About the Authors

Robert I. Webb teaches Financial Trading at the University of Virginia, where he holds a Paul Tudor Jones II Research Professorship. His research focuses on derivative securities and markets, trading, and incentive economics. He is the author of Trading Catalysts: How Events Move Markets and Create Trading Opportunities (FT Press 2007) and Macroeconomic Information and Financial Trading (Blackwell 1994), and co-author of Investment Strategy and State and Local Economic Policy (Quorum 1992).

Webb has traded treasury bonds and other fixed income securities for the Investment Department of the World Bank; traded futures as a “local” on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; designed new financial futures and option contracts ...

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