Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “JRFM 2023 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in JRFM from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023. One paper will receive the award. The paper will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Thanasis Stengos.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in JRFM from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

The Prize:
– CHF 500;
– A chance to publish a paper free of charge in JRFM in 2025 after peer review;
– The winner will also receive a certificate.

The winner will be announced on the journal website in June 2025.

Kind regards,
JRFM Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Thanasis Stengos, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously offered their time to review the papers submitted to the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for JRFM.

What are the prerequisites to be eligible for this award?
– All of the reviewers for JRFM in 2023 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– Number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be five winners this year. Two winners will be granted the Outstanding Award for Excellence in Manuscript Reviews and will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in JRFM in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Three winners will be granted the Recognition Award for Manuscript Reviews and will receive the following:
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
– The winners will be announced in April 2024 on the journal’s website.

How can I make myself eligible?
– If you have not yet reviewed papers for JRFM but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
JRFM Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the JRFM 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022 in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, one winner was selected.

Article:
The ESG Disclosure and the Financial Performance of Norwegian Listed Firms
by George Giannopoulos, Renate Victoria Kihle Fagernes, Mahmoud Elmarzouky, and Kazi Abul Bashar Muhammad Afzal Hossain.
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2022, 15(6), 237; doi: 10.3390/jrfm15060237

The winner will receive CHF 500, an electronic certificate, and a chance to publish a paper in JRFM in 2024 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winner of JRFM 2022 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of JRFM.

Kind regards,
JRFM Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The JRFM Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to JRFM. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

The Outstanding Awards for Excellence in Manuscript Reviews
The prize: CHF 500, an electronic certificate, and an opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in JRFM in 2023 after peer review

Dr. Elie Bouri
Adnan Kassar School of Business, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
Research Interest: financial economics; energy finance; empirical finance; bitcoin; cryptoassets

Dr. Fahad Ali
School of Finance, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, China
Research Interest: asset pricing; factor model; calendar anomalies; volatility; risk; DCC; portfolio optimization; cryptocurrency; exchange rate; spillover

The Recognition Awards for Manuscript Reviews
The prize: An electronic certificate and an opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in JRFM in 2023 after peer review

Dr. Dan-Cristian Dabija
Department of Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, România
Research Interest: sustainable business; sustainable retailing; tourism; Green Business; consumers; marketing; e-commerce

Dr. Irena Jindřichovská
Faculty of Economics and Administration, College of Economics and Management, Metropolitan University Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Research Interest: international trade; econometrics; corporate finance; accounting; banking; corporate social responsibility; sustainability

Dr. Viorica Chirila
Department of Accounting, Economic Informatics and Statistics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
Research Interest: financial markets; risk; sustainability; volatility transmission; business cycles; labour force; remittances; economic growth; statistics; econometrics

Kind regards,
JRFM Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the JRFM 2021 Review Award. The JRFM Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers to checking the manuscripts submitted to JRFM. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround have been maintained.

Prof. Paulo Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal
Dr. Sorin Anton, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Prof. Peter Moffatt, University of East Anglia, UK
Prof. Francisco Guijarro Martínez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Prof. João Leitão, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Dr. Mirela Panait, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania
Dr. Błażej Prusak, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Dr. Jakub Horák, The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Dr. Magdalena Ziolo, University of Szczecin, Poland
Prof. Tobias Basse, NORD/LB and Touro College Berlon, Germany
Dr. Ching Torng Lin, Da-Yeh University, Taiwan
Dr. Dean Fantazzini, Moscow State University, Russia
Prof. Doojin Ryu, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Dr. Douglas J. Lamdin, University of Maryland, USA
Dr. Maria Luisa Esteban Salvador, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Prof. Masao Nakamura, University of British Columbia, Canada
Prof. Michael A. Talias, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Prof. Sotiris Kotsiantis, Educational Software Development Laboratory of the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Ryo Okui, Department of Economics, Seoul National University, Korea
Prof. Grzegorz Mentel, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland

Kind regards,
Editor-in-Chief, JRFM

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the JRFM 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in JRFM in 2020 were considered for this award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, their number of citations, and their number of downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the Journal Award Committee, were selected.

First Award: CHF 500 and a certificate

Refined Measures of Dynamic Connectedness based on Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressions
By Nikolaos Antonakakis, Ioannis Chatziantoniou and David Gabauer
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2020, 13(4), 84; DOI: 10.3390/jrfm13040084

Second Award: CHF 300 and a certificate

Digitalization of the EU Economies and People at Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion
By Aleksy Kwilinski, Oleksandr Vyshnevskyi and Henryk Dzwigol
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2020, 13(7), 142; DOI: 10.3390/jrfm13070142

Third Award: CHF 200 and a certificate

Assessment of Bankruptcy Risk of Large Companies: European Countries Evolution Analysis
By Nicoleta Bărbuță-Mișu and Mara Madaleno
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2020, 13(3), 58; DOI: 10.3390/jrfm13030058

Please join us in congratulating the winners of JRFM 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of JRFM.

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.

Congratulations to the following referees, who have been selected to receive an Outstanding Reviewer Award in recognition of their significant contributions over the past three years. Each of them will receive a certificate and a waived quota, allowing them to publish a paper in JRFM without a publishing fee before 30 April 2021.

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

For those of you who have not yet reviewed papers for the journal but would like to do so, you can easily register as a reviewer at susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Dear colleagues,

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the JRFM 2020 Best Paper Awards, who were chosen by a selection committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Michael McAleer.

The following papers have won the JRFM 2020 Best Paper Awards:

First prize (500 Swiss Francs)

An Exploratory Study Based on a Questionnaire Concerning Green and Sustainable Finance, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Performance: Evidence from the Romanian Business Environment

Authors: Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu and Gheorghe N. Popescu

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/12/4/162

Second prize (300 Swiss Francs)

Spillover Risks on Cryptocurrency Markets: A Look from VAR-SVAR Granger Causality and Student’s-t Copulas

Author: Toan Luu Duc Huynh

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/12/2/52

Third prize (200 Swiss Francs)

Intellectual Capital Performance and Profitability of Banks: Evidence from Pakistan

Authors: Muhammad Haris, HongXing Yao, Gulzara Tariq, Ali Malik and Hafiz Mustansar Javaid

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/12/2/56

Besides the cash prize, each of them will receive a certificate and a waived quota, allowing them to publish a paper in JRFM without a publishing fee before 31 May 2021.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the JRFM 2020 Best Paper Awards. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors for your continued support of JRFM.

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the 2019 JRFM Best Paper Award, who were chosen by the Journal Awards Committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Michael McAleer.

The following papers, in no particular order, have won first prize in the 2019 JRFM Best Paper Award:

GARCH Modelling of Cryptocurrencies

J. Risk Financial Manag. 2017, 10(4), 17; doi: 10.3390/jrfm10040017

Available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/10/4/17

Long- and Short-Term Cryptocurrency Volatility Components: A GARCH-MIDAS Analysis

J. Risk Financial Manag. 2018, 11(2), 23; doi: 10.3390/jrfm11020023

Available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/11/2/23

In recognition of their accomplishment, each Best Paper Award winner will receive a certificate, 500 CHF, and an opportunity to publish a paper in JRFM free of charge in open-access format after the standard peer-review process.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Best Paper Awards. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors for your continued support of JRFM.

Kind regards,
JRFM Editorial Office

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 2019 JRFM Outstanding Reviewer Award. 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.

Congratulations to the following referees, who have been selected to receive an Outstanding Reviewer Award in recognition of their significant contributions over the past three years. Each of them will receive a certificate and a waived quota, allowing them to publish a paper in JRFM without a publishing fee before 30 May 2020.

For those of you who have not yet reviewed papers for the journal but would like to do so, you can easily register as a reviewer at susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

We will announce the 2020 JRFM Outstanding Reviewer Award soon; please keep an eye on our journal.