June 2008
Curriculum Vitae of
Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr.
Contact
Mobile/cell
telephone: +46-70-559 0744
Email: douglas@douglas-hibbs.com douglas.hibbs@cefos.gu.se
Web Page: www.douglas-hibbs.com
Education
BA (Honors) So. Connecticut State
University 1966
MA University of
Wisconsin, Madison 1968
PhD University of
Wisconsin, Madison 1971
Citizenship
USA and Sweden
Academic
Appointments and Visiting Appointments
Emeritus Professor of
Economics and Senior Research Fellow, CEFOS Institute, Göteborg
University, Sweden 2005 - present
Professor of
Economics, Department of Economics, Göteborg University, Sweden 1996-2005
Visiting Professor of
Economics, and Visiting Scholar CCGR, University of California Los Angeles
2002-2003
Visiting Professor,
Economics, University of Rome I, “La Sapienza” February 2001,
September 2002 and November 2004.
Visiting Professor,
Economics, Tallinn Technical University September 2001
Visiting Scholar,
American Enterprise Institute, Washington D.C. November 2001
Visiting Scholar, IIR
University of California, Berkeley March-April 2000
Visiting Professor,
Economics, University of Paris I, Sorbonne November 1999
Research Professor,
FIEF (Trade Union Institute for Economic Research), Stockholm 1989-1996
Visiting Professor,
Economics, University of Trondheim Norway April-June, 1995
Visiting Professor,
Economics, Central European University, Prague-Budapest April 1993
Visiting Professor,
Economics, Aarhus University, Denmark Autumn1988
Research Fellow,
Professor, Political Science and Economics, Göteborg University, Sweden
1986-1988
Visiting Professor,
Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Winter
1986
Professor of
Government Harvard University, 1978 - 1985
Visiting Professor,
ICPSR, University of Michigan June 1977
Visiting Professor,
HFSR-Ford Foundation at Göteborg University Sweden, June 1975
Instructor to
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, Political Science, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology 1970 - 1978
Professional
Service and Committee Work
External Examiner PhD
theses – Stockholm University economics 2001, Free University of Berlin
political science 2005, University of Milan Defab
economics 2008
Chair, Wicksell Prize Committee, 2007 World Congress of the Public
Choice Society
Experts
Committee to Evaluate University Programs in Economics and Business, Estonia
Higher Education Accreditation Center, 25 Feb – 4 March, 2001
President,
European Public Choice Society, 1998-99
Executive
Board European Public Choice Society, 1998-2001
Board
of Editors, European Journal of Political Economy, 1990 - 2003
Chair,
Promotion Committee (‘docenturnämden’),
Department of Economics, Göteborg University, 1997-2003
Chair,
Committee to Restructure Graduate Student Financing and Performance
Requirements, Department of Economics, Göteborg University, 1997
Editor, Department of
Economics Research Report, 1996-2000
Teaching
Experience
Political
Economy and Public Choice (graduate courses at Göteborg University,
Stockholm School of Economics, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), Aarhus
University, Trondheim University, University of Copenhagen, Harvard University,
Central European University, University of Michigan,)
Macroeconomic
Theory and Topics in Macroeconomic Theory (graduate courses at Göteborg
University, University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’, Tallinn Technical
University, Estonia)
Econometrics
(graduate courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University)
Time-Series
Econometrics (graduate courses at Göteborg University, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Harvard University)
Political
Economy of Growth and Development (graduate courses at Göteborg
University)
Economics
Thesis Seminar (University of California, Los Angeles)
Postgraduate
Fellowships
(elected to)
Fellowship,
International Center for Economic Research, Torino, 1994
Fellowship,
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, 1990 (declined)
Fellowship,
Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg
Zu Berlin), 1985
Fellowship,
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1977-78
Research
Awards-Grants
German
Marshall Fund Grants, 1978-79, 2003-2004
Swedish
National Council for Research in the Social Sciences, Grants, 1990-92; 1993-94;
1994-95, 1995-97, 1998-99
The
Swedish Institute, 2001
Center
for Research on the Public Sector, 2001-2002, 2005-2006
Richard
C. Malmsten Foundation, 1998, 1999, 2000-2001,
2001-2002, 2002-2003
Bertha
and Felix Neuberghs Donationsfond,1999-2000
Adlerbertska Fund, 1999-2000
Jan
Wallander Foundation, Stockholm, Grants, 1990-92,
1993-94, 2000-2002
Göteborg
University Donationsfonder, 1999, 2000, 2001
Ministry
of Labor, Government of Sweden, Grant, 1988-89
Western
Sweden Association of Business, Grants, 1987, 1988
Danish
Social Science Research Council, Grants, 1986, 1988
Göteborg
University, Grant, 1985-86
Alfred
P. Sloan Foundation, Grant, 1983-85
U.S.
National Science Foundation, Grants, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980,
1981, 1982
National Institute of Mental Health, Grant, 1974
Research
Groups and Conferences: Organizer or Principal Participation
Conference
on Decision Theory and Choice, University of Salerno, June 2008
ERC/METU
International Conference in Economics, V, Ankara, September 2001, plenary
session lecture
Organizer
of the Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Göteborg,
Sweden, April-May 1998
Conference
on Macroeconomic Perspectives on the Danish Economy, Hornbaek,
June 1997
Conference
on Labor Market Institutions, Australian National University, Canberra,
December 1997
Conference
on Labor Market Policy and Job Creation, US Embassy, SAF, LO, IF and Swedish
Dept. of Labor, Stockholm, May 1997
Conference
on Globalization of Labor Markets, University of California, Los Angeles,
September 1996
Peder Sather Symposium, Economic Integration,
Employment and Wage Bargaining, University of California, Berkeley, March 1996
Conference
on Political Economy-Elections, Center for Political Economy, Washington
University, St. Louis, April 1996
Conference
on Wage Flexibility and Full Employment, Science Center Berlin, 1995
Organizer
of Conference on Politics, Growth and Distribution, FIEF, Stockholm, June 1993
Organizer
of Conference on Economic and Sociological Approaches to Labor Markets and
Labor Mobility, FIEF, Stockholm, 1990
Organizer
of Workshop on Economic Models of Political Behavior, European Consortium for
Research, 1990
Research
Group on Inequality in Sweden, Government of Sweden, 1988 -90
Organizer
of Conference on Recent Research on the Scandinavian Welfare State, University
of Copenhagen, April 1986
Conference
on the Growth of Government, Helsinki, 1985
New
York University Political Economy Conference, 1981
Inflation
Research Group, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, 1979 -1981
Organizer
of Conference on Political-Economic Models and Cycles, Bonn University,
Germany, January 1979
Carnegie-Mellon
Conference on Political Economy, 1979
Organizer
of Conference on Political-Economic Models and Cycles, Center For Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford,
California, February 1978
Organizer
of Conference on Macroeconomics and Presidential Elections, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, January 1977
Committee
on Longitudinal Methodology, Social Science Research Council, New York, 1976 -
1980 (member)
Other
Conference Papers Delivered (selected)
European Economics
Association, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2004
European Public
Choice Society, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2007
US Public Choice
Society, 1999, 2001, 2005
European Association
of Labor Economists, 1990, 1994, 1995
American Economics
Association, The Econometric Society, International
Economics Association, Brookings Institution and NBER, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1985,
1989, 1990
American Political Science
Association, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1996, 1998, 2003
European Consortium
for Political Research, 1983, 1986, 1990
Invited
Lectures
(selected,
in rough sequence)
University of Naples-Parthenope,
Economics, Nuffield College,
University of Oxford, University of Milan Bicocca, Jean Monnet Centre, Free
University of Berlin; Bank of Italy, University of Bologna;
Science Center Berlin (WZB); University of California, San Diego,
Political Economy Seminar; Northwestern University, Economics and
Political Science; Mauno Koivisto Lecture, Finnish Economics Society,
Turku; IIR, University of California, Berkeley; Maison des Sciences Economiques,
University of Paris I – Sorbonne; Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University; Harvard-MIT Program in Political
Economy; Keynote Speaker, Annual Danish Public Choice Conference,
Aarhus; Economics, University of Copenhagen; Social
Science Center, Columbia University; Economics, University of
Zürich; Economics, University of Rome; Economics,
University of Poitiers; Central Bank of Greece, Athens;
Economics, University of Brussels; Economics, Trinity College,
Dublin; Economics, University of Munich; Indian
Statistical Institute, New Delhi; Delhi School of
Economics; Chester Bowles Seminar, Chail,
India; USICA Seminar, Calcutta; Ecole
National de l’Administration,
Paris; Economics, University of Turin; Economics;
University of Brescia; Center for North American Studies, Free
University, Berlin; Economics and Political Science, University of
Tokyo; Economics, University of Kyoto; Economics,
University of Oslo; Norwegian School of Business, Oslo;
Economics, University of Trondheim; Institute for International
Economic Studies, Stockholm; Economics, Uppsala
University; Stockholm School of Economics; EFA,
Ministry of Labor, Stockholm; Institute for Social Research,
Stockholm; Economics, Umeå
University; Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin;
Economics and Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark; Australian
National University, Canberra; Economic Council,
Stockholm; Sociology, University of Stockholm;
Political Science, Odense University, Denmark; Economics,
University of Tromsø, Norway; Political
Science, University of Geneva; Political Science, Essex University,
Political Science, Seol National
University; Political Economy Lecture Series, New York
University; Science Center, Berlin; Sociology,
University of Milan; Sociology, London School of
Economics; Princeton University Macroeconomics Workshop,
Princeton; Political Economy Lecture Series, Rutgers;
Sociology and Political Science, Indiana University; Seminar for
Parliamentarians and Industrialists, Tokyo.
Research/Publication
Referee
US
National Science Foundation (Economics, Political Science, Sociology)
Central
Bank of Sweden, Jubeliums Research Fund (Economics)
British
Social Science Research Council (Political Science)
Israel
Science Foundation (Economics)
Social
Sciences Research Council of Canada (Economics)
American Economic
Review American Journal of Political Science
American Political
Science Review American
Sociological Review
British Journal of
Political Science Econometrica
The Economic Journal
Economic Inquiry Economics and Politics
Electoral Studies
European Journal of
Political Economy European
Journal of Political Research
Industrial
Relations Japanese Journal of
Political Science
Journal of Conflict
Resolution Journal of Development Economics
Journal of
Interdisciplinary History
Journal of Political Economy Journal of Politics
Journal of
Theoretical Politics
Political Methodology
Labour Economics
Political Power and
Social Theory Psychological
Bulletin Public Choice
Public Finance
Quarterly Public Opinion
Quarterly
Review of Economics
and Statistics Scandinavian
Journal of Economics
Sociological
Methodology
Professional
Societies
European Economics
Association
American Economics
Association
European Public Choice
Society
American Public
Choice Society
Publications
and Manuscripts
Books
Solidarity or Egoism? The Economics
of Sociotropic and Egocentric Influences on Political
Behavior,
Aarhus University Press, 1993
The Political Economy
of Industrial Democracies, Harvard University Press, 1987
The American
Political Economy: Macroeconomics and Electoral Politics, Harvard University Press, 1987
Contemporary
Political Economy: Studies On The Interdependence Of Politics And
Economics,
with Heino Fassbender and
others, North Holland, Contributions to Economic analysis No. 135,
1981
Mass Political
Violence: A Cross-National Causal Analysis, John Wiley, 1973
Articles
in Books
“Voting and the Macroeconomy,” in B. Weingast and D.
Wittman, Eds.
The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Oxford University Press, 2006, chapter 31:565-586
“Institutionerna och samhällsekonomin,”
[Institutions and Macroeconomics] (with Olsson and Brink) in Erik Amnå,
ed. Globalisering,
Demokratiutredningens forskarvolym IX, Stockhomn: Fakta Info Direkt, 1999
“Comments
on “The Macroeconomics of the Welfare State,” in Torben Andersen and Ole Risager,
eds. Macroeconomic Perspectives on the Danish Economy, Macmillan,
1999
“Löneutjämning och Löneökningstakt Under Den Solidariska
Lönepolitiken,” (with H. Locking) in V. Bergström, ed. Varför Överge
Den Svenska Modellen, Stockholm, Tiden, 1993, 111-125
“Comments on
Relative Wage Flexibility in Four Countries,” in Lars Calmfors,
ed. Wage Formation And Macroeconomic Policy,
Oxford University Press, 1990
“Wage
Compression And Trade Union Action in Sweden,”
in Inga Persson, ed. Generating Equality In The Welfare State -- The
Swedish Experience, Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 1990
“Inflation, Political
Support and Macroeconomic Policy,” in Leon Lindberg and Charles Maier,
eds., The Politics Of Inflation
And Economic Stagnation. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1985,
175-195
“Macroeconomic
Performance, Macroeconomic Policy and Electoral Politics in Industrial
Democracies,” in Samuel Huntington and Joseph Nye, eds., Global
Dilemmas.
University Press of America, Lanham, MD, 1985
“Macroeconomic
Policies and Performance in the United States During
President Reagan's First Four Years,” in the Wissenschaftskolleg
Jahrbuch, Berlin, 1985
“Public Concern
about Inflation and Unemployment in the United States: Trends, Correlates
and Political Implications,” in Robert E. Hall, ed., Inflation:
Causes and Effects, National Bureau of Economic Research, University of
Chicago Press, 1982
Journal
Articles and Working Papers
“Implications
of the ‘Bread and Peace’ Model for the 2008 US Presidential
Election,” forthcoming Public Choice, September 2008.
“Labor Market
Regimes and the Effects of Monetary Policy,” (with N. Acocella and G. Di
Bartolomeo), Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 30, 2008, 134-156
“Tax
Toleration and Tax Compliance: How Government Affects the Propensity of Firms
to Enter the Unofficial Economy” (with Violeta Piculescu), revised November
2007, submitted for publication
“The Economy,
the War in Iraq and the 2004 Presidential Election” revised 18 April
2007, rejected by the Quarterly Journal of Political Science
Brief
Essay on my 1977 article “Political Parties and Macroeconomic Policy”
for the One-Hundredth Anniversary issue of the American Political Science Review,
vol. 100, November 2006, 670-71 (solicited because the original 1977 article
ranked 2nd on the all-time list of most cited APSR articles)
“Biogeography and Long-Run Economic
Development,” (with Ola Olsson), European Economic Review,
vol. 49, 2005, 909-938.
“Geography,
Biogeography and Why Some Countries Are Rich and Others Poor,” (with Ola
Olsson), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
States. (PNAS), vol. 101, No. 10, 2004, 3715-3740
“The
Politicization of Growth Theory”, Kyklos,
vol. 54, 2001, 265-286
“Bread and Peace Voting in U.S.
Presidential Elections,” Public Choice, vol.104, Nos. 1-2,
July 2000, 149-180
“Wage
Compression and Productive Efficiency: Evidence for Sweden,” (with
H. Locking), Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 18, No. 4, October
2000, 755-783
“Wage
Compression, Wage Drift and Wage Inflation in Sweden,” (with H. Locking),
Labour Economics, vol. 3,
1996, 109-141
“On Ad-Hominem
Assertion and Scientific Discourse in the Study of Sociotropic
and Egocentric Motivations of Political Behavior,” Scandinavian
Political Studies, April, 1996
“Den Solidariska Lönepolitiken och Produktiviteten Inom
Industrin,” (with H. Locking) Ekonomisk Debatt, vol. 7,
1995, 537-548
“Solidarity
Wage Policies and Industrial Productivity in Sweden,” (with H. Locking) Nordic
Journal of Political Economy, 22, 1995, 95-108
“The Partisan
Theory of Macroeconomic Cycles: More Theory and Evidence,” Economics
and Politics, 6, 1994, 1-23, translated to Japanese in Leviathan,
12, 1993, 126-160
“Partisan
Theory After Fifteen Years,” European
Journal of Political Economy, 8, 1992, 361-373
“Market Forces,
Trade Union Ideology and Trends in Wage Dispersion,” Acta
Sociologica, 34, 1991, 89-102
“Löneutjämning och Löneökningstakt Under Den
Solidariska Lönepolitiken,” (with H. Locking) Ekonomisk
Debatt, 8/1991, 653-664
“Löneutjämning, Löneglidning och Löneökningstakt
Under Den Solidariska Lönepolitiken i Sverige,” (with H.
Locking and H. Ekdahl), Arbetarhistoria,
56-57, 1990/91 42-47
“Wage
Compression Under Solidarity Bargaining in
Sweden,” FIEF Research Report No. 30, Stockholm, 1990
“Income
Distribution in the United States,” (with C. Dennis) American Political Science Review, June
1988, 467-490
“Some
Impressions of Swedish Political and Economic Science,” Politologen, 2, 1987, 47-54
“Political
Parties and Macroeconomic Policies and Outcomes in the United States,” American
Economic Review, vol. 76, 1986, 66-70
“Macroeconomic
Performance, Macroeconomic Policy and Electoral Politics in Industrial
Democracies,” International Social Science Journal, 37,
March-April 1985, 63-74
“Difference
Equation Dynamics; Comment on Beck,” American Political Science
Review, vol. 77, 1983, 447-451
“Performance Economique et Fonction
de Popularite des Presidents Pompidiou
et Giscard d'Estaing,” Revue d'Economie Politique, 93, 1983, 44-61
“On the Demand
for Macroeconomic Outcomes: Macroeconomic Performance and Mass Political
Support in the United States, Great Britain and Germany,” (with the
assistance of D. Rivers and N. Vasilatos) Journal
of Politics, May 1982, 426-462
“The Dynamics
of Political Support for American Presidents Among
Occupational and Partisan Groups,” (with the assistance of D. Rivers and
N. Vasilatos) American Journal of Political
Science, May 1982, 312-32
“Economic
Outcomes and Political Support for British Governments Among
the Occupational Classes,” (with the assistance of N. Vasilatos)
American Political Science Review, June 1982, 259-79
“More on
Economic Performance and Political Support in Britain,” American
Political Science Review, June 1982, 282-284
“President
Reagan's Mandate From the 1980 Elections: A
Shift to the Right?” American Politics Quarterly, October
1982, 387-420
“Economics and
Politics in France: Economic Performance and Mass Political Support for
Presidents Pompidou and Giscard d'Estaing,” European Journal of
Political Research, vol. 9, 1981, 133-45
“Public
Reactions to the Growth of Taxation and Government Expenditure,” (with
Henrik Jess Madsen) World Politics, April 1981, 413-35
“The Impact of
Economic Performance on Electoral Support in Sweden, 1967-1978,” (with
Henrik J. Madsen) Scandinavian Political Studies, vol. 4, 1981,
33-50
“Political
Parties and Macroeconomic Policy; Reply to Payne,” American
Political Science Review, March 1979, 185-190
“The Mass
Public and Macroeconomic Performance: The Dynamics of Public Opinion Toward Unemployment and Inflation,” American
Journal of Political Science, November 1979, 705-31
“On the
Political Economy of Long-Run Trends in Strike Activity,” British
Journal of Political Science, April 1978, 153-75
“Political Parties
and Macroeconomic Policy,” American Political Science Review,
December 1977, 1467-87. Reprinted in translation in Italian
and Spanish. Ranked 2nd on the all-time list of most highly
cited APSR articles according to the count made by editors for the journal’s
November 2006 100th anniversary issue.
“On Analyzing
the Effects of Policy Interventions: Box-Jenkins Vs.
Structural Equation Models,” Sociological Methodology, vol. 8, 1977, 137-79
“Industrial
Conflict in Advanced Industrial Societies,” American Political
Science Review, December 1976, 1033-58
“Problems of
Statistical Estimation and Causal Inference in Time-Series Regression
Models,” Sociological Methodology, vol. 5, 1973-1974, 252-308
Thesis
Students Supervised/Advised
(partial list) with Institution, Degree,
Year, Thesis Field, and Current Activity if known
Charles Murray, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, PhD., 1974, Political-Economic Development,
Bradley Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC.
Mary
Corcoran, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, PhD., 1974, Quantitative Social
Policy, Professor University of Michigan
Diana
Dutton Mitchell, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, PhD., 1975,
Quantitative Health Policy, Senior Research Associate Stanford Medical School
Taizo Yakushiji, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD., 1977, Development of Japanese Auto Industry, Professor
and Vice-president for Academic Affairs Keio University, Tokyo
Nicholas
Vasilatos, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, BS, 1979, Quantitative Political Economy,
Senior Software Consultant-Chief Programmer
David
G. Golden, Harvard University, Summa Cum Laude BA
Honors Thesis, 1980, Quantitative Political Economy, Managing Director JP
Morgan Chase, San Francisco
Henry
Brady, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, PhD., 1980, Econometric Models of
Voting Behavior, Professor University of California, Berkeley
R.
Douglas Rivers, PhD., 1981, Harvard University, Quantitative Voting Behavior
Theory, Professor Stanford University
Danny
Ertel, Harvard University, BA Honors Thesis, 1982,
Quantitative Political Economy, CEO and Chairman Vantage Technologies
Henrik
Jess Madsen, Harvard University, PhD., 1984,
Quantitative Political Economy-Macroeconomic Policy, Consultant Russian
Federation
Kenneth
Jay Drexler, Harvard University, BA Honors Thesis, 1984, Income Distribution
and Fiscal Policy, attorney and Senior Advisor National Tax Advocate Washington
DC
Håkan Locking, Göteborg University, PhD., 1996, Wage Formation and Productivity, Senior Lecturer
Växjö University
Ola
Olsson, Göteborg University, PhD., 2000, Economic
Growth Theory, Associate Professor Göteborg University
Rikard Svensson,
Göteborg University, M.A. Thesis, 2001, Economic Conditions for Monetary
Union
Per Wirdefeldt, Göteborg University, M.A. Thesis, 2001,
Economic Conditions for Monetary Union
Violeta
Piculescu, Göteborg University, PhD., 2002,
Transition Economics, Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute,
Florence
Mattias Erlandsson,
Göteborg University, PhD., 2003, Political
Economy-Macroeconomic Policy, Researcher Swedish National Business Cycles
Institute
Thomas
Meyer, Free University of Berlin, PhD., 2005,
Endogenous Economic Growth-Political Economy, postdoctoral studies Berlin
Klas Sandén,
Göteborg University, PhD., 2006, Wage
Distribution Theory, Postdoctoral Fellow Växjö
University