Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz is Professor (Tenured) of Energy Economics, School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz is Visiting Research Fellow at Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is also Adjunct Professor at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore, Pakistan. He was the Chair Professor at Energy and Sustainable Development, Montpellier Business School France. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore Campus, Pakistan. His research focuses on development economics, energy economics, environmental and tourism economics etc. He has widely published in peer-reviewed international journals. He has published more than 325 research papers so far in the National and International referred publications, having a cumulative impact factor o f 530 so far. He is among world's top 10 authors in Economics category as compiled by IDEAS.

Dr. Gary Campbell started giving lectures in the School of Business and Economics at Michigan Tech in 1982. He was in the team of establishing the MS in Mineral Economics Program (currently named Applied Natural Resource Economics) which accepted its first students in 1983. Dr. Gary is currently acting as the coordinator of that MS program and the associated Peace Corps Master’s International program. Dr. Gary is also the Editor of Resources Policy. Dr. Gary's research interests center around the economic behavior of mineral markets and social issues of mineral extraction. His researches are focused on the markets for rare earths and copper and at the social conflicts over opening and operating mines.

Dr. Berrin Tansel is a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Before joining FIU, Dr. Tansel was a project manager at Massachusetts Water Resources Authority on the Boston Harbor clean-up project. She has also worked at the Center for Environmental Management at Tufts University on preparation of several research reports to US Congress. Dr. Tansel is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and elected Diplomate of American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. She is a member of Water Environment Federation, Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE, and Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. She is Co-editor in-chief of Journal of Environmental Management.

Dr. Zhang obtained his Master degree and Ph.D. degree in environmental sciences from Peking University. Prior to joining BNU in 2005, he was a research fellow in BOKU university of Austria. Dr. Zhang has been involved in research on various aspects of environmental accounting and management, with special focus on food-energy-water nexus, urban metabolism，and renewable energy systems since 2007. Over this time he has conducted research on life cycle assessment (LCA), Environmental Input-Output Analysis (EIOA) and Ecological Modelling techniques. Dr. Zhang is also recognized for his productive and highest cited scholarly output in environmental accounting and management. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers and 5 books. His works are widely recognized and have more than 1500 citations with H-index of 23 according to Web of Science. Dr. Zhang has served as the deputy dean of School of Environment, the General secretary of Environmental Geoscience Branch of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences. He has also served as principal investigator for more than 20 large-scale research projects. He was appointed as associate editor of Journal of Environmental Management in November since 2017.

Ugur Soytas is the Co-editor of Energy Economics and editor of the Routledge Handbook of Energy Economics. He received his BS in Business Administration from Middle East Technical University (METU). He holds an MBA and a PhD in Economics from Texas Tech University. His research follows two main lines. First line is on the energy-economy-environment-society nexus and the second on commodity markets. He has published several papers in high impact peer reviewed journals such as Energy Economics, Energy, Energy Policy, Ecological Economics, Applied Energy, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Policy Modeling, and Journal of Banking and Finance among others. Several of his papers are recognized as highly influential in the energy economics and environmental and ecological economics fields. He has over 7500 citations and his h-index is 27 and i10-index according to Google Scholar. He has received several academic performance awards. He has conducted research with multidisciplinary teams in international projects as well as in Turkey. He provides consultancy to several governmental organizations and consulting firms.

Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz is Professor (Tenured) of Energy Economics, School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz is Visiting Research Fellow at Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is also Adjunct Professor at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore, Pakistan. He was the Chair Professor at Energy and Sustainable Development, Montpellier Business School France. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore Campus, Pakistan. His research focuses on development economics, energy economics, environmental and tourism economics etc. He has widely published in peer-reviewed international journals. He has published more than 325 research papers so far in the National and International referred publications, having a cumulative impact factor o f 530 so far. He is among world's top 10 authors in Economics category as compiled by IDEAS.

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Dr. Tolga Omay received his PhD in Economics from Hacettepe University. He joined the faculty of Cankaya University in 2005. He also worked at Türk Hava Kurumu (THK) University during the period 2015-2017. He is now at the faculty of Department of Economics, Atılım University at Ankara. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Commerce Department of Massey University, New Zealand during the period 2006-2007. In addition, he received a number of prizes such as the Top Cited Article 2009-2011 “Testing unit root in nonlinear heterogeneous panels” Economics Letters, 2012; a PhD. Thesis Award, Economic Research Foundation, 2006, and other best paper awards. Dr. Tolga is the chief editor of Econometrics Letters.

• Nonlinear Time Series i.e. Time-Varying ARDL;
• TAR, STAR and Markov Switching Models;
• Identification, Estimation and Misspecification Tests for STAR Models;
• Nonlinear Unit Root tests Theory and Application i.e. the SOR Unit Root Test;
• Nonlinear Cointegration Test: Residual Based and Error Correction Based;
• Nonlinear Causality Tests;

• Time-Series Data: Energy Consumption, GNP, PPP, and Interest Rate
• Panel Data: Energy Consumption and GNP

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