About the Authors

Acta Oeconomica, Vol. 57 (1) pp. 111–115 (2007) DOI: 10.1556/AOecon.57.2007.1.8 ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Nicola Acocella (67) Professor of economic policy, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Author of books published in English, Chinese, and Polish on the foundations of economic policy in the age of globalisation as well as of a number of articles published in international journals on the theory of economic policy, monetary and fiscal policy, neo-corporatism, global public goods. E-mail: [email protected]

Sándor Baran (33) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Debrecen, Hungary. He has been involved in international research projects and several times visited the Statistical Consulting Unit, Chalmers Tech- nical University, Göteborg, Sweden (1996, 1997) and the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He graduated as a mathematician (MSc) in 1995 at the Lajos Kossuth University and received his PhD degree (Thesis: Asymptotic properties of estimators in regression models) from the University of Debrecen in 2001. In 2005 he defended his habilitation thesis (Thesis: Statistical inference of stochastic models). His main research fields are classical and measurement error regression models, autoregressive processes and fields, stochastic optimisation, but he has several studies on various applications of statistics (e.g. in geology, medical sciences). E-mail: [email protected]

Giovanni di Bartolomeo (37) is Associate Professor of economics at the Univer- sity of Teramo. He also teaches monetary economics in the PhD Program of the

University of Rome “La Sapienza” and international economics at the Richmond Centre of Studies (Rome). He holds a MSc in economics and finance (Pompeu Fabra) and a PhD in economics (Rome). He has been Lecturer of economic policy (Rome) and Assistant Professor of econometrics (Antwerp). His research interests are European integration, monetary and fiscal policy, policy games, and labour economics. He is member of various associations. He regularly publishes in international journals. E-mail: [email protected]

László Csaba (53) is Professor of economics and European studies at the Central European University (Budapest), as well as Professor of economics at the Univer- sity of Debrecen and Budapest Corvinus University. Chair of Committee on Eco- nomics of the HAS from 2002. His most recent works include the monograph The New Political Economy of Emerging Europe (Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 2005, revised and extended second edition forthcoming in 2007), as well as the articles Transition in and toward Europe, Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europa- wissenschaften (2004, no. 3), Poetry and Reality about the Future of the EU: an Evaluation of the Relaunch of the Lisbon Strategy, Intereconomics (2005, no. 2) and Regulation and Public Sector Development: a Post-transition Perspective, Post-Communist Economies (2005, no. 2). Personal website: www.csabal.com with various availabilities and further info. E-mail: [email protected]

József Gáll (33) is an Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, University of Debrecen, Hungary. He also gives lectures at the Faculty of Informatics of the same university, where he worked earlier (2000–2005). He held a visiting posi- tion at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Mathematics Astrophysics and Particle Physics (The Netherlands in 2005–2006). He received his MSc. degree in mathematics from Kossuth Lajos University of Debrecen (1997) and his MSc. degree in economics from the University of Debrecen (2000). He is PhD candidate (his PhD thesis is being written on some problems of discrete time financial markets). His main research fields are financial and actuarial mathematics (with special focus on forward interest rate models and portfolio optimisation) and applications of statistical models to agricultural problems (e.g. plant disease growth models). E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Péter Halmai (54) Professor of economics and European studies at the Szent István University (Gödöllõ, Hungary), Director of Institute of European Studies, Jean Monnet Professor. He is a member of the Committees of International Eco-

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