BANKING <br>1. Risk Ratings in Asian Banks. <br>Edward H.K. Ng<br>2. Private Wealth Management in Asia. <br>David R. Meyer<br>3. The Banking Networks of Asian Financial Centers. <br>David R. Meyer<br>4. Dynamics of House Price and Bank Lending in Korea.<br>Heeho Kim and Saewoon Park<br>5. The Effect of Bank Mergers on Shareholder Value and Performance in Japan. <br>Heather Montgomery and Yuki Takahashi<br>6. A Regime-switching Analysis of Asian Bank Stocks. <br>Kin-Yip Ho, Yanlin Shi and Zhaoyong Zhang<br>7. Default Prediction with Automatically Predictor Selection on Southeast Asian Industry. <br>Wolfgang Karl Hardle and Dedy Dwi Prastyo<br>8. A Demand for International Reserve and Monetary Disequilibrium: Evidence from Emerging Asia<br><br>MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNANCE ISSUES<br>9. Singapore’s Financial Markets: Challenges, Future and Prospects. <br>David Lee and Kok Fai Phoon<br>10. Wealth Management- A Comparison of Switzerland, Singapore and Hong Kong. <br>Francis Koh and Peggan Tan<br>11. Asian Market Reactions to US Macroeconomic News Surprises. <br>Helena Chulia and Natalia Valls<br>12. Monetary Policy in Taiwan: the Implications of Liquidity. <br>Logan Kelly, Jane Binner, Chia-Ling Chang, and Yi-Heng Tseng<br>13. Comparative Financial Development in Asia-Pacific since the Asia Crisis. <br>Kym Brown, Jonathan A. Batten, Michael Skully and Yen N. Nguyen<br>14. Does Asia Really Have Poorer Governance?: Evidence from International Variations in Self-Dealing Transparency. <br>Raj Aggarwal and John W. Goodell<br>15. Attitudes Toward Tax Evasion in Korea: A Study in Public Finance. <br>Robert W. McGee and Yeomin Yoon<br>16. Attitudes toward Accepting a Bribe: A Comparative Study of the Peoples’ Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. <br>Robert W. McGee<br><br>SOVERIGN WEALTH FUNDS<br>17. The Emergence of Sovereign Wealth Funds in Asia. <br>Donghyun Park and Gemma Esther B. Estrada<br>18. China Investment Corporation: China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. <br>Yuwei Hu<br>19. Portfolio Allocation Dynamics of China Investment Corporation in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. <br>Tayyeb Shabbir<br>20. Sovereign Wealth Funds in East Asia: An Update of their Recent Developments. <br>Kin-Yip Ho and Zhaoyong Zhang