Iris Claus is a Senior Fellow, Department of Economics, Waikato University, New Zealand. Her current research interests are in unconventional monetary policy, taxation, financial intermediation, open economy macroeconomics and general equilibrium modeling. She is the Managing Editor for Journal Economic Surveys and Associate Editor of Asian Economic Papers.

Les Oxley is Professor in Economics, University of Waikato, New Zealand, and Adjunct Professor, School of Economics and Finance, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. He is the editor of, amongst others, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth (with P. McCann, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), Economics and History: Surveys in Cliometrics (with D. Greasley, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and the author of China’s Energy Economy: Reforms, Market Development, Factor Substitution and the Determinants of Energy Intensity (with Hengyun Ma, 2012).