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Mateusz Najsztub

Mateusz Najsztub is a Research Associate at CenEA where he worked between 2013-2018. He graduated with an MA degree in Chemistry at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2011 and is currently works at the Polish Ministry of Finance where he is involved in fiscal policy analysis.

(Last updated in April 2021)

Vincenzo Bove

Vincenzo Bove is an Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, and a member of the Warwick Q-Step Centre. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2011. Bove has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Essex, the University of Genoa, IMT Lucca and Sciences Po, Paris.

Delroy M. Hunter

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Professor Hunter is the Serge Bonanni Professor of International Finance at the University of South Florida (USF). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick (UK), where he was a Commonwealth Scholar, an MA from the University of Florida, and a BSc from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Prior to joining USF in 2001, he was employed at Bentley University and the University of the West Indies. In addition, he has taught courses for different institutions in England and Singapore.

His research, which focuses on international finance, investments, and empirical asset pricing, has been published in several top academic journals, such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business, and Financial Management. In addition, his research has won the Goldman Sachs Quant Award for research in Investments at the Western Finance Association conference, has been a semi-finalist for best paper awards at several academic conferences, and has been among the top 10 most frequently downloaded papers in different subfields at the Social Sciences Research Network. He has made presentations at various national and international meetings, central bank workshop, and university seminars, has reviewed articles for several peer-reviewed journals and applications to international grant funding agencies, assessed applications for tenure and promotion at different U.S. universities, and is an Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Finance & Accounting. He is also actively community engaged, providing consultancy and advisory services to several entities in the United States and the Caribbean.

Bill B. Francis

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Professor Bill B. Francis holds a Ph.D. degree in Financial Economics from the University of Toronto.  He has been at the Lally School since 2005 where he is currently the Bruggeman Professor of Finance.

He is a finance scholar that is an internationally known expert on international and corporate finance. He is the author of more than 70 articles and book chapters relating to financial markets, exchange rates and managerial decision making. His work has been published in the top finance journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Contemporary Accounting Research, The Journal of American Tax Association, Journal of Corporate Finance and the Journal of Financial Intermediation. He is on the editorial board of several journals including The Journal of Financial Stability, Economic Analysis and Law Review, International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance. He has won several best papers and teaching awards. He has presented numerous papers and has participated in numerous colloquiums both nationally and internationally. Prior to joining The Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he held appointments at the University of South Florida and at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  At the University of South Florida he held the Bank of America Professorship.

Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan

Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan

Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Hanover. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy in October 2014. She is also an off-site Research Associate at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC).

Her research interests are centered around international trade, trade agreements, trade preferences and protection measures.

Hozny Zoabi

Hosny Zoabi is an assistant professor in Economics at the New Economic School. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 2005. Zoabi’s research focuses on understanding the determinants of long-run economic growth and its interaction with demographic changes, market structure and gender differences. It also concentrates on current demographic trends evolving in developed and developing countries.

Moshe Hazan

Moshe Hazan is an associate professor in Economics at Tel-Aviv University, a Research Fellow at the CEPR and an Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 2002 and spent a year as a Post–Doctoral Fellow at MIT. During the academic year 2009-2010, he held a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on understanding the determinants of long-run economic growth and its interaction with demographic change and gender differences. It also concentrates on current demographic trends in developed countries and their interaction with income inequality and economic growth.

Daunis Auers

Daunis Auers

Daunis Auers (PhD, London) is an Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Latvia and Director of the bachelors’ programme in political science. His book on “The Comparative Politics and Government of the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 21st Century” is published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2014.

His recent research has focused on radical-right populism in the Baltic Sea Region and the political use of referendums and initiatives in the Baltic States.

Nicolas Gavoille

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Nicolas Gavoille is an Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and a Research Fellow at BICEPS. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rennes 1, France. He is Treasurer of the Baltic Economic Association and a member of the European Economic Association.

Nicolas’ main research interests are in the field of public economics, labour economics, and political economy. He has published articles in journals such as the European Economic Review, the European Journal of Political Economy and the IMF Economic Review.

(Last updated October 2022)