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.
John Philip Rust is an American economist and econometrician. John Rust received his PhD from MIT in 1983 and taught at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University and University of Maryland before joining Georgetown University in 2012. John Rust was awarded Frisch Medal in 1992 and became the fellow of Econometric Society in 1993. John Rust is best known as one of the founding fathers of the structural estimation of dynamic discrete choice models and the developer of the nested fixed point (NFXP) maximum likelihood estimator which is widely used in structural econometrics. However, he had published papers on broad range of topics including equilibrium in the markets of durable goods, social security, retirement, disability insurance, nuclear power industry, real estate economics, rental car industry, transportation research, auction markets, computational economics, dynamic games.
Jonathan A. Batten is Professor of Finance at RMIT University, Australia. Prior to this position he worked as a Professor in Finance at the Hong Kong
University of Science & Technology and Seoul National University, Korea. He is the managing editor
of Elsevier’s Emerging Markets Review, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and
Money, co-editor of Finance Research Letters, and associate editor of the Journal of Banking &
Finance, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Journal of Multinational Financial Management,
Research in International Business and Finance and International Review of Financial Analysis.
Jonathan’s research crosses a number of disciplines: in the business area he has published in a number
of journals used by the Financial Times for ranking business schools (e.g. Journal of Business Ethics,
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of International Business Studies). In
addition he has also published work in applied mathematics (e.g. Chaos), in environmental studies
(Resources Policy), and importantly in economic policy (e.g. Applied Economics and the World Bank
Research Observer.
Christos Kollias is a Professor of Applied Economics and Acting Dean at the University of Thessaly, Greece. In his career, he has published more than 100 papers and many edited volumes and books. His papers were published in many of the leading journals such as Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Finance Research Letters, Public Choice, Southern Economic Journal, and Journal of Business Ethics. He is currently the Editor of Defence and Peace Economics (SSCI) and a member of the Editorial Boards of Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy and the Economics of Peace and Security Journal and a member of the governing body of the Network of European Peace Scientists (NEPS). His research interests include defence economics, terrorism, international political economy, and applied macroeconomics.
Cristiano Antonelli holds the chair of Political Economy of the University of Torino (Italy). He is the Fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto where he guides the BRICK (Bureau of Research on Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge) and the Managing Editor of Economics of Innovation and New Technology (since volume 5 1997-1998). His recent books include: Antonelli, C. (2017), “Endogenous Innovation: The Economics of an Emergent System Property”, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar; Antonelli, C. (2018), “The Evolutionary Complexity of Endogenous Innovation. The Engines of the Creative Response”, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar; Antonelli, C. (2019), “The Knowledge Growth Regime: A Schumpeterian Approach” London, Palgrave MacMillan, Antonelli, C. and Colombelli, A. (2022), “The Creative Response: Knowledge and Innovation”, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Antonelli, C. ed. (2022), Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar. His main research topic is economics of innovation and technological change and his research has been published in many leading journals such as Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of evolutionary economics Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, and Regional Studies. His papers have been cited more than 12K (Google Scholar).
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