During this holiday season, the Review of Finance will pause temporarily the Fast Track feature between December 22nd, 2020, and January 11th, 2021 (inclusive). During this period, authors may only use the regular submission option.
We appreciate the continued support of authors, editors, and referees to the RF!… Read more...
The Review of Finance is delighted to announce the appointment of Brian Melzer, Jacopo Ponticelli, and Rick Townsend as Associate Editors, to start a three-year term commencing in January 2021. We thank Peter Koudijs, Jacob Sagi, and Lucy White, whose terms come to an end in December, for their service.… Read more...
The RF is introducing a Privacy Policy, which will apply from 2 November 2020. This is in order to provide you with more information about how we use any personal information we may hold on you, and also to ensure our continued compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).… Read more...
The RF is changing its email address to editorialoffice@revfin.org. This change is taking place with immediate effect, so please add us to your email address book to ensure you receive any communications from us.… Read more...
The Review of Finance is delighted to announce the appointment of Daniel Paravisini and Chris Parsons as Editors, to start a three-year term commencing in January 2021. We thank Amiyatosh Purnanandam and Kelly Shue, whose terms come to an end in December, for their outstanding service to the RF, both in handling individual papers and contributing to overall journal strategy.… Read more...
The Managing Editor’s Report for 2019/20 is available here. Some highlights include:
The Review of Finance congratulates the following award winners:
Pagano/Zechner award for the best non-investments paper
Spängler IQAM award for the best investments paper
China may soon become the world’s largest economy, but most academic research in top journals is based on U.S. data. The insights from papers on U.S. data may not automatically apply to China, since it has a unique set of institutional features, hence the need for research specific to China. … Read more...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious crisis. To understand its effects, and to guide policy responses, we need evidence. However, since the crisis is recent, we do not yet have enough data to understand its long-term effects; since some policy responses have not yet been tried, or have only recently been implemented, we are unable to assess their success. … Read more...
The pandemic of COVID-19 infections is causing substantial disruptions to daily life around the world. We are grateful to authors continuing to consider the RF as an outlet for their work during these disruptions. Our editors and referees reviewers are also affected by these disruptions.… Read more...