Alessia Aspide- Master of Science
- PhD Student at Leiden University
Alessia Aspide
- Master of Science
- PhD Student at Leiden University
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Alessia Aspide is a PhD researcher at the Leiden University. She holds a BSc degree in Economics from the University of Naples Federico II and a MSc degree in Political Economy of Europe from the London School of Economics. She works on the project ‘The Micro- foundations of Debt Crises’, hosted at the Leiden University and funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Her research focuses on the political economy of sovereign debt.
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In recent decades, fiscal integration in Europe has manifested through restrictive rules. However, the consolidation of public finances often encounters citizens’ resistance. International obligations can raise public support for costly domestic policies that are consistent with the obligations’ terms, but can European fiscal pledges influence publ...
The public places an important constraint on funding security in Europe, and austerity risks making the constraint tighter. Several recent studies show that curtailing military spending is a popular way to reduce debt in Europe. Yet it remains unclear if military spending aversion persists when threats are salient. We fielded an original survey exp...
Many scholars and policymakers see rising debt burdens in the industrialised world as the product of ageing populations. Prominent theoretical models of government debt accumulation – used to justify fiscal rules and austerity measures – explicitly assume that support for debt reduction decreases with age. While such models have been influential, t...
Popular media and politicians have often blamed the high public debt of some EU countries on cultural differences. These claims are most apparent in the discourse contrasting ostensibly prudent Northern Europeans with spendthrift Southern Europeans. Despite the prominence of these and similar narratives and evidence that culture plays a nontrivial...
Many scholars and policymakers see the continuing rise of debt burdens in the advanced industrialized world as the product of aging populations and increasing dependency ratios. In fact, many prominent theoretical models of government debt accumulation -- often used to justify fiscal rules and austerity measures -- make explicit assumptions that in...
