Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics, Harvard University.
Previous positions: Taussig Research Professor of Economics, Harvard University, July 2006 to June 2007; Chairman of the Department of Economics, Harvard University, July 2003 to June 2006; Professor of Economics and Government, Harvard University, July 1993 to June 2003; Visiting Professor of Economics, IGIER-Bocconi, Academic Year 2002-03 and 2008-09; Visiting Professor of Economics, MIT, Academic year 1998-99; Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University, January 1991 to June 1993; Assistant Professor of Economics and Government, Harvard University, September 1988 to December 1990; Olin Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1989-90; Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University, 1987-88; Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University, 1986-87.
Honors and Awards: Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 2006; Fellow of the Econometric Society, from 2003; Munich CES Prize in Economics, for 2006; Honorary Degree from Normal University, Beijing, May 2005.
Professional Activities: Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Growth, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, and Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv; Director of the NBER Program in Political Economics.
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Reinhard Neck, Professor of Economics, Lagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria
Previous Positions: Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 2006; Austrian Visiting Professor, Stanford university, 2001; Professor of Economics/Public Economies, University of Osnabruck, Germany, 1995-97; Professor of Economics/Quantitative Economic Policy, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 1992-95; Joseph Schumpeter Research Fellow, Harvard University, 1991-92.
Selected Publications: Books: Modeling and Control of Economic Systems 2001, Elsevier 2003 (ed.);Quantitative Economic Policy, Springer Verlag 2008 (ed. With P. Mooslechner and C. Richter);Sustainability of Public Debt, MIT Press 2008 (ed. With J. E. Sturm). Articles: “Optimal Deterministic and Stochastic Macroeconomic Policies for Slovenia: An Application of the OPTCON Algorithm” (with G. Haber and K Weyerstrass), Computational Economics 2010; “A Macroeconomic Policy Game for Monetary Union with Adaptive Expectations” (with D.A. Behrens), Atlantic Economic Journal 2009; “Less Government – More Wealth? On the Macroeconomics of a Smaller Public Sector in Europe” (with G. Haber and W. J. McKibbin), International Advances in Economic Research 2006; “Global Implications of Monetary and Fiscal Policy Rules in the EMU” (with G. Haber and W.J. McKibbin), Open Economies Review 2002; “Cross-Cultural Equity Evaluations: A Questionnaire-Experimental Approach”( with W. Gaertner and J. Jungeilges), European Economic Review 2001; “Econometric Estimations of Popularity Functions: A Case Study for Austria” (with S. Karbuz), Public Choice 1997; “OPTCON: An Algorithm for the Optimal Control of Nonlinear Stochastic Models” (with J. Matulka), Annals of Operations Research1992.
Professional Activities: Research Fellow, CESifo, Munich; Visiting Professor, University of Ljumljana. Editorial Boards: International Journal of Sustainable Economy, since 2009; Empirica – Journal of European Economies, since 2009; International Advances in Economic Research, since 1996; Advances in Coputational Economics, since 1993; Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 1999-2002; Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, 1985-1998. Offices: President, Karl Popper Foundation; President, Scientific Board of the Austrian Research Association; President, Austrian Economic Association, 2007-2008; Executive Committee, International Atlantic Economic Society, 2001-2004.
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John M. Virgo, Professor and Executive Vice President
Positions: Professor Emeritus, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2005-present; Professor, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 1984-2005; Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 1975-1983; Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1972-1974. Instructor/visiting professor at: Claremont Graduate University; California State University at Fullerton; California State University at Long Beach; Redlands University; Whittier College.
Selected Publications: Books: An Evaluation of Manpower Programs, Region IX, U.S. Department of Labor, November 1971 (coauthor); The Legal and Illegal California Farmworker: Some Implications for Unemployment Insurance, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., 1974 (coauthor); Health Care: An International Perspective, (Foreword by Margaret Heckler, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), International Health Economics and Management Institute (IHEMI), 1984, (Editor); Exploring New Vistas in Health Care, (Foreword by C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General), IHEMI, 1985 (Editor); Restructuring Health Policy: An International Challenge, IHEMI, 1986 (Editor). Articles: “Labor Market Impacts of Illegal Mexican Manpower Flows,” Western Economic Journal, 1971; “Surreptitious Transborder Manpower: Its Impact on Domestic Labor,” Atlantic Economic Journal, 1973; “Program Evaluation in the Public Employment Service,” Journal of Economics and Business, 1974 (coauthor); “Evolving Professorial Unionism,” Atlantic Economic Journal, 1977; “The Problem of Youth Unemployment” Die Industrie, (in German), 1977; “Manpower Planning at the Firm Level,” Die Industrie (in German) 1978; “Tax Laws, Inflation, and Social Equity,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Business Law Review, 1978; “The Changing Health Care Sector,” Health Care: An International Perspective, IHEMI, 1984; “Economic Competition in the Health Care Sector,” Societa Medica del Friuli, (Italy), 1985; “Competitivita nel Sistema Sanitario: l’esperienza americana,” Journal of the American Medical Association, (European Edition), 1986; “The Political Demise of the Clinton Health Care Plan,” Brock Review, 1996 (coauthor); “Medical Versus Surgical Abortion: A Survey of Knowledge and Attitudes Among Abortion Clinic Patients,” Women’s Health Issues, 1999 (coauthor); The Real World of Business Ethics: People, Public, and Planets as Shareholders, Kevin Gibson (ed.), “The Price of International Business Morality: Twenty Years Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,”(coauthor), 2005.
Association Positions and Offices: Founder, President, International Atlantic Economic Society, 1973-1976; Executive Vice President, 1976-present; Founder and Managing Editor, Atlantic Economic Journal, 1973-present; Chairperson, American Economic Association Executives Committee, 1984-1986; Honorary member of the Puerto Rican Economic Association, 1984; Founder and Chief Executive Officer, International Health Economics and Management Institute, 1984-1987; Board of Directors, 1987-1993; Founder and Editor-in-Chief, International Advances in Economic Research, 1995-present.
Nicholas Apergis, Professor, Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece.
Previous Positions: Visiting Professor, Fordham University and Manhattan College, 1991-1992; Visiting Professor, State University of New York at New Paltz, 1992; Lecturer, University of Macedonia, Greece, 1994-1998; Assistant Professor, University of Macedonia, Greece, 1998-1999; Associate Professor, University of Ioannina, Greece, 1999-2002; Professor, University of Macedonia, Greece, 2002-2006; Professor, University of Piraeus, Greece 2006-present.
Selected Publications: Articles: ”The Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle and Exchane Rate Regimes: Evidence from Cointegration Tests,” Journal of Policy Modeling, 1994; “ARCH Effects and Cointegration: Is the Foreign Market Efficient?” Journal of Banking and Finance, 1996; “Stock Prices and Inflation Volatility: Evidence from an ARCH Model,” International Advances in Economic Research, 1996; “Budget Deficits and Exchange Rate: Further Evidence from Causality and Cointegration Tests,” Journal of Economic Studies, 1998; “Stock Market Volatility and Deviations from Macroeconomic Fundamentals: Evidence from GARCH and GARCH-X Models,” Kredit and Kapital, 1998; “Public and Private Investments in Greece: Complementary or Substitute Goods,” Bulletin of Economic Research, 1998; “Reassesing the Role of Buffer-Stock Money under Oil Price Shocks,” Atlantic Economic Journal, 2001; “Testing the Intertemporal Substitution Hypothesis: The Impact of Income Uncertainty on Savings,” Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv,2001; “Cross-market Volatility Spillover Effects: Evidence from Intra-day Data on Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets,” Manchester School of Economics, 2001; “Inflation, Output, Growth, Volatility, and Causality: Evidence from Panel Data and the G7 Countries,” Economics Letters, 2004; “Consumption Asymmetry and the Stock Market: Empirical Evidence,” Economics Letters, 2007; “Total Factor Productivity and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Conditional Volatility,” International Finance, 2007; “Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in Central America: Evidence from a Panel Cointegration and Error Correction Model,” Energy Economics, 2009.
Association Positions and Offices: Editor of International Journal of Economic Research; Member of the Editorial Board, International Advances in Economic Research; Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Economic and Finance.
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Ludwig Dittrich, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences.
Previous Positions: Academic Fellowship, Harvard University, 1970-1972; Assistant Professor, Chapingo Agricultural University, Mexico, 1975-1977; Visiting Assistant Professor, Clark University, 1977-1978; Assistant Professor, Tufts University, 1980-1981;Consultant, Harvard University, 1981; Arbitrage Manager and Trader, Chase Manhattan Bank, 1981-1985; Associate Professor, Suffolk University, 1984-1989; Consultant to the World Bank, 1990; Advisor to the Minister of the Economy of the Czech Republic, 1992-1993; Advisor to the Minister of Health of Czech Republic, 2004-2005; Director of Health Care Practice and Public Finance, Deloitte &Touche, 1994-1997; Chief Consultant and Development Director, Grace & Company, 1992-1997; Founder and Managing Director, Health Care Purchasing Partners International CZ, Czech Republic, 1999-2002.
Selected Publications: Articles: ”The Influence of Socio-Economic Variables on Farm Performance in Mexico,”Journal of Economic Development, 1981; “Distribution Aspects of Tax Reform,” American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1981; “Organ Transplants: a Simulation of Costs,” Kentucky Journal of Economics and Business, 1989; “The Crude Estimate of Environmental Damage Due to Air Pollution in the Czech and the Slovak Federative Republics,” 1991; “Hospitals as Suppliers of Health Care. For Profit or Not for Profit Entity?” Journal of Health Care in the Czech Republic, December 2004.
Maureen O’Hara, Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.
Previous positions: Visiting Professor, University of Paris-Dauphine, 2006; Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2000; Visiting Professor of Finance, School of Banking and Finance, University of New South Wales, 1996; Visiting Professor of Finance, London Business School, 1994, 1995; Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, 1993-1994; Visiting Associate Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, 1985-1986.
Selected Publications: Books: Market Microstructure Theory, Blackwell Publishers, 1995; Japanese Edition, Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs, 1996; Chinese Edition, Lian Publishing Studio, 2007. Articles: ”Presidential Address and Price Discovery,” Journal of Finance, 2003; “Information and the Cost of Capital,” Jouranl of Finance, 2004; “Down and Out in the Stock Market: The Law and Finance of the Delisting Process,” Journal of Law and Economics, 2008; “Time and the Process of Security Price Adjustment,” Journal of Finance, 1992; “Can Transparent Markets Survive?”Journal of Financial Economics, 2000; “Real Bills Revisited: Market Value Accounting and Loan Maturity,” Journal of Financial Intermediation, 1993; “One Day in the Life of a Very Common Stock,” Review of Financial Studies, 1997; “The “Make or Take” Decision in an Electronic Market: Evidence on the Evolution of Liquidity,” Journal of Financial Economics, 2005.
Association Positions and Offices: President, International Atlantic Economic Society, 2010-2011; President, American Finance Association, 2002-2003; President-elect, Financial Management Association, 2008; President, Western Finance Association, 1997-1998; President, Society for Financial Studies, 2008-present; Executive Editor, Review of Financial Studies, 1999-2005; Associate Editor,Journal of Finance, 1988-1990.
David D. VanHoose, Herman W. Lay Professor of Private Enterprise, Baylor University
Previous Positions: Senior Research Fellow, Networks Financial Institute, 2006-present; Professor, University of Alabama, 1990-2001; Assistant Professor, Indiana University, 1984-1990; Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1989; Visiting Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1988.
Selected Publications: Books: The Industrial Organization of Banking, Springer 2010; E-Commerce Economics, Routledge, forthcoming, Global Economic Issues and Policies (with Joseph Daniels), Routledge, forthcoming. Articles: “Disaggregate Evidence on Price Stickiness and Implications for Macro Models” (with Carl R. Gwin), Economic Inquiry, 2008; “Openness, the Sacrifice Ratio, and Inflation: Is There a Puzzle?” (with Joseph P. Daniels), Journal of International Money and Finance, 2006; “Has Greater Competition Restrained Inflation?” (with John V. Duca),Southern Economic Journal, 2000; “Discretionary Monetary Policy and Socially Efficient Wage Indexation” (with Christopher J. Waller), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992; “Optimal Wage Indexation in a Multisector Economy” (with John V. Duca), International Economic Review, 1991.
Editorial Positions: Co-Editor for International Trade and Finance, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2009-present; Editor for Monetary Economics, Journal of Economics and Business, 1994-2000, 2004-2008; Board of Editors, Atlantic Economic Journal, 1996-present; Editorial Board, Open Economics Review, 1995-present.
Waclawa Starzynska, Professor of Economics, University of Lodz; Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Maria Curie Sklodowska University.
Previous Positions: Professor, University of Lodz, 2005-Present; Associate Professor, University of Lodz, 1992-2005; Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Southern Mississippi, 1993-1994; Goethe University in Frankfurt, 1992; Universidad Autohoma de Barcelona, 1986; Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 1986; Adjumct Professor University of Lodz, 1975-1981; Assistant Professor, University of Lodz, 1968-1975.
Selected Publications: Books:Basic Statistics, (Co-author), Difin, Warsaw, 2004, 2006, 2009; VAT in Agriculture (ed.), Folia Oeconomica, Lodz, 2006; Economic Integration in Europe. Statistics in Practice, WNPWN, Warsaw, 2000, 2006; Public Procurement Market in the Process of the European Integration, Difin, Warsaw, 2004; Methodological Aspects, (co-editor), University of Lodz, 2000; Statistics for Business, (co-author), Absolwent, Lodz, 1996; Food Market in Shortage, Acta Universitatis Lodziensis, Lodz, 1990; Articles: “The Public Procurement System and Innovativeness of Enterprises,” University of Economy, Wroclaw, 2010; “Income Distributions in Poland by Socio Economic Groups. A Social Welfare Approach,” (Co-author), WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, 2006; “Public Procurement Market in the Process of the EU Integration,” Prace Naukowe AE No. 894, Wroclaw, 2001; “Poland’s Agriculture Sector under Transformation,” International Advances in Economic Research, 1995; “The Polish Procurement Market and Foreign Direct Investment,” Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin, 1994; “Food Stuff’s Prices and Disequilibrium,” Acta Universitatis Lodziensis, 1992; “On Problems of Modelling of Food Market in Disequilibrium,” Prace InstytutuEkonometril I Statystyki, University of Lodz, 1988; “Demad of Population for Gastronomic Services,” Roczniki Handlu Wewnętrznego, Warsaw, 1974.
Professional Activities: Member, Public Procurement Council in Poland, 2008-Present; Member, Deutsche Statistiche Gesellschaft, 2005-Present; Member, International Advances in Economic Research Board of Editors, 1996-Present; Member, International Atlantic Economic Society, 1992-Present; Member, Scientific Society of Lodz, 1992-Present.