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 2017 edition.

For the 2017 edition, the following 14 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 2017) they are:

• Ana Babus, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (US)
• Camelia Bejan, University of Washington-Bothell (US)
• Florin O. Bilbiie, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (FR)
• Sebastian Buhai, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University (SE)
• Nicolae Bogdan Garleanu, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley (US)
• Andreea Halunga, University of Bath (UK)
• Cosmin Ilut, Duke University (US)
• Felicia Ionescu, Federal Reserve Board (US)
• Mihai Manea, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
• Cristian Pop-Eleches, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (US)
• Zsolt Sandor, Sapientia University-Miercurea Ciuc (RO)
• Almos Telegdy, National Bank of Hungary and Central European University (HU)
• Marcel Voia, Carleton University (CA)
• Andrei Zlate, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (US)

NB: All the members of the Scientific Committee will be present at the conference

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.