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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.

• Winner: Dong Yan for “Do private firms (mis)learn from the stock market?

The Managing Editor’s Report for 2024/25 is available here. Some highlights include:

• The RF’s 2024 Impact Factor was 8.4 (8.4 excluding self-citations). This is a 50% increase on the 2023 impact factor of 5.623 and marks an all-time high for the journal.

We are pleased to announce that Issue 4 of Volume 29 of the Review of Finance is now available.

1. Market Dominance in the Digital Age (Editor’s Choice)
   by Logan P Emery
   
2. The green sin: how exchange rate volatility and financial openness affect green premia
   by Alessandro Moro , Andrea Zaghini
   
3. Pricing Event Risk: Evidence from Concave Implied Volatility Curves (Summary here)
   by Lykourgos Alexiou, Amit Goyal, Alexandros Kostakis, Leonidas Rompolis
   
4. Return Extrapolation and Dividends
   by Brad Cannon and John Lynch
   
5. Exchange-Traded Funds and Transparency in Over-the-Counter Markets
   by Viet-Dung Doan
   
6. Not In My Backyard: Intrinsic Motivation and Corporate Pollution Abatement
   by Angie Andrikogiannopoulou, Alexia Ventouri, Scott E Yonker
   
7. Extrapolative Income Expectations and Retirement Savings (Summary here)
   by Marta Cota
   
8. Passive Ownership and Short Selling (Summary here)
   by Bastian von Beschwitz, Pekka Honkanen, Daniel Schmidt
   
9. Industry Tournament Incentives and the U.S.

Organisers: CEPR, European Central Bank, Review of Finance and Bocconi University (local host). Guest Editors Elena Carletti, Dirk Niepelt, Marcus M. Opp (Sponsoring RoF Editor), Claudio Tebaldi.

Date and Venue: A two-day conference will take place in Milan on September 25–26, 2025.… Read more...

We are pleased to announce that Issue 3 of Volume 29 of the Review of Finance is now available.

1. Is One Share/One Vote Optimal
   by Denis Gromb and Viral Acharya
   
2. Does the level of cash always increase with firm size? Theory and evidence from small firms (Summary here)
   by Ali Kakhbod, A Max Reppen, Tarik Umar, and Hao Xing
   
3. CISS of death: Measuring financial crises in real time (Summary here)
   by Sulkhan Chavleishvili and Manfred Kremer
   
4. Models behaving badly: The limits of data-driven lending (Summary here)
   by Itzhak Ben-David, Mark J.

We are pleased to welcome Olivier Darmouni, James Vickery, Ansgar Walther, and Michael Weber as Associate Editors of the Review of Finance. Their three-year terms will begin on 1 March 2025, and we look forward to their contributions to the journal.… Read more...

As we approach the end of the year, we want to take a moment to thank you for your continued contributions and support. Before the holiday season begins, we would like to share some key dates to help you plan your submissions and communication with the editorial office.… Read more...