Professor Bianconi joined Tufts as an Assistant Professor in 1989 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995. His main fields of research are theoretical and applied economic models with particular attention to domestic and international aspects of monetary and fiscal policies and risk and information methods in economics and finance. His academic work has appeared in European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Review of International Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Economics Letters, Canadian Journal of Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, among others. His book entitled Financial Economics, Risk and Information: An Introduction to Methods and Models is forthcoming by World Scientific Publishing Co. Between January 2000-January 2003, Prof. Bianconi was elected and served as executive secretary of the International Economics and Finance Society (IEFS).