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ixThe ContributorsFranklin AllenUniversity of PennsylvaniaFranklin Allen is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Professorof Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.He has been on the faculty since 1980. He is currently Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He was formerlyVice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs andExecutive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the leadingacademic finance journals. He is a past President of the AmericanFinance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Societyfor Financial Studies, and the Financial Intermediation Research Society,and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He received his doctoratefrom Oxford University. Dr. Allen’s main areas of interest arecorporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparativefinancial systems, and financial crises. He is a co-author with RichardBrealey and Stewart Myers of the eighth through tenth editions ofthe textbook Principles of Corporate Finance.Donald BernsteinDavis Polk & Wardwell LLPDonald Bernstein, who heads the Insolvency and RestructuringPractice at the international law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, isrecognized as one of the world’s leading insolvency lawyers. He hasreceived numerous honors, including being elected Chair of the NationalBankruptcy Conference, a non-partisan organization of leadingacademics, lawyers and judges seeking to improve bankruptcylaw and administration in the United States. Mr. Bernstein’s practice