Nicholas Apergis, Northumbria University—United Kingdom ; Maureen O'Hara, Cornell University—USA ; Ludwig O. Dittrich, Czech University of Life Sciences—Czech Republic ; David D. VanHoose, Baylor University—USA ; Waclawa Starzynska, University of Maria Curie Sklodowska—Poland ; Reinhard Neck, University of Klagenfurt—Austria ; Gordon L. Brady, University of North Carolina–Greensboro—USA and Alberto Alesina, Harvard University—USA