Issue Information

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jfir.12148
• Published date: 01 June 2018
• Date: 01 June 2018

The Journal of

Financial Research

VOLUME XLI NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2018

PUBLISHED FOR THE SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN

FINANCE ASSOCIATIONS BY WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING

Do Analysts Who Move Markets Have

Better Careers?

Informed Options Trading Before

Auditor Change Announcements

Agency Confl icts in Residential

Mortgage Securitization: What Does

the Empirical Literature Tell Us?

Does Managerial Opportunism

Explain the Differential Pricing of

Level 3 Fair Value Estimates?

Vadim S. Balashov

Jun Zhang

W. Scott Frame

Dahlia Robinson,

Thomas Smith,

and Adrian Valencia

VOL. XLI NO. 2 The Journal of Financial Research SUMMER 2018

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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

recipients of the annual award for articles published in 2017.

Jian Shi, Yuan Wang, and Rongrong Zhang “Are Short Sellers

Informed? Evidence from Credit Rating Agency Announcements.”

Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 179–221.

Barkat Ullah and Zuobao Wei “Bank Financing and Firm Growth:

Evidence from Transition Economies.” Vol. 40, No. 4, pp.

507–534.

Previous winners of the awards are:

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, Robert 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 Robert 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

2009 Husayn Shahrur and Anand Venkateswaran

Zacharias Sautner and Martin Weber

Joon Ho Hwang and Bill Hu

2008 S¸enay Agˇca and Sattar A. Mansi

Sophie Xiaofei Kong and Dragon Yongjun Tang

Mingsheng Li and Xin Zhao

2007 Nobuyuki Isagawa

Bidisha Chakrabarty

Stephen P. Ferris and Xuemin (Sterling) Yan

EXECUTIVE EDITORS

Erik Devos, University of Texas at El Paso

William B. Elliott, John Carroll University

Murali Jagannathan, Binghamton University

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E-mail: Editors@jfresearch.org