The scientific committee
The scientific committee is in charge with ensuring the quality of the papers presented at the conference, and as such with the selection of all speakers who will present papers at the conference. Below we give more details on the selection of this body and present its composition for the 2018 edition.
For the 2018 edition, the following 12 academics, affiliated with top foreign universities as well as domestic ones, have agreed to be part of the scientific committee. In alphabetic order, with their current affiliations (as available in December 2017) they are:
- Otilia Boldea, Tilburg University (Netherlands)
- Matei Demetrescu, University of Kiel (Germany)
- Camelia Kuhnen, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School (USA)
- Mihai Manea, Stanford University (USA)
- Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University (USA)
- Andreea Mitrut, Gothenburg University (Sweden)
- Alexandru Nichifor, University of Melbourne (Australia)
- Cristian Pop-Eleches, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (USA)
- Irina Stefanescu, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (USA)
- Razvan Vlahu, De Nederlandsche Bank (Netherlands)
- Marcel Voia, Carleton University (Canada)
- Andrei Zlate, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (USA)
In order to ensure a high quality of the papers accepted for presentation, a scientific committee with full discretion in the evaluation is a sine qua non. Membership in the scientific committee is conditional on having acquired a high academic standard, as reflected by papers published in top journals in Economics. By "top" here we understand the top 5, plus the next approx. 15-20 journals, according to the scientific hierarchies within the Economics discipline used by most top US and European universities. Moreover, the committee should be cross-field representative, with as many fields as possible represented in its composition, in order to be able to evaluate the submitted papers.
