Paschalis A. Arvanitidis is Professor of Institutional Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Thessaly (Greece), and visiting professor on Commons at the Hellenic Open University. He is an engineer with postgraduate and doctoral studies in economics, specializing in institutional economics, urban economics and property markets. His current recent research interests focus on issues of urban commons, social and solidarity economy, public space, civic engagement, immigration, as well as issues of local development. Over the last years he has participated in many EU and Greek funded research projects (in 6 as a scientific coordinator). Paschalis is the author of a research monograph publish by Routledge and he has published a number of research papers in collective volumes and peer reviewed journals, such as Cities, Public Choice, Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, Journal of Economic Studies, Contributions to Political Economy and Bulletin of Political Economy.