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Guido Tabellini

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Guido Tabellini
Nationality Italy
Academic career
FieldPolitical economics
InstitutionBocconi University
Alma materUCLA (Ph.D., 1984)
University of Turin (Laurea, 1980)
AwardsYrjö Jahnsson Award (2001)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Guido Enrico Tabellini (born January 26, 1956) is an Italian economist who is currently Rector of Bocconi University.

He received his Laurea in 1980 from the University of Turin, and his Ph.D. in 1984 from UCLA. He first taught at Stanford, then at UCLA, and later in Italy. He is past president of the European Economic Association. He was consultant to the World Bank and Italian government.

In 2003 he published The Economic Effects of Constitutions. Munich Lectures in Economics. In May 2008 he was appointed as new rector of the university, in charge from 1 November 2008.

Awards and honors

  • 1987–1988 Political Economy Fellowship, Carnegie-Mellon University
  • 1987–1992 Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
  • 1987–now Research Fellow, CEPR
  • 1992–97, 2001–now Council of the European Economic Association
  • 1999 Distinguished Fellow, CES, University of Munich
  • 2001 Yrjö Jahnsson Award, European Economic Association, Lausanne
  • 2001 Fellow of the Econometric Society
  • 2001 Research Associate, CEPS, Bruxelles
  • 2001 International Research Fellow, Kiel Institute for World Economic Studies
  • 2003 Research Fellow, Canadian Institute of Economic Research
  • 2003 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 Vicepresident, European Economic Association
  • 2006 Council of Econometric Society
  • 2007 President, European Economic Association
  • 2008 Rector, Bocconi University