be pondering over a heavy volume – your thesis! They were all full of high praise for the author and concurred that he was a rising star in their field. You, too, were to prove them right! And I know that some, especially Alex Kiss, have been delighted to see their prediction come true. What is particularly impressive in your case is that you have continuously contributed to international environ-

Brown University Department of Economics Professor of Economics 2016-Present Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure) 2015-2016 University of Chicago Booth School of Business Associate Professor of Economics 2011-2014 Assistant Professor of Economics 2009-2011 National Bureau of Economic Research Research Associate 2015-Present Faculty Research Fellow 2006-2015 University of Chicago Depar...

Because of globalization and liberalization of the world-economy policy reforms, emerging economies have been gained popularity in academic research, especially the economics and finance areas. Indeed, India is next to China in Asian emerging markets. As of economic-policy reforms implemented in 1991, a number of sectors are being developed and restructured via mergers and acquisitions (M&As) p...

The first electronic Economics preprint appeared in 1993. Since then the growth has been dramatic as the use of the World Wide Web has exploded. RePEc has been instrumental in facilitating access to Economics preprints and in bringing order to the chaos that the WWW frequently represents. In a related effort S-WoPEc provides user friendly tools for adding data to the RePEc system. While this is...