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The Financial Review

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Can you send me information about the Eastern Finance Association conference and membership?

Please see www.easternfinance.org for EFA general and conference information, or join the EFA now at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/memb.asp?ref=0732-8516.

Do you reduce or waive submission fees for doctoral students?

We welcome submissions from students, but we do not have a fee waiver or discount. At US $50 plus membership dues in the Eastern Finance Association, we hope you will find our fees reasonable compared to several other high quality finance journals.

How soon after submission of an article can I expect a decision?

Our goal is to return a decision within two months after the date of our acknowledgement message, but we ask authors to understand that the process sometimes will take longer for reasons beyond our control.

What types of articles are appropriate for submission to The Financial Review?

The Financial Review is a journal of advanced research in finance, and as such will consider theoretical, empirical or methodological analysis that advances the literature on any topic in financial economics. Review articles that carefully survey and consolidate the financial research literature on a topic of current importance are also appropriate, but the burden is on the author to demonstrate the value of such a piece. Opinion pieces, book reviews, descriptive material not rigorously linked to the theory of finance, and economics papers unrelated, or only distantly related, to finance are not appropriate for The Financial Review.

Does The Financial Review consider questionnaire-based research?

We have no bias against research using survey methods. Like any other submission, a questionnaire-based paper must convincingly demonstrate an important contribution to the literature of financial economics. To minimize the chance that such a paper will be rejected because of factors that can be changed before but not after conducting the survey, we suggest submitting the paper and complete questions for review before conducting the survey. We will ask a referee to comment on the questions and the potential value of the research. Such a preliminary paper should be as complete as it can be without results and must not be a rough draft. The usual submission fee applies.

Hooray, my paper was accepted for publication! When will it appear in The Financial Review?

Please monitor the abstracts of issues on this site. As long your article appears in the list of papers not yet assigned to a specific issue, that's all the information we have. (If your paper does not appear there within two months after we notify you of final acceptance, please ask about it just to be on the safe side.) Our backlog varies but is not large, and most accepted papers are published within 15 months after our receipt of the final professionally edited version. Many factors affect how any one paper fits into our fixed page limits for each issue and volume, so publication lead times vary.