About the Authors xxxi Apostolos Serletis is Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Calgary Since receiving his Ph.D from McMaster University in 1984, he has held visiting appointments at the University of Texas at Austin, the Athens University of Economics and Business, and the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis Professor Serletis teaching and research interests focus on monetary and financial economics, macroeconometrics, and nonlinear and complex dynamics He is the author of eight books, including Macroeconomics: A Modern Approach (First Canadian Edition) with Robert J Barro (Nelson, 2010), The Demand for Money: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches (Springer, 2007), Financial Markets and Institutions: Canadian Edition, with Frederic S Mishkin and Stanley G Eakins (Addison-Wesley, 2004), and The Theory of Monetary Aggregation, co-edited with William A Barnett (Elsevier, 2000) In addition, he has published over 150 articles in such journals as Journal of Economic Literature; Journal of Monetary Economics; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Journal of Econometrics; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Journal of Business and Economic Statistics; Macroeconomic Dynamics; Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Economic Inquiry; Canadian Journal of Economics; and Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics Professor Serletis is Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics and a member of the editorial board at two academic journals, Journal of Economic Asymmetries and Journal of Economic Studies He is listed in a variety of directories, including Who s Who in Economics and Who s Who in the World