C O N T R I B U T O R S
Geert Bekaert is the Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Eco-
nomics at Columbia Business School and a research associate at the Na-
tional Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining Columbia, he was a
tenured associate professor of finance at the Graduate School of Business
at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 from Northwestern
University’s Economics Department. His thesis won the 1994 Zellner
Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics.
Loren Brandt is professor of economics at the University of Toronto,
specializing in the Chinese economy. With Thomas Rawski, Brandt is
contributor and co-editor of China's Great Economic Transformation
(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Lee Branstetter is associate professor of economics and public policy at
Carnegie Mellon University, where he holds a joint appointment in the
Heinz School of Policy and Management and the Department of Social
and Decision Sciences. He is also a research associate at the National Bu-
reau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the Journal of Inter-
national Economics.
Charles W. Calomiris is the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial In-
stitutions at Columbia Business School and a professor at Columbia’s
School of International and Public Affairs. He also serves as the academic
director of the Chazen Institute of International Business and of the Cen-
ter for International Business Education and Research at Columbia Uni-
versity. Calomiris codirects the Project on Financial Deregulation at the