Badi H. Baltagi is a Distinguished Professor of Economics and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University (USA). Professor Baltagi is the current editor of Economics Letters, having previously served as the editor of Empirical Economics (1999-2018) and as the replication editor for the Journal of Applied Econometrics (2003-2018). He is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics as well as Econometric Reviews and a recipient of the Multa and Plura Scripsit Awards from Econometric Theory, as well as the Distinguished Authors Award from the Journal of Applied Econometrics.