JACK CLARK FRANCIS is Professor of Economics and Finance at Bernard M. Baruch College in New York City and author of several well-known college textbooks. He previously served as a Federal Reserve economist and on the finance faculty of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

WILLIAM W. TOY is a Vice President in the Equity Derivatives Department at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and a codeveloper of the Black-Derman-Toy interest rate options model. He holds a PhD in physics from MIT.

J. GREGG WHITTAKER is a Managing Director and the global head of Credit Derivatives for Chase Securities in New York City and a former senior vice president of S. G. Warburg, where he headed the Equity-Structured Products Division. He earned a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin.