Michele Bagella Director, Department of Economics and Institutions, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' Leonardo Becchetti Doctor of Research and Master of Science (LSE), Department of Economics and Institutions, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' Andrea Berardi Researcher, Banca Comerciale Italiana, Milan, and London Business School Giovanni Caravale Professor of Economics, University of Rome 'La Sapienza' Alberto Dalmazzo Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Siena Carlo Dell' Aringa Professor of Economics, Catholic University, Milan Avinash Dixit Professor of Economics, Princeton University Fabio Gobbo Professor of Economics, University of Bologna and member of Italy's Authority for Competition and the Market Bruno Jossa Professor of Political Economics, University of Naples Giancarlo Marini Professor of Economics, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' Mancur Olson Professor of Economics, University of Maryland Luigi Paganetto Dean, Faculty of Economics and President of CEIS, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' Edmund S. Phelps McVickar Professor of Political Economics, Columbia University, New York Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo Professor of Economics, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' Andrei Shleifer Professor of Economics, Harvard University Giovanni Somogyi Professor of Industrial Economics, University of Rome 'La Sapienza' Salvatore Zecchini Deputy Secretary General, OECD, Paris, and Director of CCET.