Jonas Hjort
Gary Winnick and Martin Granoff Associate Professor of Business
Economics
BSc, Economics, London School of Economics, 2005; MA, MA International Development Economics, Yale, 2006; PhD Economics, UC Berkeley, 2012
Joined CBS in 2012
Office:
622
Uris
Phone:
212-854-5957
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-316-9219
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Professor Hjort teaches Managerial Economics and a Global Immersion course on East Africa. His research focuses on firms, organizations and workers in developing countries
Teaching
Fall 2020
Spring 2020
Global Immersion: New Growth and Business Opportunities in East Africa
(MBA)
Fall 2019
Fall 2018
Managerial Economics
(MBA)
Global Immersion: New Growth and Business Opportunities in East Africa
(MBA)
Spring 2018
Global Immersion: New Growth and Business Opportunities in East Africa
(MBA)
Fall 2017
Fall 2016
Spring 2016
Independent Study - 3 credits
(MBA)
Independent Study - 1.5 credits
(MBA)
The Private Sector & International Development
(EMBA)
Research
Journal articles
Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms
In Quarterly Journal of Economics
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort
Pre-Colonial Culture, Post-Colonial Economic Success? The Tswana and the African Economic Miracle
In The Economic History Review
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort
Working papers
The Arrival of Fast Internet and Skilled Job Creation in Africa
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort, Jonas Poulsen
Interlinked Firms and the Consequences of Piecemeal Regulation
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Chris Hansman, Jonas Hjort, Gianmarco Leon
Determinants and Consequences of Firm Growth in Liberia
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort
Fiscal Capacity and Tax Revenues
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort, Miguel Almunia, Francois Gerard
The Static and Dynamic Allocation of Jobs
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Tarek Ghani, Jonas Hjort, Sylvan Herskowitz
Universal Investment in Infants and Long-run Health
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Jonas Hjort, Mikkel Sølvsten, Miriam Wüst