The lead article in Volume 23, Issue 3 of the Review of Finance is Do Credit Default Swaps Mitigate the Impact of Credit Downgrades? by Sudheer Chava, Rohan Ganduri, and Chayawat Ornthanalai. When a firm’s debt is downgraded, its stock price falls, it subsequently raises less debt, and its cost of debt increases. … Read more...
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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...
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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. … Read more...
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(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...
The Personal Wealth Interests of Politicians and Government Intervention in the Economy
Ahmed Tahoun; Laurence van Lent
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 1, 1 February 2019, Pages 37–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfy015
With Mr. Trump’s ascendancy to the Presidency, the broader question of how the personal wealth interests of politicians influence their voting and lawmaking has gained significant urgency.… Read more...
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(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...
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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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