Antonella Francesca Cicchiello is Associate Professor of Finance at the IAE Business School -Buenos Aires (Argentina). Dr. Cicchiello’s teaching and research activities focus on entrepreneurial finance, FinTech, and corporate finance. She also takes an interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), green finance, and sustainable finance. She has published extensively in both academic and practitioner journals, including the European Journal of Finance, Energy Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting, Journal of Emerging Market Finance, and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money. Additionally, Dr Cicchiello serves on the editorial boards of the International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, the International Journal of Emerging Markets, the European Journal of International Management, the International Journal of Applied Management Science, the World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, and Cogent Economics & Finance. She is also a Research Associate at the Banks – Banking Research School – Centre of Piacenza, Italy.
Salvatore Perdichizzi is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Economics and Management “Marco Fanno” at the University of Padua. He is also a Research Fellow at SCANCOR, Stanford University, and serves as an Associate Editor of Finance Research Letters. His research spans monetary policy transmission, empirical banking, green and sustainable finance, and credit- and sovereign-debt dynamics. He has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Banking & Finance, British Accounting Review, Energy Economics, Industrial and Corporate Change, International Review of Financial Analysis, Economics Letters, and Finance Research Letters. Dr. Perdichizzi is a Research Associate and member of the steering committee of the Yunus Social Business Centre (Bologna). He was a visiting research fellow at Stanford University, Bayes Business School, and the University of Exeter.