Wei Jiang is Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise in the Finance Division at Columbia Business School. She is also a Scholar-in-Residence at Columbia Law School, a Senior Fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School, and a Research Associate of the NBER—Law and Economics. Professor Jiang received her B.A. and M.A. in international economics from Fudan University (China), and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2001 after which she joined Columbia Business School. Professor Jiang is a leading scholar in corporate governance; in particular, she pioneered research in hedge fund activism. She has published extensively in top economics, finance, and law journals. She received numerous awards for research excellence, including the Smith-Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize from the Journal of Finance and the Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award from the Review of Financial Studies, as well as the best paper prizes from the Western Finance Association, Chicago Quantitative Alliance, UK Inquire, the Q-Group, and the IRRC Institute. She served as an associate editor at the Journal of Finance and served on the editorial boards of Review of Financial Studies. Previously she was a Finance Department Editor at Management Science.

Nikolai Roussanov is the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on areas of interaction between asset pricing and macroeconomics, ranging from equity to fixed income, currency, and commodity markets, to entrepreneurship and consumer financial behavior. His articles have been published in the Journal of Finance, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and Management Science. He currently is the co-editor of Journal of Financial Economics and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Roussanov received Ph.D. in Finance from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Mathematics from Harvard University. He served as an editor at the Review of Asset pricing Studies and served on the editorial boards of Journal of Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Management Science. He was the president of Macro Finance Society. His paper “Commodity Trade and the Carry Trade: a Tale of Two Countries” received the AQR Insight Award in 2015 and the Jacobs-Levy Equity Management Center Prize in 2016.

Wei Xiong is Trumbull-Adams Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University. His research interests center on capital market imperfections and behavioral finance. He has published in top economics and finance journals on a wide range of research topics, such as speculative bubbles, asset pricing with heterogeneous beliefs, asset market contagion, limited investor attention, nonstandard investor preferences, rollover risk and other financing frictions faced by firms. His current research interests focus on financialization of commodity markets, belief distortions in the recent financial crisis, and China’s financial markets. He has received various awards, including 2012 Smith Breeden Award (first prize) for the best non-corporate finance paper published in Journal of Finance and 2013 NASDAQ OMX Award for the best asset pricing paper presented in Western Finance Association Meetings. He received his Ph.D. in finance from Duke University in 2001 and B.S. in physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1993. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and had been the finance editor of Management Science in 2009-2011.