Enrico Spolaore

Professor of Economics and Chair

Department of Economics

 

Tufts University

Braker Hall

8 Upper Campus Road
Medford, MA 02155

enrico.spolaore@tufts.edu

 

 

 

Enrico Spolaore is Professor and Chair of Economics at Tufts. He is also a member of the NBER’s Political Economy Program and of CESIfo Research Network, and co-editor of Economics & Politics. His main research interests are in Political Economy, International Economics, and Growth and Development.

Short Bio

Curriculum Vitae (in pdf)

Read about The Diffusion of Development in Economic Principals (and in SmartMoney, if you read Russian)

BOOK: The Size of Nations (with Alberto Alesina), MIT Press – now available in paperback

Table of Contents, Endorsements

Media coverage and reviews: The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Economic Literature, EH.net, SAIS Review, Corriere della Sera (in Italian).

RECENT PAPERS:

The Diffusion of Development (with Romain Wacziarg) – Media coverage: Economic Principals, SmartMoney (in Russian)

Civil Conflict and Secessions, Economics of Governance, forthcoming

The Economics Approach to the Size of Nations, New Palgrave, forthcoming

National Borders and the Size of Nations, Oxford Handbook of Political Economy

Borders and Growth (with Romain Wacziarg), Journal of Economic Growth

Conflict, Defense Spending, and the Number of Nations (with Alberto Alesina), European Economic Review

Trade, Growth, and the Size of Countries (with Alberto Alesina and Romain Wacziarg), Handbook of Economic Growth, North-Holland

Why Chads? Determinants of Voting Equipment Use in the United States (with Phillip Garner), Public Choice – also at CALTECH-MIT/Voting Technology Project

War, Peace and the Size of Countries (with Alberto Alesina), Journal of Public Economics

Economic Integration, International Conflict, and Political Unions, Rivista di Politica Economica

Is Small Really So Ugly? World Trade Review

Adjustments in Different Government Systems, Economics & Politics

On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility (with Peter Gottschalk), Review of Economic Studies

Economic Integration and Political Disintegration (with Alberto Alesina and Romain Wacziarg), American Economic Review

On the Number and Size of Nations (with Alberto Alesina), Quarterly Journal of Economics