''The Journal of Finance'' is a

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published by

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on behalf of the

American Finance Association The American Finance Association (AFA) is an academic organization whose focus is the study and promotion of knowledge of financial economics. It was formed in 1939. Its main publication, the ''Journal of Finance'', was first published in 1946. ...

. It was established in 1946. The

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Antoinette Schoar Antoinette Schoar is a German-American economist, currently the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Education and career Schoar received her Diploma in Economics from the ...

. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 7.870, ranking it 6th out of 111 journals in the category "Business, Finance" and 16th out of 381 journals in the category "Economics".

Editors

The

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consists of the editor, co-editors, and associate editors. The current editor is Antoinette Schoar (

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). The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

Awards

Each year the associate editors vote for the best papers published in the journal. The Smith Breeden Prize is awarded for the best finance papers and the Brattle Prize for the best

corporate finance Corporate finance is an area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of businesses, the actions that managers take to increase the Value investing, value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analy ...

research papers.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Journal Of Finance, The Finance journals Academic journals established in 1946 Wiley-Blackwell academic journals Bimonthly journals English-language journals Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies