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Alberto Alesina

Recent chapters of books

“The Politics of Monetary Policy,” in B. Friedman and M. Woodford (eds.) Handbook of Monetary Economics, North Holland, Amsterdam, 2011, Ch 18, 1000-1054 (with Andrea Stella). 

“Preferences for Redistribution,” in A. Bisin and J. Benhabib (eds.) Handbook of Social Economics, North Holland,  2010 (with Paola Giuliano). 

“The Euro and Structural Reforms,” in A. Alesina and F Giavazzi (eds.) Europe and the Euro, University of Chicago Press and NBER, March 2010, 57-98 (with Silvia Ardagna and Vincenzo Galasso). 

“Democracy, Technology and Growth,” in E. Helpman (ed.) Institutions and Economic Performance, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008, 511-43 (with Philippe Aghion and Francesco Trebbi).  

“Trade, Growth and the Size of Countries,” in P. Aghion and S. Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, North Holland, Amsterdam, 2005, Ch. 23, 1499-1542 (with Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg). 

“Decentralization in Colombia,” in A. Alesina (ed.), Institutional reforms in Colombia, MIT Press Cambridge MA, January 2005 (with Alberto Carrasquilla and Juan Jose Echevarria.). 

“The Central Bank of Colombia,” in A. Alesina (ed), Institutional Reforms in Colombia, MIT Press Cambridge MA, January 2005 (with Alberto Carrasquilla and Roberto Steiner). 

“The Economics of Social Trust,” in S. Pharr and R. Putnam (eds.), Disaffected Democracies, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2000 (with Romain Wacziarg).