International Journal of Financial Studies — Editors

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Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Nicholas Apergis
Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Piraeus 18534, Greece
Website: http://web.xrh.unipi.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=66&lang=en
E-Mail: napergis@unipi.gr
Interests: macroeconomics; open economy macroeconomics; MacroFinance; international finance; applied economics and finance

Managing Editor
Mr. Jeremiah R. Zhang
MDPI Beijing Office, Suite 2011, Ruidu International Center, No. 1 Cuijingbeili, Tongzhou District, Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 81521170
E-Mail: jerry.zhang@mdpi.com

Publisher
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI AG, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 33 79
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
E-Mail: lin@mdpi.com

Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Raj Aggarwal
Department of Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-4805, USA
Tel. +1 330 972 7302
Website: http://www.uakron.edu/cba/cba-home/about-us/directory/profile.dot?identity=594715
E-Mail: aggarwa@uakron.edu
Interests: foreign currencies; strategic finance; climat change; financial structure; behavioral finance; capital structure; risk management

Prof. Dr. Elettra Agliardi
Department of Economics, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, University of Bologna, Rimini, Italy
Website: http://www2.dse.unibo.it/dsa/profile.php?id=1
E-Mail: elettra.agliardi@unibo.it
Interests: corporate finance; real options; capital structure; liquidation policies; sovereign debt crises

Prof. Dr. James Alm
Department of Economics, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, 208 Tilton Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Tel. +1 504 862 8344; Fax: +1 504 865 5869
Website: http://econ.tulane.edu/profile_alm.shtml
E-Mail: jalm@tulane.edu
Interests: taxation; fiscal decentralization; public finance in developing countries; housing finance; local government finance; microeconomic theory; behavior under uncertainty

Prof. Dr. Manuel Ammann
Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance, University of St.Gallen, Rosenbergstrasse 52, CH-9000 St.Gallen, Switzerland
Tel. +41 71 224 7080; Fax: +41 71 224 7088
Website: http://www.manuel-ammann.com
E-Mail: geradline.frei@unisg.ch
Interests: asset management; derivatives; portfolio theory

Dr. Panagiotis Andrikopoulos
Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business and Law, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK
Tel. +44 1162 506331; Fax: +44 1162 506043
Website: http://ssrn.com/author=375337
E-Mail: pandrikopoulos@dmu.ac.uk
Interests: corporate finance; empirical asset pricing; contrarian and momentum investment strategies; behavioral finance

Prof. Dr. James S. Ang
Department of Finance, College of Business, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1110, USA
Tel. +1 850 644 8208
Website: http://www.cob.fsu.edu/Academic-Programs/Departments/Finance/Faculty-Research/Eminent-Scholars/James-Ang
E-Mail: jang@cob.fsu.edu
Interests: corporate finance; intellectual capital, behavioral and sociological issues; corporate restructuring; executive compensation; multinational

Prof. Dr. Angelos A. Antzoulatos
Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Piraeus 18534, Greece
Tel. +30 210 414 2185
Website: http://web.xrh.unipi.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=300&lang=en
E-Mail: antzoul@unipi.gr
Interests: banking; financial crises; financial stability

Prof. Dr. Ronald Balvers
Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6025, USA
Tel. +1 905 525 9140; Fax: +1 304 293 2233
Website: http://profs.degroote.mcmaster.ca/business/balvers
E-Mail: balvers@mcmaster.ca
Interests: theoretical and empirical asset pricing; contrarian and momentum investment strategies; production-based asset pricing; liquidity; the economics of information and uncertainty

Prof. Dr. William Arnold Barnett
Department of Economics, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7585, USA
Tel. +1 785 864 2844; Fax: +1 785 864 5760
Website: http://alum.mit.edu/www/barnett
E-Mail: barnett@ku.edu
Interests: divisia monetary aggregation; divisia financial aggregation

Dr. Pauline Barrieu
Department of Statistics, London School of Economics, London, WC2A 2AE, UK
Website: http://stats.lse.ac.uk/barrieu/
E-Mail: p.m.barrieu@lse.ac.uk
Interests: financial instruments; quantitative finance; derivatives; model uncertainty; insurance-linked securitization; risk transfer

Prof. Dr. Ansgar Belke
DIW Berlin, Department of Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen, D-45117 Essen, Germany
Tel. +49 201 183 2277; Fax: +49 201 183 4181
Website: http://www.uni-due.de/makro
E-Mail: ansgar.belke@uni-due.de
Interests: international macroeconomics; European financial integration; monetary theory and policy; applied econometrics

Prof. Dr. Christian Bender
Department of Mathematics, Saarland University, Campus E 2 4, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Tel. +49 681 302 2435
Website: http://www.math.uni-sb.de/ag/bender/benderE.html
E-Mail: bender@math.uni-sb.de
Interests: computational finance; early-exercise options; Monte Carlo methods

Prof. Dr. Alain Bensoussan
The International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis, University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA
Website: http://www.utdallas.edu/~axb046100/
E-Mail: alain.bensoussan@utdallas.edu
Interests: applied mathematics; control theory; risk management; inventory control; finance

Dr. Michael Bergman
Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, building 26, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Tel. +45 3532 3003; Fax: +45 3532 3000
Website: http://www.econ.ku.dk/okombe/
E-Mail: Michael.Bergman@econ.ku.dk
Interests: exchange rates; financial stability; currency crises; sovereign debt crises; european monetary union; public finance; fiscal policy

Prof. Dr. Henk Berkman
Department of Accounting and Finance, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Tel. +64 9 373 7599
Website: http://staff.business.auckland.ac.nz/5650.aspx
E-Mail: h.berkman@auckland.ac.nz
Interests: market microstructure; corporate governance; empirical asset pricing; capital markets accounting research

Prof. Dr. Marida Bertocchi
University of Bergamo, via Salvecchio 19, 24129 Bergamo, Italy
Tel. +35 205 2517; Fax: +35 205 2549
Website: http://www.unibg.it/struttura/struttura.asp?cerca=rubrica&rubrica=1&persona=60&nome=Marida&cognome=Bertocchi&titolo=Prof.ssa
E-Mail: marida.bertocchi@unibg.it
Interests: mortality rates; term structure of interest rates; electricity forward contracts; stochastic programming

Dr. Ramaprasad Bhar
Australian School of Business, UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Tel. +61 2 9385 4930; Fax: +61 2 9385 1883
Website: http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/schools/Pages/RamaprasadBhar.aspx
E-Mail: r.bhar@unsw.edu.au
Interests: copulas; hidden markov and state space models; credit risk; market risk premium; risk measurement and quantification

Prof. Dr. Sumon Bhaumik
Aston Business School, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
Tel. +44 1212 043328
Website: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/aston-business-school/staff/academic/esg/dr-sumon-bhaumik/
E-Mail: s.bhaumik@aston.ac.uk
Interests: banking; corporate governance; firm performance

Prof. Dr. Dick Brealey
London Business School, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4SA, UK
Tel. +44 (0)20 7000 8257; Fax: +44 (0)20 7000 7001
Website: http://www.london.edu/facultyandresearch/faculty/search.do?uid=rbrealey
E-Mail: rbrealey@london.edu
Interests: corporate finance; investment management; international finance; capital markets; intermediation

Prof. Dr. Rita L. D'Ecclesia
Department of Methods and Models for Economics and Finance, Via del Castro Laurenziano 9, 00163 Rome, Italy
Tel. +39 6 49910669
Website: http://w3.uniroma1.it/decclesia
E-Mail: rita.decclesia@uniroma1.it
Interests: derivatives pricing; commodity markets modeling; energy markets risk management; credit risk modeling; risk management; portfolio optimization; stochastic optimization

Dr. Fangjian Fu
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, 50 Stamford Road, Singapore 178899, Singapore
Tel. +65 68280244; Fax: +65 68280427
Website: http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/fjfu/
E-Mail: fjfu@smu.edu.sg
Interests: empirical asset pricing; capital market anomalies; corporate finance

Prof. Dr. Iftekhar Hasan
Schools of Business, Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, 1790 Broadway, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10019, USA
Website: http://business.fordham.edu/faculty/hasan/
E-Mail: ihasan@fordham.edu
Interests: financial institutions; corporate finance; capital markets; entrepreneurial finance

Prof. Dr. Khelifa Mazouz
Bradford University School of Management, Emm Lane, Bradford, BD9 4JL, UK
Tel. +44 1274 234349; Fax: +44 1274 235837
Website: http://www.brad.ac.uk/management/people/profile/?name=kmazouz
E-Mail: K.Mazouz@bradford.ac.uk
Interests: corporate finance (particularly initial public offering); stock market volatility and liquidity; stock market efficiency and anomalies

Dr. Mohan Nandha
Department of Accounting and Finance, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Tel. +613 9904 4610
Website: http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/aaf/staff/nandha.html
E-Mail: mohan.nandha@monash.edu
Interests: commodity prices and stock markets; South Asian stock markets; stock market trading strategies; foreign direct investment and risk-return dynamics

Prof. Ronald A. Ratti
School of Business, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia
Tel. +61 2 9685 9346; Fax: +61 2 9685 9105
Website: http://uws.edu.au/staff_profiles/uws_profiles/professor_ronald_ratti
E-Mail: r.ratti@uws.edu.au
Interests: energy economics; macro finance; money and banking; international financial economics

Prof. Dr. Luc Renneboog
Department of Finance, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 13 466 8210; Fax: +31 13 466 2875
Website: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=luc.renneboog
E-Mail: Luc.Renneboog@uvt.nl
Interests: corporate finance; corporate governance; financial management; law and economics; mergers and acquisitions

Prof. Dr. Bruno Solnik
Department of Finance, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel. +852 2358 7666
Website: http://www.bm.ust.hk/fina/staff/solnik.html
E-Mail: solnik@ust.hk
Interests: investments; valuation; international finance; behavioral finance

Prof. Dr. Stefan Trueck
Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies, Macquarie University, Eastern Road, North Ryde NSW 2109, Sydney, Australia
Website: http://www.businessandeconomics.mq.edu.au/contact_the_faculty/all_fbe_staff/Stefan_Trueck
E-Mail: stefan.trueck@mq.edu.au
Interests: risk management (credit and operational risk); asset pricing; energy markets; financial economics; carbon trading and economics of climate change; real estate economics; econometrics of financial markets

Dr. Chendi Zhang
Finance Group, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
Website: http://www.wbs.ac.uk/faculty/members/chendi/zhang
E-Mail: chendi.zhang@wbs.ac.uk
Interests: corporate finance; behavioural finance; socially responsible investments; fund management; emerging economies

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