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List of works by Alberto Alesina

A Model of the Political Economy of the United States

scientific article published in February 1991

A Positive Theory of Fiscal Deficits and Government Debt in a Democracy

scientific article published in July 1987

A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

scholarly article published April 2011

Ambiguity and Extremism in Elections

scientific article published in June 2008

An Overlapping Generations Model of Electoral Competition

Artificial States

scientific article published in June 2006

Austerity in 2009-2013

scientific article published in January 2015

Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

scientific article published in January 2013

Budget Deficits and Budget Institutions

scientific article published in May 1996

Budget Institutions and Fiscal Performance in Latin America

scientific article published in May 1996

Bureaucrats or Politicians?

scientific article published in January 2004

Choosing (and reneging on) exchange rate regimes

scientific article published in June 2003

Choosing Electoral Rules: Theory and Evidence from US Cities

scientific article published in April 2005

Corruption, Inequality and Fairness

scientific article published in June 2005

Culture and Institutions

scientific article published in December 2013

Currency Unions

scientific article published in September 2000

Democracy, Technology, and Growth

scientific article published in June 2007

Distributive Politics and Economic Growth

scientific article published in March 1991

Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution

Divorce, Fertility and the Shot Gun Marriage

scientific article published in July 2006

Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?

scholarly article published May 1999

Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy

scientific article published in July 2008

Economic Integration and Political Disintegration

Economic Risk and Political Risk in Fiscal Unions

scientific article published in January 1995

Endogenous Political Institutions

Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance

scientific article published in February 2004

Ethnic Inequality

scientific article published in November 2012

External Debt, Capital Flight and Political Risk

scientific article published in June 1988

Fairness and Redistribution: U.S. versus Europe

scientific article published in February 2003

Family Ties

scientific article published in April 2013

Family Ties and Political Participation

scientific article published in October 2009

Family Values and the Regulation of Labor

Fertility and the Plough

scientific article published in January 2011

Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries: Composition and Macroeconomic Effects

scientific article published in August 1996

Fiscal Expansions and Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries

scientific article published in August 1995

Fiscal Policy, Profits, and Investment

scientific article published in July 1999

Fractionalization

Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

scientific article published in November 2007

Good bye Lenin (or not?): The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

scientific article published in February 2019

Immigration and Redistribution

scientific article published in July 2018

Income Distribution, Political Instability, and Investment

scientific article published in October 1993

Income distribution, political instability, and investment

Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

scientific article published in April 2001

Institutional Rules for Federations

Intergenerational Mobility and Support for Redistribution

scientific article published in January 2017

Intergenerational Mobility in Africa

scientific article published in February 2019

International Conflict, Defense Spending and the Size of Countries

scientific article published in August 1996

Is Europe Going Too Far?

scientific article published in January 1999

Is Europe an Optimal Political Area?

scientific article published in April 2017

Is it the "How" or the "When" that Matters in Fiscal Adjustments?

scientific article published in November 2016

Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes Versus Spending

scientific article published in October 2009

Loss Aversion in Politics

Macroeconomic Policy and Elections in OECD Democracies

scientific article published in September 1991

Menus of Linear Income Tax Schedules

scientific article published in January 1992

Moderating Elections

scientific article published in August 1989

Nation-Building and Education

scientific article published in February 2013

Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars

scientific article published in May 2017

Old and Young Politicians

scientific article published in March 2015

On the Feasibility of a One or Multi-Speed European Monetary Union

scientific article published in April 1993

On the Number and Size of Nations

scientific article published in March 1995

On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

scientific article published in May 2011

Openness, Country Size and the Government

scientific article published in May 1997

Optimal Currency Areas

article published in 2002

Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics

scientific article published in March 2016

Participation in Heterogeneous Communities

scientific article published in June 1999

Partisan Cycles in Congressional Elections and the Macroeconomy

scientific article published in September 1988

Persistence through Revolutions

scientific article published in April 2020

Political Budget Cycles: Evidence from Italian Cities

scientific article published in October 2014

Political Cycles in OECD Economies

scientific article published in October 1990

Political Instability and Economic Growth

scientific article published in September 1992

Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities

Political Parties and the Business Cycle in the United States, 1948-1984

scientific article published in June 1986

Preferences for Redistribution

scientific article published in March 2009

Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities

Public Confidence and Debt Management: A Model and A Case Study of Italy

scientific article published in October 1989

Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia

scientific article published in September 2014

Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions

Redistribution Through Public Employment: The Case of Italy

Redistributive Public Employment

scientific article published in October 1998

Regulation Versus Taxation

scientific article published in September 2010

Regulation and Investment

scientific article published in March 2003

Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa

scientific article published in December 2020

Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

article

Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries

scientific article published in September 2008

Structural Reforms and Elections: Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset

scientific article published in February 2020

Technology and Labor Regulations

scientific article published in October 2006

Technology and Labor Regulations: Theory and Evidence

scientific article published in January 2015

The Costs and Benefits of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from U.S. States

scientific article published in June 1996

The Determinants of Trust

scientific article published in March 2000

The Effects of Fiscal Consolidations: Theory and Evidence

scientific article published in May 2017

The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments

scientific article published in December 2011

The Euro and Structural Reforms

scientific article published in November 2008

The European Central Bank: Reshaping Monetary Politics in Europe

scientific article published in October 1991

The European Union: A Politically Incorrect View

scientific article published in March 2004

The Evolution of Ideology, Fairness and Redistribution

scientific article published in December 2009

The Output Effect of Fiscal Consolidations

scientific article published in August 2012

The Polarization of Reality

scientific article published in January 2020

The Political Economy of Budget Deficits

scientific article published in February 1994

The Political Economy of Capital Controls

The Political Economy of Government Debt

scientific article published in December 2015

The Political Economy of International Unions

The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the U.S.

scientific article published in January 2000

The Politics of Ambiguity

The Politics of Monetary Policy

scientific article published in April 2010

The Power of the Family

scientific article published in April 2007

The Welfare State and Competitiveness

scientific article published in July 1994

The design of fiscal adjustments

scientific article published in September 2012

Violence Against Women: A Cross-cultural Analysis for Africa

Voting on the Budget Deficit

scientific article published in November 1988

What Does the European Union Do?

scientific article published in December 2001

What do we know about the effects of Austerity?

scientific article published in January 2018

Who Adjusts and When? On the Political Economy of Reforms

scientific article published in February 2006

Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?

scientific article published in June 1998

Why Are There So Many Divided Senate Delegations?

scientific article published in March 1991

Why Do Politicians Delegate?

Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?

scientific article published in October 2001

Why are Stabilizations Delayed?

scientific article published in August 1989

Why is Fiscal Policy Often Procyclical?

Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different?

scientific article published in April 2005