BARBARA ROSSI
Barbara Rossi is a Professor at the European University Institute and an ICREA Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (on-leave) and a Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics and CREI (on-leave). She is also CEPR Fellow, the scientific director of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network, a Director of the International Association of Applied Econometrics, and currently serves as the Editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Previously she has been an Associate Professor with tenure at the department of Economics at Duke University, after earning her PhD from Princeton University. She has also been visiting researcher at the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Montreal in Canada, UC San Diego, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Philadelphia, Norges Bank, Bank of France, and ENSAE-CREST in France. Professor Rossi is specialized in the fields of Time Series Econometrics, as well as Applied International Finance and Macroeconomics. She has published her research findings in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the International Economic Review, Econometric Theory, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Econometrics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Monetary Economics, AEAJ-macro, and the Journal of Economic Literature, among others.
ERIC DE BODT
Eric de Bodt is currently Adjunct Professor of finance at Norwegian Scholl of Business, Bergen, Norway. He has previously been Visiting Associate in Finance at the Californian Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena (USA), a Visiting Scholar at University of California Los Angeles and a full professor of finance at the University of Lille in France. He earned his PhD from Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Professor de Bodt specializes in the field of corporate finance, most notably on mergers and acquisitions. His research interests also extend to financial markets and applied econometrics. He has published his research findings in prestigious journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, The Economic Journal, European Financial Management, and Journal of Financial Markets, among others.
