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.
Douglas Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University. Douglas is also a Visiting Professor of Finance at Birmingham Business School, UK.
Douglas has published over 230 articles in leading journals (including 44 in Financial Times top 50 journals) and 21 books with Oxford, Wiley, and others. Douglas' work has been cited over 29,000 times. Douglas is the Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Corporate Finance.
Douglas’ work has been reviewed in The Economist, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the Globe and Mail, Canadian Business, the National Post, and The New Yorker.
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.
Dorothea Schäfer, Dr. in Economics and habilitation in Business Economics, Research Director Financial Markets at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Adjunct Professor of Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University (Sweden); Research Fellow of the Center for Relationship Banking and Economics CERBE, Roma, Italy. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Eurasian Economics Review and a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO).
Head of various research projects, inter alia, funded by the Leibniz Research Alliance Crises in a Globalised World, the Research Foundation of the German Savings banks, German Science Foundation, the EU Commission, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Stiftung Geld und Währung; Evaluator/reviewer of research programs/proposals for the German Science Foundation (DFG), EU Commission (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the LOEWE (Initiative for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence, State of Hesse).
In 2001 Schäfer and her co-author Franz Hubert received the Best Paper Award of the German Finance Association and 2002 the Best Paper Award of DIW Berlin. Main research interests are: financial and banking markets, systems and regulation, financial crisis, financial constraints, start-up finance and innovation, finance and labor, sovereign debt and Euro Area, gender and financial markets, household finance, green finance, crowd financing. Schäfer ranks in the European Union among the top 4% of researchers according to the RePEc ranking analysis in January 2021.
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.
Michael Chletsos is a Professor of Economic Analysis at the University of Piraeus, Greece. He received his PhD from the University of Picardie, France, and taught at the University of Crete, University of Thessaly, and University of Ioannina before joining the University of Piraeus. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Piraeus. Currently, he serves as the Director of the Master’s Program in Economics of Education and Economics of Public Health. He is the Editor-In-Chief of the SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business, published by the University of Piraeus. He has held various administrative positions, including Head of the Department and Vice-Head of the same Department. He has extensive research focused on labor economics, public economics, economics of social protection, health economics, economics of aging, and economics of inequalities. He is a co-author of two books on the economics of health units and the economics of educational units, published by Springer. His papers have been published in many prestigious economic journals, such as Kyklos, Applied Economics, Journal of Financial Stability, European Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Economic Surveys.
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