Economic Models - Convex Optimization

Contributors
Victoria Miroshnik, is currently anAdam Smith Research Scholar, Faculty
of Law and Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland. She was
educated in Moscow State University and was an Assistant Professor in
Tbilisi State University, Georgia. She has published two books and a large
number of scientific papers in leading management journals.
Anna-Maria Mouza, Assistant Professor in Business Administration,
Technological Educational Institute of Serres, Greece, has obtained her
Ph.D. from the School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in the
School of Technology Applications of the Technological Institute of
Thessaloniki, in the Department of Agriculture and in the Faculty of Health
Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is the author of
two books and many published scientific papers.
R. Orsi, Professor in Econometrics, University of Bologna, Italy, has
obtained his Ph.D. from Universitè Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He
was previously educated in the University of Bologna and in the University
of Rome. He was an Associate Professor in the University of Modena, and
Professor of Econometrics in the University of Calabria, Italy. He was a
Visiting Professor in the Center for Operation Research and Econometrics
(CORE), Universitè-Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Nato Senior Fellow,
Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Calabria
from 1987 to 1989, Director of CIDE (the Inter-Universitary Center of
Econometrics) from 1997 to1999, and from 2000 to 2002, and the Head of
Department of Economics, University of Bologna from 1999 to 2002.
Pavel Ševčík, was educated in the Université delaMéditerranée. He is
presently completing his Ph.D in the Universilé de Montréal, Canada.
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