Guido Enrico Tabellini (born January 26, 1956) is an Italian

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

, rector of

Bocconi University Bocconi University ( it, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, ) is a private university in Milan, Italy. Bocconi provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law, management, political science, public administration and comput ...

from November 2008 until July 2012. Tabellini received his

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in 1980 from the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

, and his Ph.D. in 1984 from

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

. He first taught at

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, then at UCLA, and later in

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. He is past president of the

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. He was consultant to the

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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 Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city ...

), 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 Yrjö, a masculine Finnish given name that is the equivalent of George, may refer to: * Yrjö von Grönhagen, (1911–2003), Finnish anthropologist * Yrjö Jylhä, (1903–1956), Finnish poet * Yrjö Kilpinen (1892–1959), Finnish co ...

, 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),

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, 2000.
The Economic Effects of Constitutions
(with Torsten Persson), MIT Press 2003.

External links

Homepage at Bocconi University

Guido Tabellini è il nuovo Rettore
* 1956 births Living people 20th-century Italian economists 21st-century Italian economists University of Turin alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni Academic staff of Bocconi University Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Econometric Society Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the European Economic Association {{Italy-economist-stub