The ''Annual Review of Financial Economics'' is a

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s relevant to

financial economics Financial economics, also known as finance, is the branch of economics characterized by a "concentration on monetary activities", in which "money of one type or another is likely to appear on ''both sides'' of a trade".William F. Sharpe"Financial ...

. It was established in 2009 and is published by Annual Reviews. The co-editors are Hui Chen and Matthew P. Richardson.

History

The ''Annual Review of Financial Economics'' was first published in 2009 by Annual Reviews. Its founding editors were

Andrew Lo Andrew Wen-Chuan Lo () (born 1960) is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Lo is the author of many academic articles in finance and financial economics. He founded AlphaSimplex Group in ...

and

Robert C. Merton Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, especia ...

. As of 2022, the editors are Hui Chen and Matthew P. Richardson.

Scope and indexing

The ''Annual Review of Financial Economics'' defines its scope as covering significant developments in experimental, theoretical, and empirical aspects of

. Included subfields are

market microstructure Market microstructure is a branch of finance concerned with the details of how exchange occurs in markets. While the theory of market microstructure applies to the exchange of real or financial assets, more evidence is available on the microstructu ...

behavioral finance Behavioral economics studies the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social factors on the decisions of individuals or institutions, such as how those decisions vary from those implied by classical economic theory. ...

experimental finance The goals of experimental finance are to understand human and market behavior in settings relevant to finance. Experiments are synthetic economic environments created by researchers specifically to answer research questions. This might involve, for ...

financial institution Financial institutions, sometimes called banking institutions, are business entities that provide services as intermediaries for different types of financial monetary transactions. Broadly speaking, there are three major types of financial insti ...

capital market A capital market is a financial market in which long-term debt (over a year) or equity-backed securities are bought and sold, in contrast to a money market where short-term debt is bought and sold. Capital markets channel the wealth of savers t ...

s, and

corporate finance Corporate finance is the area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the Value investing, value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and anal ...

. As of 2022, ''

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of 2.741, ranking it fifty-sixth of 111 journal titles in the category "Business, Finance" and 140th of 379 in the category "Economics". It is

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Editorial processes

The ''Annual Review of Financial Economics'' is helmed by the editor or the co-editors. The editor is assisted by the editorial committee, which includes associate editors, regular members, and occasionally guest editors. Guest members participate at the invitation of the editor, and serve terms of one year. All other members of the editorial committee are appointed by the Annual Reviews board of directors and serve five-year terms. The editorial committee determines which topics should be included in each volume and solicits reviews from qualified authors. Unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted.

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of accepted manuscripts is undertaken by the editorial committee.

Current editorial board

As of 2021, the editorial committee consists of the two co-editors and the following members: * Tobias Adrian * Yacine Aït-Sahalia * Patrick Bolton *

Robert A. Jarrow __NOTOC__ Robert Alan Jarrow is the Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. Professor Jarrow is a co-creator of the Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework for ...

* Li Jin * Kose John * Deborah J. Lucas

References

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Publications established in 2009 English-language journals Annual journals

History

Scope and indexing

Editorial processes

Current editorial board

See also

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