Alberto Petrucci is Professor of Economics and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences at LUISS-Guido Carli University in Rome as well as Professor of Open Economy Macroeconomics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His current research interests are in Macroeconomics, International Economics, Growth Theory and Modelling, and Public Economics.

He got his Ph.D. in 1993 at the Advanced School of Econometrics, Universities Consortium of Econometrics-CIDE, Italy.

He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Stanford, New York and Columbia (USA) as well as at the University of Exeter (UK). He has also been Professor of Economics at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmento in Buenos Aires in 2002, Professor of Economics at the Moscow State Aviation Institute, Faculty of Economics and Business, in Moscow in 1996 and Senior Economist at ISCO (National Institute for the Business Cycle Analysis) in Rome from 1992 until 1995, as well as Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Molise in Campobasso. In 1998 he worked as an advisor for the CNR (Italian Research Council) research project on the Italian economy, in 1995 as an advisor for ISTAT (Italian National Institute of Statistics) and several times for the Italian Budget and Economic Planning Ministry.

He published extensively in journals such as International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Public Economics, Louvain Economic Review and Oxford Economic Papers.

Among his latest publications