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Use when targeting Review of Financial Studies (RFS) or deciding whether a finance manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# Review of Financial Studies (review-of-financial-studies)

## Journal positioning

The Review of Financial Studies is published by the Society for Financial Studies and, with JF and JFE, one of the finance "top-3." It is the top-3 outlet most associated with methodological innovation — new methods, new theory, and new ways of looking at asset pricing and corporate finance — and it runs a registered-reports track for hypothesis-driven empirical work. The readership is the whole finance profession, so a paper must matter beyond its niche and ideally push the methodological or conceptual frontier.

This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the SFS / RFS / Oxford site and the editorial submission system.

## When to trigger

- The author names RFS (or the finance top-3) as the target venue.
- A finance paper introduces a new method, a new theoretical angle, or a methodologically innovative empirical design, and the author is choosing among JF / JFE / RFS.
- The author is considering RFS's registered-reports track for a pre-specified, hypothesis-driven study.
- The author needs RFS's desk-reject risks and a credible top-3 / top-field alternative list.
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