Roberto Perotti

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Roberto Perotti (born April 7, 1961 in Milan ) is an Italian economist and professor of political economy at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi , Milan.

Life

Perotti studied economic and social subjects at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan. There he graduated in September 1987 with the thesis Teoria dei giochi e debito pubblico (game theory and public debt) . In May 1991 he received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He then became a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University . He also conducted research at Tel Aviv University . He taught for ten years at Columbia University , then for two years at the European University Institute in Florence . Finally, in 2005 he received a teaching position as a full professor at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, where he is a member of the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research and was its chair from 2006 to 2008. He is also a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London and the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and columnist for the daily business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore . Since 2016 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of Assicurazioni Generali .

He advised the International Monetary Fund , the World Bank , the Inter-American Development Bank , the European Central Bank , the Banca d'Italia and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC . Together with Yoram Gutgeld , he served the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi from September 2014 to November 2015 as an economic and special advisor (“commissario della Spending review”). From this position, which Carlo Cottarelli had held before him , he resigned like him because he had come to the conclusion that there was no real political will to carry out a task review and review of government spending .

In 2008, Perotti caused a sensation with the book L'università truccata . In it he criticized the Italian higher education system. However, Perotti's scientific interest is primarily in macroeconomics . As a finance scientist , he is particularly concerned with the effects of political measures on public budgets. In July 2020 he published a discussion paper in which he submitted that the concerns expressed by Hans-Werner Sinn and other German critics of the TARGET2 system should be taken seriously, both for theoretical reasons and because of their political implications.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Alberto Alesina : Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries: Composition and Macroeconomic Effects . International Monetary Fund Staff Papers, 1997, Vol. 44 (June 2, 1997), pp. 210-248.
  • with Olivier Blanchard : An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of Changes in Government Spending and Taxes on Output . In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics , Volume 117, No. 4 (November 2002), pp. 1329-1368.
  • Estimating the effects of fiscal policy in OECD countries . European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • L'università truccata. Gli scandali del malcostume accademico, le ricette per rilanciare l'università . Einaudi, Turin 2008.
  • The austerity myth. Gain without pain? Bank for International Settlements, Basel 2011.
  • Status quo. Perché in Italia è so difficile cambiare le cose (e come cominciare a farlo) . Feltrinelli, Milan 2016.
  • Falso! Le proposte della campagna elettorale sono insostenibili per i nostri conti pubblici e dannose per il paese. I politici che si candidano a governarci sbagliano o mentono? Feltrinelli, Milan 2018.
  • Understanding the German Criticism of the Target System and the Role of Central Bank Capital . Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London 2020 ( summary ).

Web links

Commons : Roberto Perotti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roberto Perotti , website in the generali.com portal , accessed on August 14, 2020
  2. ↑ Roberto Perotti si è dimesso since commissario della Spending review . Article dated November 9, 2015 in the tgcom24.mediaset.it portal , accessed on August 14, 2020
  3. ^ Spending review, Perotti: 'Non c'è volontà di farla. Solo misure piccole ed elettorali ' . Article dated September 4, 2016 in the ilfattoquotidiano.it portal , accessed on August 14, 2020
  4. ↑ Spesa pubblica, Perotti: "Dalle partecipate ai troppi sussidi, ecco perché le riforme hanno fallito" . Article from September 3, 2016 in the corriere.it portal , accessed on August 14, 2020
  5. ↑ Gerald Braunberger : Italian support for Hans-Werner sense . Article from August 13, 2020 in the blogs.faz.net portal , accessed on August 14, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Perotti, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan