Giuseppe BERTOLA (Ph.D., M.I.T., 1988) has taught at Princeton University, Università di Torino, European University Institute, Edhec Business School. He is a Programme Director of CEPR's Labour Economics programme and has worked as scientific advisor for the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and other organizations. His research focuses on labor and financial market structure and institutions from an international comparative perspective, particularly as regards their distributional impact and interaction with the European process of economic and monetary unification. He has applied similar methods to exchange rate and money-market policies, interactions between growth and distribution, households’ durable consumption and borrowing, and educational systems. It is published in Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, European Economic Review, and other academic journals. He has authored chapters in Handbook of Labor Economics and Handbook of Income Distribution (North-Holland).