Dr. Daniel Folkinshteyn received his PhD in Finance and MBA/MS in Finance from Temple University, as well as a BA in Molecular Biology from Yale University. His teaching interests include corporate finance, financial markets, and decision theory. As a member of the Department of Accounting and Finance at Rowan University, he teaches courses in the undergraduate major. His research interests focus largely on corporate debt, including the determinants of corporate debt structure, factors impacting firm cost of debt, informed trading in public debt markets. He is also interested in alternative currencies, peer-to-peer economic transactions, and trust networks. Prior to joining Rowan University in 2011, he had taught undergraduate finance at Temple University for 4 years.