The 2012 SFS Finance Cavalcade

Hosted by the University of Virginia
May 21 - May 25, 2012

Information for booking your travel and hotel is available here. A map of the Darden campus showing the classrooms, hotel, and dining areas is available here. Reserve your stay as early as possible to ensure a room at the conference hotel. Rooms are refundable if canceled at least 48 hours before the arrival date; call the Inn at Darden directly for cancellations. Complete your conference registration before May 9th to avoid the late transaction fee. Registration is non-refundable.

Thursday evening's reception at Monticello is available only to the first 60 people who sign up. The cut-off date for sign up will be May 9th. Those who have signed up within the first 60 people will receive an email on May 10th confirming their reservations for the event.

The Society for Financial Studies is pleased to announce the second edition of the Finance Cavalcade, a five-day conference covering all fields of finance. The Finance Cavalcade is organized by the Society of Financial Studies (SFS). The SFS runs the Review of Financial Studies and two new journals, the Review of Asset Pricing Studies (RAPS) and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies (RCFS). RAPS and RCFS join the RFS to form a suite of three independent A-level journals that are now available to scholars in finance and related disciplines as outlets for their research.

Conference Chairs

Chair: Ivo Welch (UCLA)

Vice Chair: John Griffin (UT Austin)

Associate Chair: Thomas Philippon (NYU)

Past Chair and SFS Vice-President: Matthew Spiegel

Program Committee:

Philip Strahan (Boston College), Darren Kisgen (Boston College), Ekkehart Boehmer (EDHEC Business School), Alex Edmans (The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School), Craig Doidge (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto), Bruce Carlin (UCLA Anderson School of Management), Amir Sufi (University of Chicago GSB), Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (NYU Stern School of Business), David Robinson (Fuqua School of Business), Dave Denis (Purdue University), Michelle Lowry (Penn State University), Clemens Sialm (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas), Michael Roberts (The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School), Jay Hartzell (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas), Lauren Cohen (Harvard Business School), Martijn Cremers (Yale University), Lu Zhang (The Ohio State University), Lu Zheng (The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine)

The SFS Finance Cavalcade is a five-day event with two days of Investments, one day of topics of interest to both, and two days of Corporate Finance. The conference registration fee will be $140 for nonmembers of the SFS (this price includes a one-year membership to the SFS) or $100 for SFS members; after May 9th, late registration will be $130 for members and $170 for nonmembers. These fees will be used to help cover a portion of the SFS's costs.

Conference Dual Submission Option

You may elect dual submission to either The Review of Corporate Finance Studies or The Review of Asset Pricing Studies. If the new journal you select decides not to send your paper out for review, the editor may refer your paper to the other new journal, if appropriate, or to the Review of Financial Studies for possible review. Thus, by selecting the dual submission option, you have implicitly agreed to be reviewed by any of the three SFS journals.