Michael Frömmel is a Professor of Finance at Ghent University, Belgium, where he is the program director of the Master of Banking and Finance. He worked as a visiting researcher at several central banks and taught at universities in various countries in Europe and Asia. He is (co)author of several books and articles in, inter alia, the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the International Review of Financial Analysis, and the Financial Analysts Journal.