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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Dist. Prof. Michael N. Katehakis
INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Fellow
Management Science and Information Systems Department
Rutgers University
NJ, USA
E-mail: mnk@business.rutgers.edu


Co-Editor-in-Chief:

Prof. Tarek Saadawi
City University of New York
USA
E-mail: saadawi@ccny.cuny.edu


Prof. Klimis Ntalianis
University of West Attica,
Egaleo, Athens, Greece
E-mail: kntal@image.ntua.gr, Kntal@uniwa.gr


Prof. Bruno Antonio Pansera
Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences & Decisions_Lab,
University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria (RC), Italy
E-mail: bruno.pansera@unirc.it

Associate Editors:

Prof. Oliver D. Hart Department of Economics Harvard University Littauer Center 220 Cambridge MA 02138 USA
E-mail: ohart@harvard.edu

Prof. Liran Einav, 579 Jane Stanford Way Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6072 USA
E-mail: leinav@stanford.edu

Prof. Bengt Holmstrom, MIT Department of Economics The Morris and Sophie Chang Building 50 Memorial Drive Building E52, Room 512 Cambridge MA 02142-1347
E-mail: bengt@mit.edu

Prof. Arleen Leibowitz, Department of Public Policy UCLA School of Public Affairs University of California, Los Angeles, USA
E-mail: leibowia@luskin.ucla.edu

Prof. Gerhard Clemenz, Department of Economics University of Vienna Bruenner Strasse 72 1210 Vienna, Austria
E-mail: gerhard.clemenz@univie.ac.at

Prof. Sankaran Venkataraman, Professor of Business Administration University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
E-mail: VenkatS@darden.virginia.edu

Prof. Heather Antecol, Vice President for Academic Affairs/Dean of the Faculty Boswell Professor of Economics Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance 500 E. 9th Street Claremont, CA 91711
E-mail: heather.antecol@claremontmckenna.edu

Prof. Charles W. Stanley, Baylor University Waco, TX 76706, Texas, USA
E-mail: Charles_Stanley@baylor.edu

Prof. Ricardo Gouveia Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
E-mail: rgrodrigues@ubi.pt

Biswa Nath Datta, Distinguished Research Prof., Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois 60115, USA
E-mail: dattab@math.niu.edu

Prof. Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
E-mail: pardalos@ufl.edu

Prof. Gamal Elnagar, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, USA
E-mail: gelnagar@uscupstate.edu

Prof. Mark J. Perry, University of Michigan-Flit, USA
E-mail: mark.perry@aei.org

Prof. Igor Kuzle, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia
E-mail: igor.kuzle@fer.hr

Prof. Glenn Loury, Brown University, USA
E-mail: glenn_loury@brown.edu

Prof. Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania
E-mail: daniel.andreescu@aut.upt.ro, daniel.andreescu@upt.ro

Prof. Gang Yao, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA
E-mail: gangw@illinois.edu

Prof. Lu Peng, Luisian State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
E-mail: lpeng@lsu.edu

Prof. Pavel Loskot, Swansea University, UK
E-mail: p.loskot@swansea.ac.uk

Prof. Shuliang Li, The University of Westminster, London, UK
E-mail: s.li@westminster.ac.uk

University of West Attica, Athens, Greece

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