The Review of Finance has now added the option to suggest editors. The submission system contains a drop-down where you can make a selection (or choose “None Selected”). We will take author suggestions into account but are not always able to accommodate them due to factors such as workload, fit, and conflicts.… Read more...
The lead article in Volume 23, Issue 2 of the Review of Finance is Labor and Capital Dynamics under Financing Frictions by Ryan Michaels, Beau Page, and Toni Whited. This paper uses a new quarterly panel dataset to examine how financing frictions affect firms’ investment and hiring decisions. In particular, it shows that higher leverage reduces wages, even though it does not reduce employment. To rationalize the findings, the authors build a model where higher leverage increases the probability of default, reducing the surplus to be shared with workers and thus wages.… Read more...
We have recently updated our information for authors and referees. For authors, this explains the requirement for EU authors to provide VAT information for their institution (or confirm they are paying the submission fee privately), plus the process and timescale of any refunds (e.g.… Read more...
(This post is thanks to Editor Amiyatosh Purnanandam)
The lead article in Volume 22, Issue 6 of the Review of Finance is Complex Mortgages by Gene Amromin, Jennifer Huang, Clemens Sialm, and Edward Zhong.
The Changing Nature of Mortgages
Mortgage products were extremely simple in the twentieth century.… Read more...
(This post is thanks to Editor Amit Goyal)
The lead article in Volume 23, Issue 1 of the Review of Finance is “Which Factors?” by Kewei Hou, Haitao Mo, Chen Xue, and Lu Zhang.
A factor model proposes why different stocks have different returns.… Read more...
The lead article in Volume 22, Issue 5 of the Review of Finance is A Theory of Costly Sequential Bidding by Kent Daniel and David Hirshleifer. This paper explains why, in many real-life auctions such as M&A, bidders may engage in “jump-bids” – bid much more than needed to stay in the auction – when it might seem more prudent to bid the minimum possible increment
How to Bid in an Auction?… Read more...
The Review of Finance is delighted to announce the reappointment of Amit Goyal and Joel Peress as Editors for a second three-year term starting in 2019. We also welcome David Martinez-Miera as Associate Editor. We thank the outgoing Associate Editors Doron Avramov, David Thesmar, and Paolo Volpin for their service to the journal.… Read more...
The Managing Editor’s Report for 2017/8 is available here. Some highlights include:
The Review of Finance congratulates the following award winners:
Pagano/Zechner award for best non-investments paper
Winner: Patrick Bolton and Haizhou Huang for The Capital Structure of Nations (non-technical summary here)
Runner-up: Marianne Bertrand, Francis Kramarz, Antoinette Schoar, and David Thesmar for The Cost of Political Connections (non-technical summary here)
Finalists:
(This post is thanks to Advisory Editor Andrew Ellul)
The lead article in Volume 22, Issue 4, of the Review of Finance is Labor Representation in Governance as an Insurance Mechanism by E. Han Kim, Ernst Maug and Christoph Schneider. This paper provides evidence that labor participation in firms’ governance enables risk sharing between employees and employers.… Read more...