Scientific committee

The scientific committee ensures the quality of the papers presented at the conference and handles the conference’s program Below we give more details on the selection of this committee and present its composition for the 2026 edition.

For the 2026 edition, the following 17 academics have agreed to be part of the scientific committee. In alphabetic order, with their current affiliations (as available in January 2026), they are:

• Alin Andries, ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași (RO)
• Camelia Bejan, University of Washington-Bothell (US)
• Corina Boar, New York University (US)
• Adriana Cornea-Madeira, University of Lisbon (PT)
• Roxana Halbleib, University of Freiburg (DE)
• Cosmin Ilut, Duke University (US)
• Cristian Litan, Babeș-Bolyai University (RO)
• Mihai Manea, Stony Brook University (US)
• Camelia Minoiu, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (US)
• Andrei Munteanu, Université du Québec à Montréal (CA)
• Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University (US)
• Zsolt Sandor, Sapientia University-Miercurea Ciuc (RO)
• Almos Telegdy, Corvinus University of Budapest (HU)
• Radu Tunaru, University of Reading (UK)
• Razvan Vlahu, De Nederlandsche Bank (NL)
• Marcel Voia, Université d'Orléans (FR)
• Andrei Zlate, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US)

NB: All the members of the Scientific Committee are expected to be present at the conference

To ensure a high quality of the papers accepted for presentation, a scientific committee with complete 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”, 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 U.S. and European universities. Moreover, the committee members should encompass various research interests to be able to evaluate the submitted papers.