Giacomo Ponzetto is a Senior Researcher at CREI, Adjunct Professor at UPF and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona GSE, as well as a Research Affiliate of IPEG and of CEPR. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2009. His research lies at the intersection of Political Economy and International and Regional Economics. He has written on political and legal institutions, on the political economy of trade policy, on federalism and political centralization, and on entrepreneurship and the spatial distribution of economic activity.