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 2021 edition.

For the 2021 edition, the following 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 March 2021) they are:

• Florin Bilbiie, University of Lausanne
• Bogdan Nicolae Garleanu, University of California, Berkeley (US)
• Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University (US)
• Cosmin Ilut, Duke University (US)
• Mihai Manea, Stoney Brook University (US)
• Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University (US)
• Alexandru Nichifor, University of Melbourne (AU)
• Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University (US)
• Irina Stefanescu, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US)
• Marcel Voia, Carleton University (CA) and Université d'Orléans (FR)

NB: All the members of the Scientific Committee are expected to be present at the conference, most of them in an online format

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.