László Mátyás is an is a internationally renowned Hungarian-Australian economist and econometrician, and serves as university professor at the Department of Economics and Business at the Central European University (CEU – Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria). He (co)authored and (co)edited several high impact publications in econometrics, mostly in the field of panel data. Earlier, among others, he worked as Senior Lecturer at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), was the founding Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis (Budapest, Hungary), and also served as Provost of CEU. Matyas serves as a co-editor of the Springer book series "Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics". His latest volume on “Central and Eastern European Economies After the Ukrainian War ” is the 13th book he edited and/or co-authored over the last three decades.