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The Journal of Finance
The Journal of the American Finance Association
Edited by:
Campbell R. Harvey
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 1/48 Business, Finance
Impact Factor: 4.018
The Journal of Finance publishes leading research across all the major fields of financial research. It is the most widely cited academic journal on finance. 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.
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TopHighlights
- 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
