Was educated at the American University, Washington, DC, Luiss-Guido Carli, Rome, the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and Sapienza – University of Rome. Professor Garzarelli’s first research
contributions lie in the field of the theory of the firm, modularity, and innovation, particularly in the coevolution of techonology and organization in voluntary open-source software production. More
recently, he is trying to make time for older research interests, especially in the fields of the New Institutional Economics and Public Choice, that concern the Second-generation theory of fiscal federalism, particularly its laboratory aspect, and state formation through fission. He is the Editor of the Journal of Public Finance and
Public Choice (Bristol University Press)