Ghassem A. Homaifar is a professor of financial economics at Middle Tennessee State University. He has a master of science in industrial management from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a PhD in finance from the University of Alabama. He is the author of numerous articles that have appeared in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv Review of World Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Applied Economics, International Economics, and Global Finance Journal.