The scientific committee

The scientific is in charge with ensuring the quality of the papers presented at the conference, and as such with the selection of all speakers and the final program of the conference. Below we give more details on the selection of this body and present its composition for the 2015 edition.

For the 2015 edition, the following 19 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 January 2015):

• Daniel Andrei, University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management (USA)
• Ana Babus, Imperial College London (Anglia) and Chicago Federal Reserve Bank (USA)
• Andrei Barbos, University of South Florida (USA)
• Camelia Bejan, University of Washington-Bothell (USA)
• Florin O. Bilbiie, Paris School of Economics and Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (France)
• Otilia Boldea, Tilburg University (Netherlands)
• Sebastian Buhai, Swedish Insititute for Social Research, Stockholm University (Sweden) and Aarhus University (Denmark)
• Nicolae Bogdan Garleanu, Haas School of Business, U. of California Berkeley (USA)
• Cosmin Ilut, Duke University (USA) and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (USA)
• Camelia Kuhnen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School (USA)
• Cristian Litan, Babes-Bolyai University (Romania)
• Mihai Manea, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
• Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University (USA)
• Andreea Mitrut, Gothenburg University and Uppsala University (Sweden)
• Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University (USA)
• Zsolt Sandor, Sapientia University-Miercurea Ciuc (Romania)
• Luminita Stevens, University of Maryland (USA)
• Almos Telegdy, Central European University (Hungary)
• Razvan Vlaicu, University of Maryland si Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management (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/ forthcoming/ invited for revise & resubmit in top journals in Economics, by “top” here understanding 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.