Linus Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He received his Ph.D. (D.Phil.) from Oxford University in 2007. He has published academic papers on investment, bankruptcy, competition, and capital structure in professional partnerships. He has taught undergraduate, masters, M.B.A., and Ph.D. students in finance and economics subjects. Before coming to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and a lecturer at Keble College, Oxford University. Recently he has written or coauthored several working papers on the optimal design of bank bailouts. His research on bank bailouts can be found at http://www.linuswilson.com/bankbailouts.html.