Klaus F. Zimmermann is President of EBES; President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO); Co-Director of POP at UNU-MERIT; Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University (em.); Honorary Professor, Maastricht University, Free University of Berlin and Renmin University of China; Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Regional Science Academy, and Academia Europaea (Chair of its Section for Economics, Business and Management Sciences). Among others, he has worked at Macquarie University, the Universities of Melbourne, Princeton, Harvard, Munich, Kyoto, Mannheim, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Fellow of the European Economic Association (EEA), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics. He serves in the Editorial Board of International Journal of Manpower, Research in Labor Economics and Comparative Economic Studies, among others. He is the Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); Past-President, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW); Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award 1998 of the Canada Council for the Arts; Outstanding Contribution Award 2013 of the European Investment Bank; Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow 2017; Eminent Research Scholar Award 2017, Australia; EBES Fellow Award 2018. He has published in many top journals including Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Public Choice, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Population Economics and Journal of Public Economics. His research fields are population, labor, development, and migration.
Sofia Johan is Associate Professor of Finance at Florida Atlantic University, USA, and Visiting Professor at InnoLab, University of Vaasa, Finland. She is co-editor of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and associate editor of the British Journal of Management, the International Journal of Finance and Economics, and the British Accounting Review. She is on the editorial boards of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, Emerging Markets Review, and Finance Research Letters, among others. Her research focuses on corporate finance, corporate governance, alternative investments (hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, real estate investment trusts, and IPOs) and alternative finance (crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending, and cryptocurrencies).
Marco Vivarelli is a full professor at the Catholic University of Milano, where he is also Director of the Institute of Economic Policy. He is Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht; Research Fellow at IZA; Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO). He is member of the Scientific Executive Board of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES); member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO, Vienna) and has been scientific consultant for the International Labour Office (ILO), World Bank (WB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the European Commission. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Eurasian Business Review, Editor of Small Business Economics, Associate Editor of Industrial and Corporate Change, Associate Editor of Economics EJournal, member of the Editorial Board of Sustainability and he has served as a referee for more than 70 international journals. He is author/editor of various books and his papers have been published in journals such as Cambridge Journal of Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economics Letters, Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Labour Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Regional Studies, Research Policy, Small Business Economics, Southern Economic Journal, World Bank Research Observer, and World Development. His current research interests include the relationship between innovation, employment, and skills; the labor market and income distribution impacts of globalization; the entry and post-entry performance of newborn firms.
Pawel Gajewski is Associate Professor and Head of Macroeconomics Department at the University of Lodz, Poland. He is also Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Eastern European Economics. Prior to this position, he was director of the Institute for Economic and Financial Expertise and an advisor at the National Bank of Poland. He was also a senior editor in the International Journal of Emerging Markets. Pawel’s research career has consistently reflected overlapping interests in catching-up mechanisms, regional economic dynamics, and economic integration. In addition to conducting research at the University of Lodz, he collaborated with the Polish Academy of Sciences and the UN International Labour Office. He received a total of five prizes for scientific achievements from the President and Director of the University of Lodz and the Polish Academy of Sciences, respectively. He has published in the International Review of Financial Analysis, European Planning Studies, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Regional Studies, Regional Science, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, and Eastern European Economics, among others. Pawel has also been a reviewer and expert at the Polish National Science Centre.
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