Topics: - Foreign banks, privatization, domestic mergers and the structure of the banking sector - Assessing banks' financial performance and risks in emerging economies - Competition, efficiency and stability of the banking sector - Banks and the rest of the financial industry in emerging...

Authors are invited to submit theoretical or empirical papers on issues related to financial crises, particularly the most recent one, and to the potential overall stability and instability of developed and emerging financial markets, institutions, and economies. Topics include but are not...