Bruno Dallago, PhD, is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento, Italy. He was visiting professor at various universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, USA, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hitotsubashi University, Zhejian University, Kyoto University, the University of Pécs, Tshwane University of Technology, Corvinus University of Budapest. He is the author and editor of several scholarly books and journal articles, including One Currency, Two Europe (World Scientific, 2016), Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Prospects (with Steven Rosefielde, Routledge, 2016) and A Global Perspective on the European Economic Crisis (with Gert Guri and John McGowan, eds., Routledge, 2016).