Guido Tabellini

Guido Tabellini is professor of economics at Bocconi University, where he has been Rector from 2008 to 2012. He has been director and president of IGIER, a research center in economics at Bocconi University. He obtained his degree in economics at Università di Torino, and his PhD in economics at UCLA in 1984. Before returning to Europe, he taught at Stanford University and UCLA.

Dr. Tabellini is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a joint recipient of the Yrjo Jahnsson award from the European Economic Association. He belongs to several international research networks; in particular he is a research fellow of the Center of Economic Policy Research in London and a distinguished fellow of the Center of Economic Studies in Munich. He was in the Executive Council and the Council of the European Economic Association, and he was President of the European Economic Association for 2007. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and has been associate editor of the Journal of Public Economics, the European Economic Review, and other international journals.

Dr. Tabellini is an active participant in the policy debate in Italy and Europe. He writes editorials for Il Sole 24 Ore, a leading Italian financial newspaper, and his articles have also appeared in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal Europe and other leading European newspapers. He has written or co-authored several policy reports and policy position papers. He has acted as an economic consultant to the Italian government, to the European Parliament and to the Fiscal Affair Department of the International Monetary Fund.

Dr. Tabellini has done research in political economics and public choice, macroeconomics, and international economics. The main focus of his research is on how political and policymaking institutions influence policy formation and economic performance. Much of his recent research is summarized in two books co-authored with fellow CIFAR program member Torsten Persson: Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy, MIT Press, 2000; and The Economic Effects of Constitutions, MIT Press, 2003.