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Tim Besley

School Professor of Economics and Political Science and the W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at London School Of Economics And Political Science

Website
http://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/people/faculty/tim-besley
ORCID
0000-0002-8923-6372

Publications 

Discussion paper

DP18349 How Big is the Media Multiplier? Evidence from Dyadic News Data

  • Tim Besley
  • Thiemo Fetzer
  • Hannes Mueller
5 Aug 2023
  • Development Economics
  • International Macroeconomics and Finance
  • International Trade and Regional Economics
  • Macroeconomics and Growth
  • Political Economy
  • O1
  • F5
  • D8
  • F1
  • L8
Discussion paper

DP18046 Global Gains From a Green Energy Transition: Evidence on Coal-Fired Power and Air Quality Dissatisfaction

  • Tim Besley
  • Azhar Hussain
31 Mar 2023
  • Development Economics
  • Public Economics
Discussion paper

DP17382 Organizational Dynamics: Culture, Design, and Performance

  • Tim Besley
  • Torsten Persson
13 Jun 2022
  • Organizational Economics
Discussion paper

DP17242 The Political Economics of Green Transitions

  • Tim Besley
  • Torsten Persson
23 Apr 2022
  • Political Economy
  • Public Economics
Discussion paper

DP17143 The Political Economy of Lockdown: Does Free Media Matter?

  • Tim Besley
  • Sacha Dray
26 Mar 2022
  • Development Economics
  • Political Economy

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Bureaucracy and development

  • Guo Xu
  • Jonathan Old
  • Robin Burgess
  • Adnan Khan
  • Tim Besley
8 Nov 2021
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  • Institutions and economics
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State capacity and development clusters

  • Chris Dann
  • Torsten Persson
  • Tim Besley
18 Jun 2021
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  • Politics and economics
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Measuring the impact of malfunctioning credit markets on productivity

  • Isabelle Roland
  • John Van Reenen
  • Tim Besley
9 Mar 2020
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  • Poverty and Income Inequality
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Terror and tourism: How bad news can harm economic development

  • Thiemo Fetzer
  • Hannes Mueller
  • Tim Besley
14 Feb 2020
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  • Development
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  • Politics and economics
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Sacrificing consumption to mitigate catastrophic risks

  • Avinash K. Dixit
  • Tim Besley
31 Mar 2017
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