This issue's authors are:
Richard A. Lambert, Christian Leuz, and Robert E. Verrecchia; Tim Bollerslev, Natalia Sizova, and George Tauchen; Ajay Khorana and Henri Servaes; Joshua D. Rauh and Amir Sufi; Carsten Bienz and Julia Hirsch; Klaus Schaeck, Martin Cihak, Andrea Maechler, and Stephanie Stolz; Xuan Tian; Jakša Cvitanic', Elyès Jouini, Semyon Malamud, and Clotilde Napp.

French National Center for Scientific Research ranks the Review of Finance Among the Top Five Finance Journals

The Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), namely the French National Centre for Scientific Research, produces a "Categorization of Journals in Economics and Management" that ranks all journals in 4 groups. As of October 2011, the Review of Finance was ranked in the top group ("category 1"), which includes 5 out of 53 finance journals.
Altogether, "Category 1" contains a hundred top journals in economics, finance and management: these are journals that play a key role in their respective domains, publish particularly innovative articles, apply demanding refereing standards, generally forbid submissions by board members and feature low self-citation indices. They receive many submissions and their editorial process is very selective.
The CNRS is a government-funded research organization, under the administrative authority of France's Ministry of Research. It was founded in 1939 and currently employs 11,450 researchers with a total budget of € 3.2 billion.

RoF paper "Safe Haven Currencies" by Angelo Ranaldo and Paul Söderlind discussed in "The Economist"
In a recent Economics Focus column, the British weekly "The Economist" highlights the findings of Angelo Ranaldo and Paul Söderlind in their article "Safe Haven Currencies". Their study published in the Review of Finance 2010 (4) establishes a strong link between currencies, stock and bond markets in US and save haven countries like Switzerland and Japan.

First official impact factor for the Review of Finance 1.952

The first official impact factor of the Review of Finance has just been published by ISI Web of Knowledge in June 2011. We are very proud to report that the current impact factor of the Review of Finance is 1.952. Accounting for one self citation outlier, this impact factor makes the Review of Finance the number 4 finance journal.

2011 Spängler IQAM Best Paper Prize

The 2011 Spängler IQAM Best Paper Prize, awarded to the best paper published in the Review of Finance, has been assigned to Robert Novy-Marx for his article Operating Leverage. The two runners-up for the prize are Inside Debt by Alex Edmans and Qi Liu, and Fear of the Unknown by Henry Cao, Bing Han, David Hirshleifer, and Harold Zhang. The prize is sponsored by Spängler IQAM Invest, an asset manager based in Vienna with close ties to the academic community. It was awarded on August 19 at the 38th Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association in Stockholm, Sweden.
Congratulations to the authors!

Fast-Track editorial procedure

The Fast-Track editorial procedure guarantees a turnaround time of no more than two weeks! Each paper will be reviewed by a single referee. Only electronic submissions are allowed, the submission fee is 800 Euro (or the equivalent US dollar amount).