Vassilis Monastiriotis (PhD Econ Geog, LSE; MSc Econ, Greece; BSc Econ, Greece) is Senior Lecturer in the Political Economy of Southeast Europe at the European Institute, London School of Economics. He is Research Affiliate at the ESRC Spatial Economics Research Centre and at the Hellenic Observatory (LSE) and Senior Researcher at the LSE Research Unit on South Eastern Europe. He is Co- Editor of Spatial Economic Analysis, Editor of GreeSE Papers, Review Editor for Economic Geography at the New Economics Papers network, former Committee Member of the British and Irish Section of the Regional Science Association, and member in various professional bodies. His research is in spatial economics, regional labour markets, macro-economic policy and political economy. His publications include papers in the Journal of Regional Science, Regional Studies, Urban Studies, Journal of Applied Economics, Empirical Economics, the Review of Development Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Economic and Industrial Democracy, and others. In 2008 he received the Moss Madden Memorial Medal for his paper on Union Retreat and Regional Economic Performance (published in Regional Studies).

Theodore Panagiotidis has a BSc in Economics (University of Macedonia),an MA in Economics and Finance and a PhD in Economics from the University of Sheffield. He has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at the Universities of Sheffield, Brunel University, Loughborough University, Nottingham University and the Open University. He is currently working at the Department of Economics, University of Macedonia at Thessaloniki, Greece. He has published in various journals including: Review of International Economics, Review of Development Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Forecasting, Empirical Economics, International Journal of Finance and Economics, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics.

Gianluigi Pelloni (Ph.D. University of Manchester; M.A. University of Western Ontario; Laurea University of Bologna) is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna (Italy), Adjunct Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada) and Director of the Rimini Centre of Economic Analysis. He has worked at the Universities of Keele, Hull, Pisa, Sheffield and Southampton and has been awarded a Drummond-Fraser research fellowship at Manchester University. He has held visiting positions at the Baptist University (Hong Kong), Bolzano University(Italy), Erasmus University-Rotterdam (Holland), Ryerson University (Canada), Trento University (Italy), Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), York University (Canada), University of York (UK) and the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Centre-SAIS. He has acted as scientific co-ordinator in several international projects such ann has published extensively on international refereed journals (Computational Economics, Economics Letters, Journal of Econometrics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Review of Economic and Statistics) and contributed papers to international conferences (Canadian Economic Association, European Economic Association, ISBA Meeting on Bayesian Statstics).

I have a Bachelor in Statistics and Economics (University of Bologna, Italy), a Master's of Arts in Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics (George Mason University, USA), and a Phd in Economics (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands). I have worked in Belgium, USA, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, concentrating on topics such as complex networks, forecasts of regional employment variations, regional unemployment differentials, and commuting networks. I have published on international journals such as: The Annals of Regional Science, Ecological Economics, Environment & Planning B, and Networks and Spatial Economics.