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Publications
The Journal of FINANCE

2011 Impact Factor 4.218
The Journal of Finance publishes leading research across all the major fields of financial economics. It is one of the most widely cited academic journals in economics ranking third (behind the Journal of Economic Literature and the Quarterly Journal of Economics) in five-year impact factor and third in total citations (behind the American Economic Review and Econometrica).
Analyst Forecast Consistency
- Author(s): GILLES HILARY, CHARLES HSU
- Published on: Volume 68 Issue 1 (February 2013)
What Do Consumers’ Fund Flows Maximize? Evidence from Their Brokers’ Incentives
- Author(s): SUSAN E. K. CHRISTOFFERSEN, RICHARD EVANS, DAVID K. MUSTO
- Published on: Volume 68 Issue 1 (February 2013)
Asset Fire Sales and Purchases and the International Transmission of Funding Shocks
- Author(s): CHOTIBHAK JOTIKASTHIRA, CHRISTIAN LUNDBLAD, TARUN RAMADORAI
- Published on: Volume 67 Issue 6 (December 2012)
Uncovering Hedge Fund Skill from the Portfolio Holdings They Hide
- Author(s): VIKAS AGARWAL, WEI JIANG, YUEHUA TANG, BAOZHONG YANG
- Published on: Volume 68 Issue 2 (April 2013)
This Time Is the Same: Using Bank Performance in 1998 to Explain Bank Performance during the Recent Financial Crisis
- Author(s): RÜDIGER FAHLENBRACH, ROBERT PRILMEIER, RENÉ M. STULZ
- Published on: Volume 67 Issue 6 (December 2012)
The Maturity Rat Race
- Author(s): MARKUS K. BRUNNERMEIER, MARTIN OEHMKE
- Published on: Volume 68 Issue 2 (April 2013)
Forthcoming Articles
Can Time‐Varying Risk of Rare Disasters Explain Aggregate Stock Market Volatility?
- Author(s): Jessica A. Wachter
Do Hostile Takeovers Stifle Innovation? Evidence from Antitakeover Legislation and Corporate Patenting
- Author(s): Julian Atanassov
Trading Complex Assets
- Author(s): Bruce Ian Carlin, Shimon Kogan, Richard Lowery
Access to Collateral and Corporate Debt Structure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
- Author(s): Vikrant Vig
The TIPS—Treasury Bond Puzzle*
- Author(s): Matthias Fleckenstein, Francis A. Longstaff, Hanno Lustig
Events
Special Issue on Corporate Governance in China
- Date: December 17, 2012 - June 30, 2013
- Location: N/A
CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Journal of Corporate Finance “Corporate Governance in China” OVERVIEW: China will soon...
Bicentenary Meeting (in collaboration with the Journal of Banking and Finance)
- Date: December 17, 2012 - September 21, 2013
- Location: Lecce (Italy)
On the occasion of its bicentenary, the Italian Academy of Management (AIDEA) organizes a conference in accounting,...
Call for papers for a special issue of International Finance Review
- Date: December 29, 2012 - May 29, 2013
- Location: Emerald Group Publishing, Bingley, UK
Call for Papers “Global Banking, Financial Markets and Crises” (A special issue of International Finance Review) Due date:...
Careers in Finance
Financial Analyst 2
- Location: Reno, NV
Responsible for design, development and maintenance of reporting systems with supporting subsystems to satisfy current and...
Director, Education
- Location: Toronto, Ontario
The GRI Risk Education Strategy is focused on deepening the understanding of integrative risk topics, issues and emerging...
Senior Research Associate
- Salary: TBD
- Location: Toronto, Ontario
The GRI Research Strategy is focused on an ongoing program of high quality research that is both applied and interdisciplinary...
Research Associate
- Salary: TBD
- Location: Toronto, Ontario
The GRI Research Strategy is focused on an ongoing program of high quality research that is both applied and interdisciplinary...
Top Articles:
- Top 25 Cited Articles (past 8 years)
- Top 50 Cited Articles (all-time)
- Top Read Articles (of 2012)
- Three Nobel Prize Winning Papers
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