Acknowledgments

I take pleasure in thanking my students, colleagues (both at Babson College and other academic institutions), reviewers, editorial staff, librarians, research assistants, and friends for the help they have given me while writing all three editions of Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives. Babson colleagues who provided valuable feedback were John Edmunds, Craig Ehrlich, Robert McAuliffe, Erik Sirri, and Virginia Soybel. Other colleagues, as well as reviewers, students, research assistants, and friends who helped and contributed useful insights were Poonam Bajaj, James Bennett, Dan M. Berkovitz, Jeremy Berkowitz, Antonio Camara, Charles Q. Cao, Don Chance, Mukesh Chaudhry, Patrice Clarke, Octavia Costea, Anna Dodonova, Imad Elhaj, Ekaterina Emm, Michael Haigh, Shantaram Hegde, Ufuk Ince, Francis Laatsch, Blake LeBaron, John A. MacDonald, Craig Marthinsen, Stewart Mayhew, Robert Merton, Lalatendu Misra, Valerie Nicholas, James Overdahl, Daniel A. Rogers, Eric Rosenfeld, Amareshwar Sahay, Glen Stevens, Nicholas Valeio III, Niklas Wagner, Jill Wetmore, and Hongmin Zi.

Among the editorial staff and librarians who provided valuable assistance were Donna Battista, Patricia Berens, Kathryn Dinovo, Kristin Djorup, Meredith Gertz, Christina Gleason, Gina Kolenda, Janette Krauss, Maria McColligan, Heather McNally, and Kerri McQueen, Deb Meredith, and Deb Tokars.

Special thanks go to the staff at De Gruyter for their work in producing the third edition of Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives. Among the team were Jaya Dalal, Michael C. Thomsett, tech reviewer, Katja Brockmann, production manager, and MacPS, LLC, responsible for typesetting and proofing the manuscript. It has been a pleasure working with Jeffrey M. Pepper, Editorial Director, who worked carefully on this book.

With all the time and effort that went into proofreading each chapter, my sincere hope is it resulted in an error-free book, but I realize this is just a Don Quixote-ish, wishful dream. I warmly invite readers to contact me ([email protected]) with any corrections, comments, insights, and/or constructive criticism you have.