This volume contains ten papers, by many prominent authors, examining antitrust issues of current interest. The first paper summarizes the other papers and presents original research on the meaning of consumer welfare and the sources of buyer power. The next five articles evaluate older...

Introduction / Andrew H. Chen -- Corporate ownership is not always the best policy / John W. Kensinger, Stephen L. Poe -- The information content of corporate investment announcements : the case of joint ventures / Arthur J. Keown, Paul Laux, John D. Martin -- An expanded study on the stock...

Introduction / Andrew H. Chen -- Financial safety nets : why do they keep expanding? / Edward J. Kane -- A positive analysis of bank failure resolution policies / Kamphol Panyagometh, Gordon S. Roberts -- Bank failure resolution policies and subordinated debt / Kamphol Panyagometh, Gordon S....

Competition in IPO underwriting : time series evidence / Mukesh Bajaj, Andrew H. Chen, Sumon C. Mazumdar -- Can delegating bank regulation to market forces really work? / C.W. Sealey -- Internal model-based capital standard and the cost of deposit insurance / Jin-Ping Lee -- Lead lenders and...

The theme of this volume is Recovering from Financial Crisis. The lead chapter sets the theme by giving insight into the recent surge in going-private transactions (and the corresponding reduction of Initial Public Offerings). The author develops evidence (reaching back 25 years) that...