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Effects of Austerity: Expenditure- and Tax-based Approaches. Alberto Alesina, Spring 2019, Paper, "Sometimes governments need to reduce their budget deficits aggressively. These…
Climbing out of Debt. Alberto Alesina, March 2018, Paper, "Almost a decade after the onset of the global financial crisis, national debt in advanced economies remains near…
Technology and Labor Regulations: Theory and Evidence, Alberto Alesina, January 4, 2015, Paper, This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to…
Technology and Labor Regulations: Theory and Evidence. Alberto Alesina, January 2015, Paper. "This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in…
Austerity in 2009-2013, Alberto Alesina, September 29, 2014, Paper, The deficit reduction policies (often referred to as fiscal “austerity”) followed by several OECD…
Culture and Institutions. Alberto Alesina, September 1, 2014, Paper. "A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture…
Family Values and the Regulation of Labor. Alberto Alesina, May 27, 2014, Paper. "To be efficient, flexible labor markets require geographically mobile workers. Otherwise firms…
The output effect of fiscal consolidation plans. Alberto Alesina, May 2014, Paper. "We show that the correct experiment to evaluate the effects of a scale adjustment is the…
Fiscal adjustments: lessons from recent history. Alberto Alesina, April 2010, Paper. "In the aftermath of the Great Recession, many OECD countries now need to reduce…
The Politics of Monetary Policy. Alberto Alesina, April 2010, Paper."In this paper we critically review the literature on the political economy of monetary policy, with an…