Financial distress and capital structure choice, Tim C. Opler and Sheridan Titman; optimal capital structure and valuation of the firm in multiperiod context - bankruptcy costs, corporate and personal taxes, and non-debt tax shields, Arto Suvas; regression tests of the present value model of stock prices, Yoon Dokko; intra-industry information transfers and stock repurchases, Ramesh P. Rao and Diana R. Franz; bank capital requirements and optimal capital structure for banks, William P. Osterberg and James B. Thomson; the impact of risk-based capital regulation on a bank's portfolio and insolvency risk, Mei-Ying Liu et al; determinants of US commercial bank performance - regulatory and econometric issues, P.A.V.B. Swamy et al; efficiency of Japanese multinational banks in the United States, Iftekhar Hasan and William Curt Hunter; insolvency, foreign-branch deposits and option-based risk adjusted deposit insurance, Andrew H. Chen and Jacky C. So; the variable rate put bond - an efficient development for shareholders' wealth preservation under volatile interest rates, Sangphill Kim and Alahassane Diallo; cross-currency bond option pricing, Jason Z. Wei.