Mariassunta Giannetti is a professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, a CEPR research fellow, and a research associate of the ECGI. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and completed her B.A. and M.Sc. at Bocconi University (Italy). Professor Giannetti is the recipient of numerous research prize and awards including the NYU Stern/ Imperial/ Fordahm Rising Star in Finance award (2016), the Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award (2015), the ECGI Standard Life Investments Finance Prize (2015), the  Assar Lindbeck Medal (2013), the Journal of Financial Intermediation best paper award (2014), the ECB Lamfalussy Research Fellowship, the ECB Duisenberg Fellowship, and the Stockholm School of Economics Annual Research award (2004). She has also been serving as associate editor of leading journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, Financial Management, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and European Financial Management and as a director of the European Finance Association and the Financial Intermediation Research Society.  Professor Giannetti has broad research interests in corporate finance and financial intermediation. Her widely-cited research has been published in leading journals in Finance, Economics and Management, including 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.