is Full Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Brescia, Italy. He studied, taught and carried out research activities at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), the London School of Economics (UK) and the University of Pennsylvania (Usa). Marelli has published several books and articles in a number of research areas: comparative economic systems, European integration, macroeconomics and economic policy, labour economics and policy, regional economics. He is co-author (with Marcello Signorelli) of the book: “Europe and the euro. Integration, crisis and policies”, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016 (forthcoming).