List of contributors. Improved methods of treating critical issues in regulating and supervising bank safety and soundness (P.A.V.B. Swamy, T.J. Lutton and P.F. Bartholomew). Economic consequences of financial services industry consolidation (P.A.V.B. Swamy, T.J. Lutton). Secured debt and lender environmental liability (P.A. McGraw, G.S. Roberts). A contingent-claim analysis of the closed-end mutual fund discount puzzle (A.H. Chen, L.J. Merville and C. Won). The "cost" of offering price-matching refund policies: a contingent-claims perspective (S.C. Mazumdar, J. Srivastava). The effect of time complementary on consumption smoothing and the equity premium (C.M. Ahn, I. Joon Kim). A comparison of taxable and tax-deductible preferred yields (A. Murphy). Information inherent in implicit distributions (A. Doffou, J.E. Hillard). Hedging currency risk using futures (V. Bhargava, R. Brooks). Long-run and short-run dynamics between foreign exchange and stock markets: evidence from Thailand and The Philippines (M. Rahman, M. Rahman and M. Mustafa).