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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.
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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
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JRFM 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Svetlozar T. Rachev
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Ronald Ravinesh Kumar
RMIT University Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Casey Watters
Bond University, Robina, Queensland, Australia
Wei Li
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Leo H. Chan
Utah Valley University, Orem, UT, USA
Winner
Steven Clark
Department of Finance,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
9201 University City Blvd,
Charlotte, NC 28223,
USA
Zhelyo Zhelev
Tsenov Academy of Economics, 5250 Svishtov, Bulgaria
Valentin Burcă
Department of Accounting and Audit, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timisoara, 16 Pestalozzi Street, 300115 Timisoara, Romania
Jun H. Choi
Department of Accounting, Dongguk University, 30 Pildongro 1-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul 04620, Korea
Paulo Carvalho
ISCAL, Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Winner
Elie Bouri
School of Business, Lebanese American University, Beirut P.O. Box 13-5053, Lebanon
Fahad Ali
School of Finance, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou 310058, China
Dan-Cristian Dabija
Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University, RO-400591 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Irena Jindrichovska
Department of Financial Management, Metropolitan University Prague, Dubečská 900/10, Strašnice, 100 31 Praha, Czech Republic
Viorica Chirila
Department of Accounting, Business Information Systems and Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, 700505 Iasi, Romania
Winner
Paulo Ferreira
Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal
Sorin Anton
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Peter Moffatt
University of East Anglia, UK
Francisco Guijarro Martínez
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
João Leitão
University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Mirela Panait
Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
Błażej Prusak
Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Jakub Horák
The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Magdalena Ziolo
University of Szczecin, Poland
Tobias Basse
NORD/LB and Touro College Berlon, Germany
Ching Torng Lin
Da-Yeh University, Taiwan
Dean Fantazzini
Moscow State University, Russia
Doojin Ryu
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Douglas J. Lamdin
University of Maryland, USA
Maria Luisa Esteban Salvador
University of Zaragoza, Spain
Masao Nakamura
University of British Columbia, Canada
Sotiris Kotsiantis
Educational Software Development Laboratory of the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece
Ryo Okui
Department of Economics, Seoul National University, Korea
Grzegorz Mentel
Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
Winner
Douglas Cumming
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
James R. Barth
Auburn University, USA
Shigeyuki Hamori
Kobe University, Japan
Patrick Minford
Cardiff University, UK
Nusret Cakici
Fordham University, USA
Mike G. Tsionas
Lancaster University Management School, UK
Dror Kenett
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Jong-Min Kim
University of Minnesota at Morris, USA
Bruce Morley
University of Bath, UK
Quan-Hoang Vuong
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Peter Molnar
University of Stavanger, Norway
José Ramos Pires Manso
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Nikolaos A. Kyriazis
University of Thessaly, Greece
Lars Stentoft
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Yiguo Sun
University of Guelph, Canada
Francisco Guijarro
Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Christopher Gan
Lincoln University, New Zealand
Gulasekaran Rajaguru
Bond University, Australia
Grzegorz Michalski
Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland
Tihana Škrinjarić
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Winner
Petre Caraiani
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Bruce Morley
University of Bath, UK
Martin Falk
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Australia
Aurelio F. Bariviera
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Nikolaos A. Kyriazis
University of Thessaly, Greece
Robert Brooks
Monash University, Australia
Peter Molnar
University of Stavanger, Norway
Francisco Guijarro
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
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