Anders D Jensen (March 2nd 1987) PhD Program Economics

Anders Ditlev JENSEN

Born March 2nd 1987 Nationality: Danish

+44 (0)7590522113 a.jensen1@lse.ac.uk LSE Bankside, 24 Sumner Street SE1 9JA, London

EDUCATION 2010 2011 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK PhD Program, 1st-Year (MRes Track 1) Courses: Advanced Econometrics, Advanced Microeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics London School of Economics and Political Science, London (LSE), UK BSc (Honours) Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, First Class with Departmental Prize Courses: Economics: Intermediate Micro and Macro, Intermediate Econometrics and Problems of Applied Econometrics; Mathematics: Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, and Real Analysis; Intermediate Statistics; Political Science: Comparative Studies and Public Choice Sciences-Po Paris (Institut dEtudes Politiques), Paris, France 1st year undergraduate studies Courses: History, Law, Comparative Politics, Economics. Exams: top 1% (Felicitations du Jury)

2007 2010

2006 2007

AWARDS & HONOURS 2010 Winner, Best Undergraduate Paper Competition, 70th International Atlantic Economic Conference Full Scholarship Award (Economic and Social Research Council) offered, LSE (ESRC Scholarship Award offered at Nuffield College, Oxford; declined) (ESRC Scholarships provide funding for tuition and living costs for the total duration of the graduate research degree) 2009 LSE Economics Department Examiners Price (for performance in final exams) Winner (joint with Markus Gstottner), Best Undergraduate Paper Competition, 68th International Atlantic Economic Conference Distinguished Participant, Undergraduate Competition 8th Carroll Round, Georgetown University 2006 Award in subject Economics and Social Sciences at the Concours Gnral a French National High School Contest, top 6 of 750 selected candidates

PUBLICATIONS AND WORK IN PROGRESS State-Building in Resource-Rich Economies: How Mother Nature Impedes Fiscal Capacity. Forthcoming Atlantic Economic Journal Aid and Public Finance: A Missing Link? (with Markus Gstottner). Atlantic Economic Journal Vol. 38 Number 2, pp.217235 Natural Resources and the Ability to Tax Unpublished; work cited in Besley, Timothy and Torsten Persson: Pillars of Prosperity: Peace, Taxation, and the Rule of Law. Forthcoming book (2011) When the Ruler Must Listen: Citizens Preferences over Public Goods and Different Forms of Domestic Resource Mobilisation (in progress)

Anders D Jensen (March 2nd 1987) PhD Program Economics ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE 2010 Referee: Review of Economics and Finance (2 Reviews Completed) Since September 2010 Summer 2009 and 2010 Summer Research Assistant to Prof. Albert Marcet (LSE Economics Department)

Class Teacher, course Introduction to Econometrics, LSE Summer School

WORK EXPERIENCE 2009 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) London, UK Intern, Office for Disability Issues. Analysts database-responsible: day-to-day basis work included responding to Parliamentary Questions; Long-term work consisted in expanding set of indicators to measure outcomes towards UK Governments 2020 Objective Disabled Non-Disabled Equality Chartered Institute for Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), Intern, International Directorate. Created a technical glossary relating to public finance and development (available: http://www.cipfa.org.uk/international/glossary_a.cfm) French National Press Agency (AFP), London Bureau Intern, Office of Economic and Financial News. Contribution to telegrams and weekly reports 2007 London, UK

2008

London, UK

Centre for Global Governance (affiliation with London School of Economics) London, UK Research Assistant to Sharon Shochat (Administrator, Centre for Global Governance) Research on the Gulf Cooperation Council States: assessment of policy-attempts at economic diversification via expansion of non-oil sectors World Bank Group Collaboration on a lending-project sourced from M.Wolfensohns Fund Washington, DC, USA

2006

LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER SKILLS Languages: Danish: mother tongue; French: Fluent; English: Fluent; Spanish: intermediate

Computer skills Proficiency: Stata, Eviews, MatLab, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint; Good knowledge: SPSS, and BloomBerg

EXTRACURRICULAR AND HOBBIES Academics -related Weekly participant and regular presenter at the LSEs Undergraduate Research Workshop (2007-2010), informal organisational responsibilities held; Co-founder (2010), to-be-launched undergraduate journal, New Economic Journal, providing publication platform for worldwide undergraduates Co-founder (2007) Students Organisation for Fine Arts (SOFA); Treasurer Scandinavian Society Bicycling and Running; weekly player at LSEs Squash Club (2009-2010) LSE Football Club (2007-2008); Learning Spanish; Linguistics; Literature: Philosophical school Phenomenology

Extra-academic Sports Hobbies