Liquidity and market microstructure - an empirical comparison of the specialist system versus multiple market makers, Marc R. Reinganum; predictability and time-varying risk in world equity markets, Wayne E. Ferson and Campbell R. Harvey; further results on the small sample properties of the generalised method of moments - tests of latent variable models, Wayne E. Ferson and Stephen R. Foerster; on the mean standard deviation frontier of stochastic discount factor in the presence of regime shifts, Mao-Wei Hung; fixed-price offering, underwriters' discriminatory allocation and IPO underpricing, Joseph C. Kang; the structure of price dis-counts on private equity placements, Myron J. Gordon and Ashwani K. Srivastave; the wealth effects of liquidity gains from option listings, Michael D. Schinski and D. Michael Long; the asset flexibility option and the value of deposit insurance, Peter Ritchken, James B. Thomson, Ramon P. De-Gennaro, and Anlong Li; debt structure, insider ownership, and dividend policy - a test of the substitutability hypo-thesis in an agency framework, Chenchuramaiah T. Bathala, Oswald D. Bowlin, and Ramesh P. Rao; an interactive multi-objective programming approach to the capital expenditure planning, V. M. Jog, W. Michalowski and T. Trzaskalik; some further examination of the event study method of analysis, George M. Frankfurter and Helmut Schneider.