Guido Tabellini

Guido Tabellini
Born	(1956-01-26) January 26, 1956 Torino, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Academic career
Field	Political economics
Institution	Bocconi University
School or tradition	Constitutional economics
Alma mater	UCLA (Ph.D., 1984) University of Turin (Laurea, 1980)
Doctoral advisor	David K. Levine
Awards	Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2001)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Guido Enrico Tabellini (born January 26, 1956) is an Italian economist, rector of Bocconi University from November 2008 until July 2012.

Tabellini 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 Tabellini published The Economic Effects of Constitutions. Munich Lectures in Economics.

In May 2008 he was appointed as rector of Bocconi University (Milan), in charge from 1 November 2008. He had left this position in 2012.

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
• 2008–2012 Rector, Bocconi University

Works

• Political Economics – Explaining Economic Policy (with Torsten Persson), MIT Press, 2000.
• The Economic Effects of Constitutions (with Torsten Persson), MIT Press 2003.

External links

• Homepage at Bocconi University
• Guido Tabellini è il nuovo Rettore
• Guido Tabellini publications indexed by Google Scholar