with Bjørg Langseth)

Development Economics

* Industrial labor productivities and tariffs in South Africa: Identification based on WTO liberalization reform (with Torfinn Harding, version of May 2007)

* Growth constraints and income distribution in South Africa (with Hildegunn E. Stokke, version of May 16, 2007), separate model appendix

* The barrier model of productivity growth: South Africa (with Torfinn Harding, version of February 16, 2005)

 

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)

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. (Torberg Falch and Jørn Rattsø) Political Economic Determinants of School Spending in Federal States: Theory and Time-Series Evidence, European Journal of Political Economy, 13, 1997, 299-314.

2. (Lars-Erik Borge and Jørn Rattsø) Local Government Grants and Income Tax Revenue: Redistributive Politics in Norway 1900-1990, Public Choice, 92, 1997, 181-197.

3. (Jorid Kalseth and Jørn Rattsø) Political Control of Administrative Spending : The Case of Local Governments in Norway, Economics and Politics, 10, 1997, 63-83.

4. Aggregate Local Public Investments and Shocks: Norway 1946-1990, Applied Economics, 31, 5, 1999, 577-584|.

5. (Torberg Falch and Jørn Rattsø) Local Public Choice of School Spending: Disaggregating the Demand Function for Educational Services, Economics of Education Review, 18, 1999, 361-373.

6. (Lars-Erik Borge and Jørn Rattsø) Local Government Resource Use under a Centralized System of Financing: The Case of Norway, Local Government Studies 25, 1, 1999, 35-54.

7. (Torberg Falch and Jørn Rattsø) School Reforms and School Spending Growth, Journal of Policy Reform, 3, 1999, 195-227, separate tables (figures not available here).

8. (Lars-Erik Borge and Jørn Rattsø), Spending Growth with Vertical Fiscal Imbalance: Decentralized Government Spending in Norway 1880-1990, Economics and Politics, 14, 3, 2002, 351-373.

9. (Jørn Rattsø and Per Tovmo) Fiscal Discipline and Asymmetric Adjustment of Revenue and Expenditures: Local Government Responses to Shocks in Denmark, Public Finance Review, 30, 3, 2002, 208-234, separate tables.

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, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002.

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. (Jørn Rattsø and Rune J. Sørensen) Public Employees as Swing Voters: Empirical Evidence on Opposition to Public Sector Reform, Public Choice, 119, 3-4, June 2004, 281-310.

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 Jørn Rattsø) Income distribution and tax structure: Empirical test of the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis,  European Economic Review, 48, 4, 2004, 805-826.

16. (Lars-Erik Borge and Jørn Rattsø), The relationships between costs and user charges: The case of a Norwegian utility service, FinanzArchiv, 61, 1, 2005, 1-22.

17. Economic General Report, Local tax financing in the Nordic countries, Yearbook for Nordic Tax Research 2005 (Robert Påhlsson, ed.), 33-50

18. (Fredrik Carlsen, Bjørg Langset and Jørn Rattsø), The relationship between firm mobility and tax level: Empirical evidence of fiscal competition between local governments,  Journal of Urban Economics, 58, 2, September 2005, 273-288.

19. (Jon H. Fiva and Jørn Rattsø) Welfare competition in Norway: norms and expenditures, European Journal of Political Economy, 22, 2006, 202-226.

20. (Jon H. Fiva and Jørn Rattsø) Local choice of property taxation: Evidence from Norway, Public Choice, 132, 3-4, September 2007, 457-480.

21. (Matz Dahlberg, Eva Mörk, Jørn Rattsø and Hanna Ågren) Using a discontinuous grant rule to identify the effect of grants on local taxes and spending, Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming, 2007.

22. (Lars-Erik Borge og Jørn Rattsø) Property taxation as incentive for cost control: Empirical evidence for utility services in Norway , European Economic Review, forthcoming, 2008.

Development Macroeconomics

23. (Rob Davies, Jørn Rattsø and Ragnar Torvik) Short-Run Consequences of Trade Liberalization : A CGE Model of Zimbabwe, Journal of Policy Modeling, 20, 3, 1998, 305-333.

24. (Jørn Rattsø and Ragnar Torvik) Trade Liberalization in Zimbabwe: Ex post Evaluation, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 22, 1998, 325-346.

25. (Jørn Rattsø and Ragnar Torvik) Economic Openness, Trade Restrictions and External Shocks : Modelling the Effects in Sub-Saharan Africa, Economic Modelling, 15, 1998, 257-286

26. (Jørn Rattsø and Ragnar Torvik) The Macroeconomics of Foreign Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa: Dutch Disease Effects Reconsidered, in Kanhaya Gupta (ed.), Foreign Aid: New Perspectives, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

27. 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.

28. (Rob Davies and Jørn Rattsø) Zimbabwe: Economic Adjustment, Income Distribution and Trade Liberalization, in L. Taylor (ed.), External Liberalization, Economic Performance and Social Policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

29. (Halvor Mehlum, Jørn Rattsø and Ragnar Torvik) Trade Liberalization and Investment Response in Zimbabwe, in C. Mumbengegwi (ed.), Macroeconomic and Structural Adjustment Policies for Zimbabwe, New York: Palgrave, 2002

30. (Ragnar Torvik and Jørn Rattsø) Interactions Between Agriculture and Industry: Theoretical Analysis of the Consequences of Discriminating Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, Review of Development Economics, 7, 1, 2003, 138-151 (figures not available here).

31. (Jørn Rattsø and Hildegunn Ekroll Stokke) Learning and Foreign Technology Spillovers in Thailand: Empirical Evidence on Productivity Dynamics, Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 29, 1, 2003, 47-66.

32. 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

33. Book review: The Economic decline of Zimbabwe: Neither Growth nor Equity, Journal of African Economies, 12, 2, 2003, 298-301

34. (Xinshen Diao, Jørn Rattsø and Hildegunn Ekroll Stokke) International spillovers, productivity growth and openness in Thailand: An intertemporal general equilibrium analysis, Journal of Development Economics, 76, 2, 2005, 429-450

35. (Xinshen Diao, Jørn Rattsø and Hildegunn Ekroll Stokke)  Learning by exporting and structural change: A Ramsey growth model for Thailand,  Journal of Policy Modeling, 28, 2006, 293-306.

36. (Jørn Rattsø and Hildegunn Ekroll Stokke) A growth model for South Africa, South Africa Journal of Economics, forthcoming, 2007.

 

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,
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1998

Editor: Kilroy was here Contact address: Jorn.Rattso@svt.ntnu.no, Updated: April 2007