Abol Jalilvand received his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His scholarly work in corporate debt structure, risk management, cost of capital and international capital flows has appeared in top refereed journals. He is Dean of the School of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. A.G. (Tassos) Malliaris, PhD, joined Loyola University Chicago in 1972 and is currently Professor of Economics and Finance and holds the Walter F. Mullady Sr. Chair in Business Administration. He specializes in financial economics and has made significant contributions in the area of futures and options markets.