Alberto Alesina

Latest Institution: Harvard University

All Institutions: Harvard University; University of Chicago; Università Bocconi; Carnegie Mellon University; Brown University; University of Basel; Department of Economics, IGIER, Bocconi University; University College London; Centre for Economic Policy Research; University of Chicago Booth School of Business; NBER; NA; Bocconi University; Department of Economics, Paris School of Economics; Universita Bocconi; Department of Economics, GSIA, UCLA; University of British Columbia; National Bureau of Economic Research; Yale University


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Based on the Following Papers:

Political Parties and the Business Cycle in the United States, 1948-1984

Year: 1986
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Jeffrey Sachs

The Politics of Ambiguity

Year: 1987
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Alex Cukierman

An Overlapping Generations Model of Electoral Competition

Year: 1987
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Stephen E. Spear

A Positive Theory of Fiscal Deficits and Government Debt in a Democracy

Year: 1987
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Guido Tabellini

External Debt, Capital Flight and Political Risk

Year: 1988
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Guido Tabellini

Partisan Cycles in Congressional Elections and the Macroeconomy

Year: 1988
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Howard Rosenthal

Voting on the Budget Deficit

Year: 1988
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Guido Tabellini; Alberto Alesina

Voting on the Budget Deficit

Year: 1988
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Guido Tabellini; Alberto Alesina

External Debt, Capital Flight, and Political Risk

Year: 1988
Journal: Journal of International Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Guido Tabellini

Why Are Stabilizations Delayed?

Year: 1989
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Allan Drazen

Moderation Elections

Year: 1989
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Howard Rosenthal

Public Confidence and Debt Management: A Model and a Case Study of Italy

Year: 1989
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Alessandro Prati; Guido Tabellini

Public Confidence and Debt Management: A Model and a Case Study of Italy

Year: 1989
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Alessandro Prati; Guido Tabellini

Political Cycles in OECD Economies

Year: 1990
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Nouriel Roubini

Political Cycles in OECD Economies

Year: 1990
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Nouriel Roubini

Why Are There So Many Divided Senate Delegations?

Year: 1991
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Morris Fiorina; Howard Rosenthal

Distributive Politics and Economic Growth

Year: 1991
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Dani Rodrik

Macroeconomic Policy and Elections in OECD Democracies

Year: 1991
Journal: Economics and Politics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Gerald D. Cohen; Nouriel Roubini

Political Instability and Economic Growth

Year: 1992
Journal: Journal of Economic Growth
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Sule Ozler; Nouriel Roubini; Phillip Swagel

Menus of Linear Income Tax Schedules

Year: 1992
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Philippe Weil

Macroeconomic Policy and Elections in OECD Democracies

Year: 1992
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Gerald D. Cohen; Nouriel Roubini

On the Feasibility of a One or Multi-speed European Monetary Union

Year: 1993
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Vittorio Grilli

The Political Economy of Capital Controls

Year: 1993
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Vittorio Grilli; Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

The Welfare State and Competitiveness

Year: 1994
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Roberto Perotti

The Political Economy of Budget Deficits

Year: 1994
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Roberto Perotti

Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries: Composition and Macroeconomic Effects

Year: 1996
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Roberto Perotti

The Costs and Benefits of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from U.S. States

Year: 1996
Journal: European Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Tamim Bayoumi

International Conflict, Defense Spending, and the Size of Countries

Year: 1996
Journal: European Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Enrico Spolaore

Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?

Year: 1999
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Beatrice Weder

Participation in Heterogeneous Communities

Year: 1999
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Eliana La Ferrara

Redistribution through Public Employment: The Case of Italy

Year: 1999
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Stephan Danninger; Massimo V. Rostagno

Fiscal Policy, Profits and Investment

Year: 1999
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Roberto Perotti; Fabio Schiantarelli; Silvia Ardagna

Fiscal Policy, Profits, and Investment

Year: 1999
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Silvia Ardagna; Roberto Perotti; Fabio Schiantarelli

Who Trusts Others?

Year: 2000
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Eliana La Ferrara

Currency Unions

Year: 2000
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Robert J. Barro

The Determinants of Trust

Year: 2000
Journal: None
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Eliana La Ferrara

The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the US

Year: 2000
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Alberto Alesina

What Does the European Union Do?

Year: 2001
Journal: Public Choice
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Ignazio Angeloni; Ludger Schuknecht

The Political Economy of International Unions

Year: 2001
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Ignazio Angeloni; Federico Etro

Institutional Rules for Federations

Year: 2001
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Ignazio Angeloni; Federico Etro

Why Doesn’t the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?

Year: 2001
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Edward Glaeser; Bruce Sacerdote

Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Year: 2001
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Rafael Di Tella; Robert Macculloch

Endogenous Political Institutions

Year: 2002
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Philippe Aghion; Alberto Alesina; Francesco Trebbi

Optimal Currency Areas

Year: 2002
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Robert J. Barro; Silvana Tenreyro

Fractionalization

Year: 2003
Journal: Journal of Economic Growth
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Arnaud Devleeschauwer; William Easterly; Sergio Kurlat; Romain Wacziarg

Regulation and Investment

Year: 2003
Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Silvia Ardagna; Giuseppe Nicoletti; Fabio Schiantarelli

Choosing and Reneging on Exchange Rate Regimes

Year: 2003
Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Alexander Wagner

Fairness and Redistribution: US versus Europe

Year: 2003
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Georgemarios Angeletos

Bureaucrats or Politicians

Year: 2004
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Guido Tabellini

Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance

Year: 2004
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Eliana La Ferrara

The European Union: A Politically Incorrect View

Year: 2004
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Roberto Perotti

Bureaucrats or Politicians

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Guido Tabellini

Choosing Electoral Rules: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities

Year: 2005
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Philippe Aghion; Alberto Alesina; Francesco Trebbi

Work and Leisure in the US and Europe: Why So Different

Year: 2005
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Edward Glaeser; Bruce Sacerdote

Why is Fiscal Policy Often Procyclical?

Year: 2005
Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Guido Tabellini

Good Bye Lenin or Not? The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Year: 2005
Journal: None
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

Corruption, Inequality, and Fairness

Year: 2005
Journal: Journal of Monetary Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Georgemarios Angeletos

Why Do Politicians Delegate?

Year: 2005
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Guido Tabellini

Who Adjusts and When: On the Political Economy of Reforms

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Silvia Ardagna; Francesco Trebbi

Artificial States

Year: 2006
Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association
Authors: Alberto Alesina; William Easterly; Janina Matuszeski

Technology and Labor Regulations

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Joseph Zeira

Divorce, Fertility, and the Shotgun Marriage

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Paola Giuliano

Democracy, Technology, and Growth

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Philippe Aghion; Alberto Alesina; Francesco Trebbi

Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

Year: 2007
Journal: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Andrea Ichino; Loukas Karabarbounis

The Power of the Family

Year: 2007
Journal: Journal of Economic Growth
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Paola Giuliano

The Euro and Structural Reforms

Year: 2008
Journal: Review of Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Silvia Ardagna; Vincenzo Galasso

Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Crosssection of Countries

Year: 2008
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Fertility and the Plough

Year: 2011
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Paola Giuliano; Nathan Nunn

The Output Effect of Fiscal Consolidations

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of International Economics
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Carlo Favero; Francesco Giavazzi

Nationbuilding and Education

Year: 2013
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Paola Giuliano; Bryony Reich

Family Ties

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Paola Giuliano

Culture and Institutions

Year: 2013
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Paola Giuliano

Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Year: 2013
Journal: Journal of Economic Growth
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Johann Harnoss; Hillel Rapoport

Political Budget Cycles: Evidence from Italian Cities

Year: 2014
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Matteo Paradisi

Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia

Year: 2014
Journal: Economica
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Caterina Gennaioli; Stefania Lovo

Culture and Institutions

Year: 2015
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Paola Giuliano

Austerity in 2009-2013

Year: 2015
Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Omar Barbiero; Carlo Favero; Francesco Giavazzi; Matteo Paradisi

Technology and Labor Regulations: Theory and Evidence

Year: 2015
Journal: Journal of Economic Growth
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Michele Battisti; Joseph Zeira

Loss Aversion in Politics

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Francesco Passarelli

The Political Economy of Government Debt

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Andrea Passalacqua

Violence Against Women: A Cross-Cultural Analysis for Africa

Year: 2016
Journal: Economica
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Benedetta Brioschi; Eliana La Ferrara

Is it the How or the When that Matters in Fiscal Adjustments?

Year: 2016
Journal: IMF Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Gualtiero Azzalini; Carlo Favero; Francesco Giavazzi; Armando Miano

Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics

Year: 2016
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Salvatore Piccolo; Paolo Pinotti

The Effects of Fiscal Consolidations: Theory and Evidence

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Omar Barbiero; Carlo Favero; Francesco Giavazzi; Matteo Paradisi

Nationbuilding, Nationalism, and Wars

Year: 2017
Journal: Journal of Economic Growth
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Bryony Reich; Alessandro Riboni

Intergenerational Mobility and Support for Redistribution

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Stefanie Stantcheva; Edoardo Teso

Is Europe an Optimal Political Area?

Year: 2017
Journal: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Guido Tabellini; Francesco Trebbi

Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

Year: 2018
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Michela Carlana; Eliana La Ferrara; Paolo Pinotti

What Do We Know About the Effects of Austerity

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Carlo A. Favero; Francesco Giavazzi

Traditional Agricultural Practices and the Sex Ratio Today

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Paola Giuliano; Nathan Nunn

Immigration and Redistribution

Year: 2018
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Armando Miano; Stefanie Stantcheva

Intergenerational Mobility in Africa

Year: 2019
Journal: Econometrica
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Sebastian Hohmann; Stelios Michalopoulos; Elias Papaioannou

Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Year: 2019
Journal: Journal of Economic Geography
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Elie Murard; Hillel Rapoport

The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Marco Tabellini

Nationbuilding, Nationalism and Wars

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Bryony Reich; Alessandro Riboni

Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Sebastian Hohmann; Stelios Michalopoulos; Elias Papaioannou

Perceptions of Racial Gaps: Their Causes and Ways to Reduce Them

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Matteo F. Ferroni; Stefanie Stantcheva

The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?

Year: 2022
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: Alberto Alesina; Marco Tabellini

Immigration and Redistribution

Year: 2022
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Stefanie Stantcheva; Alberto Alesina; Armando Miano


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