Tito Boeri

A national of Italy, Tito Boeri is currently professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan and acts as Scientific Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. He is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Institute for the Study of Labor and Igier-Bocconi. His field of research is labour economics, redistributive policies and political economics. His papers have been published in the "American Economic Review", "Journal of Economic Perspectives", "Economic Journal", "Economic Policy", "European Economic Review", "Journal of Labour Economics", and the "NBER Macroeconomics Annual". He has published seven books with Oxford University Press and MIT Press. After obtaining his Ph.D. in economics from New York University, he was senior economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 1987 to 1996. He was also consultant to the European Commission, International Monetary Fund, the International Labour Organization, the World Bank and the Italian Government. He is the founder of the economic policy watchdog website Lavoce.info and Voxeu.org and the scientific director of the Festival of Economics.

External links

* [http://www.iza.org/ Institute for the Study of Labor]
* [http://videoplayer.neos.nl/fd/index.php?show=movie_detail&itemId=808 Lecture Tito Boeri in Amsterdam] (February 28, 2008)