Alberto Alesina
| Alberto Alesina | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 29, 1957 Broni, Pavia, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| Field | Political economics |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Bocconi University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Jeffrey Sachs |
| Doctoral students |
Silvana Tenreyro |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Alberto Francesco Alesina (born April 29, 1957) is an Italian political economist. He has published much-cited books and articles in major economics journals.
Born in Broni, Pavia, Italy, Alesina obtained his undergraduate degree in economics from Bocconi University (DES) in 1981, then continued his studies at Harvard University, receiving an M.A. (1985) and a Ph.D. (1986). Alesina was then a postdoc and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon 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, , The World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In 2006, Alesina participated in the 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.
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