Giovanna Vallanti is Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Finance of Luiss and senior research fellow of the LUISS Lab of European Economics and the Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy. She is also the Director of the BA program in Economics and Business. She earned her PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. She was researcher at the European Central Bank and at the Italian National Statistical Institute. Her research primarily focuses on the performance of labour markets with emphasis on the role of labour market institutions in explaining employment dynamics and firms’ performance. She has also carried out research on gender inequalities in the labour market.