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JRFM 2022 Best Paper Award
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the “JRFM 2022 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in JRFM from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One article will receive the award. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Thanasis Stengos.
Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in JRFM from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.
Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.
The Prize:
– CHF 500;
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in JRFM in 2024 after peer review;
– An electronic certificate.
The winner will be announced on the journal website in March 2024.
Kind regards,
JRFM Editorial Office
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JRFM 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The JRFM Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to JRFM. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.
The Outstanding Awards for Excellence in Manuscript Reviews
The prize: CHF 500, an electronic certificate, and an opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in JRFM in 2023 after peer review
Dr. Elie Bouri
Adnan Kassar School of Business, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
Research Interest: financial economics; energy finance; empirical finance; bitcoin; cryptoassets
Dr. Fahad Ali
School of Finance, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, China
Research Interest: asset pricing; factor model; calendar anomalies; volatility; risk; DCC; portfolio optimization; cryptocurrency; exchange rate; spillover
The Recognition Awards for Manuscript Reviews
The prize: An electronic certificate and an opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in JRFM in 2023 after peer review
Dr. Dan-Cristian Dabija
Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, România
Research Interest: sustainable business; sustainable retailing; tourism; Green Business; consumers; marketing; e-commerce
Dr. Irena Jindřichovská
Faculty of Economics and Administration, College of Economics and Management, Metropolitan University Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Research Interest: international trade; econometrics; corporate finance; accounting; banking; corporate social responsibility; sustainability
Dr. Viorica Chirila
Department of Accounting, Economic Informatics and Statistics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
Research Interest: financial markets; risk; sustainability; volatility transmission; business cycles; labour force; remittances; economic growth; statistics; econometrics
Kind regards,
JRFM Editorial Office
JRFM 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the JRFM 2021 Review Award. The JRFM Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers to checking the manuscripts submitted to JRFM. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround have been maintained.
Prof. Paulo Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal
Dr. Sorin Anton, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Prof. Peter Moffatt, University of East Anglia, UK
Prof. Francisco Guijarro Martínez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Prof. João Leitão, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Dr. Mirela Panait, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
Dr. Błażej Prusak, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Jakub Horák, The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Dr. Magdalena Ziolo, University of Szczecin, Poland
Prof. Tobias Basse, NORD/LB and Touro College Berlon, Germany
Dr. Ching Torng Lin, Da-Yeh University, Taiwan
Dr. Dean Fantazzini, Moscow State University, Russia
Prof. Doojin Ryu, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Dr. Douglas J. Lamdin, University of Maryland, USA
Dr. Maria Luisa Esteban Salvador, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Prof. Masao Nakamura, University of British Columbia, Canada
Prof. Michael A. Talias, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Prof. Sotiris Kotsiantis, Educational Software Development Laboratory of the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Ryo Okui, Department of Economics, Seoul National University, Korea
Prof. Grzegorz Mentel, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
Kind regards,
Editor-in-Chief, JRFM
JRFM 2021 Best Paper Award
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the JRFM 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in JRFM in 2020 were considered for this award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, their number of citations, and their number of downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the Journal Award Committee, were selected.
First Award: CHF 500 and a certificate
Refined Measures of Dynamic Connectedness based on Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressions
By Nikolaos Antonakakis, Ioannis Chatziantoniou and David Gabauer
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2020, 13(4), 84; DOI: 10.3390/jrfm13040084
Second Award: CHF 300 and a certificate
Digitalization of the EU Economies and People at Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion
By Aleksy Kwilinski, Oleksandr Vyshnevskyi and Henryk Dzwigol
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2020, 13(7), 142; DOI: 10.3390/jrfm13070142
Third Award: CHF 200 and a certificate
Assessment of Bankruptcy Risk of Large Companies: European Countries Evolution Analysis
By Nicoleta Bărbuță-Mișu and Mara Madaleno
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2020, 13(3), 58; DOI: 10.3390/jrfm13030058
Please join us in congratulating the winners of JRFM 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of JRFM.
JRFM 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award
The Editor-in-Chief of JRFM, Prof. Dr. Michael McAleer, the Editorial Board, and the Editorial Team gratefully acknowledge all those who have kindly given their time to referee papers submitted to JRFM, and are delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 JRFM Outstanding Reviewer Awards. The criteria used for the selection of the winning reviewers included the quantity of papers reviewed, the quality of reviews, and the speed of reviews.
Congratulations to the following referees, who have been selected to receive an Outstanding Reviewer Award in recognition of their significant contributions over the past three years. Each of them will receive a certificate and a waived quota, allowing them to publish a paper in JRFM without a publishing fee before 30 April 2021.
Prof. Douglas Cumming
Florida Atlantic University, USA
Prof. James R. Barth
Auburn University, USA
Prof. Shigeyuki Hamori
Kobe University, Japan
Prof. Patrick Minford
Cardiff University, UK
Prof. Nusret Cakici
Fordham University, USA
Prof. Mike G. Tsionas
Lancaster University Management School, UK
Dr. Dror Kenett
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Prof. Jong-Min Kim
University of Minnesota at Morris, USA
Dr. Bruce Morley
University of Bath, UK
Dr. Quan-Hoang Vuong
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Dr. Peter Molnar
University of Stavanger, Norway
Prof. José Ramos Pires Manso
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Prof. Nikolaos A. Kyriazis
University of Thessaly, Greece
Prof. Lars Stentoft
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Prof. Yiguo Sun
University of Guelph, Canada
Prof. Francisco Guijarro
Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Prof. Christopher Gan
Lincoln University, New Zealand
Dr. Rajaguru Gulasekaran
Bond University, Australia
Prof. Grzegorz Michalski
Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland
Dr. Tihana Škrinjarić
University of Zagreb, Croatia
For those of you who have not yet reviewed papers for the journal but would like to do so, you can easily register as a reviewer at susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.
JRFM 2020 Best Paper Award
Dear colleagues,
The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the JRFM 2020 Best Paper Awards, who were chosen by a selection committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Michael McAleer.
The following papers have won the JRFM 2020 Best Paper Awards:
First prize (500 Swiss Francs)
An Exploratory Study Based on a Questionnaire Concerning Green and Sustainable Finance, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Performance: Evidence from the Romanian Business Environment
Authors: Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu and Gheorghe N. Popescu
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/12/4/162
Second prize (300 Swiss Francs)
Spillover Risks on Cryptocurrency Markets: A Look from VAR-SVAR Granger Causality and Student’s-t Copulas
Author: Toan Luu Duc Huynh
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/12/2/52
Third prize (200 Swiss Francs)
Intellectual Capital Performance and Profitability of Banks: Evidence from Pakistan
Authors: Muhammad Haris, HongXing Yao, Gulzara Tariq, Ali Malik and Hafiz Mustansar Javaid
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/12/2/56
Besides the cash prize, each of them will receive a certificate and a waived quota, allowing them to publish a paper in JRFM without a publishing fee before 31 May 2021.
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the JRFM 2020 Best Paper Awards. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors for your continued support of JRFM.
JRFM 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award
The Editor-in-Chief of JRFM, Prof. Dr. Michael McAleer; the Editorial Board; and the Editorial Team gratefully acknowledge all those who have kindly given their time to referee papers submitted to JRFM, and are delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 JRFM Outstanding Reviewer Award. The criteria used for the selection of the winning reviewers included the quantity of papers reviewed, the quality of reviews, and the speed of reviews.
Congratulations to the following referees, who have been selected to receive an Outstanding Reviewer Award in recognition of their significant contributions over the past three years. Each of them will receive a certificate and a waived quota, allowing them to publish a paper in JRFM without a publishing fee before 30 May 2020.
Dr. Petre Caraiani Bucharest University of Dr. Bruce Morley University of Bath, UK Dr. Martin Falk Austrian Institute of Economic Dr. Aurelio F. Bariviera Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Prof. Nikolaos A. Kyriazis University of Thessaly, Greece |
Dr. Robert Brooks Monash University, Australia Dr. Zhichuan Li Ivey Business School, Canada Dr. Peter Molnar University of Stavanger, Norway Prof. Francisco Guijarro Universitat Politècnica de València, Prof. Yue Ma City University of Hong Kong, |
For those of you who have not yet reviewed papers for the journal but would like to do so, you can easily register as a reviewer at susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.
We will announce the 2020 JRFM Outstanding Reviewer Award soon; please keep an eye on our journal.
JRFM 2019 Best Paper Award
The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the 2019 JRFM Best Paper Award, who were chosen by the Journal Awards Committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Michael McAleer.
The following papers, in no particular order, have won first prize in the 2019 JRFM Best Paper Award:
GARCH Modelling of Cryptocurrencies
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2017, 10(4), 17; doi: 10.3390/jrfm10040017
Available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/10/4/17
Long- and Short-Term Cryptocurrency Volatility Components: A GARCH-MIDAS Analysis
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2018, 11(2), 23; doi: 10.3390/jrfm11020023
Available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/11/2/23
In recognition of their accomplishment, each Best Paper Award winner will receive a certificate, 500 CHF, and an opportunity to publish a paper in JRFM free of charge in open-access format after the standard peer-review process.
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Best Paper Awards. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors for your continued support of JRFM.
Kind regards,
JRFM Editorial Office