Tim Besley

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Sir Timothy John Besley,

He is also a commissioner on the National Infrastructure Commission, a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and the director of the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the LSE. In 2018, he served as president of the Econometric Society, and from 2006 to 2009 he was an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee. He won the 2005 Yrjö Jahnsson Award and the 2022 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.

Early life and education

Born in

Besley is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a former member of the Institutions, Organizations and Growth Programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). He is a past research fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and was a member of the Mirrlees Review committee. He is also a co-chair of the LSE Growth Commission and a member of the National Infrastructure Commission.

On the international level, Besley has served as a consultant to the

• "Principled Agents: The Political Economy of Good Government", Oxford University Press, 2006.
• "Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters", Princeton University Press, 2011 (with Torsten Persson).
• "Incumbent Behavior: Vote Seeking, Tax Setting and Yardstick Competition" (with Anne Case). American Economic Review, 85 (1), 25–45, 1995.
• "Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana", Journal of Political Economy, 103(5), 903–937, 1995.
• "An Economic Model of Representative Democracy" (with Stephen Coate), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112(1), 85–114, 1997.
• "The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India", (with Robin Burgess), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117(4), 1415–1452, 2002.
• "Competition and Incentives with Motivated Agents", (with Maitreesh Ghatak), American Economic Review, 95(3), 616–636, 2005.
• "The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation and Politics", (with Torsten Persson) American Economic Review, 99(4), 1218–44, 2009.
• "The Logic of Political Violence", (with Torsten Persson) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126 (3), 1411–1446, 2011.
• "State Capacity, Reciprocity and the Social Contract", Econometrica, 88(4) 1307–1335, 2020.
• "The Political Economics of Green Transitions", (with Torsten Persson) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138 (3), 1863-1906, 2023.

Honours and awards

Sir Tim Besley is a

Personal life

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Besley married political economist Gillian Paull in 1993; the couple has two sons. He lives in Barnes, Richmond upon Thames in London. He is a fan of

Fulham Football Club

.

Works

• Principled agents?: the political economy of good government, Oxford University Press, 2006,
  ISBN 978-0-19-927150-4
• Delivering on the promise of pro-poor growth: insights and lessons from country experiences, Editors Timothy Besley, Louise Cord, World Bank Publications, 2007,
  ISBN 978-0-8213-6515-1