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.
Euston Quah is Albert Winsemius chair professor of economics and director of the Economic Growth Centre at Nanyang Technological University(NTU), Singapore. He is also editor of the Singapore Economic Review and president of the Economic Society of Singapore. Professor Quah has published widely in the fields of cost-benefit analysis, environmental economics, and law and economics.
Contributing to more than a hundred publications, inclusive of academic journals and lead opinion pieces in media, his journal papers had appeared in World Development, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Applied Economics, World Economy, International Review of Law and Economics, Journal of Asian Economics, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Journal of Environmental Management, Environment and Planning Series A and C, Bulletin of Economic Research, European Journal of Law and Economics, and Education Economics, among others. Some of his works have been selected for inclusion by the International Library of Critical Writings in Economics in the UK as well as received favorable reviews in such leading journals as Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Literature, and the Journal of Labour Economics. His most recent works have appeared in publications with Routledge Series, Springer Nature, Oxford University Press and a paper with Journal of Asian Economic Integration, a Sage publication. His textbook with E.J Mishan, now in its 6th edition (Routledge, UK, 2020), is regarded as a classic text in this subject and used by many universities and governments. It was listed for reference by the US Office of Management and Budget and also by the US Department of Transportation. The Asian edition of the Principles of Economics with Gregory Mankiw, now in its 3rd edition was released in 2021 by Cengage, and is generally regarded as a best seller text in Southeast and East Asia. Professor Quah was listed in Google Scholar Profiler in 2022 as among the top sixteen most highly cited university economists in the area of cost-benefit analysis in the world. In 2022, he was invited as a plenary speaker for the Annual Conference of the US Society of Benefit-Cost Analysis.
Formerly Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Deputy Director of the Public Policy Program (now called the Lee Kuan Yew School) at the National University of Singapore and headed the economics departments at both Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore, Professor Quah has been and continues to be advisor to many government ministries in Singapore. Professor Quah chaired the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at NTU. He is a member of the Social Sciences Research Council of Singapore, board member of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, and board member of the Market Surveillance and Compliance Committee of Singapore's Energy Market Company.
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.
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.
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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