Nationality Italian Fields Political Economy Role Economist | Name Alberto Alesina Institution Harvard University | |
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Born April 29, 1957 (age 66) ( 1957-04-29 ) Broni, Pavia, Italy Alma mater Harvard University
Bocconi University Education Harvard University, Bocconi University Books The size of nations, The Future of Europe: Reform O, Fighting Poverty in the US an, Political Cycles and the Macro, Partisan Politics - Divided G Similar People Francesco Giavazzi, Roberto Perotti, Robert Barro, Edward Glaeser, Guido Tabellini | ||
Alberto alesina austerity and fiscal stability in europe
Alberto Francesco Alesina (born April 29, 1957) is an Italian political economist. He has published much-cited books and articles in major economics journals.
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- Alberto alesina austerity and fiscal stability in europe
- Me judice alberto alesina over monti s erfenis
- Background and professional life
- The Alesina Ardagna paper
- Books
- Articles
- References
Me judice alberto alesina over monti s erfenis
Background and professional life
Born in Broni, Pavia, Italy, Alesina obtained his undergraduate degree in economics from Bocconi University.
From 2003–2006, Alesina served as Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard. He is currently the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard. He has visited several institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tel Aviv University, University of Stockholm, The World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In 2006, Alesina participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project.
He has published five books and edited many more. His two most recent books are The Future of Europe: Reform or Decline (2006, MIT Press), and Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference (2004, Oxford). He has been a co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics for eight years and associate editor of many academic journals. He has published columns in many leading newspapers around the world. He is founding contributor of the online economic policy and research journal Voxeu.org and of Lavoce.info.
Alesina's work has covered a variety of topics, including:
Alesina is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts), the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and the Econometric Society. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.
The Alesina-Ardagna paper
In October 2009 Alesina and Silvia Ardagna published Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes Versus Spending, a much-cited academic paper aimed at showing that fiscal austerity measures did not hurt economies, and actually helped their recovery. In 2010 the paper Growth in a Time of Debt by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff was published and widely accepted, setting the stage for the wave of fiscal austerity that swept Europe during the Great Recession. In April 2013, economists Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst found that the Reinhart-Rogoff paper was flawed, in part due to coding errors in a spreadsheet. On June 6, 2013 U.S. economist and 2008 Nobel laureate Paul Krugman published How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled in The New York Review of Books, noting how influential these articles have been with policymakers, describing the paper by the 'Bocconi Boys' Alesina and Ardagna (from the name of their Italian alma mater) as "a full frontal assault on the Keynesian proposition that cutting spending in a weak economy produces further weakness", arguing the reverse.