JAN BABECKÝ is Senior Economist at the Research and Financial Stability Department, Czech Republic FABRIZIO CORICELLI is Professor of Economics at University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France and Research Fellow at Paris School of Economics and at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), UK DAN GABRIEL DUMITRESCU is Lecturer at the University of Economics Bucharest, Romania SORIN DUMITRESCU is Lecturer at the University of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania JAN FRAIT is Professor of Economics, Czech Republic BARRY HARRISON is at Nottingham Business School, UK. He is a Faculty Professor at TiasNimbas Business School, the Netherlands, and is also Visiting Professor at the European University at St Petersburg, Russia ALEXANDRA HOROBET is Full Professor at the University of Economic Studies in Bucharest, Romania IRAJ HASHI is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Emerging Economics at Staffordshire University Business School, UK LUBO KOMÁREK is Director of External Economic Relations Division, Prague School of Economics, Czech Republic ZLATU E KOMÁRKOVÁ is a Senior Analyst and the Advisor to the Bank Board Member at the Czech National Bank LADISLAV KRI TOUFEK is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute of Economic Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic MOJCA MARC is a Teaching and Research Assistant at Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia DUBRAVKO MIHALJEK is Senior Economist in the Emerging Market Issues group of the Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements WINSTON MOORE is Lecturer in Economics at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados SHAHDAD NAGHSHPOUR is Professor in International Economics and Statistics in the Department of Political Science, University of Southern Mississippi, USA MARJAN SENJUR is Full Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia BRUNO S. SERGI is Professor in International Economicsat the University of Messina, Italy ALINA SPIRU is Lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University Management School, UK MENBERE WORKIE TIRUNEH is Associate Professor at City University of Seattle, USA, and College of Management in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Researcher at the Institute of Economics, the Slovak Academy of Sciences VALENTIN Z. TOÇI is the Chief Economist of the Central Bank of the Republic of Kosovo.