ALBERTO ALESINA Department of Economics Residence: Harvard University 19 Commonwealth Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Boston, MA 02116 617-495-8388 Email: [email protected] May 2020 PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics, Harvard University July 2003 to present Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Visiting Professor of Economics, Bocconi University July 2012 to June 2013 Taussig Research Professor of Economics, Harvard University July 2006 to June 2007 Chairman of the Department of Economics, Harvard University July 2003 to June 2006 Visiting Professor of Economics, IGIER-Bocconi July 2002-June 2003 and July 2008-June 2009 Visiting Professor of Economics, MIT July 1998 to June 1999 Professor of Economics and Government, Harvard University July 1993 to June 2003 Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University January 1991 to June 1993 Assistant Professor of Economics and Government, Harvard University September 1988 to December 1990 Olin Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research July 1989 to June 1990 Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University July 1987 to June 1988 Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University July 1986 to June 1987 OTHER AFFILIATIONS National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Associate, September 1993 to present Faculty Research Fellow from 1987 to 1993 IGIER, Universitá Bocconi, June 2009 to present Center for Economic Policy Research, Research Fellow, October 1987 to present Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University, Faculty Associate, September 2003 to present Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Senior Associate, September 1997 to present Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Senior Associate, July 1994 to present Center for International Development, Harvard University, Research Associate, September 2000 to present EDUCATION Harvard University, Department of Economics M.A., March 1985; Ph.D., June 1986 Università Bocconi (Milan), Economics Laurea summa cum laude in Discipline Economiche e Sociali, October 1981 HONORS AND AWARDS Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 2006 Fellow of the Econometric Society, from 2003 Hayek Prize 2020 Addington Prize in Measurement, 2015 IPUMS Research Award, University of Minnesota, 2015 President, International Atlantic Economic Association, from September 2011to September 2012 Vice President, International Atlantic Economic Association, from September 2010 to September 2011 Munich CES Prize in Economics, 2006 Honorary Degree from Normal University, Beijing, May 2005 GRANTS Russel Sage Foundation Grant on Immigration and redistribution December 2020 (with Nathan Nunn ad Stefanie Stantcheva) The Foundations of Human Behavior, Harvard University Grant on Social Mobility and Immigration in the Us September 2019 (with Stefanie Stantcheva and Nathan Nunn) Inequality Initiative in America Harvard University, Grant on Immigration, redistribution and social mobility May 2019 (with Stefanie Stantcheva and Nathan Nunn) The Foundations of Human Behavior, Harvard University, Grant on Migration and Redistribution June 2018 (with 2 Stefanie Stantcheva) Russell Sage Foundation, Grant on Mobility and Redistribution 2015 (with Stefanie Stantcheva) The Foundations of Human Behavior, Harvard University, Grant on Social Mobility, 2015 (with Stefanie Stantcheva) Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, fellowship awarded Milton Award, Harvard University 2012-2013 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Grant 1998-1999 On the number and size of countries NSF Grant 2001-2004 Currency Unions (with Robert Barro) NSF Grant 1998-2000 Fiscal Adjustments (with Roberto Perotti) NSF Grant, 1994-97 Democratization, Secessions and Fiscal Institutions (with Roberto Perotti and Enrico Spolaore) NSF Grant, 1991-93 Divided Government (with Howard Rosenthal) NSF Grant, 1989-91 Research on a Theory of Moderating Elections (with Howard Rosenthal) Institute for Policy Reform, Junior Fellow 1991-92 Sloan Research Fellowship, 1990-91 MAIN LECTURES Sadmo Lecture, Norwegian School of Economics June 2019 Staller Lecture, Cornell University October 2018 Keynote lecture, Bank of Spain and World Bank conference, Madrid June 2018 Keynote lecture Bank of Portugal and World Bank Conference June 2018 Globalization Lecture Queen Mary College London November 2017 GSE Summer School Pompeu Fabra University Keynote Lecture June 2017 European Econometric Society Keynote Lecture December 2015 Banque of France and PSE lecture December 2015 Keynote Address, G7 meeting of Finance Ministers, Dresden, May 2015 UBS Lecture on Economics and Society, Zurich, November 2014 Jöhr Lecture, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, May 2014 Keynote Address European Public Choice Society, Zurich, April 2013 Keynote Address, International Public Finance Association, Dresden, August 2012 Keynote Address, Nemmers Prize Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 2012 Woodward Lecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 2012 Presidential Address, Atlantic International Economic Association, Istanbul, March 2012 Economic Colloquium, German Ministry of the Treasury, June 2011 IGIER Twentieth Anniversary Lecture, Milan, June 2011 Graduate School of Economics Lecture, Barcelona, May 2011 Dunaway Lecture, Michigan State University, April 2011 3 The Clark Lecture, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON Canada, March 2011 Commencement Lecture, University of Venice, May 2008 American Economic Association, New Orleans, Invited Lecture (The JEEA Lecture), January 2008 LACEA, Bogotá, Plenary Session, Invited Lecture, October 2007 Munich Lectures, CES, November 2006 Gunnar Myrdal Lecture, United Nations, Geneva, May 2006 Mundell-Fleming Lecture, International Monetary Fund, November 2005 Zvi Griliches Lectures, New School, Moscow, May 2005 Bocconi University, Academic Year Opening Lecture, November 2003 Rodolfo De Benedetti Lecture, Bocconi University, November 2002 Pompeu Fabra University, Academic Year Opening Lecture, October 2002 Schumpeter Lecture, European Economic Association, Venice, August 2002 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Co-editor: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1998 to October 2004 Economics and Politics, July 1991 to May 1994 Associate Editor: Journal of Economic Literature, January 2012 to 2014 Journal of Economic Growth, August 1994 to present The Quarterly Journal of Economics, June 1992 to July 1998, and November 2006 to July 2015 European Economic Review, November 1992 to present Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, April 1995 to present European Journal of Political Economy, August 1991 to May 1994 Director: NBER Program in Political Economics, April 2006 to present NBER Group in Political Economics, October 2004 to April 2006 Consultant: Fedesarrollo, Bogota, Colombia, January 1999 to January 2001 Italian Treasury Department, June 1996 to December 1997 Inter-American Development Bank, 1994 Short-Term Visits: International Monetary Fund, research department May 2019 Universita Autonoma, Barcelona, June 1999 International Monetary Fund, European Department, from February to May 1996 World Bank Macroeconomic and Growth Division August 1995/January 1996; May/August 1996 International Monetary Fund, Fiscal Affairs Department, July/August 1993 IGIER, Milan, Italy, June 1993 World Bank, Public Economics Division, July/August 1992 Kiel Institute for World Economics, May 1992, May 1994, February 1996, May 1999 Stockholm School of Economics, June 1990 Federal Reserve Bank of Australia, Research Department, July 1989 Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University, April 1986 International Monetary Fund, Asian Department, June/August 1984 4 Member of: Advisory Board of UBS International Center for Economics and Society, University of Zurich, from October 2014 Board of the Italian Institute of Technology, from December 2005 to January 2013 Advisory Board of the Journal of the European Economic Association, from 2003 Advisory Board of CREI, Pompeu Fabra University, from 1998 Board of Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, from November 2008 to January 2011 Advisory Board of WIFO, Vienna, from April 2004 to April 2006 Columnist: Corriere della Sera, Italy, from November 1997 to January 2003 and from April 2011 to present L’Espresso, from September 2011 to 2013 Vox, EU, from May 2007 to present Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy, from February 2005 to April 2011 La Stampa, Italy, from January 2003 to January 2005 Project Syndicate, from April 2002 to December 2004 Columns published in: Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Europe, Le Monde, Frankfurter Zeitung, Handelsblatt, Die Welt, The City Journal, and others. PUBLICATIONS Books: “Austerity” Princeton University Press, January 2019 (with Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi) Translations: Italian, Chinese, Spanish. Winner of the Hayek Prize 2020 L’Italia Fatta in Casa, Mondadori, November 2009 (In Italian with Andrea Ichino). La Crisi. Il Saggiatore, November 2008 (In Italian, with Francesco Giavazzi). Il Liberismo é di Sinistra. Il Saggiatore, September 2007 (In Italian, with Francesco Giavazzi). Translation: Bulgarian, Russian. The Future of Europe: Reform or Decline, MIT Press, September 2006 (with Francesco Giavazzi). Translations: Greek, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, April 2004 (with Edward Glaeser). Translations: Chinese, French, Italian. The Size of Nations,