FAITH ABID SLAH BAHLOUL ARINDAM BANDOPADHYAYA Chairman and Associate Professor of Finance at UMASS-Boston, USA A. CHAN BART FRIJNS Senior Lecturer at the School of Business, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand STEFANO GALLUCCIO Director at the Investment Banking Division of BNP Paribas, London, UK KLAUS HELLWIG Professor of Business Administration, University of Ulm, Germany MARKUS LEIPPOLD Assistant Professor of Finance at the Swiss Banking Institute of the University of Zurich, Switzerland CLAUDIO MARSALA Quantitative Portfolio Manager at Ras Asset Management FELIX MORGER Fourth-year PhD Student at the Swiss Banking Institute of the University of Zurich, Switzerland SUSHMITA NAGARAJAN Senior Associate in the Structured Finance Group, Moody's Investor Service, New York, USA ROGÉR OTTEN Assistant Professor of Finance at Maastricht University, The Netherlands MASSIMILIANO PALLOTTA Member of the Risk Management Team at Ras Asset Management VALERIO POTI Finance Lecturer at Dublin City University, Ireland STEFANO RICCI Member of the Quantitative Portfolio Management Unit at Ras Asset Management ANDREA RONCORONI Assistant Professor in the Finance Department of the ESSEC Business School, Paris, France JAYASINGHE WICKRAMANAYAKE RAFFAELE ZENTI Quantitative Portfolio Manager at Ras Asset Management and Lecturer at the Master in Finance of CORIPE, University of Turin, Italy