Biography
Otto Swank is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute. His research interests include political economics and organizational economics. He works mainly on theory and occasionally on empirics. Currently, he is doing research on trust, campaigning, and the effects of migration on redistributive policy. His work has been published in, among others, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics.
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Work
- Francisco José Veiga, Linda Gonçalves Veiga & Otto Swank (2026) - Electoral Incentives to Obtain EU Grants - Economic Journal, 136 (676), 1527-1543 - doi: 10.1093/ej/ueaf088 - [link]
- Josse Delfgaauw & Otto Swank (2025) - The Political Economy of (Lacking) Commitment to Green Policies - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 130 - doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103133 - [link]
- Josse Delfgaauw & Otto Swank (2024) - The political climate trap - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 124 - doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102935 - [link]
- Otto Swank & Bauke Visser (2023) - Committees as active audiences: Reputation concerns and information acquisition - Journal of Public Economics, 221 - doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104875 - [link]
- Benoit Crutzen, Otto Swank & Dana Sisak (2023) - Left Behind Voters, Anti-Elitism and Popular Will - Quarterly Journal of Political Science - doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3688799
- Vladimir A. Karamychev & Otto H. Swank (2022) - A social image theory of information acquisition, opinion formation, and voting - European Journal of Political Economy, 74 - doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102164 - [link]
- Suzanne Bijkerk, Silvia Dominguez Martinez, Jurjen Kamphorst & Otto Swank (2021) - Labor Market Quotas when Promotions are Signals - Journal of Labor Economics, 39 (2), 437-460 - doi: 10.1086/710358 - [link]
- Zara Sharif & Otto Swank (2019) - Do More Powerful Interest Groups Have a Disproportionate Influence on Policy? - De Economist, 167, 127-143
- Suzanne Bijkerk, Vladimir Karamychev & Otto Swank (2018) - When Words are not Enough - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 149, 294-314 - doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.03.009 - [link]
- Jurjen Kamphorst & Otto Swank (2018) - The role of performance appraisals in motivating employees - Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 27 (2), 251-269 - doi: 10.1111/jems.12241 - [link]
Microeconomics
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- FEB11001
Advanced Political Economics
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- FEM11186
