Meet the editor

Luigi Aldieri is a Full Professor of Economics at the Department of Economic and Statistical Sciences of the University of Salerno. He holds a Ph.D. in Sciences Economiques et de gestion at the Solvay Business School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM) of Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). His Ph.D. thesis "Three Essays on Knowledge Diffusion and Firms' Economic Performance" is supervised by Prof. Michele

Cincera. His research interests embrace Applied Econometrics, the measurement of knowledge, geographic spillovers, and economic performance of large international firms, as well as the empirical analysis of the effects of educational level on fertility in developed countries.

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