ixABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Carol Adamsis a Professor of Accounting and Head of School of Business and Eco-
nomics—Gippsland at Monash University. She is a Council Member and Director of
the Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility.
Linda Allenis a professor of finance at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch
College, City University of New York, and Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Stern
School of Business New York University. She is also the author of Capital Markets
and Institutions: A Global View(Wiley) and co-author of Credit Risk Measurement:
New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms, 2nd edition (Wiley). She is
an associate editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance,Journal of Economics and
Business,Multinational Finance Journal,Journal of Multinational Financial Man-
agement, and The Financier, and has published extensively in top academic journals
in finance and economics.
Edward I. Altman, MBA, PhD, is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at the
Stern School of Business, New York University. He is the Vice Director of the NYU
Salomon Center and an international authority on credit risk management, corporate
distress analysis, and fixed income valuation.
Paul M. Bodner, Esq., CPA,is an attorney with offices in Great Neck, New York.
He has written and spoken extensively on international tax matters.
Paul Brunner, CPA, BCA (Hons),is a Partner in the Global Capital Markets Group
of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and provides U.S. accounting advice to non-U.S.
companies registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
and to companies seeking to undertake securities offerings, cross-border mergers and
acquisitions, and structured transactions.
Mikelle A. Calhoun, J.D.,received her undergraduate degree and a master’s degree
in speech communications and later obtained an MBA and a JD from the University
of North Carolina. As the result of her experience practicing law for ten years, Ms.
Calhoun’s interests are primarily in the areas of service and financial industry corpo-
rate strategy decisions and international operations.
Ya-Ru Chen, PhD, is currently an assistant professor of management and interna-
tional business at New York University. Her research has examined how fundamen-
tal processes of organizational behavior, such as feedback, intergroup processes, and
conflict resolution, operate in various cultural settings. She has published numerous
articles in these areas. She has also begun work exploring the social psychology of
status, particularly with respect to its effects on behavior in negotiations.