Edited by Douglas D. Evanoff, Vice President and Senior Research Advisor, Banking, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, George G. Kaufman, John Smith Professor of Finance and Economics, Loyola University Chicago, and A. G. Malliaris, Walter F. Mullady, Sr. Professor of Economics and Finance, Loyola University Chicago
Douglas D. Evanoff is a vice president and senior research advisor for banking issues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His current research interests include asset bubbles, mortgage markets, and financial regulation. His research has been published in various journals and he has also edited a number of books addressing issues associated with financial institutions. George G. Kaufman is the John Smith Professor of Finance and Economics at Loyola University Chicago. His research and teaching interests focus on the management and regulation of financial institutions and markets. He previously taught at the University of Oregon and was a visiting professor at Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the editor of the Journal of Financial Stability and a coeditor of five other journals. He is the past president of the Western Finance Association. Anastasios G. Malliaris is currently Professor of Economics and Finance and holds the Walter F. Mullady Sr. Chair in
Business Administration at Loyola University Chicago. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles in financial economics in several professional journals. He has had a long interest in asset price bubbles and financial instabilities.
Contributors:
Viral V. Acharya is the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at New York University's Stern School of Business, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.; Franklin Allen is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and co-director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton doctoral programs.; Gadi Barlevy is a senior economist and research advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where he conducts research on labor economics, economic fluctuations, economic growth, financial economics and information economics. Prior to joining the Chicago Fed, Barlevy was an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University and a visiting professor of economics at Tel Aviv University.; Ben Bernanke is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Before his appointment as Chairman in 2006, Bernanke was Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from June 2005 to January 2006 and had been a member of the Board of Governors from 2002 to 2005. Before his public service, Bernanke was Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Breck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and Chairman of the economics department at Princeton University.; Werner F.M. De Bondt is a professor of finance and Director of the Richard H. Driehaus Center for Behavioral Finance at De Paul University in Chicago. Previously he was the Frank Graner Professor of Investment Management at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.; Claudio Borio is Head of the Research and Policy Analysis Section of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).; Robert Chirinko is a professor in the Finance Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Studies in Munich, Germany.; Lawrence Christiano is the Alfred W. Chase Professor of Business Institutions in the economics department of Northwestern. He is also a consultant to the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Cleveland and Minneapolis, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.; Douglas Evanoff is vice president and senior research advisor for banking issues in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Evanoff serves as chairman of the Chicago Fed's annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition.; Andrew Filardo is Head of Economics for Asia and the Pacific at the Bank for International Settlements office in Hong Kong.; Benjamin Friedman is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy and formerly Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University.; John Geanakoplos is the James Tobin Professor of Economics at Yale University. He was Director of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics from 1996 - 2005.; Mark Gertler is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics at New York University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.; Gary Gorton is the Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Management and Finance at the Yale School of Management and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.; Takeo Hoshi is the Pacific Economic Cooperation Professor in International Economic Relations at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) and Department of Economics at the University of California at San Diego. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and at the Tokyo Center for Economic Research.; Cosmin Ilut is an assistant professor of economics at Duke University. His research focuses on macroeconomics, international finance, asset pricing and the economics of information.; Anil Kashyap is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance and Richard N. Rosett Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and serves as a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.; George Kaufman is the John Smith Professor of Finance and Economics at Loyola University Chicago.; Kenneth Kuttner is a professor of economics at Williams College and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.; Anastasios G. (Tassos) Malliaris is the Walter F. Mullady Sr. Professor of Economics and Finance in the school of Business Administration at Loyola University Chicago.; Roberto Motto is Adviser in the Monetary Policy Strategy Division at the European Central Bank. He has been working at the European Central Bank since 2000 taking up different functions. He specialises in monetary, macroeconomic, financial issues and time series analysis.; Hassan Naqvi is an assistant professor of finance at the National University of Singapore.; William Poole is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Delaware.; Massimo Rostagno is the Head of the Monetary Policy Strategy Division of the ECB's Directorate General Economics.; Huntley Schaller is a Professor of Economics at Carleton College. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, MIT, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.; Jos Scheinkman is the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics at Princeton University.; Wei Xiong is a professor of economics at Princeton University. Before holding this position, he was a visiting professor of finance at Northwestern University and an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
