Trebbi and Washington to Codirect Political Economy Program.

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Francesco Trebbi of the University of California, Berkeley and Ebonya L. Washington of Yale University are the new codirectors of the NBER's Political Economy Program, succeeding the late Alberto Alesina of Harvard University, who launched the program in 2006.

The new codirectors have studied a wide range of issues that span the field of political economy.

Trebbi is the Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Professor of Business and Public Policy at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. His research focuses on the determinants of polarization, lobbying and its effects, the design of political institutions, and the political economy of financial regulation. He has been an NBER affiliate since 2007.

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