Overview
Roberto Perotti is a macroeconomist (Bocconi University, Milan) known for empirical and theoretical work on fiscal policy — fiscal multipliers, fiscal adjustments, and the political economy of budgets.
Key Contributions / Features
- Institutional-elasticity fiscal SVAR (Blanchard-Perotti 2002): co-developed the identification of government-spending and tax shocks using institutional information on tax/transfer elasticities. Quarterly Journal of Economics 117(4): 1329–1368.
- Fiscal adjustments and multipliers: influential work on the composition of fiscal consolidations and the estimation of spending/tax multipliers.
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