Mariassunta Giannetti is a Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. She is also a CEPR research fellow, a research associate of the ECGI, and a regular research visitor at the European Central Bank. She has been honored with a number of prestigious international awards including the Review of Finance Pagano-Zechner Prize, the NYU Stern/ Imperial/ Fordham Rising Star in Finance award, the Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award, the ECGI Standard Life Investments Finance Prize, and the Assar Lindbeck Medal. She is also the recipient of the Journal of Financial Intermediation best paper award, the ECB Lamfalussy Research Fellowship, the ECB Duisenberg Fellowship, and the Stockholm School of Economics Annual Research award. Professor Giannetti serves or has been serving as associate editor of several journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, the Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Management, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Stability, and European Financial Management and as a director of the European Finance Association, the Financial Intermediation Research Society, and the Financial Management Association. Professor Giannetti has broad research interests in corporate finance and financial intermediation. She has published widely-cited research in leading journals in Finance, Economics, and Management, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Review of Finance, and Management Science.

Marcin Kacperczyk is a Professor of Finance at the Imperial College London Business School. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research, Co-Editor of the Review of Finance, Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, and Associate Editor of the Financial Management. In the past he served as Associate Editor of Management Science, Review of Financial Studies and Review of Finance, and he is a former Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Kacperczyk’s research focuses mostly on financial markets, financial intermediation, and asset management. His latest work focuses on carbon neutrality goals in portfolio management, the pricing of carbon-transition risk, carbon disclosures, carbon emissions and bank lending. He has also explored the effects of unconventional monetary policy on asset management industry and corporate sector. Furthermore, he has written on a wide range of topics such as social norms, short-term debt markets, performance evaluation, labour unions, insider trading, income inequality, and portfolio choice. Finally, he has analysed various effects of informed trading in finance. His articles have appeared in Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Quarterly Journal of Economics, as well as non-academic outlets such as Bloomberg, Financial Times, Forbes, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week. He has spoken about research on CNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg.