**About the Editors**

**Tomas Kliestik** (prof., Ph.D.) is a professor and the head of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina. His application, technical, and scientific activities are focused mainly on the issue of the application of quantitative mathematical-statistical methods in financial management and decision-making process of companies, data envelopment analysis, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, multivariate statistical methods, risk quantification and analysis, etc. His findings are published in domestic and foreign scientific monographs, academic publications, lecture notes, and the outputs of his research are published in indexed and impact scientific journals (Q1–Q2). More than 1600 citations have been recorded for his publications. His current Hirsch index is 19 in the Web of Science database and 18 in Scopus. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several journals and a member of scientific committees of international scientific conferences, he is also a guarantor and editor of the conference Globalization and its Socio-Economic Consequences.

**Katarina Valaskova** (Ph.D.) is an associate professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communication, University of Zilina. Her research activities are mostly focused on financial and investment management, risk management, and business economics. She is an author of domestic and foreign monographs, academic publications, lecture notes, and the outputs of her research are published in indexed and impact scientific journals (Q1–Q2). More than 800 citations have been recorded for her publications. Her current Hirsch index is 13 in the Web of Science database and 12 in Scopus. She is also a member of the editorial boards of several journals and a member of scientific committees of international scientific conferences.

**Maria Kovacova** (Ph.D.) is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communication, University of Zilina. Her research activities are mostly focused on financial and investment management and financial markets. She is an author of domestic and foreign monographs, academic publications, lecture notes, and the outputs of her research are published in indexed and impact scientific journals (Q1–Q2). More than 900 citations have been recorded for her publications. Her current Hirsch index is 13 in the Web of Science database and 12 in Scopus. She is also a member of the editorial boards of several journals and a member of scientific committees of international scientific conferences.
