This volume consists of original research articles examining timely issues in financial services, asset pricing, and hedging. The articles in the first part of the volume deal with methods for assessing the safety and soundness of banks, rationales for and economic consequences of bank mergers,...

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...

This volume contains contributions on a range of important issues in current financial research. Topics included are - the performance of fixed income mutual funds in different economic states, the determinants of long-term excess performance of the ADRs on the NYSE, the models for forecasting...

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...

Contains contributions on a range of important issues in research in finance and economics. This volume includes topics such as the IPO underwriting spreads, the moral hazard problems in bank regulation as well as in the cost of deposit insurance, the loa