Alberto Alesina
Alberto Alesina, Francesco ( born April 29, 1957 in Broni, Italy ) is an Italian economist who lives in the United States since 1982.
Life
Alberto Alesina - son of Giancarlo Alesina and Piera Bolognesi - studied at the Bocconi University in Milan, where he graduated in 1982 with the Laurea. Then Alesina started studying at Harvard University, where in 1985 he the master and the following year earned the Ph. D.. Subsequently, he was post-doctoral researcher and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1988 he went back to Harvard as an assistant professor. From 1990 to 1993 he was there Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy, 1993 to 2003 and professor from 2003 to 2006 Chairman of the Department of Economic Affairs. Since 2003 he is Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy. Visiting professor taken him in 1998/99 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 2002/ 03 and 2008/ 09 to the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic - research his alma mater in Milan.
Work areas
In his work, Alesina combines economics and politics. It examines the impact of the economic situation on voting behavior, continue to the independence of central banks, the politics of the budget deficit, the stabilization of countries with high inflation rates, the theory of optimal currency areas, the process of European integration and monetary union and the differences between the economic systems of the United States and Europe. Alesina - along with Kenneth S. Rogoff, N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert J. Barro ( Harvard economist ) and others - contradicts Paul Krugman by empirical evidence that the relationship between rising national debt and economic growth is negative, while tax cuts ( tax cuts) lead to real economic growth.
Alesina is considered an internationally recognized expert on the economics of public debt as well as possible strategies to reduce the level of debt of an economy.
Publications
Monographs
- With Geoffrey Carliner as editor: Politics and economics in the eighties. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991, ISBN 0226012808
- With Howard Rosenthal: Partisan Politics, Divided Government and the Economy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [ua ], 1995, ISBN 0-521-43029-1
- With Robert J. Barro as editor: Currency Unions. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, Stanford, California 2001, ISBN 0-8179-2842-1
- Senso non comune. L' economia oltre i pregiudizi. EGEA, Milano 2002, ISBN 88-8350-019-9
- With Francesco Giavazzi: The Future of Europe. Reform or Decline. MIT Press, Cambridge [ua ], 2006, ISBN 0-262-01232-4
- With Francesco Giavazzi: Il liberismo è di sinistra. Il Saggiatore, Milano 2007, ISBN 9788842814580
- With Francesco Giavazzi: Europe and the Euro. University of Chicago Press, 2010, ISBN 0-226-01283-2
Article
- Macroeconomic Policy in a Two - Party System as a Repeated Game. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Tape 102, No. 3, 1987, pp. 651-678
- Guido Tabellini with: Voting on the Budget Deficit. In: American Economic Review. Belt 80, No. 1, 1990, pp. 37-49
- Guido Tabellini with: A Positive Theory of Fiscal Deficits and Government Debt in a Democracy. In: Review of Economic Studies. Volume 57, No. 3, 1990, pp. 403-414
- With Allan Drazen: Why are straps to Delayed? . In: The American Economic Review. Volume 81, No. 5, 1991, pp. 1170-1188
- With Lawrence H. Summers: Central Bank Independence and Macroeconomic Performance. Some Comparative Evidence. In: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. Volume 25, No. 2, 1993, pp. 151-162
- Dani Rodrik with: Distributive Politics and Economic Growth. In: Quarterly Journal of Economics. Tape 109, No. 2, 1994, pp. 465-490
- With Howard Rosenthal: A Theory of Divided Government. In: Econometrica. Volume 64, No. 6, 1996, pp. 1311-1341
- With Enrico Spolaore: On the Number and Size of Nations. In: Quarterly Journal of Economics. Volume 112, No. 4, 1997, pp. 1027-1056
- With Roberto Perotti: The Welfare State and Competitiveness. In: American Economic Review. Volume 87, No. 5, 1997, pp. 921-939
- With Reza Baqir and William Easterly: Public goods and ethnic divisions. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Volume 114, No. 4, 1999, pp. 1243-1284
- Eliana La Ferrara with: Participation in Heterogeneous Communities. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Volume 115, No. 3, 2000, pp. 847-904
- With Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg: Economic Integration and Political Disintegration. In: The American Economic Review. Volume 90, No. 5, 2000, pp. 1276-1296
- Edward L. Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote: Why Does not the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State? . In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Volume 2, 2001, pp. 187-277.
- With Robert J. Barro: Currency Unions. In: Quarterly Journal of Economics. Volume 117, No. 2, 2002, pp. 409-430
- With Silvia Ardagna, Roberto Perotti, and Fabio Schiantarelli: Fiscal Policy, Profits, and Investment. In: American Economic Review. Volume 92, No. 3, 2002, pp. 571-589
- Eliana La Ferrara with: Who trusts others? . In: Journal of Public Economics. Volume 85, No. 2, 2002, pp. 207-234
- With Robert J. Barro and Silvana Tenreyro: Optimal Currency Areas. In: NBER Macroeconomic Annual. 2002, pp. 301-355
- With Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou: Ethnic Inequality. NBER Working Paper no. 18512th
- With Johann and Hillel Rapoport Harnoss: Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity. NBER Working Paper no. 18699th
Awards
- 2005 Honorary Doctorate, Beijing Normal University
- CES 2006 Munich Prize for economics