EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

1. The Use of Accounting and Stock Market Data to Predict Bank Financial Distress:
     The Case of East Asian Banks
   Isabelle Distinguin, Amine Tarazi and Jocelyn Trinidad

2. Ownership Structure and Bank Efficiency in Six Asian Countries
   Thierno Amadou Barry, Santos Jose O. Dacanay III, Laetitia Lepetit
      and Amine Tarazi

3. Interest Rate Movements and Inflation Risk in the Philippines
   Alma dela Cruz and David Dickinson

4. Regime-Switching Market Risk: Evidence from the Philippines
   Joel C. Yu, Daniel Goyeau and Carlos C. Bautista
    

5. World Business Cycle, Local Specialization and Asset Prices
   Noelle Duport, Daniel Goyeau and Genelyn Ma. F. Sarte
    

6. Money Growth and Velocity with Structural Break: Evidence from the Philippines
   Assad L. Baunto, Christian Bordes, Samuel Maveyraud and Philippe Rous
    

7. International Liquidity, Monetary Spillovers and Asset Prices
   Daniel Vincent H. Borja and Daniel Goyeau
    

8. Banking Industry Structure and Economic Activities: A Regional Approach for the 
      Philippines
   Jessica A. Los Banos, Celine Meslier Crousille, Emmanuelle Nys and Alain Sauviat

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*An annual journal published by the UP College of Business Administration in cooperation with the UP Business Research Foundation.