About The Author

Bradford Jordan

Dr. Bradford D. Jordan is Professor of Finance and holder of the Richard W. and Janis H. Furst Endowed Chair in Finance in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. Jotdan received a BSBA and PhD in Finance from the University of Florida. He joined the Gatton College in 1997 after serving on the faculties of the University of Georgia and the University of Missouri. Professor Bradford specializes in financial asset valuation and corporate finance. He has published numerous articles in leading finance journals and has received a variety of research awards.

Professor Jordan is coauthor of Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 9th edition and Essentials of Corporate Finance 5th edition, two of the most widely used business finance textbooks in the world, along with Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management 6e, a widely used investments textbook. Jordane is an associate editor of Financial Review and The Journal of Financial Research and a past-President of the Southern Finance Association.

Stephen Ross

Professor Stephen A. Ross is presently the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. One of the most widely published authors in economics and finance, Dr. Ross is recognized for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research in agency theory, signaling, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, Ross currently serves as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals. He is a director of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF), a trustee of CalTech, and Freddie Mac. He is also the co-chairman of Roll and Ross Asset Management Corporation.