Hiro Nakata, University of Essex — United Kingdom, Defaults, Shortsales and the Social Costs of Volatility

Fabio Bagarello, Università degli Studi Di Palermo — Italy, A Quantum Statistical Approach to Simplified Stock Markets

Victoria Steblovskaya, Lucy Kimball and N. Josephy, Bentley University — USA, Alternative Approaches to Hedging in a Discrete Time Incomplete Market

Emmanuel Haven, University of Leicester — United Kingdom and Elena Pelinescu, Institute for Economic Forecasting - Romanian Academy — Romania, The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy in Romania in the Context of Crisis