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As the holiday season approaches, we would like to inform you of some important dates and upcoming changes.

• Fast Track Submission Pause: Please note that the fast track submission option will be unavailable from December 15, 2023, to January 8, 2024, inclusive. 

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For Authors

Our updated guidelines now include detailed specifications on authorship, particularly concerning the disclosure of AI tool involvement in your work. Please consult the Authorship section of our Editorial Policy for more information.

For Referees

We have also clarified our expectations regarding the use of AI tools and maintaining confidentiality during the review process.… Read more...

For the first time since 2017, we are updating our pricing structure to adapt to rising operational costs. Despite our efforts to keep prices stable, this modest change is essential to allow us to uphold the journal’s high standards and ensure a smooth process for authors and referees.… Read more...

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.

Pagano/Zechner Prize

• Winner: Florian Berg, Julian F Kölbel, Roberto Rigobon for
  Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings (Summary)
• Runner-up: Morris A Davis, William D Larson, Stephen D Oliner, Benjamin R Smith for A Quarter Century of Mortgage Risk (Summary)

IQAM Prize

• Winner: Matteo Binfarè, Gregory Brown, Robert Harris, Christian Lundblad for How Does Human Capital Affect Investing?

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The RF is pleased to announce a number of new Associate Editor appointments beginning in January 2023:

Tobias Berg (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), Scott Cederburg (University of Arizona), Laurent Fresard (Universita della Svizzera Italiana), Vincent Glode (University of Pennsylvania), Deeksha Gupta (Johns Hopkins University), Bing Han (University of Toronto), Thomas Mertens (Federal Reserve Bank San Francisco), Dmitriy Muravyev (Michigan State University), Elena Simintzi (University of North Carolina), Jan Starmans (Stockholm School of Economics), Margarita Tsoutsoura (Cornell University).… Read more...

Dear authors,

Thank you for submitting your papers to the RF during 2022. As we approach the end of the year, we would like to notify you that the RF Editorial Office will be closed from 23 December and reopen on 2 January.… Read more...

The Review of Finance is delighted to announce the appointment of Xavier Giroud (Columbia) and Marcus Opp (Stockholm School of Economics) as Editors, to start a three-year term commencing in January 2023. Xavier and Marcus are leading experts in empirical and theoretical corporate finance.… Read more...

The Managing Editor’s Report for 2021/2 is available here. Some highlights include

• The 2-year impact factor rose to 5.059 in 2021. This compares to 3.894 in 2020, 2.885 in 2019 and 1.906 in 2018, indicating strong forward momentum.
  • Excluding self-citations, the impact factor has increased to 4.971, from 3.840 in 2020.

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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.

Pagano/Zechner Prize

• Winner: Bo Li and Jacopo Ponticelli for Going Bankrupt in China
• Runner-up: Meghana Ayyagari, Pedro Juarros, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria and Sandeep Singh for Access to Finance and Job Growth: Firm-Level Evidence across Developing Countries (summary)
• Finalists:
  • Jeffery (Jinfan) Chang, Ting Yang and Yanping Shi for Finance Leases: In the Shadow of Banks (summary)
  • Efraim Benmelech, Nittai Bergman and Amit Seru for Financing Labor
  • B Espen Eckbo and Michael Kisser for The Leverage–Profitability Puzzle Resurrected (summary)

IQAM Prize

• Winner: Jonathan Reuter and Eric Zitzewitz
  for How Much Does Size Erode Mutual Fund Performance?

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