Receiving high-quality feedback on research projects is immensely valuable to the development of academic manuscripts. Given that many early-career researchers have limited opportunities to gain personalized feedback on their work from editors of top-tier finance journals, FIRN Early Career Researchers (ECR) Program offers the ECR Manuscript Feedback Program to provide participants with the opportunity to address this need.
Program Details:
FIRN offers ECR members a valuable opportunity to received specific feedback on their academic manuscripts (working papers) from an experienced editor of a top-tier finance journals, Professor Xavier Giroud (Columbia University). Professor Giroud currently serves as an Editor of Review of Finance and Associate Editor of Journal of Financial Economics. Professor Giroud has also served as an Associate Editor of Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, and Management Science.
Authors of selected manuscripts will receive written feedback from Professor Giroud on their manuscripts and an one-on-one meeting with Professor Giroud at the FIRN Annual Conference to discuss the feedback. Authors of selected manuscripts will be notified sufficiently in advance of the date and time of the meeting, which will take place at the conference venue in Port Douglas during the FIRN Annual Conference in November 2024.
Applications Now Open:
FIRN will select four academic manuscripts authored by early-career researchers (Levels B–C within 8 years of PhD graduation) at member institutions. Priority will be given to manuscripts in the field of empirical corporate finance in alignment with Professor Giroud’s research expertise.
Application Deadline: 1st September 2024, 5:00pm AEDT.
Application Process:
Please email your application, enclosing the manuscript for which you seek feedback and a copy of your CV, to chelsea.liu@adelaide.edu.au, with the email title (subject line): “FIRN ECR Manuscript Feedback Program Application.” In the submission email, please confirm that your application meets all eligibility criteria (please see below); please also include information on the manuscript’s research area.
Eligibility:
All manuscripts must fulfill the following criteria to be considered, which should all be addressed in the submission email. They must:
- be authored by early career researchers (Levels B–C within 8 years of PhD graduation),
- have no senior co-authors, defined as Professor or an Associate Editor (or more senior) of A* journals,
- have not been submitted to a journal.
Each applicant is welcome to submit one manuscript (but can be co-authors on other submissions).
Successful applicants will be required to provide feedback on the submission/publication outcomes of their selected manuscripts by undertaking annual surveys until the manuscripts are published.
FIRN reserves the right to allocate any or all of the four opportunities and that opportunity is not transferrable to another researcher nor another paper other than as submitted.
Chelsea Liu | Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
Vice President (ECR), FIRN | E: chelsea.liu@adelaide.edu.au