Federico Foders received his doctoral degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is a senior fellow at the Kiel Institute for World Economics and teaches at the Universities of Kiel and Cologne. He co-authored a book on the economic consequences of EU enlargement for the old member states, Wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen einer EU-Erweiterung auf die Mitgliedstaaten (with H. Dicke, Mohr Siebeck, 2000), and recently published a book on German educational policy, Bildungspolitik für den Standort D (Springer, 2001). His research interests include regional integration, growth and migration.