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Rethinking Global Economic Governance in Light of the CrisisAbout the authorsTito Boeri is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan and acts asScientific Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. He is research fellow atCEPR, IZA and Igier-Bocconi. His field of research is labour economics, redistributivepolicies and political economics. His papers have been published in the AmericanEconomic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Economic Journal, EconomicPolicy, European Economic Review, Journal of Labour Economics, and the NBERMacroeconomics Annual. He published 7 books with Oxford University Press and MITPress. After obtaining his Ph.D. in economics from New York University, he was senioreconomist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 1987to 1996. He was also consultant to the European Commission, IMF, the ILO, the WorldBank and the Italian Government. He is the founder of the economic policy watchdogwebsite www.lavoce.info and he is scientific director of the Festival of Economics,taking place every year in Trento.Herbert Brücker is Head of the Department for International Comparisons andEuropean Integration at the IAB since 2005 and Professor of economics at theUniversity of Bamberg since 2008. He completed a degree in sociology at the Universityof Frankfurt in 1986 and attained subsequently his doctorate from the University ofFrankfurt in 1994. In 2005 Herbert Brücker received his habilitation in economicsfrom the University of Technology in Berlin. From 1988 to 2005 he held researchpositions at the University of Frankfurt, the German Development Institute (GDI) andthe German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. Herbert Brücker wasVisiting Professor at the Aarhus School of Business from 2004 to 2005.164