Journal of Financial Economics

The Journal of Financial Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier, covering the field of finance. It is considered to be one of the premier finance journals.^[1][2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 6.988.^[3] The journal was founded by Michael C. Jensen, Eugene Fama, and Robert C. Merton in 1974.^[4]

Journal of Financial Economics

Discipline	Financial economics
Language	English
Edited by	Toni Whited
Publication details
History	1974–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	6.988 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Financ. Econ.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	JFECDT
ISSN	0304-405X
LCCN	84649771
OCLC no.	863010774
Links
Journal homepage Online archive Journal page

Editors

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief of the journal:^[4]

• Eugene Fama, 1974-1977
• Michael C. Jensen, 1974-1996
• Robert C. Merton, 1974-1977
• G. William Schwert, 1979–1986, 1989-2020
• John B. Long, 1983–1987, 1988-1996
• Clifford W. Smith, 1983-1996
• René M. Stulz, 1983-1987
• Jerold B. Warner, 1987-1996
• Richard S. Ruback, 1988-1996
• Wayne Mikkelson, 1993-1996
• Ron Kaniel, 2017-2020
• David Hirshleifer, 2020-2021
• Toni Whited, 2021–present

Awards

The journal issues two annual prizes for economics research, Jensen Prize and Fama–DFA Prize.