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Born April 7th, 1962. Degree in Economics from Università Bocconi. PhD in Economics from MIT.
Full Professor of Economics. Research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Research fellow, Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Previously he was a Contract Research Fellow at IGIER, Università Bocconi. He has taught at Columbia University and the European University Institute.
Macroeconomics. Political Economy.
"The European Union: A Politically Incorrect View", (with A. Alesina), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring, 2005; "Fiscal Policy and Monetary Integration in Europe", (with J. Gali), Economic Policy, October 2003; Meno pensioni, più welfare, (with T. Boeri), Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002; "An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamic Effects of Shocks to Government Spending and Taxes on Output", (with O. Blanchard), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002; "Fragmented Fiscal Policy", (with Y. Kontopoulos), Journal of Public Economics, 2002; "Fiscal Policy, Profits and Investment", (with A. Alesina, S. Ardagna, F. Schiantarelli), American Economic Review, September 2002; "Electoral Systems and Public Spending", (with G.M. Milesi-Ferretti and the assistance of M. Rostagno), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002; "The Budget Process in Colombia: Analysis and Proposals", (with U. Ayala), in A. Alesina (ed.), Institutional Reform in Colombia, FEDESARROLLO, Bogotà, 2002; "Social Spending in Colombia: Analysis and Proposals", in A. Alesina (ed.), Institutional Reform in Colombia, FEDESARROLLO, Bogotà, 2002; "Is a Uniform Fiscal Policy Better? Fiscal Federalism and Factor Mobility", American Economic Review, June 2001; "Fiscal Policy in Good Times and Bad", Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1999; "Economic Risk and Political Risk in Fiscal Unions", (with A. Alesina), Economic Journal, July 1998.