1. Strategic and organizational challenges in European banking / Jordi Canals -- 2. Regulatory capital requirements and financial stability / Jaime Caruana -- 3. Markets and institutions : managing the evolving financial risk / Malcolm D. Knight -- 4. Macroeconomic consequences of financial regulation / Josef Christl -- 5. The changing pattern of payments in the United States / Anthony M. Santomero -- 6. The East-West efficiency gap in European banking / Marko Komak and Peter Zajc -- 7. Foreign acquisitions and industry wealth effects of privatization : evidence from the Polish banking industry / Martin T. Bohl, Olena Havrylchyk and Dirk Schiereck -- 8. Electronic payments and ATMs : changing technology and cost efficiency in banking / Santiago Carbo Valverde, David B. Humphrey and Rafael Lopez Del Paso -- 9. Pricing strategies in European banking : specialization, technology and intertemporal smoothing / Santiago Carbo Valverde and Francisco Rodriguez Fernandez -- 10. The magnitude of distortions when measuring bank efficiency with misspecified input prices / Michael Koetter -- 11. Competition in a highly concentrated banking sector : theoretical, empirical and practical considerations for the Netherlands / Wim Boonstra and Johannes M. Groeneveld -- 12. Strategic management in banking, in medio virtus / Jean Dermine -- 13. European primarily Internet banks : the profitability outlook / Javier Delgado, Ignacio Hernando and Maria J. Nieto -- 14. Bank risks and the business cycle / Lieven Baele, Olivier De Jonghe and Rudi Vander Vennet -- 15. House prices and consumer lending / John P. Calverley -- 16. Capital markets and financial integration in Europe / Philipp Hartmann, Simone Manganelli and Cyril Monnet.