Alberto Alesina

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Alberto Alesina (2013)

Alberto Francesco Alesina (born April 29, 1957 in Broni , Italy - † May 23, 2020 in New York City , New York ) was an Italian economist who lived in the United States since 1982 .

Life

Alberto Alesina - son of Giancarlo Alesina and Piera Bolognesi - studied at the Luigi Bocconi University of Economics in Milan and graduated in 1982 with the Laurea. Alesina then began studying at Harvard University , where he earned his master's degree in 1985 and his Ph. D. the following year . He was then a post-doctoral student and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University . In 1988 he returned to Harvard as an assistant professor. In 1989 the child of Alberto Alesina and his wife, Brunhilde Alesina, Balb O. Alesina, was born. From 1990 to 1993 he was Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy , from 1993 to 2003 Professor and from 2003 to 2006 Chairman of the Department of Economics. Since 2003 he has been Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy. In 1998/99 he was visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 2002/03 and 2008/09 at the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research at his alma mater in Milan.

Alesina died in May 2020 at the age of 63 from complications from a heart attack .

Work areas

Alesina combined economics and politics in his work . He examined the effects of the economic situation on voting behavior, the independence of central banks , the policy of the budget deficit , the stabilization of states with high inflation rates , the theory of optimal currency areas , the process of European integration and monetary union, and the differences in the economic systems of the United States States and Europe.

Alesina - along with Kenneth S. Rogoff , N. Gregory Mankiw , Robert J. Barro (Harvard economists) and others - contradicted Paul Krugman by trying to empirically prove that the relationship between rising public debt and economic growth is negative while tax cuts are being made (tax cuts) led to real economic growth.

Alesina was an internationally recognized expert on the economy of national debt and possible strategies for reducing the debt level 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 [u. a.], 1995, ISBN 0-521-43029-1
  • with Nouriel Roubini and Gerald Cohen: Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy . MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 1997, ISBN 0-262-01161-1
  • 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 Enrico Spolaore: The Size of Nations . MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 2003, ISBN 0-262-01204-9
  • with Edward L. Glaeser : Fighting Poverty in US and Europe . Oxford University Press, Oxford [u. a.] 2004, ISBN 0-19-926766-9
  • as editor: Institutional reforms. The case of Colombia . MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 2005, ISBN 0-262-51182-7
  • with Francesco Giavazzi: The Future of Europe. Reform or Decline . MIT Press, Cambridge [u. a.] 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

items

  • Macroeconomic Policy in a Two-Party System as a Repeated Game . In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics . Vol. 102, No. 3, 1987, pp. 651-678
  • with Guido Tabellini : Voting on the Budget Deficit . In: American Economic Review . Volume 80, No. 1, 1990, pp. 37-49
  • with Guido Tabellini: A Positive Theory of Fiscal Deficits and Government Debt in a Democracy . In: Review of Economic Studies . Vol 57, No. 3, 1990, pp. 403-414
  • with Allan Drazen: Why are Stabilizations 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
  • with Dani Rodrik : Distributive Politics and Economic Growth . In: Quarterly Journal of Economics . Volume 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
  • with Eliana La Ferrara: 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 Doesn't 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
  • with Eliana La Ferrara: 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. 18512.
  • with Johann Harnoss and Hillel Rapoport: Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity . NBER Working Paper No. 18699.

Awards

Memberships

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ È morto Alberto Alesina, economista italiano che ha conquistato Harvard. In: repubblica.it. May 24, 2020, accessed May 24, 2020 (Italian). Morto negli Stati Uniti l'economista italiano Alberto Alesina. In: ilmessaggero.it. May 24, 2020, accessed May 24, 2020 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Martin Kaeble u. Hubert Beryerle: Italy will come through . In: Financial Times Deutschland v. July 15, 2011, p. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Alesina, Alberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alesina, Alberto Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Broni , Italy
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2020
Place of death New York City