Issue Information

• Published date: 01 February 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12175
• Date: 01 February 2019

The Financial Review Vol. 54 , No. 1 February 2019

The Financial Review

Official Journal of the Eastern Finance Association

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Outstanding Publication Awards

The winner of the Financial Review Best Paper Award for 2017

(selected by the Editorial Board) is:

James Upson and Hardy Johnson, 2017, Are Odd-Lot Orders

Informed? Financial Review 52(1), 37–67.

The winners of the Financial Review Best Paper Award for 2017

(selected by FR/EFA participants) are:

R. Jared DeLisle, Dan W. French, and Maria Gabriela Schutte,

2017, Passive Institutional Ownership, R2 Trends, and Price

Informativeness. Financial Review 52(4), 627–659.

Paul Brockman, Musa Subasi, and Cihan Uzmanoglu, 2017,

Investor Conferences, Firm Visibility, and Stock Liquidity.

Financial Review 52(4), 661–699.

Previous winners of the awards are:

2016: Palani-Rajan Kadapakkam, Alex Meisami, and John Wald

Viktor Manahov

2015: Jay Ritter

Michael A. Goldstein, Abhinav Goyal, Brian M. Lucey, and

Cal B. Muckley

2014: Ioannis Oikonomou, Chris Brooks, and Stephen Pavelin

Jonathan Brogaard, Terrence Hendershott, Stefan Hunt,

and Carla Ysusi

Tom McInish, James Upson, and Robert A. Wood

2013: Shrikant Jategonkar

William Megginson, Miao You, and Liyan Han

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Srinivasan Krishnamurthy

Richard S. Warr

EDITORIAL OFFICE

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FEBRUARY 2019 • VOLUME 54 • NO. 1

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The Core, Periphery, and Beyond: Stock Market Comovements

among EU and Non-EU Countries

Michael A. Goldstein , Joseph McCarthy , and Alexei G. Orlov

It is a Sweetheart of a Deal: Political Connections and

Corporate-Federal Contracting

Stephen P. Ferris , Reza Houston , and David Javakhadze

Trading on Private Information: Evidence from Members of

Congress

Serkan Karadas

The Effect of CEO Extraversion on Analyst Forecasts: Stereotypes

and Similarity Bias

Jochen Becker , Josip Medjedovic , and Christoph Merkle

Three One-Factor Processes for Option Pricing with a

Mean-Reverting Underlying: The Case of VIX

Bo Zhao , Cheng Yan , and Stewart Hodges

Higher Moments and Exchange Rate Behavior

Siroos Khademalomoom , Paresh Kumar Narayan , and

Susan Sunila Sharma