AFLOAREI NUCU Anca Elena Ph. D. is Associate professor at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. She graduated a master’s program in Banks and financial markets and holds a PhD in Finance since 2013. Her research interests include, inter alia, corporate finance, renewable energy, financial stability, and empirical finance. She has widely published in peer-reviewed international journals, such as Oeconomia Copernicana, Renewable Energy, Baltic Journal of Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Economic Systems, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Entropy, E&M Ekonomie A Management, Ekonomicky Casopis, and others.