Prof. Claudia Girardone University of Essex, UK

Claudia Girardone is Professor of Banking and Finance and Director of the Essex Finance Centre at the University of Essex. Her current research focus is on banking sector performance and efficiency, bank corporate governance and the industrial structure of banking. She has published widely in the banking area and has... read morerecently co-authored the 2nd edition of the textbook Introduction to Banking (2015, Pearson). She is currently on the editorial board of several journals including the Journal of Banking and Finance and The European Journal of Finance.