Autor: Alexandra Horobet

Alexandra Horobeț is a Full Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (BUES), Romania. She received her Ph D in International Business and Economics in 2003, and since 2001, she has been teaching Corporate Finance and International Finance in the BUES Romanian-Canadian MBA program. She specializes in international investments, international finance, risk management and corporate finance.   Lucian Belașcu is a Full Professor at the „Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu (ULBS), Romania. He received his Ph D in Economics in 2008. He teaches on retailing strategies, trade and logistics, as well as project management at ULBS and the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.  His main research interests are business performance and strategies in the retail industry, foreign direct investments, logistics and cultural aspects of doing business. Persefoni Polychronidou is an Assistant Professor of Applied Econometrics at the Department of Economics at the International Hellenic University (Greece). Her research focuses on statistical and data analysis and she has published numerous papers on empirical economic data. She is the co-editor of the International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research.  Anastasios Karasavvoglou is a Professor of Economics at the International Hellenic University (Greece) and President of the annual international conference „Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries“. He has published numerous books and papers on immigration, regional development and the labor market.