The ''Journal of Financial Economics'' is a

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published by

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, covering the field of

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. It is considered to be one of the premier finance journals. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 6.988. The journal was founded by Michael C. Jensen,

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, 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 ...

in 1974.

Mission

The Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) is a leading peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and empirical topics in financial economics. It provides a specialized forum for the publication of research in the area of financial economics and the theory of the firm, placing primary emphasis on the highest quality empirical, theoretical, and experimental contributions in the following major areas: capital markets, financial intermediation, entrepreneurial finance, corporate finance, corporate governance, the economics of organizations, macro finance, behavioral finance, and household finance.

Editors

The current

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is Toni M. Whited (

Ross School of Business The Stephen M. Ross School of Business, also known as Michigan Ross, is the business school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1924, the school is ranked among the best business schools i ...

). The following persons are or have been editors or coeditors of the journal: *

, 1974-1977 * Michael C. Jensen, 1974-1996 *

, 1974-1977 * G. William Schwert, 1979-1986, 1989-2020 * John B. Long, 1983-1987, 1988-1996 * Clifford W. Smith, 1983-1996 * René M. Stulz, 1983-1987 * Jerold B. Warner, 1987-1996 * Richard S. Ruback, 1988-1996 * Wayne Mikkelson, 1993-1996 * Ron Kaniel, 2017-2020 *

David Hirshleifer David Hirshleifer is an American economist. He is a professor of finance and currently holds the Merage chair in Business Growth at the University of California at Irvine. As of 2018 he became President-Elect of the American Finance Association ...

, 2020-2021 * Toni M. Whited, 2014-present

Awards

The journal issues two annual prizes for economics research, Jensen Prize and Fama–DFA Prize.

References

External links

* Financial Economics, Journal of Publications with year of establishment missing Financial economics Publications established in 1974 Elsevier academic journals English-language journals Monthly journals {{econ-journal-stub