Davide Antonioli is associate professor of Economics at the University of Ferrara, Department of Economics and Management, where he teaches Labor Economics and Urban and Regional Economics. He taught Economic Policy at the G. D'annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Department of Business Economics. He has published numerous essays in national and international journals and in volumes on the subject of economics of innovation, labor economics and environmental economics. He is a member of the inter-university research center SEEDS and of the departmental research center CERCIS.