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Raluca Georgiana Lădaru, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Mariarosaria Lombardi, University of Foggia, Italy Andreea Apetrei Kalveram, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Spain The COVID-19 pandemic, Russian invasion of Ukraine, growing global population, increasing of food prices, reducing rural poverty, protecting the environment, climate change and the biodiversity crisis are just some of the challenges currently facing the agrifood systems around the world. Main topics covered by the hereby call for papers are related to solutions in order to achieve resilient and sustainable agri-food systems under global change. [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Mina IVANOVICI, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Boris DZIURA, The University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia Christian NĂSULEA, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania The ongoing macroeconomic challenges are manifold, such as: changes in monetary and fiscal policies, migrationary phenomena, labor market disequilibria, war and acute the geopolitical tensions, (early) signs of recession, persisting inflation, energy crisis and a redesign of energy polices and interdependencies, technological pressure and digitalization in a [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Narciz Bălăşoiu, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Gregory Simons, Uppsala University, Sweden The interdependencies between the economy and security have become indissoluble, while the ability to decipher the security environment is a fundamental prerequisite for anticipating regional or  global economic trends. Security is an increasingly complex, sophisticated and dynamic concept that has undergone a real metamorphosis in the last decade. Assymetric and hybrid challenges have taken the place of conventional threats, [...]

Octavian-Dragomir Jora, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Ieva BUŽIENĖ , Vilnius university Business School,Lithuania International markets have been severely disrupted by the pandemic, which affected supply and demand conditions as well as productivity. At the same time, the new economic model across the world will be fundamentally linked to the digital transformation and the climate economy. Both public and private stakeholders can contribute to and benefit from the new financial instruments aimed at the massive investments required for a greener economy. The panel aims to discuss the latest evolutions as [...]

Vanesa Vargas, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies Adriana DAVIDESCU, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies This mini-track is dedicated to young students who are at the beginning of their scientific research career. The track welcomes papers from undergarduate and graduate students (BA, MA, PhD candidates) with an interest in business administration or in economics. Vanesa Vargas is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration in foreign languages, where she teaches Entrepreneurship, the European Business Environment and Business Simulations. Her field of research is focused on [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Marius MATEI, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Sadok BEN YAHIA, Technology University of Tallinn (TalTech), Estonia Data Science provides insight and understanding of large amount of unstructured and heterogeneous digital sources. Today’s business activities in the modern digital society produces masses of information that needs to be filtered, analysed and structured for prediction and modelling. Text mining, herding analysis and sentiment extraction are quantitative tools to augment forecasts in finance, banking and behavioral [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Vlad Roșca, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania This track is dedicated to scholars, practitioners, professionals and students who want to share their knowledge and experience about the growing global sports industry. Although the global sports industry declined about 15% in 2020 due to the Covid-19 slowdowns, it is still evaluated at nearly $400bn, being expected to reach $500bn by 2025. We invite participants to submit their works on relevant and current sports [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Cătălin Dobrea, Vice-Rector of Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Adriana Miclea, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Unexpected social and political events worldwide developed in the last three years conflicted with theoretical assumption, practical predictions, and reasonable expectations. Conspiration theories and unorthodox economic measures walked hand in hand leaving passage to extremists, polarization, and disputable pandemics. Praised artificial intelligence, blockchain technology and FinTech innovation showed their weaknesses in scandals and bankruptcies. Composite indicators [...]

Francesco Bellini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Marco Savastano, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Sorin Anagnoste, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania In the last year, technology, with a strong emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI, has become an indispensable catalyst for growth and transformation across industries. Organizations and institutions have rapidly embraced these innovations, redefining the paradigms of operation and interaction. This swift technological evolution, while continuing its momentum, has significantly disrupted traditional business practices, paving the way for novel services and products: from Chat [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Petre Caraiani, Institute for Economic Forecasting, Romanian Academy, Romania The recent years in the aftermath of the last financial crisis saw many challenges for macroeconomics. New issues that were mostly neglected appeared at the forefront of concerns for policy makers and the academia, e.g. liquidity trap, crisis spillover, unconventional monetary policy, austerity measures, slow recoveries. In the light of these challenges, this session aims at putting together papers looking at such issues. The main [...]