Jill M. Hendrickson is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of St. Thomas, USA. Previously, she held the Frank Wilson Endowed Chair of Political Economy at the University of the South, USA. Her scholarship on bank regulation, financial crises, and bank performance has been published in many journals and she is also the author of Regulation and instability in U.S. Commercial Banking: A History of Crises, which forms part of the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions series.