Prof. Dr. Luca Salvati is a Senior Researcher and Professor of Economic Statistics at the Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance (MEMOTEF), Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Economics at the Sapienza University of Rome. From 2006 to 2010, he was a level III researcher at the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). His main research interests include regional and urban economics, housing policy, spatial planning, sustainable development, and indication theory.