Vincenzo Galasso is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan; Director of the Analysis in Pension Economics unit of the Baffi-Carefin Center, Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London at the CES-Ifo, Monaco, at IGIER, Milano, and at the Center for Economic and Political Research on Aging (CEPRA) at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. He is co-Editor of the European Journal of Political Economy, and of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. His research deals with political economics, aging, social security and the welfare state.