Guido Tabellini

IEP@BU President
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Guido Tabellini
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Guido Tabellini is the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair in Political Economics at Università Bocconi. He was Rector of Università Bocconi from 2008 to 2012 and he is now Vice-President. He has a PhD in Economics from UCLA. Before returning to Europe, he taught at Stanford University and UCLA. He is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a foreign honorary fellow of the American Economic Association, and a recipient of the Yrjo Jahnsson award from the European Economic Association, of which he was President. He was President of the Econometric Society in 2022. He belongs to several international research networks and he is a research fellow of CEPR in London, a distinguished fellow of CES in Munich. He has done research in political economics and public choice, macroeconomics, and international economics. 

European Policies

Policy Brief: Is Europe Ready for Further Political Integration?
2023

To understand the feasibility of further integration, we study the extent and evolution of cultural and policy views heterogeneity in Europe leveraging international survey data. We calculate the distribution of cultural and policy views distance both across and within countries.  We find that cultural heterogeneity has increased along both dimensions in the past but has decreased in the most recent wave.