Author name: Patricia Ponce

Downside Market Risk of Carry Trades
Victoria Dobrynskaya
Review of Finance, Volume 18, Issue 5, 1 August 2014, Pages 1885–1913, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfu004

According to uncovered interest parity, free capital mobility ensures that investments in different currencies with different levels of local interest rates do not consistently generate excess returns because a positive interest rate differential should be compensated by the expected exchange rate depreciation of the target currency.… Read more...

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Financial Sector Reform after the Subprime Crisis: Has Anything Happened?
Alexander Schäfer; Isabel Schnabel; Beatrice Weder di Mauro
Review of Finance, Volume 20, Issue 1, 1 March 2016, Pages 77–125,https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfu055

After the near-collapse of large parts of the financial system and unprecedented bail-outs in the subprime crisis, the leaders of the G20 agreed on the need to overhaul the financial system.… Read more...

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Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive Competition? An Analysis of Corporate Employee Matching Grant Schemes 
Ning Gong; Bruce D Grundy
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 1, 1 February 2019, Pages 199–243, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfx025

Coordinating Employees Charitable Giving through Employee Matching Grants

In 2017, total US corporate giving amounted to $20.77 billion and approximately one third of S&P 1500 firms offer matching grants to support employee charitable giving.… Read more...

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The Effects of Horizontal Merger Operating Efficiencies on Rivals, Customers, and Suppliers 
Gennaro Bernile; Evgeny Lyandres
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 1, 1 February 2019, Pages 117–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfy017

Mergers and acquisitions can impact not only the merging firms, but also firms that are economically linked to them: those competing with the merging firms in product markets (rivals) as well as those operating along the merging firms’ supply chains (corporate customers and suppliers).… Read more...

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The Managing Editors’ Report for 2016/7 is available at revfin.org/reports-from-the-editors/.

Some highlights include:

  • The RF remains #4 in finance journals, ranked by 2-year impact factor. Our 5-year impact factor is now 2.827, up from 2.555 in 2015
  • The number of submissions rose from 848 to 923
  • Consistent with our new policy of applying top-three standards, the acceptance rate fell from 8.61% to 6.28%, the number of R&Rs fell by nearly a half to 87, and the number of desk-rejections nearly doubled to 296
  • Our average turnaround time fell from 50 to 38 days

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