Front, from left, Clarkson Associate Professor of Economics and Financial Studies Diego Nocetti and St. Lawrence Professor of Economics Cynthia Bansak. Back, Clarkson Associate Professor of Economics and Financial Studies Allan Zebedee and St. Lawrence Johnson Associate Professor of Economics Brian Chezum.

CANTON -- A team of professors from Clarkson University and St. Lawrence University has been selected by the Eastern Economic Association to serve as editors for the Eastern Economic Journal.

The Eastern Economic Journal, a quarterly publication of the Eastern Economic Association, is a highly regarded academic journal publishing original research in economics.

Allan Zebedee and Diego Nocetti, associate professors of economics & financial studies in Clarkson University’s School of Business, and Cynthia Bansak, professor of economics, and Brian Chezum, Johnson associate professor of economics, at St. Lawrence University will form the new editorial team.

Bansak and Zebedee will serve as co-editors, while Nocetti and Chezum were appointed as associate editors.

The inaugural issue for the new editorial team was published in early September and includes original economic research focusing on monetary economics, gender and sports economics as well as a section on pedagogical research.

Chezum is an applied micro economist working primarily in applied industrial organization. Nocetti is an economic theorist with expertise in macroeconomics and behavioral economics. Zebedee is a financial econometrician and as a former Fulbright Scholar has extensive experience in public policy working as a research economist at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Bansak, who teaches and writes on macroeconomic issues in addition to economic pedagogy, recently co-authored the textbook Economics of Immigration.

Chezum stressed the possibilities for wide ranging submissions given the diversity of the editorship. “As a team, the four of us cover most of the major areas of the discipline, enabling us to continue the EEJ’s tradition of eclecticism and breadth,” he said.

Val Lehr, St. Lawrence University’s vice president and dean of Academic Affairs, supports the editorship and its potential for fostering connections with other liberal arts college, particularly those in the New York 6, a consortium of liberal arts colleges which also includes Colgate University, Hamilton College, Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges, and Union College.

Dayle Smith, dean of Clarkson University’s School of Business, said the responsibilities of the editorial team are significant, and she is confident the team will do an excellent job in promoting important, impactful and timely economic research.

View the journal at www.palgrave-journals.com/eej/index.html.