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).

Issue 1 of Volume 14 available now This issue's authors are: Viral V. Acharya and Paolo F. Volpin; Ingolf Dittmann, Ernst Maug, and Christoph Schneider; Enrique Schroth and Dezsö Szalay; Alessandro Beber and Michael W. Brandt; Alon Brav, J.B. Heaton, and Si Li.

Corporate Governance Best Paper Competition The two winning papers of this competition, organised by the ECGI , the Review of Finance and the Swedish Centre for Business and Policy Studies (SNS), are: Bankers on the Boards of German Firms: What they do, what they are worth, and why they are (still) there by Ingolf Dittmann,Ernst Maug and Christoph Schneider and Corporate Governance Externalities by Viral Acharya, and Paolo Volpin. The two winning papers have been presented in Stockholm on 9-10 December 2009, and their authors shared the prize of EUR 10,000. The competition has been sponsored by the European Corporate Governance Training Network, the Saïd Business School (SBS) and the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Research Foundation. Change of guard among coeditors Franklin Allen, Peter Bossaerts, Colin Mayer and Will Goetzmann are stepping down from their role as coeditors of the Review of Finance. They are being replaced by Michael Brandt (Duke), Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris), Holger Mueller (NYU Stern) and Steven Ongena (Tilburg). We wish to express our gratitude to the departing coeditors for the splendid job that they have done for so many years: Franklin, Colin and Will since the start of the Review of Finance in 2004, and Peter since 2005. They have all played a crucial role in the journal's success with their hard work, good taste and ability to attract exciting and innovative papers. At the same time, we extend a very warm welcome to the new coeditors, who will contribute fresh energies as well as excellent competencies to the journal. Bernard Dumas, Marco Pagano and Josef Zechner are staying on the editorial board.