Issue Information

• Published date: 01 December 2023
• Date: 01 December 2023
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jfir.12292

VOL. XLVI NO. 4 The Journal of Financial Research WINTER 2023

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THE JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH

A Joint Publication of the Southern & Southwestern Finance Associations

Outstanding Article Awards

The Journal of Financial Research is pleased to announce the

recipient of the annual award for articles published in 2022.

Wolfgang Bessler, Thomas Conlon, Diego Víctor de Mingo-López,

and Juan Carlos Matallín-Sáez, “Mutual fund performance and

changes in factor exposure” Volume 45, No. 1, pp. 17–52

Tianyang Wang, Rober t G. Schwebach, and Sriram V. Villupuram,

“Reference point formation: Does the market whisper in the

background?”, Volume 45, No. 2, 384 – 421.

Previous winners of the awards are:

2021 Travis Box and Danjue Shang

2020 Sean Cleary and Ashrafee Hossain

Yuewen Xiao, Xiangkang Yin, and Jing Zhao

2019 Jean-Sébastien Fontaine and Guillaume Nolin

2018 Patty Bick and Matthew D. Crook

Anne Anderson and Paul Brockman

2017 Jian Shi, Yuan Wang, and Rongrong Zhang

Barkat Ullah and Zuobao Wei

2016 Thomas W. Doellman and Sabuhi H. Sardarli

Jimmy Lockwood, Larry Lockwood, and Sie Ting Lau

Miles Livingston and Lei Zhou

2015 Bonnie F. Van Ness, Rober t A. Van Ness, and Ethan D. Watson

Li-Kai (Connie) Liao, Tarun Mukherjee, and Wei Wang

2014 Stanimir Markov and Eng-Joo Tan

Valentina Salotti and Kenneth A. Carow

2013 Paul Brockman and Jim Cicon

George J. Jiang and Andrew Jianzhong Zhang

Kelly Nianyun Cai, Xiaoquan Jiang, and Hei Wai Lee

2012 Benjamin M. Blau, Bonnie F. Van Ness, and Rober t A. Van Ness

Daniel Bradley, Brandon N. Cline, and Qin Lian

Tolga Cenesizoglu and Badye Essid

2011 Zhaodan Huang, James B. Heian, and Ting Zhang

Olubunmi Faleye

Sugato Chakravarty, Chiraphol N. Chiyachantana,

and Christine Jiang

2010 Ilias Tsiakas

Choong Tze Chua, Jeremy Goh, and Zhe Zhang

Tom Franck and Nancy Huyghebaert

EXECUTIVE EDITORS

Erik Devos, University of Texas at El Paso

William B. Elliott, John Carroll University

Murali Jagannathan, Binghamton University

URL: jfresearch.org

E-mail: Editors@jfresearch.org

The Journal of

Financial Research

VOLUME XLVI NUMBER 4 WINTER 2023

PUBLISHED FOR THE SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN

FINANCE ASSOCIATIONS BY WILEY PUBLISHING

Treasury return predictability and investor sentiment Chen Gu, Xu Guo,

Ruwan Adikaram,

Kam C. Chan,

and Jing Lu

Managerial characteristics and performance of

eurozone mutual funds

Konstantinos Tolikas

and Marc Callonnec

Board gender diversity and acquisition choices Abeyratna Gunasekarage,

Mehdi Khedmati,

Kristina Minnick,

and Syed Shams

Ambiguity and risk factors in bank stocks Luis García-Feijóo

and Ariel M. Viale

CEO prior uncertainty and pay–performance

sensitivity

Jiyoon Lee

Financial analysts' bundling across fi rms:

Target prices and stock recommendations

Yu-An Chen

and Dan Palmon

The effect of liquidity and arbitrage on the price

effi ciency of Chinese ETFs

Yuan Fu

and Christine Jiang

Different momentum effects across countries:

An explanation based on investors' behavior

Guoxiao Xia,

Changsheng Hu,

Huosong Xia,

and Yangchun Chi

Cyclicality of liquidity creation: Nonlinear evidence

from US bank holding companies

Ghulame Rubbaniy,

Ali Awais Khalid,

Shoaib Ali,

and Efstathios Polyzos