AUTHOR'S BIO
Tito Boeri
Tito Boeri is Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan and Director of Fondazione Debenedetti.
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The Economic Consequences of Silvio Berlusconi
Tito Boeri Series: European Economies 2010-12-14The decision by Silvio Belusconi's fourth government not to boost spending when financial crisis and recession struck may well have spared Italy a run-up in debt that it could not afford. Unfortunately, the measures that the government did take were utterly wrong, and major structural reforms were ignored.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 20530
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Europe’s Lost Decade
Tito Boeri Series: European Economies 2010-03-23
On March 24, 2010, what all observers of European affairs have long known will be written in stone: the EU failed to attain the targets for economic growth, efficiency, and modernization set ten years ago in Lisbon. Rather than becoming “the most dynamic economy in the world,” the EU is losing ground.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 12816
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Saving Europe’s Lost Generation of Workers
Tito Boeri Series: European Economies 
2009-12-09The many post-mortems of the economic crisis that are now being written are misleading and dangerous, not only because the labor market has not yet recovered, but also because they contribute to complacency, thereby reducing pressure for reform. The crisis will be truly over only when new cohorts of workers are able to enter the labor market quickly and through the main door.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 17835
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The Immigration Game
Tito Boeri Series: Human Rights 2005-02-01Green Papers, as they are called in Europe, or White Papers, as they are known in America and Britain, are often mere rhetorical essays – government-backed studies that state broad principles unlikely ever to be applied in practice. The recent Green Paper released by the European Commission on international migration is no exception. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 29166
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Saving the Stability Pact from Itself
Tito Boeri and Guido Tabellini Series: European Economies 2004-09-23At their meeting in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, the EU's economic ministers (Ecofin) once again confronted the need to reform the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). The issues surrounding reform remain controversial and unsettled, but this time, the ministers laid their cards on the table. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 21395
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High Fences Make Bad Neighbors in Europe
Tito Boeri Series: European Economies 2004-03-02Good fences make good neighbors, so the poet Robert Frost wrote. Sadly, the European Union seems to be taking Frost's poetic whimsy as a serious policy prescription. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 19478
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Down with Euro-Paternalism
Fabrizio Coricelli and Tito Boeri Series: European Economies 2003-10-13Italy's presidency of the European Union bears an enormous responsibility, namely reinvigorating enlargement as the key aspect of the new EU. A good place to start would be to push for a different attitude on accession countries' adoption of the Euro. Indeed, EU institutions' current paternalistic stance towards the accession countries threatens to create a two-tier Europe that will complicate the task of integration. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 15356
