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New publishing model
From August 2017, there will be a new publishing model at the Review of Finance. Manuscripts will be published online to the Advance Articles page within 24 hours of the author completing their licence to publish. The accepted manuscript will have a DOI and will officially constitute first publication, with the date carried through to the final version of the article.… Read more...
No Fast-Track Submissions in August
Please note that Fast-Track submissions will not be accepted in August. We will resume accepting Fast-Track submissions from Monday 4 September 2017. You may still submit regular submissions, through the usual channels. Please refer to the Submission Policy for guidelines.… Read more...
What Are the Best Liquidity Proxies for Global Research?
The lead article in Volume 21, Issue 4 of the Review of Finance is “What Are the Best Liquidity Proxies for Global Research?” by Kingsley Fong of the University of New South Wales and Craig Holden and Charles Trzcinka of Indiana University.… Read more...
Editorial Changes
Our longest-serving Editor, Burton Hollifield, has decided to retire as Editor of the Review of Finance. We thank him for his many years of distinguished service and are delighted that he has agreed to serve as Advisory Editor.… Read more...
Macro-Finance
The lead article in Volume 21, Issue 3 of the Review of Finance is “Macro-Finance” by John Cochrane of Stanford. This is an excellent review of recent advances and future research directions on a major asset pricing topic – macro-finance – written in a clear way accessible to those outside the asset pricing literature (such as me).… Read more...
Editorial Changes
The RF announces that Franklin Allen will be stepping down as Managing Editor this summer. We thank him for his five years of service to the journal, which included the RF being added to the Financial Times Top 50 journals list.… Read more...
Credit Ratings Across Asset Classes: A Long-Term Perspective
The lead article in Volume 21, Issue 2 of the Review of Finance is “Credit Ratings Across Asset Classes: A Long-Term Perspective” by Jess Cornaggia and Kimberly Cornaggia of Penn State, and John Hund of Georgia.
Credit ratings are a critical feature of bond markets.… Read more...
New Abbreviation
The Review of Finance abbreviation is being changed from RoF to RF, in line with other journals (e.g JF, JFE, RFS rather than JoF, JoFE, RoFS). Please use the new abbreviation when referring to the Review of Finance going forwards.… Read more...
New Aims and Scope
The Review of Finance announces an expanded Aims and Scope of the journal, including openness to papers using non-US data, new research methodologies, “future of research” papers, controversial papers, methodological papers, non-result papers, and descriptive papers on important topics. We remain as open to traditional papers as we have ever been.… Read more...
New Editorial Policy
The Review of Finance announces the following clarifications of our editorial policy. These policies are already being implemented, but we thought that it would be useful to make a clear statement of them to authors. These are also published in our Editorial in the first issue of 2017, freely available here.… Read more...