Includes bibliographical references.

When a bank is not a bank : the case of industrial loan companies / Christian Johnson and George G. Kaufman -- Banking and commerce : what difference did Wal-mart make? / Christine E. Blair -- Managing financial failure in an evolving economic and financial environment / Eva H.G. Hüpkes -- The political economy of burden sharing and prompt corrective action / Gillian G.H. Garcia -- Uncertainty, transparency, and future monetary policy / Marc D. Hayford and A.G. Malliaris -- The trimmed mean PCE inflation rate : a better measure of core inflation / Harvey Rosenblum and Nicole Y. Cote -- Payday lending and payments services : a historical and modern analysis / Robert DeYoung and Ronnie J. Phillips -- Insider trading and large chapter 11 bankruptcies : 1995-2006 / Tareque Nasser and Benton E. Gup.