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Use when judging whether a finance idea clears the Review of Finance (RoF) general-interest bar before any estimation or modeling — first-order question, fit with the journal's empirical-and-theoretical scope, and the top-three-finance-journal standard RoF referees apply.

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# Topic Selection (rof-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- The question feels incremental or sub-field-only ("yet another anomaly")
- You are unsure whether RoF (vs. a specialist field journal) is the right home
- You have data or a model but no first-order finance question yet
- You want to gauge fit before paying the submission fee

## The RoF bar

RoF publishes **general-interest finance at the level of the top-three finance journals**, as the **official journal of the European Finance Association (EFA)**. Its referees are explicitly asked to **apply top-three-finance-journal standards**, so the screening question is "would this interest the broad finance audience and survive a top-three referee?" RoF is genuinely **both empirical and theoretical** — asset pricing, corporate finance, banking, household finance, microstructure on the empirical side; asset-pricing theory, security/contract design, microstructure theory on the theory side. A clean theoretical result with a sharp economic message fits as well as a credible empirical finding.

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