Don Bredin is a Full Professor of Finance at the UCD Graduate School of Business and Head of the Banking and Finance Subject Area. He has previously worked at the Research Department of the Central Bank of Ireland, City University, London and University of Newcastle, UK. He undertook his PhD in Economics at the University of Newcastle. His main research interests are in empirical finance and economic and financial history. Recent research has been published in Journal of Banking and Finance, The Energy Journal and Energy Economics. Don currently lectures a graduate level module on Commodity Finance and an undergraduate module on the History of Financial Crises. Don spent the 2012-13 academic year as a Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar at the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.View my research on my SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=364010