Keynote Speakers

Raffaele Scuderi is Professor of Applied Economics at Kore University of Enna, Italy where he teaches economics and international cooperation and serves as the Coordinator of the economics area for the Ph.D. of Economics and Law. He is the editor of Tourism Economics. He has been the coordinator of research projects for development and firm internationalization. His research areas include tourism and cultural economics, urban and regional economics, development economics.

Andrew Harvey is Professor of Econometrics and a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), Cambridge. Previously, he has been Professor of Econometrics at the London School of Economics.

His main research interests are time series and econometrics, in particular macroeconometrics and financial econometrics including state space models, signal extraction, volatility, percentiles and copulas.

Harvey has published over 100 journal articles and is the author of several successful textbooks: The Econometric Analysis of Time Series; Time Series Models, and Forecasting; Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman Filter. He is also co-author of STAMP, a program for time series modeling based on structural models, and has extensive experience as a consultant.

Jaume Rosselló-Nadal gets his PhD in Economics and Business at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) in 2001. Full Professor at the Department of Applied Economics in the same University since 2017 and Associate Editor of Annals of Tourism Research. During te last years he has held the positions of Adjunct Professor at Griffith Institute for Tourism in Australia (2016-2020) and Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Program) in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA (2018). He is currently Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business and Head of Studies for the Degree in Economics and the Double Degree in Economics and Tourism. He teaches microeconomics and tourism demand modelling issues.