Arne Wiig

Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne & Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (2020)

Does an Economics Education Produce Technocratic Paternalists? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Journal of Development Studies Doi: 10.1080/00220388.2019.1690135

When confronted with information that ordinary citizens do not care that strongly about efficiency, do economists change their views of optimal public policy? In a randomized experiment on tax preferences conducted among business and economics students in Tanzania, we supplied the treatment group with information that ordinary citizens disagree with implications of efficiency-based optimal tax theory. Tax preferences were then measured using discrete choice experiments. The results show that the treated students modify their position in the direction of public opinion, an effect driven by students with longer exposure to economics. An economics education hence seems to produce professionals who are part democrats and part technocratic paternalists.

Kolstad, Ivar; Bezu, Sosina, Lujala, Päivi, Mahmud, Minhaj & Wiig, Arne (2019)

Does changing the narrative improve host community attitudes to climate migrants? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Working Paper - Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2019(3)

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2019)

How Does Information About Elite Tax Evasion Affect Political Participation: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Journal of Development Studies, 55(4), s. 509- 526. Doi: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1448067

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2019)

Elite behaviour and citizen mobilisation

European Journal of Political Research, 58(2), s. 769- 794. Doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12310

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2018)

Diversification and democracy

International Political Science Review, 39(4), s. 551- 569. Doi: 10.1177/0192512116679833

Kolstad, Ivar; Pires, Armando & Wiig, Arne (2017)

Within-group heterogeneity and group dynamics: analyzing exit of microcredit groups in Angola

Oxford Development Studies, 45(3), s. 338- 351. Doi: 10.1080/13600818.2016.1243237

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2016)

Does democracy reduce corruption?

Democratization, 23(7), s. 1198- 1215. Doi: 10.1080/13510347.2015.1071797

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2016)

Education and electoral participation: reported versus actual voting behaviour

Applied Economics Letters, 23(13), s. 908- 911. Doi: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1119785

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2015)

Elite behaviour and citizen mobilization

Working Paper - Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2015(8), s. 1- 22.

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2015)

Education and electoral participation: Reported versus actual voting behaviour

Working Paper - Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2015(9), s. 1- 6. Doi: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1119785

Kolstad, Ivar; Garcia Pires, Armando José & Wiig, Arne (2015)

Within-group heterogeneity and group dynamics: Analyzing exit of microcredit groups in Angola

Working Paper - Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2015(3), s. 1- 23. Doi: 10.1080/13600818.2016.1243237

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2015)

Education and entrepreneurial success

Small Business Economics, 44(4), s. 783- 796. Doi: 10.1007/s11187-014-9621-1

Kolstad, Ivar; Somville, Vincent & Wiig, Arne (2014)

Devolutionary delusions? The effect of decentralization on corruption

Working Paper - Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2014(10), s. 1- 24.

Kolstad, Ivar; Cain, Allan & Wiig, Arne (2014)

Micro effects of oil resources: Insights from a survey of Angolan microcredit clients

grant, andrew; compaore, W. R. N. & mitchell, m i (red.). New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights from Africa

Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne & Moazzem, Khondaker Golam (2014)

Returns to education among entrepreneurs in Bangladesh

Journal of Asian Economics, 34, s. 54- 65. Doi: 10.1016/j.asieco.2014.07.001

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2013)

Does an educated mind take the broader view? A field experiment on in-group favouritism among microcredit clients

The Journal of Socio-Economics (JSE), 45, s. 10- 17. Doi: 10.1016/j.socec.2013.02.021

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2013)

Digging in the dirt? Extractive industry FDI and corruption

Economics of Governance, 14(4), s. 369- 383. Doi: 10.1007/s10101-013-0133-2

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2013)

IS IT BOTH WHAT YOU KNOW AND WHO YOU KNOW? HUMAN CAPITAL, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SUCCESS

Journal of International Development, 25(5), s. 626- 639. Doi: 10.1002/jid.2904

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2012)

Testing The Pearl Hypothesis: Natural resources and trust

Resources policy, 37(3), s. 358- 367. Doi: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2012.04.003

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2012)

What determines Chinese outward FDI?

Journal of World Business, 47(1), s. 26- 34. Doi: 10.1016/j.jwb.2010.10.017

Wiig, Arne & Kolstad, Ivar (2012)

If diversification is good, why don't countries diversify more? The political economy of diversification in resource-rich countries

Energy Policy, 40, s. 196- 203. Doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.09.041

Wiig, Arne & Kolstad, Ivar (2012)

Assigned corporate social responsibility in a rentier state: The case of Angola

Lujala, Paivi & Rustad, Siri Camilla Indreland Aas (red.). High-Value natural Resources and post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2011)

Better the devil you know? Chinese foreign direct investment in Africa

Journal of African Business, 12, s. 31- 50. Doi: 10.1080/1536710x.2011.555259

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2010)

International initiatives to address the resource curse: High on rhetoric, low on relevance?

Overton, George T. (red.). Foreign Policy in an Interconnected World

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2010)

Transparency in oil-rich countries and the importance of democracy

Exploration & Production. The Oil and Gas Review, 8(2)

Wiig, Arne & Kolstad, Ivar (2010)

Multinational corporations and host country institutions: A case study of CSR activities in Angola

International Business Review, 19(2), s. 178- 190. Doi: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2009.11.006

Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne & Williams, David Aled (2009)

Mission improbable: does petroleum-related aid address the resource curse?

Energy Policy, 37

Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne & Williams, Aled (2009)

Mission improbable: Does petroleum-related aid address the resource curse?

Energy Policy, 37(3), s. 954- 965. Doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.09.092

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2009)

It's the rents, stupid! The political economy of the resource curse

Energy Policy, 37(12), s. 5317- 5325. Doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.07.055

Kolstad, Ivar & Wiig, Arne (2009)

Is Transparency the Key to Reducing Corruption in Resource-Rich Countries?

World Development, 37(3), s. 521- 532. Doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.07.002

Hagen, Rune Jansen; Mæstad, Ottar & Wiig, Arne (2003)

Assessing the economic gains of free market access for the least developed countries in the QUAD

Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 29(1), s. 3- 24.