Ender Demir is a Professor of Finance at the Department of Business and Economics, School of Social Sciences in Reykjavik University, Iceland. Dr. Demir has received his Ph.D. in Business from Ca' Foscari University, Italy. He taught at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Yeditepe University (part-time) and Istanbul Bilgi University (part-time). Dr. Demir is the conference coordinator of the Eurasia Business and Economic Society (EBES). He serves as the associate editor at Eurasian Business Review (SSCI) and as a subject editor at Journal of Multinational Financial Management (SSCI). He has published his research in peer-reviewed international journals, including Journal of Financial Stability, Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and Tourism Management. His research interests are corporate finance, Cryptocurrencies, financial economics, and tourism economics.
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.
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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