Result of Review

International Journal of Financial Research

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Result of Review
Title: The Deteminants of Risk Premia in Forward Foreign Exchange (FX) Markets
Author(s): Aziz Chouikh & Abdelwahed Trabelsi
Decision of Paper Selection
( ) Accept submission, no revisions required
(*) Accept submission, revisions required; please revise the paper according to comments
( ) Revise and resubmit for review
( ) Decline submission

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Proposed Schedule for Publication (For accepted papers)
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Vol. 5, No. 2, April 2014, if you meet above requirements within 2 weeks.

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Comments from Editor
Evaluation

Grade
Please give a grade of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1(high to low)

Overall evaluation of the paper

4

Contribution to existing knowledge

3

Organization and readability

4

Soundness of methodology

4

Evidence supports conclusion

3

Adequacy of literature review

3

Comments and Suggestions
( ) Revise the paper according to Submission Guide
( ) Picture(s)/figure(s) are not clear, 300 dpi is required
(*) Move the footnotes to endnotes
( ) Resize the table(s)/figure(s), to fit letter size paper (8.5*11 inch, 21.59*27.94cm) (
) Revise table(s) into three-line table(s)
( ) Insert table(s) and figure(s) into the text, not after references
( ) Similarity index (checked by iThenticate) is high. Please revise to keep a Similarity Index
≤30% and single source matches ≤6%.
( ) Add DOI persistent links to those references that have DOIs. Please refer to
http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/

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Comments from Reviewers
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Evaluation (Please evaluate the manuscript by grade 1-5)
5=Excellent

4=Good

3=Average

Items

2=Below Average

1=Poor

Grade

Contribution to existing knowledge

4

Organization and readability

4

Soundness of methodology

4

Evidence supports conclusion

3

Adequacy of literature review

2

 Strengths
The topic of this paper is time based. It focuses on more realistic field of knowledge. The
paper is well organized. There is a good consistency throughout the whole paper.

 Weaknesses
The literature review is somewhat out of date. It could have included more current
international work in this area.

 Suggestions to Author/s
Overall, this article is a very interesting paper with extensive coverage of the issues
highlighted. It would be worth publishing and has potential to contribute to existing
knowledge.

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