Professor of Economics at the Bocconi University in Milan, Scientific Director of the Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation, founder of the site www.lavoce.info and founding editor of www.voxeu.org. He is a research fellow at CEPR in London, IZA in Bonn and the Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan. He is a member of  the board of the European Economic Association. He has been senior economist with OECD in Paris and acted as a consultant for the World Bank, the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the Italian government. He has published ten books with Oxford University Press, MIT Press and Princeton University Press and is the author of various papers published in international scientific magazines. He is a leader writer for the “Repubblica”.  His most recent publications in Italian include: Contro i giovani, with V. Galasso, Mondatori (2007); Come cambia l’Italia, with R. Baldwin and G. Barba Navaretti,  Il Mulino (2007); Un nuovo contratto per tutti, with P. Garibaldi, Chiarelettere (2008).