Guido Tabellini Guido Tabellini Guido Enrico Tabellini (born January 26, 1956) is an Italian economist, rector of Bocconi University from November 2008 until July 2012. Tabellini received his Laurea in 1980 from the University of Turin, and his Ph.D. in 1984 from UCLA. He first taught at Stanford, then at UCLA, and later in Italy. He is past president of the European Economic Association. He was consultant to the World Bank and Italian government. In 2003 Tabellini published "The Economic Effects of Constitutions. Munich Lectures in Economics". In May 2008 he was appointed as rector of Bocconi University (Milan), in charge from
Bocconi University of the university there are three sets of doors. The central doors, which are larger than the others, have two lions to either side of them. There is a superstition within the university that students who pass in-between the two lions via the central doors risk not being able to graduate. This derives from the old adage "Chi passa tra i Leoni non si laurea alla Bocconi." The three main buildings of Bocconi, if seen from the top, seem to spell "30L" (30 "cum laude"), the maximum achievable grade in any exam. The building in Via Roentgen is the "3",