In the early 1960s, a battle royale occurred in the Journal of Finance.

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To give you an idea of how widespread the problem is, a new study to be published in the Journal of Finance and Quantitative Analysis finds that option volume in a specific stock begins to surge three days before unannounced analyst upgrades or downgrades of a company.

WSJ: Insider Trading's Smart Cheats

Over the long run, sharp traders getting out in front of these forced portfolio changes have poached at least 0.38 percentage point of annual return away from Russell 2000 index funds, estimates a new study in the Journal of Empirical Finance.

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He has been on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Municipal Finance Journal for over ten years.

FORBES: Next Week's Guest: Richard Lehmann

From Latin America, Manuel Hinds, twice Finance Minister of El Salvador, is on record in The Wall Street Journal advocating the classical gold standard.

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In a paper that will be published soon in the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, he maintains that not only is past economic growth no guarantee of future stockmarket returns, but even future economic growth (could we but know it) is no guarantee of contemporaneous stockmarket returns except in the most transitory way.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

"We do not comment on specific situations, " Lona Nallengara, acting director of the SEC's corporation-finance division, wrote in an email to The Wall Street Journal.

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