Francesco Giavazzi
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Francesco Giavazzi is an Italian
Italy
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 economist
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 who is currently Professor of Economics at Bocconi University
Bocconi University
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, and a regular visiting professor at MIT.

Biography

He graduated in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano university in 1972 and obtained a PhD
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 in economics from MIT in 1978 under the supervision of Rudi Dornbusch
Rudi Dornbusch
Rüdiger "Rudi" Dornbusch was a German economist who worked for most of his career in the United States.-Biography:...

 and Nobel Laureate Franco Modigliani
Franco Modigliani
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.

In addition to being a professor at Bocconi University in Milan, he is a Research Fellow and a Trustee of CEPR, a member of the Strategic Committee of Agence France Trésor, and of the Group of Economic Policy Advisers to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. During 2004 he was the Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England. During the D´Alema government (1998-2000) he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to the Italian prime minister. He was Director General of the Italian Treasury responsible for debt management and privatizations from 1992 to 1994. From 1991 to 1999 he was an editor of the European Economic Review
European Economic Review
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.

He is also well known for his editorials in Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera
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. He contributes to the economics web sites Voxeu.org and LaVoce.info.

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