The lead article in Volume 23, Issue 4 of the Review of Finance is Are US Industries Becoming More Concentrated? by Gustavo Grullon, Yelena Larkin, and Roni Michaely. This paper finds that industry concentration has increased substantially in the US over the last two decades.… Read more...
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The Transmission of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from House Prices
H Özlem Dursun-de Neef
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 3, May 2019, Pages 629–658, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfy001
The financial crisis of 2007-2009 led to a negative liquidity shock that affected many banks.… Read more...
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Renegotiation Frictions and Financial Distress Resolution: Evidence from CDS Spreads
Murillo Campello; Tomislav Ladika; Rafael Matta
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 3, May 2019, Pages 513–556, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfy021
Financially distressed firms often attempt to renegotiate with creditors outside of bankruptcy court, to forgo the deadweight costs of drawn-out legal battles.… Read more...
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Economic Links and Cross-Predictability of Stock Returns: Evidence from Characteristic-Based “Styles
Sebastian Müller
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 2, March 2019, Pages 363–395,
https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfx033
News released by one firm may contain value-relevant information also for other, economically-related firms.… Read more...
Did You See What I Saw? Interpreting Others’ Forecasts When Their Information Is Unknown
Anthony M Kwasnica; Raisa Velthuis; Jared Williams
Review of Finance, Volume 23, Issue 2, March 2019, Pages 325–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfx0522
In many settings, people have access to a wide variety of information sources.… Read more...
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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...
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Foreign Investor Heterogeneity and Stock Liquidity around the World
Review of Finance, Volume 20, Issue 5, 1 August 2016, Pages 1867–1910,https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfv048
This article examines whether foreign investor heterogeneity plays a role in stock liquidity in a sample of 27,828 firms from 39 countries worldwide.… Read more...
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International Diversification Benefits with Foreign Exchange Investment Styles
Review of Finance, Volume 18, Issue 5, 1 August 2014, Pages 1847–1883,https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rft047
Currency hedging strategies and their role in portfolio management have been studied extensively by researchers and practitioners alike.… Read more...
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What Do Stock Markets Tell Us about Exchange Rates?
Review of Finance, Volume 20, Issue 3, 1 May 2016, Pages 1045–1080,https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfv032
An investor holding foreign equities is naturally exposed to exchange rate fluctuations.… Read more...
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Downside Market Risk of Carry Trades
Victoria Dobrynskaya
Review of Finance, Volume 18, Issue 5, 1 August 2014, Pages 1885–1913, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfu004
According to uncovered interest parity, free capital mobility ensures that investments in different currencies with different levels of local interest rates do not consistently generate excess returns because a positive interest rate differential should be compensated by the expected exchange rate depreciation of the target currency.… Read more...
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