Alberto Alesina

90.0k citations
293 papers · 45.1k indexed · 35 hit papers · h-index 89
Topics
Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (91 papers)Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (88 papers)Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (50 papers)

In The Last Decade

Alberto Alesina

283 papers receiving 40.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Alberto Alesina
Comparison fields: 5 of 168
  • Economics and Econometrics 24.0k
  • Sociology and Political Science 16.0k
  • Political Science and International Relations 12.7k
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 8.6k
  • Demography 7.1k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#WorkIndexed citations
1 14
2 59
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What Do We Know About the Effects of Austerity
1
4
Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars
6
5
Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics
1
6
A Test for Racial Bias in Capital Punishment
1
7
The Choice of Institutions
2
8
Reply to Blankart and Koester‟s Political Economics versus Public Choice
2
9
Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference
15
10
Fairness and Redistribution: US vs. Europe
70
11
Inequality and Happiness: Are Americans and Europeans Different?
30
12
Fairness and Redistribution: U.S. versus Europe
19
13 11
14
Déficit presupuestarios e instituciones presupuestarias
0
15
Fiscal Discipline and the Budget Process
190
16
Independent Central Banks: Low Inflation at No Costs?
93
17
The Politics of Growth: A Survey of the Recent Literature
6
18
Political models of macroeconomic policy and fiscal reform
54
19
Evaluating Rational Partisan Theory: A Response
1
20
Macroeconomic policy in a two-party system
4

About Alberto Alesina

Alberto Alesina is a scholar working on General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics and Demography, having authored 293 papers that have together received 45.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (91 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (88 papers) and Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (50 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8.6k citations), Economics and Econometrics (24.0k citations) and Development (3.0k citations). Alberto Alesina has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Eliana La Ferrara, Roberto Perotti, Paola Giuliano, Guido Tabellini, William Easterly, Romain Wacziarg, Enrico Spolaore, David Dollar, Silvia Ardagna and Edward L. Glaeser. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

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