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Review of Financial Studies

The Review of Financial Studies aims to publish research of the highest quality in the field of financial economics, broadly defined. RFS will review papers on the basis of their original contribution to the field of financial economics.

Editors

Tarun Ramadorai: LSE and Imperial College London (Executive Editor)
Viral Acharya: New York University
Xavier Giroud: Columbia Business School
Andrey Malenko: Boston College
Anna Pavlova: London Business School
Clemens Sialm: The University of Texas at Austin
David Sraer: UC Berkeley 
Jessica Wachter: University of Pennsylvania

News from RFS

  • RFS Forthcoming

    “Size-Based Regulation and Bank Fragility: Evidence from the Wells Fargo Asset Cap” by Tianyue Ruan and Siddharth Vij

  • Winners of the RFS Awards

    The winners of the annual RFS Awards were announced at SFS Cavalcade North America 2026. We are pleased to share the winners:

    Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Award
    “In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition over the Credit Cycle”
    Antonio Coppola
    Prize: $10,000

    Michael J. Brennan Best Paper Runner Up
    “Gold’s value as an investment”
    Urban J. Jermann
    Prize: $5000

    Referee of the Year
    Marco Giacoletti
    Prize: $1000

    Distinguished Referees
    Julia Fonseca, Peter Maxted, Magdalena Rola-Janicka, Sang Byung Seo, Enrique Schroth, Qifei Zhu

    Rising Scholar Award, sponsored by The Bureau
    “The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates”
    Sebastian Hillenbrand
    Prize: $5000

    Congratulations to all our award winners!

  • RFS Forthcoming

    “Generative AI and Data Quality: Implications for Productivity, Labor Displacement, and Policy” by Zhifeng Cai

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