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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



Partnership to Publish Premier Finance Journal



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The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis is one of the oldest and

most well established

journals publishing in the area of financial economics. It is with great

pride that we join forces with

Cambridge University Press, one of the most renowned academic publishers in

the English language.

This strategic partnership will prove of great value to the profession in

years to come.

--Stephen Brown, New York University



July 2008, Seattle, WA and New York, NY



The University of Washington Foster School of Business and Cambridge

University Press are pleased to

announce a partnership to publish the Journal of Financial and Quantitative

Analysis, beginning in

2009.



Since 1966 the journal has covered theoretical and empirical research in

financial economics. The

JFQA is among the top journals in the field and one of the last major

journals to be self-published.

With a circulation of more than 3000 libraries, firms, and individuals in

70 nations, the journal serves

an international community of finance scholars—academics and practitioners

alike.

The JFQA is among the premier finance journals in the world, says Thomas W.

Lee, Hughes M. Blake

Professor of Management, Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs at

the University of

Washington. He added that the partnership "will greatly expand the JFQA's

readership and influence

on the academic research in finance by moving beyond its current print

medium to the electronic and

web-based world."



Three editors oversee the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis:

Hendrik Bessembinder

(University of Utah), Stephen Brown (New York University), and Paul

Malatesta (University of

Washington); the latter of whom writes: "My colleagues and I are excited

about our partnership with

Cambridge University Press. Cambridge's expertise in publishing academic

journals and the depth of

their organization will enable us to greatly expand and enhance the JFQA's

services to its authors and

readers."



The journal will go from four issues annually to six issues annually, with

an increased online presence.

The journal's existing office staff will continue working out of the

Seattle office. Hendrik

Bessembinder anticipates that "the partnership will lead to improved

efficiency and better service for

authors, subscribers, and other readers, as well as for the editorial

staff."



Cambridge University Press publishes more than 230 peer-reviewed academic

journals across a wide

spread of subject areas, in print and online. Many of these journals are

the leading academic

publications in their fields and together they form one of the most

valuable and comprehensive

collections of research available today. The Journal of Financial and

Quantitative Analysis will be an

important contribution to that collection.



Simon Ross, Journals Director at Cambridge, says the JFQA will be the

flagship journal in finance for

Cambridge, and complements its world-class book publishing program. "We are

looking forward to

working with the management team of JFQA to take the journal to the next

level and ambitious plans

are already underway to grow the impact of JFQA internationally."



Other links:

For the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis please go to

http://www.jfqa.org

For the Michael G. Foster School of Business please go to

http://foster.washington.edu

For Cambridge University Press Journals please go to

http://www.journals.cambridge.org

For Cambridge University Press please go to: http://www.cambridge.org

For The University of Cambridge please go to: http://www.cam.ac.uk



Susan Soule

Journals Marketing Manager

Cambridge University Press, Americas

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