Peter E. Koveos earned his Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University. He is a finance professor, the Kiebach Chair in International Business, and the director of the Kiebach Center for International Business at Syracuse University. His research focuses on international business, finance, and market behavior, as well as Chinese and Asian business, and financial reform. George C. Philippatos was professor emeritus in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He held a Ph.D. in finance and investment from New York University and completed post-doctoral work in econometrics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and game theory at Yale.