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The Journal of Finance

Aims and Scope


The Journal of Finance publishes leading research across all the major fields of financial research. It is one of the most widely cited academic journal on finance and one of the most widely cited journals in all of economics as well. Each issue of the journal reaches over 8,000 academics, finance professionals, libraries, government and financial institutions around the world. Published six times a year, the journal is the official publication of The American Finance Association, the premier academic organization devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about financial economics.

Highlights

  • Have Individual Stocks Become More Volatile? An Empirical Exploration of Idiosyncratic Risk
    John Y. Campbell, Martin Lettau, Burton Malkiel, and Yexiao Xu
  • Conflicts of Interest and Market Illiquidity in Bankruptcy Auctions: Theory and Tests
    Per Strömberg
  • A Theory of Bank Capital
    Douglas W. Diamond and Raghuram G. Rajan
  • How Big are the Tax Benefits of Debt?
    John R. Graham
  • What Makes Investors Trade?
    Mark Grinblatt and Matti Keloharju
  • LAPM: A Liquidity-Base Asset Pricing Model
  • Should Investors Avoid All Actively Managed Mutual Funds? A Study in Bayesian Performance Evaluation
    Klaas P. Baks, Andrew Metrick and Jessica Wachter
  • Foreign Speculators and Emerging Equity Markets
    Geert Bekaert and Campbell R. Harvey
  • Agency Problems and Dividend Policies around the World
    Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-De-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny



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ABI/Inform Global; Accounting Articles; Accounting and Tax Database; Expanded Academic ASAP; Business ASAP; Business Periodical Index; Business Source: Corporate; Business Source Elite; Business Source Plus; Business Source Premier; CatchWord; Corporate ResourceNet; Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Science; Current Contents Collections/ Business; e-jel; EBSCO Online; EconLit; Emerald Management Reviews; Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management; General Business File ASAP; Health and Safety Science Abstracts; InfoTrac College Edition; InfoTrac OneFile; Ingenta; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; Journal of Economic Literature; JCR Social Sciences Edition; JSTOR; MAS Ultra/ Public Library Edition; OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition; ProQuest Accounting and Tax Database; Public Affairs Information Service International; Risk Abstracts; Safety Science & Risk Abstracts; Social Sciences Citation Index; Wilson Business Abstracts; Wilson Business Abstracts FullText; and Wilson OmniFile V.

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