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Steven Ongena is a Professor of banking in the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich, a senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute, a research professor at Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, and a research fellow in financial economics at Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is also a Research Professor at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Before moving to Zurich, he taught at CentER-Tilburg University and BI Norwegian Business School, and studied at the Universities of Oregon (Ph.D.), Alberta (M.A.) and KU Leuven (MBA). He has published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, Review of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies, among other journals. He co-authored, with Hans Degryse and Moshe Kim, the graduate textbook, Microeconometrics of Banking: Methods, Applications and Results, published by Oxford University Press.