Guido Tabellini Is Europe Ready for More Political Integration?
Guido Tabellini is a Professor of Economics (Intesa Sanpaolo Chair in Political Economics) at Bocconi University, Milan where he was Rector between 2008 and 2012. Having previously held positions at the Universities of Cagliari and Brescia in Italy and Stanford and UCLA in the United States, Tabellini’s main areas of research include monetary economics, public economics, and political economics. Sitting on several prestigious company boards and scientific committees, Tabellini has provided consultancy expertise to the Italian Treasury and to the World Bank. In 2016, Professor Tabellini was the first Italian scholar to receive the Foreign Honorary Members Award of the American Economic Association (AEA).
Area of Research
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Public Economics, International Economics, Political Economics
since 1994
Professor of Economics
Bocconi University (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi)
2008-2012
Rector
Bocconi University (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi)
1994-2008
Director/President
Bocconi University (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi)
Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER)
1991-1994
Professor of Economics
Università degli Studi di Brescia
1990-1991
Professor of Economics
University of Cagliari (Università di Cagliari)
1986-1990
Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
1985-1986
Assistant Professor of Economics
Stanford University
1984
Ph.D. in Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
1980
Laurea in Economia
University of Turin (Università degli Studi di Torino)
- German Economic Review (since 1999)
- Journal of the European Economic Association (2003-2008)
- International Tax and Public Finance (1998-2001)
- Journal of Public Economics (1998-2001)
- European Economic Review (1992-1961)
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association (2016)
- Member, Academia Europaea (2012)
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
Prizes
- Hicks-Tinbergen Award, European Economic Association (2012)
- Guido Carli Award, Associazione Guido e Maria Carli (2011)
- Tjalling Koopmans Award, by Efact (2008)
- Y. Jahnsson Award, European Economic Association (2001)
Fellowships
- Research Fellow, Canadian Institute of Economic Research (2003)
- International Research Fellow, Kiel Institute for World Econ. Studies (2001)
- Fellow of the Econometric Society (2001)
- Distinguished Fellow, CES, University of Munich (1999)
- Research Fellow, CEPR (since 1987)
- Faculty Research Fellow, NBER (1987-1992)
- Political Economy Fellowship, Carnegie-Mellon University (1987-1988))
Despite an upsurge in nationalist rhetoric, EU citizens still support European level decision making in several policy areas. For a political union to be effective, however, similarity in policy preferences is necessary. In this video, GUIDO TABELLINI considers whether citizens of different EU states are sufficiently similar in their views of the world to make further political integration feasible. Analyzing survey data on areas including values and civic capital, religiosity and the role of the state, Tabellini finds that despite heterogeneity between EU citizens increasing over time, Europeans are still not very different from one another. Nevertheless, with European identity remaining much weaker than national identities, Tabellini identifies a number of measures that could help to underpin further political integration going forward.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10678
