Go Tamakoshi is Research Fellow at the Department of Economics of Kobe University, Japan. He received his PhD in Economics from Kobe University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. He has published many papers in refereed journals. He is the co-author of The European Sovereign Debt Crisis and Its Impacts on Financial Markets (Routledge, 2015). Shigeyuki Hamori is a Professor of Economics at Kobe University, Japan. He received his PhD from Duke University and has published many papers in refereed journals. His titles include Introduction of the Euro and the Monetary Policy of the European Central Bank (World Scientific, 2009), The European Sovereign Debt Crisis and Its Impacts on Financial Markets (Routledge, 2015), and Financial Globalization and Regionalism in East Asia (Routledge, 2014).