The Managing Editor’s Report for 2019/20 is available here. Some highlights include:

• The impact factor rose by 48% to 2.885. This rise is partly due to the number of zero-cited articles falling by 35%, and partly due to the publication of some high impact papers.

The Review of Finance congratulates the following award winners:

Pagano/Zechner award for the best non-investments paper

• Winner: Gustavo Grullon, Yelena Larkin, Roni Michaely for Are US Industries Becoming More Concentrated? (summary)
• Runner-up: Tobias Berg, Manju Puri, Jörg Rocholl for Loan Officer Incentives, Internal Rating Models, and Default Rates (summary)
• Finalists:
  • Nickolay Gantchev, Oleg R Gredil, Chotibhak Jotikasthira for Governance under the Gun: Spillover Effects of Hedge Fund Activism (summary)
  • Taehyun Kim, Quoc H Nguyen for The Effect of Public Spending on Private Investment
  • Tomislav Ladika, Zacharias Sautner for Managerial Short-Termism and Investment: Evidence from Accelerated Option Vesting (summary)
  • Christopher Naubert, Linda L Tesar for The Value of Systemic Unimportance: The Case of MetLife

Spängler IQAM award for the best investments paper

• Winner: Francesca Brusa, Pavel Savor, Mungo Wilson for One Central Bank to Rule them All (summary)
• Runner-up: Florian Nagler for Yield Spreads and the Corporate Bond Rollover Channel (summary)
• Finalists:
  • Tarvo Vaarmets, Kristjan Liivamägi, Tõnn Talpsepp for How Does Learning and Education Help to Overcome the Disposition Effect?

China may soon become the world’s largest economy, but most academic research in top journals is based on U.S. data.  The insights from papers on U.S. data may not automatically apply to China, since it has a unique set of institutional features, hence the need for research specific to China. … Read more...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious crisis.  To understand its effects, and to guide policy responses, we need evidence.  However, since the crisis is recent, we do not yet have enough data to understand its long-term effects; since some policy responses have not yet been tried, or have only recently been implemented, we are unable to assess their success. … Read more...

The pandemic of COVID-19 infections is causing substantial disruptions to daily life around the world. We are grateful to authors continuing to consider the RF as an outlet for their work during these disruptions. Our editors and referees reviewers are also affected by these disruptions.… Read more...

The Rewiew of Finance is delighted to announce the appointment of Marcin Kacperczyk as Editor for a three-year term starting in January 2020. He replaces Jules van Binsbergen whose term ends in December 2019. Jules has made superb contributions to the RF, not only in handling papers but also providing insights into broader journal strategy, and will continue in a new role of Advisory Editor after he steps down.… Read more...

The Managing Editor’s Report for 2018/9 is available here. Some highlights include:

• Our acceptance rate for regular submissions has fallen to 4.1% (from 5.3% in 2017-8 and 6.3% in 2018-9), consistent with our policy of applying top-three standards. Our fast-track acceptance rate is 2%
  • As a result, our backlog continues to fall substantially, reducing the time between acceptance and in-print publication.

The Review of Finance congratulates the following award winners:

Pagano/Zechner award for the best non-investments paper

Winner: Gene Amromin, Jennifer Huang, Clemens Sialm, Edward Zhong for Complex Mortgages (summary)

Runner-up: Han Kim, Ernst Maug, Christoph Schneider for Labor Representation in Governance as an Insurance Mechanisms (summary)

Finalists:

• Ryan Michaels, Beau Page, Toni Whited, Labor and Capital Dynamics under Financing Frictions (summary)
• Carl Hsin-han Shen, Hao Zhang Tournament Incentives and Firm Innovation
• Anthony M Kwasnica, Raisa Velthuis, Jared Williams: Did You See What I Saw?