Björn Imbierowicz is Economist in the Research Center of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Head of the Research Focus Group on Monetary Policy Implementation, member of the Steering Committee of the IBRN (International Banking Research Network), and Advisor to the Eurosystem Research Network “Challenges for Monetary Policy Transmission in a Changing World” (ChaMP). Previously, he was member of the Executive Committee of the International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association (IBEFA), the Academic Director of the Financial Risk Management Program at Goethe Business School and Assistant Professor at the Department of Finance at Copenhagen Business School. He received his PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt and has been visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg and visiting scholar at NYU – Stern School of Business. He specializes in financial intermediation, monetary policy transmission, corporate finance, and empirical finance in general.