Giuseppe Arbia is Full Professor of Economic Statistics at the Faculty of Economics, Rome office. Graduated in Statistics at La Sapienza University of Rome with honors, he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK). He was Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Trento, Extraordinary Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Padua, Full Professor of Statistics at the "G. d'Annunzio" University of Pescara as well as Visiting Professor of various universities including the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), the University of Cambridge (UK), the University of Texas at Dallas, the Federal do Ceara University in Fortaleza (BR), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain , New York University, the Université Panthéon Assas, Paris II, the University of Jönköping, the University of Stellenbosch, the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and the universities of Tohoku, Sendai and Tsukuba in Japan. In 2014 he was appointed Research Visiting Professor at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

His research is devoted to Spatial Statistics and Spatial Econometrics, having published on the subject 4 books (published by Palgrave-Macmillan, Kluwer, Springer-Verlag and CEDAM) 8 book chapters and about 200 articles 71 of which listed on ISI Thompson journal citation report and with Impact Factor (14 in the last 5 years; average Impact Factor = 1.73. Hirsch Index as of september 2024 = 33) and 46 of which in Class A journals (ANVUR).

He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Spatial Econometrics", published by Springer-Verlag, as well as a member of the editorial board of the journals "Empirical Economics" and "Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences". He is director of the book series "Spatial Econometrics and Spatial Statistics" published by Elsevier.

He is the founder and Chairman of the Spatial Econometrics Association since 2006 and a member of scientific societies: the Italian Statistical Society, Regional Science Association International Statistical Institute and the American Statistical Association .

He is Director of the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute.

He is Director of the Highr School of Health Economics and Management (ALTEMS) of the Catholic University.

At the "G. d'Annunzio" University of Pescara he was Director of the Department of Business and Statistics (2003-2006), President of the BA Course in "Environmental Economics" (1999-2004), Member of the Evaluation Unit of University (2000-2003) member of the Administrative Board (2006-2009) and Coordinator of various doctoral programs in various periods from 2004 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2011.

He has also published a collection of short novels and 2 volumes of theatre plays. He wrote adaptations and staged, as an actor and director, several theatrical works including "La bottega dell'orefice" by Saint Karol Wojtyła.

Badi H. Baltagi is a Distinguished Professor of Economics, and a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University. He was George Summey, Jr. Professor of Liberal Arts, at Texas A&M University, 1993-2005. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Research, from the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, 2002. He was visiting professor at the University of Arizona and the University of California, San Diego, and part-time chair at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

Baltagi is the author of several books including "Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 6th edition (2021, Springer), 5th edition" (2013, Wiley); "Econometrics, 6th edition" (2021, Springer), "A Companion to Econometric Analysis of Panel Data" (2009, Wiley). He is also the editor of several books including "Nonstationary Panels, Panel Cointegration, and Dynamic Panels" (2000, Elsevier); "A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics" (2001, Blackwell); "Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Panel Data, Volumes I and II" (2002, Edward Elgar); "Panel Data Econometrics: Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Applications" (2006, Elsevier Science); "Spatial Econometrics:  Methods and Applications" (2009, Physica-Verlag); "Essays in Honor of Jerry Hausman" (2012, Advances in Econometrics, Volume 29, Emerald Publishing); "Panel Data Econometrics: Critical Concepts in Economics, Four Volumes" (2015, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group); and "The Oxford Handbook of Panel Data (2015, Oxford University Press).

He is also the co-editor of "Spatial Econometrics: Qualitative and Limited Dependent Variables" (2017, Advances in Econometrics, Volume 37, Emerald Publishing); "Health Econometrics" (2018, Contributions to Economic Analysis, Volume 294, Emerald Publishing); "The Sustainability of Health Care Systems in Europe" (2021, Contributions to Economic Analysis, Volume 295, Emerald Publishing); and "The Economics of COVID-19" (2022, Contributions to Economic Analysis, Volume 296, Emerald Publishing).

He is also the author or co-author of over 200 publications, all in leading economics journals, including Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, Econometric Theory, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Econometric Reviews, Economics Letters, European Economic Review, Health Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Econometrics Journal, Empirical Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, to mention a few.

Baltagi served as editor of Economics Letters, (2011-2021), editor of Empirical Economics, (1999-2018) and the replication editor for the Journal of Applied Econometrics (2003-2018). He is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics as well as Econometric Reviews and a recipient of the Multa and Plura Scripsit Awards from Econometric Theory. He is a founding member, fellow and former director of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He is also fellow of the Advances in Econometrics.

He is the 2018 winner of the Kuwait Prize for Economics and Social Sciences. He served as an associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics (1999-2018) and is on the editorial board of Econometric Reviews. He is the series editor for Contributions to Economic Analysis (Emerald Publishing) as well as Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics (Springer).

He is a lifetime fellow of the Economic Research Forum of the MENA region and has been a research fellow, CESifo, Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research, since 2003; research fellow, Institute for Labor Research (IZA), Bonn, Germany, since 2002; and Global Labor Organization (GLO) Fellow.

Baltagi is a founding fellow and member of the board of directors of the Spatial Econometrics Association. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Spatial Econometrics. He is an elected fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement (SEM).

M. Hashem Pesaran is the Distinguished Professor of Economics, John Elliott Chair in Economics at USC Dornsife, and the Director of Center for Applied Financial Economics. He was the Director of the USC Dornsife Institute of New Economic Thinking from August 2014 through June 2018. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University and a Lifetime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Previously, he was head of the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank of Iran (1974-76) and the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education (1976-78), Iran. He has also been a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Applied Econometrics Program at UCLA (1989-93), and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, and a visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Pesaran is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society and the Journal of Econometrics. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Salford in 1993, the University of Goethe, Frankfurt in 2008, and the University of Maastricht in 2013 and the University of Economics in Prague in 2016. In September 2013, he was named as Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate in Economics. More recently he was named by Thomson Reuters as one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds for 2014 and 2015.

He received the George Sell Prize (1990) and the Royal Economic Society Prize (1992), the Best Paper Award of Econometric Reviews (2004-2005), Best Paper award of the International Journal of Forecasting (2007), Econometric Theory Award (2008), was named the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate in Economics (2013).

He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Economic Research Forum (Middle East) and the World Bank’s Council of Advisers for the Middle East and North Africa. Dr. Pesaran was a charter member of the Oliver Wyman Institute, was appointed vice president in charge of development and computerized trading systems at Tudor Investment Corporation and has held a partnership in GSA Capital Partners LLC. Dr. Pesaran is the founding editor of The Journal of Applied Econometrics, and a co-developer of Microfit, an econometric software package published by Oxford University Press (2009). He is also a co-founder of the International Association for Applied Econometrics and is currently the Advisor to the Board of Directors.

Dr. Pesaran’s early work focused on the problem of model selection and hypothesis testing, in particular where the hypotheses under consideration are separate or non-nested.  Later he started to work on the identification and solution of rational expectations, and the problem of aggregation in econometric modeling.  More recently, his research has focused on the econometric analysis of heterogeneous dynamic panels with unobserved common effects, and spatial dependence,  panel unit root tests, analysis of panel vector autoregressive models,  global vector autoregressive (GVAR) modeling,  economic and financial forecasting in the presence of structural breaks, credit risk analysis and portfolio optimization. He is an expert in the economics of oil and the Middle East and his research has been cited over 124K times according to Google Scholar as of January, 2022.

He has over 200 publications in leading scientific journals and edited volumes in the areas of econometrics, empirical finance and macroeconomics and the Iranian economy, and is an expert in the economics of oil and the Middle East. He is the author of The Limits to Rational Expectations (Blackwell) and Time Series and Panel Data Econometrics (Oxford University Press, 2015), and co-author of several books: Dynamic Regression: Theory and Algorithms (with Lucy Slater); Keynes’ Economics: Methodological Issues, (ed. with Tony Lawson); Disaggregation in Economic Modeling (ed. with Terry Barker); Non-linear Dynamics, Chaos and Econometrics (JW, ed. with Simon Potter); Blackwell’s Handbook of Applied Econometrics: Volume I, Macroeconomics (ed. with Mike Wickens), and Volume II, Microeconomics (ed. with Peter Schmidt); Energy Demand in Asian Developing Economies (with Ron Smith and Taka Akiyama, OUP); Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variables: A Volume in Honour of G S Maddala (ed. with Cheng Hsiao, Kajal Lahiri and Lung-Fei Lee, CUP); Global and National Macroeconometric Modelling: A Long Run Structural Approach (with Garratt, Lee, and Shin, OUP, 2006); and Explaining Growth in the Middle East, (ed. with Jeff Nugent, North-Holland, 2007). Time Series Econometrics using Microfit 5, (Oxford University Press, 2009), The GVAR Handbook: Structure and Applications of a Macro Model of the Global Economy for Policy Analysis, edited with Filippo di Mauro, (Oxford University Press, 2013).