Peter Krištofík is senior lecturer and full professor of finance at the Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica (Slovak Republic). Peter´s research focuses on financial economics, especially on financial decision-making process, international corporate structuring, investment appraisal and capital structure of non-financial companies. During last years, he started also research activities in the field of behavioural economics and finance. He is author or co-author of many university textbooks, monographs and few dozens of internationally published research papers. Peter participates in national and international academic projects as well. Educational and pedagogical activities of Peter Krištofík are also very extensive. Besides of home university teaching, he is often invited for guest lectures to universities abroad (eg. Netherlands, France, Poland). Peter acts also as a trainer and lecturer for special educational programmes within MBA studies and in-house companies´ trainings. Peter received his master degree in finance from Matej Bel University and PhD in economics from Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic). His associate professor degree in finance was awarded at Technical University Ostrava (Czech Republic) and full professor in finance at Matej Bel University. Part of his studies were also at Vienna University of Economics and Business.