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Editing high-quality finance journals is challenging, and it also requires careful thought on the optimal governance processes required to ensure equity, particularly given the large number of submissions to these journals. Enhancing and maintaining incentives for authors to be creative is also important. In this paper, I discuss issues arising from subjectivity in referees’ reports in finance journals and present a list of editorial suggestions that might improve authors’ experiences and enhance the quality of submissions to these journals.
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* I thank David Hirshleifer, Bill Schwert, and several anonymous colleagues for their insightful comments and their encouragement to write this piece.
1 Anderson School at UCLA, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; e-mail address: subra@anderson.ucla.edu.
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Subrahmanyam, A. How to Make Finance Scholarship More Creative and Equitable: An Author’s Suggestions to Editors and Referees *. China Account Financ Rev 17, 9 (2015). https://doi.org/10.7603/s40570-015-0009-7
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