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Important Update: Revised Pricing Structure from 2024
For the first time since 2017, we are updating our pricing structure to adapt to rising operational costs. Despite our efforts to keep prices stable, this modest change is essential to allow us to uphold the journal’s high standards and ensure a smooth process for authors and referees.… Read more...
Managing Editor’s Report for 2022/23
The Managing Editor’s Report for 2022/23 is available here. Some highlights include
- The 2022 Impact Factor was 4.400 (4.300 excluding self-citations). While in previous years, the RF had a steady increase in its impact factor, the 2022 Impact Factor represents a 13% decrease on the 2021 Impact Factor, which is likely impacted by Clarivate’s change of approach in its measurement.
2022/23 Best Paper and Best Referee Awards
The Review of Finance congratulates the award winners for the Pagano/Zechner Prize for best non-investments, for the IQAM Prize for the best investments paper, and for the Best Referee Award.
Pagano/Zechner Prize
- Winner: Florian Berg, Julian F Kölbel, Roberto Rigobon for
Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings (Summary) - Runner-up: Morris A Davis, William D Larson, Stephen D Oliner, Benjamin R Smith for A Quarter Century of Mortgage Risk (Summary)
IQAM Prize
- Winner: Matteo Binfarè, Gregory Brown, Robert Harris, Christian Lundblad for How Does Human Capital Affect Investing?
New Associate Editors from 2023
The RF is pleased to announce a number of new Associate Editor appointments beginning in January 2023:
Tobias Berg (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), Scott Cederburg (University of Arizona), Laurent Fresard (Universita della Svizzera Italiana), Vincent Glode (University of Pennsylvania), Deeksha Gupta (Johns Hopkins University), Bing Han (University of Toronto), Thomas Mertens (Federal Reserve Bank San Francisco), Dmitriy Muravyev (Michigan State University), Elena Simintzi (University of North Carolina), Jan Starmans (Stockholm School of Economics), Margarita Tsoutsoura (Cornell University).… Read more...
Editorial Office Christmas break & fast-track submissions over the holidays
Dear authors,
Thank you for submitting your papers to the RF during 2022. As we approach the end of the year, we would like to notify you that the RF Editorial Office will be closed from 23 December and reopen on 2 January.… Read more...
New RF Editors From 2023
The Review of Finance is delighted to announce the appointment of Xavier Giroud (Columbia) and Marcus Opp (Stockholm School of Economics) as Editors, to start a three-year term commencing in January 2023. Xavier and Marcus are leading experts in empirical and theoretical corporate finance.… Read more...
Managing Editor’s Report for 2021/22
The Managing Editor’s Report for 2021/2 is available here. Some highlights include
- The 2-year impact factor rose to 5.059 in 2021. This compares to 3.894 in 2020, 2.885 in 2019 and 1.906 in 2018, indicating strong forward momentum.
- Excluding self-citations, the impact factor has increased to 4.971, from 3.840 in 2020.
2021/22 Best Paper and Best Referee Awards
The Review of Finance congratulates the award winners for the Pagano/Zechner Prize for best non-investments, for the IQAM Prize for the best investments paper, and for the Best Referee Award.
Pagano/Zechner Prize
- Winner: Bo Li and Jacopo Ponticelli for Going Bankrupt in China
- Runner-up: Meghana Ayyagari, Pedro Juarros, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria and Sandeep Singh for Access to Finance and Job Growth: Firm-Level Evidence across Developing Countries (summary)
- Finalists:
- Jeffery (Jinfan) Chang, Ting Yang and Yanping Shi for Finance Leases: In the Shadow of Banks (summary)
- Efraim Benmelech, Nittai Bergman and Amit Seru for Financing Labor
- B Espen Eckbo and Michael Kisser for The Leverage–Profitability Puzzle Resurrected (summary)
IQAM Prize
- Winner: Jonathan Reuter and Eric Zitzewitz
for How Much Does Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance?
New Associate Editors From 2022
The Review of Finance is delighted to announce the appointment of Carole Comerton-Forde (Melbourne), Winston Dou (Wharton), and Michael Song (Chinese University of Hong Kong) as Associate Editors, to start a three-year term commencing in January 2022. We also announce the reappointment of David Martinez-Miera to a second term.… Read more...
New Code Sharing Policy
To ensure the quality and reliability of papers published in the Review of Finance, we are introducing a Code Sharing Policy. It applies to all papers whose first submissions are on or after 1 January, 2022:
- Code Sharing. Authors of accepted papers that contain empirical analysis, simulations, numerical computations, or experimental work must provide the programs needed for replication to the Review of Finance.