About the Authors
Allen N. Berger is the H. Montague Osteen, Jr., Professor in Banking and Finance and Ph.D. coordinator of the Finance Department, Moore School of Business, and Carolina Distinguished Professor, University of South Carolina; Senior Fellow, Wharton Financial Institutions Center; Fellow, European Banking Center; and Secretary/Treasurer, Financial Intermediation Research Society. He also currently serves on the editorial boards of six professional finance journals. In addition, Professor Berger is past editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking and has co-edited six special issues of various professional journals and both editions of the Oxford Handbook of Banking. His research covers a variety of topics related to financial institutions. He is co-author of Bank Liquidity Creation and Financial Crises (Elsevier). He has published over 100 professional articles in refereed journals, including papers in top finance journals, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; top economics journals, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, and Journal of Monetary Economics; and other top professional business journals, Managerial Science and Journal of Business; and over 30 other non-refereed publications. Professor Berger was Senior Economist from 1989 to 2008 and Economist from 1982-1989 at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, and a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University in 1976.
Christa H.S. Bouwman is Associate Professor of Finance and RepublicBank Research Fellow at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University; Fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center; and a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. She was Associate Professor of Banking & Finance at Case Western Reserve University, where she also held the Lewis-Progressive Chair; Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management; and Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Professor Bouwman’s research interests are in Financial Intermediation and Corporate Finance. She is an Associate Editor at three journals. Her research papers have been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Banking & Finance, MIT / Sloan Management Review, and Oxford Handbook of Banking. She is co-author of Bank Liquidity Creation and Financial Crises (Elsevier). Professor Bouwman worked for five years at ABN AMRO Bank and as a part-time litigative consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice. She has been nominated for numerous undergraduate and MBA Excellence in Teaching awards. She received a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Michigan in 2005, an MBA from Cornell University in 1993, and a B.A./M.A. in Economics and Business (cum laude) from the University of Groningen – the Netherlands in 1993.