Jay Ritter is Cordell Professor of Finance at the Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida. Widely recognized as one of the world’s leading academic experts on initial public offerings, Ritter has been analyzing IPOs for more than 25 years. He writes extensively for The Journal of Finance and other financial journals, and has contributed chapters on IPOs to several books.

Sugato Bhattacharyya is an associate Professor of Finance at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business University of Michigan. His main interests lie in the area of corporate finance. His work is mostly in applied theory using techniques borrowed from game theory. He also has an interest in strategy and industrial organization. Sugato’s work includes papers on bidding behavior in takeovers and in bankruptcy, optimal franchising contracts and incentives for funds to engage in excessive trading. He also has written papers on asset price bubbles and real estate posting prices. Much of his work focuses on the difference between marginal and average.