Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that International Journal of Financial Studies maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 34 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 43 days and the median time to publication was 97 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:
| Abudy, Menachem | Frenkel, Michael | Porrini, Donatella |
| Alòs, Elisa | Gabriela, Dobrotă | Porzio, Claudio |
| Andraz, Jorge M. | Georgios, Geronikolaou | Powell, Robert J. |
| Aperte, Laura Arranz | Gherghina, Stefan Cristian | Ratti, Ronald |
| Asimakopoulos, Stylianos | Giaccotto, Carmelo | Ripplinger, David |
| Asteriou, Dimitrios | Glabadanidis, Paskalis | Ritter, Matthias |
| Atukeren, Erdal | Guesmi, Khaled | Ryan, Michael |
| Back, Andrew D. | Han, Chulwoo | Sapena, Juan |
| Baek, Seungho | Hegerty, Scott William | Sawik, Bartosz |
| Bao, Shuji | Hellmich, Martin | Seelanatha, Lalith |
| Barro, Diana | Hua, Xiuping | SenGupta, Indranil |
| Beckmann, Joscha | Jiang, Jingze | Sheng, Xin |
| Benhmad, François | Kourtis, Apostolos | Steel, William F. |
| Berner, Erhard | Koutmos, Dimitrios | Tan, Aaron |
| Bibow, Jörg | Kuo, Chii-Shyan | Tinaikar, Surjit |
| Borochkin, Alexander | Maletic, Matjaz | Torres, Francisco |
| Brooks, Robert | Marković, Todor | Uberti, Mariacristina |
| Chan, Marc | MATTOS, FABIO | Vittoria, M. Patrizia |
| Chang, Chia-Lin | McMillan, David | Voukelatos, Nikolaos |
| Chowdhury, Jaideep | Moretto, Enrico | Wang, Chun |
| Conde, Jacobo | Nguyen, T. Thanh-Binh | Weber, William L. |
| Czudaj, Robert | Paltrinieri, Andrea | Wenzel, Helmut |
| Dasgupta, Shouro | Panagiotidis, Theodore | Wimmer, Maximilian |
| Dawson, Peter | Panagiotidis, Theodoros | Won, Doyeon |
| Dayanandan, Ajit | Pappas, Vasileios | Wu, Weiping |
| D’Ecclesia, Rita | Payne, James | WU, Xueping |
| Ender, Manuela | Perez, Levi | Xu, Xiaoqing Eleanor |
| Ferrero-Ferrero, Idoya | Pietrunti, Mario | Yang, Li |
| Finco, Adele | Pinho, Carlos | Yun, Hayong |
| Foscolo, Enrico | Polemis, Michael |
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