The Scientific Committee is composed by Dimitris Andriosopoulos, University of Strathclyde, UK; Rym Ayadi, HEC Montreal, Canada; Kostas Andriosopoulos, ESCP Europe, UK; Barbara Casu, City University of London, UK; Ephraim Clark, Middlesex University in London, UK; Alessandro Carretta, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy; Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Brunel University London, UK; Takis Dontis-Charitos, ESCP Europe, UK; Sris Chatterjee, Fordham University, USA; Santiago Carbo, Bangor Business School, UK; Stefano Caselli, Bocconi University, Italy; Manthos Delis, University of Montpellier, France; Giorgio Di Giorgio, LUISS University, Italy; Olivier De Jonghe, Tillburg University, The Netherlands; Jean Dermine, INSEAD, France; Michalis Doumpos, Technical University of Crete, Greece; Robert Faff, University of Queensland, Australia; Giovanni Ferri, LUMSA University in Rome, Italy; Bill Francis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA; Chrysovalantis Gaganis, University of Crete, Greece; Emilios Galariotis, Audencia Business School, France; Claudia Girardone, University of Essex, UK; Giorgio Gobbi, Banca d’Italia, Italy; Massimo Guidolin, Bocconi University, Italy; Jens Hagendorf, University of Edinburgh, UK; Frank Hong Liu, University of Glasgow, UK; Neil Kellard, Essex Business School, UK; Kose John, New York University, USA; Michael Koetter, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany; Kyriaki Kosmidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Simon Kwan, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, USA; Mario Latorre, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Meziane Lasfer, City University of London, UK; George Leledakis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece; Sushanta Mallick, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Emmanuel Mamatzakis, Rennes School of Business, France & University of Sussex, UK; Roman Matousek, University of Kent, UK; Loretta Mester, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, USA; Philip Molyneux, University of Sharjah, UAE; Stefano Miani, University of Udine, Italy; Maurizio Murgia, Free University of Bozen, Italy; Giacomo Nocera, Audencia Business School, France; Enrico Onali, Aston University, UK; Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA; Dimitris Petmezas, University of Surrey, UK; Dennis Philip, Durham University, UK; Ornella Ricci, University of Rome III, Italy; Andrea Resti, Bocconi University, Italy; Oliviero Roggi, University of Florence, Italy; Klaus Schaeck, University of Bristol, UK; Spyros Spyrou, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece; Amine Tarazi, University of Limoges, France; Giuseppe Torluccio, University of Bologna, Italy; Francesco Vallascas, University of Leeds, UK; Sailesh Tanna, Coventry University, UK; Ana Lozano-Vivas, University of Malaga, Spain; Paul Wachtel, New York University, USA; Jon Williams, Bangor University, UK; Julian Williams, University of Durham, UK; John Wilson, University of St Andrews, UK; Constantin Zopounidis, Technical University of Crete, Greece & Audencia Business School, France.