Antonio Spilimbergo studied economics at the University Bocconi of Milan where he worked for a year. He received his Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1994. He worked at the Inter-American Development Bank. Since July 1997, he has worked in the European, Fiscal, Research, and Western Hemisphere departments at the I.M.F.. His areas of interest are: international trade, development, labor economics, political economy, and macroeconomics. His main publications were published in the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics ,Journal of Economic Growth, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy . He edited two books on Europe and Brazil and he is author of the book "Si-Vax". He has been mission chief for Slovenia, Italy, Russia, Turkey, and Brazil. He is a Research Fellow at the CEPR.