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Book reviewed in this article: The Reform of Federal Deposit Insurance: Disciplining the Government and Protecting Taxpayers. Edited by JAMES R. BARTH and R. DAN BRUMBAUGH, JR. New York: Harper Business, 1992. Pp. xxi + 310. Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, and Instability. By WILLIAM A. BROCK, DAVID A. HSIEH, and BLAKE LEBARON. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xviii + 328. Options and Financial Futures: Valuation and Uses. By DAVID A. DUBOF-SKY. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992. Pp. xx + 699. The Economic Structure of Corporate Law. By FRANK H. EASTERBROOK and DANIEL R. FISCHEL. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. viii + 370. Managing Corporate Pension Plans. By DENNIS E. LOGUE, New York: Harper Collins Inc., 1991. Pp. x + 289. Sense & Nonsense in Corporate Finance. By LOUIS LOWENSTEIN. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1991. Pp. viii + 263. Economics, Organization and Management. By PAUL MILGROM and JOHN ROBERTS. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1992. Pp. xvii + 621.     

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Book reviewed in this article: A Bibliography of Finance. By RICHARD BREALEY and HELEN EDWARDS. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991. Pp. xli + 822. Modern Corporate Finance. By ALAN C. SHAPIRO. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990. Pp. xxvi + 1045. Options: An Introduction. By ROBERT W. KOLB. Miami, FL: Kolb Publishing Co., 1991. Pp. viii + 216. The Separation of Commercial and Investment Banking: The Glass-Steagall Act Revisited and Reconsidered. By GEORGE J. BENSTON. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. x + 263.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Closed-End Investment Companies: Issues and Answers. By SETH C. ANDERSON and JEFFERY A. BORN. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. Pp. ix + 139. The Future of American Banking. By JAMES R. BARTH, R. DAN BRUMBAUGH, Jr ., and ROBERT E. LITAN. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1992 (Columbia University Seminar Series). Pp. xxiii + 207. Bankrupt: Restoring the Health and Profitability of Our Banking System. By LOWELL L. BRYAN. New York: Harper Business, 1991. Pp. x + 314. Principles of Finance with Corporate Applications. By DOUGLAS R. EMERY and JOHN D. FINNERTY. St. Paul: West Publishing, 1991. Pp. xxxii + 898. The MIT Dictionary of Modern Economics. Edited by DAVID W. PEARCE. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 474. Futures and Options: Theory and Applications. By HANS R. STOLL and ROBERT E. WHALEY. Cincinnati: Southwestern Publishing Co., 1993. Pp. xii + 419.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Investor Response to Management Decisions: A Research-based Analysis of Actions and Effects. By RICHARD M. ALTMAN. New York: Quorum Books, 1992. Pp. xiv + 375. Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory. By DARRELL DUFFIE. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xvi + 299. Finance in a Theory of the Business Cycle. By ROBERT E. KRAINER. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. Pp. xx + 245. The swaps Market. By JOHN F. MARSHALL and KENNETH R. KAPNER. Miami: Kolb Publishing, 2nd ed., 1993. Pp. 258. Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets: A New View of Cycles, Prices, and Market Volatility. By EDGAR E. PETERS. New York: John Wiley, 1991. Pp. xii + 240. Profit-Making Speculation in Foreign Exchange Markets. By PATCHARA SURAJARAS and RICHARD J. SWEENEY. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 280.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Capital Budgeting Under Uncertainty. By RAJ AGGARWAL. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1993. Pp. x + 341. Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor. By JOHN C. BOGLE. Burr Ridge, Illinois: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1994. Pp. xvi + 320. The Collapse of Federally Insured Depositories: The Savings and Loans as Precursor. By R. DAN BRUMBAUGH JR. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993. Pp. xxii + 240. Collateralized Mortgage Obligations: Structures and Analysis. By FRANK J. FABOZZI, CHARLES RAMSEY, and FRANK R. RAMIREZ. Summit, N.J.: Frank J. Fabozzi Associates, 1993. Pp. vii + 250. Short-Term Financial Management. By TERRY S. MANESS and JOHN T. ZIETLOW. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Company, 1993. Pp. xix + 675. Canadian Capital Markets. Edited by MICHAEL J. ROBINSON and BRIAN F. SMITH. London, Ontario: Western Business School, The University of Western Ontario, 1993. Pp. iv + 152.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Macroeconomics and Finance: Essays in Honor of Franco Modigliani. Edited by RUDIGER DORNBUSCH, STANLEY FISCHER, and JOHN BOSSONS. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. Pp. x 339. The Crash and Its Aftermath: A History of Securities Markets in the United States, 1929–1933. By BARRIE A. WIGMORE. (Contributions in Economics and Economic History, Number 58.) Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. xx + 731. Profits in the Long Run. By DENNIS C. MUELLER. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xxii + 352. Liquidity Analysis and Management. By GEORGE W. GALLINGER and P. BASIL HEALY. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1987. Pp. xxiv + 605.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Futures Markets. By DARRELL DUFFIE. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988. Pp. xi + 415. Bank Financial Decision Analysis. By DAVID R. DURST and DONALD G. CONNER. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. Pp. viii + 280. Bank Financial Decision Analysis. By DAVID R. DURST and DONALD G. CONNER. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. Pp. viii + 280. The S&L Insurance Mess: How Did It Happen? By EDWARD J. KANE. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 1989. Pp. xviii + 181. The S&L Insurance Mess: How Did It Happen? By EDWARD J. KANE. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 1989. Pp. xviii + 181.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Grade Quick! The Teacher's Grade Processor. By DANIEL S. ABRAMS. New Haven, CT: Compu-Teach, Inc., 1992. Pp. viii + 57. Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street. By PETER L. BERNSTEIN. New York: The Free Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 340. European Banking. Edited by ANDY MULLINEUX. Oxford, England and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. Pp. x + 222. Taxes and Business Strategy. By MYRON S. SCHOLES and MARK A. WOLFSON. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1992. Pp. xx + 616. International Financial Markets. By ALAN L. TUCKER, JEFF MADURA, and THOMAS C. CHIANG. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1991. Pp. xviii + 355.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Asymmetric Information, Corporate Finance, and Investment. By R. GLENN HUBBARD. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 343. Japanese Takeovers: The Global Contest for Corporate Control. By W. CARL KESTER. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1991. Pp. xxii + 298. Breaking Financial Boundaries: Global Capital, National Deregulation, and Financial Services Firms. By DAVID M. MEERSCHWAM. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1991. Pp. ix + 306. The S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank and Thrift Regulation. by LAWRENCE J. WHITE. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 308.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Real Estate Finance. By C. F. SIRMANS. Investments. By NANCY L. JACOB and R. RICHARDSON PETTIT. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1984. Pp. xxii + 973. Introduction to Financial Management. By JOHN A. HALLORAN and HOWARD P. LANSER. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1985. Pp. 766. Financial Institutions and Markets in a Changing World, second edition. By DONALD R. FRASER and PETER S. ROSE. Plano, Texas: Business Publications, Inc., 1984. Pp. x + 786. Money, Financial Institutions, and the Economy. By WILLIAM B. HARRISON. Plano, Texas: Business Publications, Inc., 1985. Pp. xix + 591.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Economics of Mutual Fund Markets: Competition Versus Regulation. By WILLIAM BAUMOL, STEPHEN GOLDFELD, LILLI GORDON, and MICHEAL KOEHN. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990. Pp. xiv + 242. The Great Myths of 1929 and the Lessons to be Learned. By HAROLD BIERMAN, Jr. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 203. Currency Risk and Business—Management. By ALFRED KENYON. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. vi + 260. The Future of Banking. By JAMES L. PIERCE. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 163.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Stock Market Anomalies. By ELROY DIMSON, editor. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 295. Bond Markets, Analysis and Strategies. By FRANK J. FABOZZI and T. DESSA FABOZZI. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989. Pp. xx + 347. The Japanese Stock Market: Pricing Systems and Accounting Information. By SHIGEKI SAKAKIBARA, HIDETOSHI YAMAJI, HISAKATSU SAKURAI, KENGO SHIROSHITA, and SHIMON FUKUDA. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988. Pp. xvi + 156.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Option Markets. By JOHN COX and MARK RUBINSTEIN. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985. Pp. iii + 498. Fundamentals of Investment Management, second edition. By GEOFFREY A. HIRT and STANLEY B. BLOCK. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1986. Pp. xvi + 710. International Debt: Systemic Risk and Policy Response. By WILLIAM R. CLINE. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1984. World Debt Crisis: International Lending on Trial. By MICHAEL P. CLAUDON (Editor). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1986     

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Security Markets: Stochastic Models. By DARRELL DUFFIE. San Diego: Academic Press, 1988. Pp. xx + 358. Options: Theory, Strategy, and Applications. By PETER RITCHKEN. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1987. Pp. xiii + 414. Option Valuation. By STUART M. TURNBULL. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 1987, Pp. xv + 183.     

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Book reviewed in this article: A-Pack: Financial Analytics for the Business Student. By JOHN MARSHALL, DOUGLAS F. LEARY, and KEVIN J. WYNNE. Miami: Kolb Publishing Company, 1992. Pp. 212. Financial Innovations and Market Volatility. By MERTON H. MILLER. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1991. Pp. xii + 288. Investment Banking in Europe: Restructuring for the 1990s. By INGO WALTER and ROY C. SMITH. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell Inc., 1989. Pp. xii + 169.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Free Markets, Finance, Ethics, and Law. By LARRY ALAN BEAR and RITA MALDONADO-BEAR. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1994. Pp. xiii + 434. Investment Under Uncertainty. By AVINASH K. DIXIT and ROBERT S. PINDYCK. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv + 468. Financial Institutions and Markets. By MEIR KOHN. New York, New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994. Pp. xxvii + 868. Anatomy of a Merger: The Causes and Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions. By ALEXANDRA M. POST. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1994. Pp. xii + 258. The Law and Insider Trading: In Search of a Level Playing Field. By ELIZABETH SZOCKYI. Buffalo: William S. Hein & Co., 1993. Pp. x + 151.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Management of Investments. By JACK CLARK FRANCIS. New York: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1983. Pp. xvii + 669. Principles of Financial Management. By BURTON A. KOLB. Plano, Texas: Business Publications, Inc., 1983. Pp. xvi + 799. Financial Institutions, Markets, and Economic Activity. By TIM S. CAMPBELL. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982. Pp. xviii + 604. The Fed. By MAXWELL NEWTON. New York: Times Books, Inc., 1983. Pp. xiv + 336. Financial Markets and Institutions. By ROBERT D. AUERBACH. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1983. Pp. xiv + 577.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change. Edited by ROBERT J. GORDON. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. Pp. xiv + 868. Investments. By ROBERT W. KOLB. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1986. Pp. xi + 637. Agency Problems and Financial Contracting. By AMIRB ARNEA,R OBERTA. HAUGEN, and LEMMA W. SENBET. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1985. Pp. x + 163.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Business Cycles and Equilibrium. By FISCHER BLACK. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp. xi + 180. Corporate Finance. By STEPHEN A. ROSS and RANDOLPH W. WESTERFIELD. St. Louis: Times Mirror/Mosby, 1988. Pp, xxvii + 857. Finance Theory. By ROBERT JARROW. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1988. Pp. xiv + 298.     

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Book reviewed in this article: How Real Is The Federal Deficit? By ROBERT EISNER. New York: The Free Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 240. Corporate Risk Management: A Financial Exposition. By NEIL A. DOHERTY. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. Pp. xvi + 483. International Financial Markets. By J. ORLIN GRABBE. New York: Elsevier, 1986. Pp. 322 + glossary.