**About the Editors**

#### **Salvador Cruz Rambaud**

Salvador Cruz Rambaud was born in Cádiz, Spain in 1957. He received a degree in Mathematics from the University of Granada, Spain in 1981; later, he received a degree in Economics and a PhD degree in Economics and Business from the Open University, Madrid, Spain in 1991 and 1994, respectively. In 1992, he joined the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Almería as a lecturer, where he became an Associate Professor in 1996 and a Professor in 2010. His current research interests include anomalies in intertemporal choice, the mathematical analysis of financial operations, and the elicitation of new statistical distributions in finance.

#### **Joaquín López Pascual**

Born in Madrid, Joaquín López Pascual has received a PhD in Economics and Business Management, a masters in Financial Management, and a Bachelor of Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He joined the Board of Directors of BFA-Bankia as a nonexecutive member. He was a chairman of the audit committee between 2015 and 2019. He has acted as Counsellor for the "Colegio de Economistas" and as the General Advisor of the Spanish Economic Association (2011-2015). He has been General Secretary at the Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF) and Board Secretary at Patronato CUNEF (2007-2014). He has been a Representative of the Spanish Ministry of Education in Brussels for the 2020 Universities Working Group Digital and Online Learning (2014-2015). Also, he is currently a Full Professor of Accounting and Financial Economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid), which he has been since 2002. He has served as a Professor at the Universidad Complutense and Universidad Carlos III (Madrid), CUNEF, Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles, Full Professor at Universidad de Extremadura, Senior Visiting Scholar at Regent's University of London, and Senior Visiting Researcher at Dublin Business School.
