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John S. Earle
John S. Earle received his undergraduate degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Now a Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, he has also taught at Stanford University, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Vienna, and Central European University. His main research interests are in labor, development, transition, and institutions, including topics such as employment policies, financial constraints, reallocation, and the effects of structural and institutional change on firms and workers. A former President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, his articles have been published in leading journals in not only economics, but also political science, management, and finance.
Reinaldo Diogo Luz
Reinaldo Luz holds a Master in Business Administration from the COPPEAD Graduate School of Business, at the Federal University of Rio de Janerio, and he is concluding his Ph.D in the Doctoral Program in Law the UFMG Law School in Brazil. He has over 15 years of experience in public management. He was a visiting scholar at the Stockholm School of Economics in 2014-15.
His research fields include anti-corruption law, antitrust law, law and economics, administrative law, and public procurement.
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)
Aleksandr Vashchilko
Aleksandr Vashchilko is a Visiting Researcher at BEROC. He holds a PhD in Economics from Vanderbilt University. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the American University of Iraq and KIMEP University.
His primary research area is International Trade.
[Last updated November 2017]
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
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
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 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.