About the Editors
Benton E. Gup has a broad background in finance. His undergraduate and graduate degrees are from the University of Cincinnati. After receiving his PhD in economics, he served as a staff economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He currently holds the Robert Hunt Cochrane/Alabama Bankers Association Chair of Banking at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He also held banking chairs at the University of Virginia and the University of Tulsa. He worked in bank research for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency while on sabbatical.
Dr. Gup is the author or editor of 28 books. His articles on financial subjects have appeared in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Financial Management, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Analysts Journal , and elsewhere. He is an internationally known lecturer in executive development and graduate programs in Australia (University of Melbourne; University of Technology, Sydney; Monash University, Melbourne); New Zealand (University of Auckland); Peru (University of Lima); and South Africa (Graduate School of Business Leadership). He has been a visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan and at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He lectured in Austria, Brazil, Greece, Morocco, and Tunisia for the U.S. Department of State on current economic issues, and served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in ...