Innovative Approaches in Economics, Leadership, and Technology

Alina Mihaela Dima is Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration in foreign languages at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Romania). She is Vice-Rector for Scientific Research, Development, and Innovation at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, and previously, she was Director of the Department for Business Administration (UNESCO Chair). Her main research fields of interest are international business, competition policy, European integration, and higher education. She is Chief Editor of the journal 'Management & Marketing': Challenges for Knowledge Society (Sciendo/De Gruyter) indexed in ESCI-Clarivate and Scopus. She is editor of several international books, has coordinated national research projects, and authored various papers published by prestigious international journals.

Cristian Badarinza is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute of Real Estate Studies, and a Network Associate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK. He has obtained a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. in Economics from Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His research interests focus on the areas of residential real estate, household finance, and financial economics. He is part of the Oxford-Harvard-Sloan Initiative for International Comparative Household Finance which connects academics from Europe and the US and seeks to explore how household financial markets (such as mortgage, pension, and risky asset markets) are set up around the world.