Editorial Board

Sonia Bhalotra

Sonia Bhalotra is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, CEPR, IZA, IEA. Her research has made contributions in the areas of health, gender, and political economy, including the returns of low cost health interventions, the implementation of universal health coverage, the role of judicial accountability for the right to health, and the impacts of increasing representation of women and ethnic minorities. Her recent papers are hosted by the Institute of Labor Economics.

Yongheng Deng

Yongheng Deng is a Professor and the John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business in the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Before joining UW–Madison, Professor Deng served as a Provost’s Chair Professor of Real Estate and Finance at the National University of Singapore and Professor with tenure at the University of Southern California. He was an Economist and Expert in the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight in Washington DC. Professor Deng has chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Real Estate, and also served as a Vice-Chair of the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Financing and Capital. He has co-chaired the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Singapore Chapter. Professor Deng has also served as the 50th President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, the first and only Asian to be elected President in the Association’s over 50 years history.

Lilia Maliar

Lilia Maliar is Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before joining the Graduate Center, she was a visiting research fellow at the Hoover Institution and taught graduate classes in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Her current research focuses on applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning, in particular, of deep learning for the analysis of high-dimensional dynamic economic models. Maliar’s research has appeared in numerous economic journals, including Econometrica, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Economic Dynamic and Control, Journal of Money Banking and Credit, Quantitative Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Computational Economics. She is a recipient of an NSF grant and serves as an associate editor for the Econometric Society’s journal Quantitative Economics and as an adviser to the Bank of Canada.

Sandra McNally

Sandra McNally is a Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey. She is Director of the Centre for Vocational Education Research, London School of Economics and is also Director of the Education and Skills Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. Research interests include economic evaluation of government policies in schools and further education, and labor market returns to education and training.  She is a co-editor of Economics of Education Review. Noteworthy publications include “Changing How Literacy is Taught: Evidence on Synthetic Phonics” (with Stephen Machin and Martina Viarengo) in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, “Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities” (with Stephen Gibbons and Martina Viarengo) in Journal of the European Economic Association, and “Unexpected School Reform: Academisation of Primary School Schools in England” (with Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin) in Journal of Public Economics.

Daniela Puzzello

Daniela Puzzello is Professor of Economics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research interests are in economic theory, monetary economics, and experimental economics. Her research integrates theoretical and experimental methods to investigate various economic phenomena, including welfare improving trading institutions, the impact of monetary policies on economic outcomes, subjective models of inflation, financial inclusion, and digital currencies. Puzzello's research has been published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Mathematical Economics, and Journal of Monetary Economics. She is an Economic Theory Fellow. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, an editor of The B. E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, an associate editor of Economic Theory, and an advisory board member of the SAET Bulletin.

Colin Rowat

Colin Rowat is a senior research scientist at the Rakuten Institute of Technology. He has been a Fellow of the Turing Institute, a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Birmingham, and a contributor to the Economist Intelligence Unit. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge. He has worked on explainable AI, formal methods in economic theory, and coalitional and differential game theory.

Yuehua Tang

Yuehua Tang is the Emerson-Merrill Lynch Associate Professor of Finance at the Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. His research interests include investments, institutional investors, corporate finance, Fintech, and climate finance. He has published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and Journal of Corporate Finance, and his research has been featured in major media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg News, CNBC, and The New York Times.

Dennis Wesselbaum

Dennis Wesselbaum is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Otago, President of the New Zealand Association of Economists, Editor-in-Chief of New Zealand Economic Papers, Co-Editor of Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, and Associate Editor of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. Dennis is a theoretical macroeconomist by training but has both theoretical and empirical interests across various fields. His research activity is split between macroeconomic topics and the interaction between climate, environment, and society. His research is interdisciplinary in nature and covers macroeconomics (especially monetary and fiscal policy), economic development, labor, health, and environmental impacts. He earned a Diploma in (Theoretical) Economics from the University of Kiel and received his Doctorate (Doctor rerum politicarum) from the University of Hamburg. In between, he worked as a researcher for the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

George J. Borjas

George J. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2011. Professor Borjas is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at IZA. Professor Borjas is the author of several books, including Immigration Economics (Harvard University Press, 2014), Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton University Press, 1999), and the widely used textbook Labor Economics (McGraw-Hill, 2016), now in its seventh edition. His latest book is We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative, published by W. W. Norton in Fall 2016. He has also published over 150 articles in books and scholarly journals. His professional honors include citations in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America. Professor Borjas was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1998 and a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2004. In 2016, Politico listed Professor Borjas #17 in the list of the 50 "thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics...For telling it like it really is on immigration." He received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1975.

Catherine Eckel

Catherine Eckel is Sarah and John Lindsey Professor in the Liberal Arts and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Behavioral Economics and Policy Program. Dr. Eckel is President-Elect of the Economic Science Association and past-President of the Southern Economic Association. She served for two years as an NSF program director for the economics program and currently serves on the Advisory Committee of NSF’s Directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences. She was co-editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2005-2012), and has served as associate editor or on the editorial boards of twelve journals. She has published articles in American Economic Review, Experimental Economics, Economics Letters, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public Economics, and other leading journals.

Robert C. Feenstra

Robert C. Feenstra is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, and holder of the C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics. He is the Director of the Center for International Data at the University of California, Davis and Director of the International Trade and Investment Program, National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been Editor, Journal of International Economics and associate editor of American Economic Journal – Economic Policy, American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is the editor, with Alan M. Taylor, of Globalization in an Age of Crisis (NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2014) and author, with Alan M. Taylor, of International Economics (Worth Publishers) and author of Advanced International Trade: Theory and Evidence (Princeton University Press, 2015).

Robert S. Pindyck

Robert S. Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Professor of Economics and Finance at the Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been the co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and is an associate editor of The Journal of Energy Markets and Energy Economics. His articles have appeared in leading journals, including American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Economic Literature, Science, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.