Author name: Patricia Ponce

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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From August 2017, there will be a new, faster 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, i.e. before copyediting and typesetting.… Read more...

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