Giorgia Barboni is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School. Before joining the University of Warwick, she was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Her research interests are in Development Finance, Behavioral Economics and Household Finance. Giorgia's work focuses on innovations in financial contracts and their impact on business growth and households' financial decisions. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (Italy).