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Publications
The Journal of FINANCE
2012 Impact Factor 4.333
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).
Strategic and Financial Bidders in Takeover Auctions
- Author(s): ALEXANDER S. GORBENKO, ANDREY MALENKO
- Published on: Volume 69 Issue 6 (December 2014)
Repo Runs: Evidence from the Tri‐Party Repo Market
- Author(s): ADAM COPELAND, ANTOINE MARTIN, MICHAEL WALKER
- Published on: Volume 69 Issue 6 (December 2014)
Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?
- Author(s): ROBERT S. HARRIS, TIM JENKINSON, STEVEN N. KAPLAN
- Published on: Volume 69 Issue 5 (October 2014)
Preliminary Program AFA 2015 BOSTON MEETINGS
- Author(s):
- Published on: Volume 69 Issue 6 (December 2014)
Financial Protectionism? First Evidence
- Author(s): ANDREW K. ROSE, TOMASZ WIELADEK
- Published on: Volume 69 Issue 5 (October 2014)
Incentives and Endogenous Risk Taking: A Structural View on Hedge Fund Alphas
- Author(s): ANDREA BURASCHI, ROBERT KOSOWSKI, WORRAWAT SRITRAKUL
- Published on: Volume 69 Issue 6 (December 2014)
Forthcoming Articles
How Does Household Portfolio Diversification Vary with Financial Literacy and Financial Advice?
- Author(s): HANS‐MARTIN VON GAUDECKER
Incentivizing Calculated Risk‐Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
- Author(s): SHAWN COLE, MARTIN KANZ, LEORA KLAPPER
Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Sticky or Discerning Money?
- Author(s): CLEMENS SIALM, LAURA T. STARKS, HANJIANG ZHANG
Investment Decisions of Nonprofit Firms: Evidence from Hospitals
- Author(s): MANUEL ADELINO, KATHARINA LEWELLEN, ANANT SUNDARAM
Information Diversity and Complementarities in Trading and Information Acquisition
- Author(s): ITAY GOLDSTEIN, LIYAN YANG
Events
Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize
- Date: August 21, 2014 - January 14, 2015
- Location: N/A
Call for Nominations: 2015 Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize The next Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize will be presented at the fall 2015...
CORPORATE FINANCE- 6th Edition
- Date: August 31, 2014 - March 09, 2015
- Location: Madrid, Spain
The “Jaime Fernández de Araoz on Corporate Finance” Award is a biennial international prize established in 2005 to recognize...
CALL FOR PAPERS: EASTERN FINANCE ASSOCATION
- Date: September 04, 2014 - April 18, 2015
- Location: New Orleans
You are invited to participate in the 51st Annual Meeting of the Eastern Finance Association (EFA) at the Hilton Riverside in...
Careers in Finance
2015 Global Research PhD Summer...
- Location: New York
2015 Global Research PhD Summer Associate Program Our Business: The Bank of America Merrill Lynch award-winning research team of...
Associate Portfolio Manager,...
- Salary: Competitive
- Location: Boston, MA
Acadian Asset Management LLC is a Boston-headquartered investment management firm with wholly owned affiliates located in...
Full professorship in Corporate...
- Location: Bern, Switzerland
Full professorship in Corporate Finance The Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Bern invites...
Quantitative Analyst
- Location: Geneva, Switzerland
The Company: The Systematic trading division of BlueCrest Capital Management (Systematica) focuses on deploying quant trading...
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