David Howarth is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Luxembourg. He is the author or co-author of five monographs, including The Political Economy of Banking Union (2016). He has also published over eighty journal articles and book chapters on political economy topics.

Huw Macartney is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of two books on banking regulation and his research has been published in Review of International Political Economy, West European Politics, Review of International Studies, and Journal of Banking Regulation, amongst others.