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2011

Jan Fidrmuc is a Senior Lecturer at Brunel University London. Before coming to Brunel, he has held appointments at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) of Bonn University, Trinity College Dublin and European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) of Université Libre de Bruxelles. His research interests include political economy, economics of languages, institutional economics and labor/family economics.

Ayal Kimhi is Associate Professor at Hebrew University since 2004. He also has held visiting positions at the University of Maryland, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Nagoya University.  He serves as Deputy Director at the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies and also as the Director of Research at the Center for Agricultural Economic Research. He worked as a consultant for the World Bank on various projects. His research areas include poverty and inequality, time allocation, intergenerational transfers, and structural changes in rural areas in developed, developing and transition countries.

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William J. Adams is a professor of Economics at University of Michigan. He studies industrial organization (in particular, the sources and uses of market power) and the European economy (in particular, European economic integration).

Carlo Altomonte is an associate professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. He is the author of various scientific papers, selected book chapters, monographs and working papers in the area of international trade and foreign investment, economic geography and economics of European integration.

Rick Barichello is a professor in the Food and Resource Economics Group in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. He holds a PhD in Economics from University of Chicago and has taught at UBC for 30 years. His research work has focused primarily on poverty, agricultural policy and development issues. He has consulted (amongst others) to the Harvard Institute for International Development, the World Bank, the UN Development Program and the US Agency for International Development on various international development issues, in particular on Asia.

Joze P. Damijan is an associate professor of the international economics at the University of Ljubljana. He is a member of the editorial boards of the IB review and the Economic and Business Review. He is the author of numerous scientific papers, selected book chapters, monographs and working papers in the area of international trade, FDI, economic geography, economics of European integration, economics of transition, privatisation, corporate governance in transition economies.

Filip De Beule is an associate professor of International Business at the Lessius Hogeschool Antwerp. He teaches courses on International Management and Strategies. His research focuses on international business and in particular on the multinational firms.

Eric Faucompret is a professor at the Faculty of Applied Economics of the University of Antwerp. He is greatly interested in international economics and politics.

Lisa George is an assistant professor at City University of New York.  She is an applied empirical economist specializing in industrial organization and political economy. Her current research examines the economics of media markets.

Binglin Gong is an assistant Professor of Economics, Shanghai JiaoTong University in China. Binglin Gong’s main fields of interests are experimental economics.

James C. Hartigan is a professor at the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the Council of Editors of the Review of International Economics and the Pacific Economic Review, and was a founding member of the International Economics and Finance Society. His research interests are international economics and international trade law.

Taeho Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at Seoul National University, Korea. He was educated in Seoul National University, Yonsei University (MA), Cornell University (MA) and Iowa State University (PhD). He consulted to Korea Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry as a member of many agricultural policy committees, served Korean Agricultural Economics Association as the chairman of editorial board and worked for the university as the head of his department. His current research interests are rice economics, North Korean agriculture and the globalization of Korean agriculture.

Jiangyong Lu is an associate professor at Peking University. His main interests include strategic management and international business.

Ming Lu is a professor at Dep. of Economics, and Employment and Social Security Research Center, Fudan University in China. Ming Lu’s main fields of interests are labor economics (income distribution, and migration), development economics (urbanization, and regional development) and social economics.

Xinhai Lu is a professor at the Department of Land Management, College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. His studies are focused on urban land use and management, urban Economics.

Yunshi Mao is Director of the Research Center on Enterprise and Markets, Sun Yat-sen University in China. His main research interests include transnational enterprises and market structure.

Jill McCluskey is a professor at the School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University. Her fields of interest include product quality and industrial organization, consumer preferences for food, technology, and information and environmental quality and land use. She is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Wine Economics and also associate editor of the Journal of Industrial Organization Education.

Robert Magda is an associate professor at the Department of Economics, Károly Róbert College Gyöngyös (Hungary), where he teaches classes on Microeconomics and on Natural Resources. His research focuses on land utilisation (agriculture vs. industry vs. services) and land ownership.

Kaz Miyagiwa is an associate professor of Economics at Emory University in Atlanta and is the Associate Editor of International Economic Journal. He is a member of the Council of Editors of the Review of International Economics and Pacific Economic Journal and the author of numerous scientific papers, selected book chapters, monographs and working papers in the area of international trade, industrial organization and microeconomics.

Vivekananda Mukherjee works at the Department of Economics at Jadavpur University, India. His research interests are public economics, intstitutional economics, political economy, natural resource and environmental economics.

John Nye holds the Frederic Bastiat Chair in Political Economy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is a specialist in European economic history and new institutional economics.

Alessandro Olper is an associate professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Milan. His research work primarily focuses on political economy, international trade, and agricultural policy analysis. Alessandro Olper received his PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Padova.

Bee Roberts is Professor of Economics and Asian Studies, Penn State University. Bee Roberts’s main fields of interests are development economics, international economics and industrial organization.

Mark Roberts is Professor of Economics at Department of Economics, Penn State University, and Research Associate NBER. Mark Roberts’s main fields of interests are applied micro economics and industrial organization.

Gérard Roland is professor at the University of California, Berkely. He graduated from the Free University of Brussels in 1988. His early work was on communism. After 1990 he build a reputation in transition economics and wrote several seminal contributions in this area. Gérard Roland is co-director of the Transition Economics Program of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and fellow of the William Davidson Institute. He is a member of the LICOS International Advisory Council.

Scott Rozelle is a professor at Stanford University and a world renowned scholar on China, who has published in Science, Nature, AER, and many other journals on poverty, development, trade, technology development, and agricultural policy in China.

Koen Schoors is a professor of economics at Universiteit Ghent. He publishes and lectures about EU enlargement, banking and finance, corporate finance and foreign direct investment. He is specialized in Russia and currently directs CERISE, an interdisciplinary research centre that focuses on Russia.

Ram Singh is an associate professor of Economics at the University of Delhi. His research interests include law and economics, public economics and economic theory.

Huasheng Song is an associate professor at the School of Economics of Zhejiang University  in China. He holds a Ph.D in Economics from CORE UCL in Belgium. He teaches microeconomics, industrial organization and game theory. His research interests cover industrial organization, international trade and applied game theory.

Mariana Spatareanu is associate professor in the Department of Economics and Core Faculty at the Graduate Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, US. Her research interests include foreign direct investment, international trade, economics of transition, corporate governance. She previously worked for the World Bank where she was involved in research related to FDI with focus on developing countries.

Frank van Tongeren is currently working in the OECD's Trade and Agriculture Directorate where he leads work on international trade- and agricultural policies. Through numerous projects he has worked with government officials, international organisations and academics in countries as diverse as Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China PR, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Poland, USA, Russia and in most EU15 member States.

James Vercammen is a professor at the Sauder School of Business and at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia.  His research focuses on contracting and marketing in supply chains.

Mauro Vigani is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan and is currently responsible for Scientific Affairs and Communication of the Scientific Council for Agro-Biotechnologies of the Lombardy Region. His main research interests are the economics of agricultural biotechnologies and GMOs in international trade.

Justus Wesseler is an associate professor at the Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group at Wagenigen University. His main research interests are the economics and policies of agricultural biotechnologies. He is a board member of the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR).

Ian Wooton is Professor of Economics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He studied at the University of St Andrews and Columbia University, and previously held posts at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Glasgow, as well as visiting professorships and research fellowships at universities in Europe and Australia. He has been a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research since 1994. He is an established authority in international economics and has published widely in the area. His research interests and publications are primarily in international trade theory and policy, including economic geography, discriminatory trading agreements and customs unions, trade and the environment, international and intersectoral factor mobility, and foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises. He is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics and has acted as consultant to national and international agencies including the World Bank, the European Commission, and HM Treasury.

Wu Yang is an associate professor at the Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University in China. Yang Wu’s main fields of interests are Technology Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights. His research is rooted in economics, management science and law.

Maurizio Zanardi is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a member of ECARES. His research interests are in international trade and political economy. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston College.

Steve Ziliak is a professor at Roosevelt University. His main interests include welfare and poverty, economic history, rhetoric and philosophy, history and philosophy of science and statistics.

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