Gabriel Frahm, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany Christof Wiechers, University of Cologne, Germany Asmerilda Hitaj, University of Milan, Italy Lorenzo Mercuri, University of Milan, Italy Alessandro Casati, Antares Technologies, France Serge Tabachnik, Antares Technologies, France Mohammad S. Hasan, University of Kent, UK Taufiq Choudhry, University of Southampton, UK Tim Leung, Columbia University, USA Peng Liuz, Johns Hopkins University, USA Leandro Maciel, University of Campinas, Brazil Philippe Durand, Banque de France, Paris, France Yalin Gündüz, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany Isabelle Thomazeau, Banque de France, Paris, France Tim R. Adam, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Chitru S. Fernando, University of Oklahoma, USA Evgenia Golubeva, University of Oklahoma, USA Abraham Lioui, EDHEC Business School, France Ha Yan Raymond So, MacroValue Investors Ltd, Hong Kong, and King's College London, UK Tarik Driouchi, King's College London, UK Zhiyuan Simon Tan, King's College London, UK Craig O. Brown, National University of Singapore, Singapore Daniel A. Rogers, Portland State University, USA Jacek Niklewski, Coventry University, UK Timothy Rodgers, Coventry University, UK Francesca Battaglia, Università Parthenope, Italy Maria Mazzuca, Università della Calabria, Italy Shane Magee, Macquarie University, Australia Rodolfo Maino, International Monetary Fund, USA Kalin Tintchev, International Monetary Fund, USA Amrita Nain,University of Iowa, USA