ML

I'm grateful to my former professors at Pace University's Lubin School of Business for providing me the foundation of scientific research I relied upon when completing this book. A special thanks to my co-author and doctoral advisor, Aron Gottesman, whose guidance and vision was critical to the success of this book. I'm also grateful to many former industry colleagues from whom I learned so much over the years, particularly while working together through some of the financial crises covered in this book. Finally, this book would not have been possible without the tremendous support of my wife, Roseann, and the patience of my children, Jaclyn, Victoria, and Michael.

AG

I am delighted to have had the opportunity to coauthor this book with Michael Leibrock. I have benefited tremendously from Mike's deep practitioner and academic knowledge. Thank you to the team at Wiley. Thank you to my colleagues at Pace University, including Niso Abuaf, Lew Altfest, Neil Braun, Arthur Centonze, Burcin Col, Ron Filante, Natalia Gershun, Elena Goldman, Iuliana Ismailescu, Padma Kadiyala, Maurice Larraine, Sophia Longman, Ed Mantell, Jouahn Nam, Joe Salerno, Carmen Urma, PV Viswanath, Tom Webster, Berry Wilson, and Kevin Wynne, and a special thank-you to Matt Morey. I also wish to thank Niall Darby, Stephen Feline, Allegra Kettelkamp, John O'Toole, Patrick Pancoast, Carlos Remigio, Lisa Ryan, and the entire team at Intuition. Thank you to Moshe Milevsky, Eli Prisman, and Gordon Roberts of York University and Gady Jacoby of the University of Manitoba, who helped spark my career. Thank you to my many students, from whom I've learned tremendously. Finally, thank you to my wife, Ronit, and our children, Moshe and Libby, Yakov, Raphi, Tzipora, and Kayla, for providing so much love and support.