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Ola Olsson

Head of Department

Department of Economics
Telephone
+46 766-18 13 41
Mail
ola.olsson@economics.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 640
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Department of Economics
Telephone
+46 766-18 13 41
Mail
ola.olsson@economics.gu.se
Visiting address
Vasagatan 1
41124 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 640
40530 Göteborg

About Ola Olsson

I am Professor and Head of Department of Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law. My main research interests are economic growth, econoic history, political economy and the economics of conflict. Most of my teaching covers macro- and development economics. I regularly comment on macroeconomic and political economy issues in Swedish and international media.

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Research areas

  • Economic growth, economic history, development economics, political economy, conflict economics

Teaching areas

  • Macroeconomics, development economics

Selected publications

(2025) (with Laura Mayoral) Journal of Economic Growth 30: 271-305.

(2024) (with Michelle D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya) (2024) Journal of Political Economy 132(11), 3785-3826.

, Palgrave MacMillan/Springer: Podcasts: ;

(2022) (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Nicolai Kaarsen, and Pablo Selaya) Journal of Comparative Economics 50(4), 896-916. Media coverage: ;;;;;;;;;;;

(2017) (with Arcangelo Dimico and Alessia Isopi) Journal of Economic History 77(4), 1083-1115. Media coverage: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

(2012) (with Pelle Ahlerup), Journal of Economic Growth 17(2), 71-102.

(2005) (with Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr), European Economic Review 49(4): 909-938.