Issue Information

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/irfi.12153
• Date: 01 December 2018
• Published date: 01 December 2018

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International

Review of

Finance

ISSN 1369-412X

published by

The Journal of the Nippon Finance Association and the Asian Finance Association

CONTENTS

Volume 18 Number 4 DECEMBER 2018

Managing Editors:

Sudipto Dasgupta

Ramazan Gençay

(Letters Section)

Editors:

H. Cao

A. Hameed

S. Ongena

X. Yu

Associate Editors:

A. Agrawal

Kee-Hong Bae

F. Braggion

L. Cen

I. Chakraborty

X. Chang

T. Chemmanur

N. Chen

Z. Da

H. Degryse

M. Delis

P. Della Corte

C. Doidge

A. A Durnev

D. Foster

H. Gulen

N. Gupta

C. Hadlock

B. Han

M. Hertzel

V. Ioannidou

X. Jin

N. Ju

X. (Erica) Li

X. Liu

D. Lou

D. Martinez

Miera

D. McLean

M. Pritsker

A. Purnanandam

R. Sen

C. Sialm

T. Smith

J. Sulaeman

D. Tang

S. E Thomas

X. Tian

A. Watanabe

M. Watanabe

J. Wei

C. Wihlborg

H. Xing

J. Yang

V. Yerramilli

CONTENTS

Shuo Kan and Stephen Gong

Does High Stock Return Synchronicity Indicate High or Low Price Informativeness? Evidence from a Regulatory Experiment

Zhe An, Wenlian Gao, Donghui Li and Feifei Zhu

The Impact of Firm-Level Illiquidity on Crash Risk and the Role of Media Independence: International Evidence

Mamoru Nagano and Tatsuo Ushijima

What Drives Interregional Bank Branch Closure? The Case of Japan’s Regional Banks in the Post-Deregulation Period

Yuk Ying Chang and Wei-Huei Hsu

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Testing which Behavioral Biases A ect Analyst Forecasts

Shorter Articles

Ahmed Al-Hadi, Syed Mujahid Hussain, Khamis Hamed Al-Yahyaee and Hamdan Saif Al-Jabri

Risk Committees and Implied Cost of Equity Capital

Muhammad A. Cheema, Gilbert V. Nar tea and Yimei Man

Cross-Sectional and Time Series Momentum Returns and Market States

Haiqi Li, Ying Liu and Sung Y. Park

Time-Varying Investor Herding in Chinese Stock Markets

Thorsten Hens, Ter je Lensberg and Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé

Front-Running and Market Quality: An Evolutionary Perspective on High Frequency Trading

Timothy (Jun) Lu, Jinjuan Ren and Yan Zhao

Costly Long-Short Strategies Under Short-Sale Constraints: Chinese Evidence

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