Enrico Spolaore
Department of Economics
Boston College
Carney Hall 147
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: (617) 552-3689
Fax: (617) 552-2308
email: spolaore@bc.edu
Education
Harvard University, Department of Economics, Ph.D., 1993; A.M.
1991.
Ph.D. Thesis: Macroeconomic Policy, Institutions and Efficiency
University of Siena, Dottorato di Ricerca in Economia Politica,
1992
University of Rome, Laurea in Economia e Commercio, summa
cum laude, 1987
Research Interests
Macroeconomics
Political Economy
Public Economics
International Economics
Previous Permanent and Visiting Positions
Assistant Professor of Economics and of Political Science, The
Ohio State University, 1996-97
Research Fellow, European Center for Advanced Research in Economics
(ECARE), Free University of Brussels, 1994-95
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, 1995-96
Economic Consultant, European Commission, Brussels, February-April
1995
Visiting Professor, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Rio de Janeiro,
January 1995.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston
College, 1993-94 and 1995-96.
Articles
"On the Number and Size of Nations", (with Alberto Alesina),
Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1997.
"Economic Theories of the Break-up and Integration of Nations",
(with Patrick Bolton and Gerard Roland), European Economic
Review, April 1996.
"Together or Separately? Issues on the Costs and Benefits
of Political and Fiscal Unions" (with Alberto Alesina and
Roberto Perotti), European Economic Review, April 1995.
"How Cynical Can an Incumbent Be? A Strategic Model of Government
Spending", (with Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti), Journal
of Public Economics, September 1994.
Recent Working Papers
"Economic Integration and Political Disintegration"
(with Alberto Alesina and Romain Wacziarg), NBER Working Paper,
forthcoming 1997.
"International Conflict, Defense Spending, and the Size of
Countries" (with Alberto Alesina), NBER Working Paper No.
5694, August 1996.
"Enlargement Dynamics in Political and Economic Unions",
Yrio Jahnsson European Integration Lectures 7, October 1995
"Stabilizations in Different Government Systems", December
1994 (revised version: April 1997).
Work in Progress
"Barriers and Borders"
"Social Behavior, Institutions, and Growth"