Daniel J. Galvin (Ph.D., Yale University) is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He is also a nonresident Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations. Galvin’s research focuses on American politics and falls roughly into two general areas. One includes the presidency, political parties, and American political development. The other includes labor politics and public policy, workers’ rights, and the enforcement of labor standards. Galvin’s research has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Economic Policy Institute, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the National Science Foundation, the AT&T Research Fellowship, the Miller Center for Public Affairs, the LBJ Foundation, and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation. Daniel Galvin is currently chair of the Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy program at the Institute of Policy Research and field chair of the American Politics subfield in the Department of Political Science. He is affiliated with the Comparative-Historical Social Science program and the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy at Northwestern.

Bogdan NEGREA is Professor of Financial Engineering, Financial Derivatives and Market Microstructure at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) with the highest mention “Very Honorable, with Committee Praise”, awarded by an international examining board composed of professors from French and Swiss universities. He has published in prestigious scientific journals, such as Quantitative Finance, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance or Revue d’Economie Financière, and in working paper series of prestigious universities, such as University Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and London School of Economics. The many citations received in major scientific journals and books stands as a proof of his valuable research work in Finance. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Review of Finance and Banking.