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.
Dorothea Schäfer is the Research Director of Financial Markets at the German
Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and Adjunct Professor of
Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University. She has also
worked as an evaluator for the European Commission, the Federal Ministry of
Education and Research and Chairwoman of Evaluation Committee for LOEWE
(Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz
des Bundeslandes Hessen). She managed various research projects supported
by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the EU Commission, the Fritz
Thyssen Foundation and the Stiftung Geld und Währung. Her researches were
published in various journals such as Journal of Financial Stability; German
Economic Review; International Journal of Money and Finance; and Small
Business Economics. She is regularly invited as an expert in parliamentary
committees, including the Finance Committee of the Bundestag and gives
lectures on financial market issues in Germany and abroad. She is also a
member of the Editorial Board and Editor-in-Chief of the policy-oriented journal
“Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung” and Editor-in-Chief of Eurasian
Economic Review. Her research topics include financial crisis, financial market
regulation, financing constraints, gender, and financial markets, financial
transaction tax.
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.
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