Guido Tabellini


Guido Enrico Tabellini 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, in charge from 1 November 2008. He had left this position in 2012.

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