1. Introduction: Special Issue on the Banking and Finance Workshop

   • Loretta J. Mester
   • Anthony Saunders

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 97

2. The Underpricing of Venture and Nonventure Capital IPOs: An Empirical Investigation

   • Bill B. Francis
   • Iftekhar Hasan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 113

3. An Empirical Examination of the Price-Dividend Relation with Dividend Management

   • Lucy F. Ackert
   • William C. Hunter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 129

4. Substitution of Noncash Payment Instruments for Cash in Europe

   • Jussi S. Snellman
   • Jukka M. Vesala
   • David B. Humphrey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 145

5. Technological and Environmental Differences in the European Banking Industries

   • Mohamed E. Chaffai
   • Michel Dietsch
   • Ana Lozano-Vivas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 162

6. The Effects of Geographic Expansion on Bank Efficiency

   • Allen N. Berger
   • Robert DeYoung

   OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 184

7. An Analysis of Bank Charter Value and Its Risk-Constraining Incentives

   • Anthony Saunders
   • Berry Wilson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 195

8. Credit Union Governance and Survival of the Cooperative Form

   • Kevin Davis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 210