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...
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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...
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The Managing Editor’s Report for 2017/8 is available here. Some highlights include:
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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:
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(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...
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The lead article in Volume 22, Issue 3 of the Review of Finance is The Cost of Political Connections by Marianne Bertrand, Francis Kramarz, Antoinette Schoar, and David Thesmar. This paper shows that CEOs with a background in politics don’t shut down potentially underperforming plants, and open plants that they might not have otherwise, to boost employment in the run-up to a local election.… Read more...
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The RF is now introducing a 60-page limit (including appendices, bibliography, figures, and tables, but excluding internet appendices). This is for two reasons. First, an excessively long paper is likely to be less impactful. Second, refereeing an excessively long paper is demanding, and this helps ensure that the referee(s) have the capacity to review the manuscript diligently.… Read more...
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The lead article in Volume 22, Issue 2 of the Review of Finance is Corporate Credit Risk Premia by Antje Berndt, Rohan Douglas, Darrell Duffie and Mark Ferguson. This paper shows that corporate credit risk premia vary substantially both over time and between bonds.… Read more...
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(This post is thanks to Editor Thorsten Beck)
The lead article in Volume 22, issue 1 of the Review of Finance is “ECB Policies Involving Government Bond Purchases: Impact and Channels” by Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stefan Nagel and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen.… Read more...
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The RF recognizes the importance of fast turnaround times, hence our second round up-or-out policy, commitment to avoid over-refereeing and respect author primacy, and introducing payments for on-time reports (see http://revfin.org/editorial-policy/). We recognize that fast turnaround times are particularly important for junior scholars.… Read more...
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