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The Society for Financial Studies is now accepting bids for Cavalcade: Asia-Pacific 2017. The bidding period runs July 15 through October 15, 2016. For details, please see the Invitation to Bid and visit Cavalcade: Asia-Pacific 2017.

The Society for Financial Studies is accepting bids for Cavalcade 2018. The bidding period runs July 1 through October 1, 2016. For details, please see the Invitation to Bid and visit Cavalcade 2018.

Cavalcade Chair Hanno Lustig with Award Winners Georgy Chabakauri and Brandon Yueyang Han

Cavalcade Chair Hanno Lustig with Award Winner Lukas Schmid

Cavalcade Chair Hanno Lustig with Award Winner Timothy Dore

Cavalcade Chairs Amir Yaron, Hanno Lustig, and Heitor Almeida

See all the photos here!

Photos from Cavalcade 2016 are now available online!

We are happy to announce that the Associate Chair for Cavalcade 2017 will be Antoinette Schoar from MIT. Professor Schoar will join Chair Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Vice Chair Amir Yaron (University of Pennsylvania) on the team.

The new issue of RAPS 6(1) June 2016 has published online. If you have a subscription, you can view the issue online here. If you don’t have a subscription, you can still view the Editor’s Choice article for free online!

The winners of the Cavalcade Best Paper Awards were announced at the Awards Reception on Tuesday, May 17, at the SFS Finance Cavalcade Conference. We are pleased to now share the winners:

Cavalcade Best Paper in Corporate Finance
“Leverage, Labor Market Size, and Employee Pay”
Timothy Dore and Rebecca Zarutskie
Prize: $1000

Cavalcade Best Paper in Asset Pricing
“Capital Requirements and Asset Prices”
Georgy Chabakauri and Brandon Yueyang Han
Prize: $1000

The Arthur Warga Award for Best Paper in Fixed Income
“A Macrofinance View of Sovereign CDS”
Mikhail Chernov, Lukas Schmid, Andres Schneider
Prize: $1200

Congratulations to all our award winners!

Raman Uppal and Josef Zechner have been appointed to second terms on the SFS Council.

Cavalcade 2016 begins this Sunday, May 15. For details, visit the Cavalcade web site.

We are now less than two weeks away from Cavalcade 2016. If you have not registered yet, please do so at the Cavalcade 2016 web site. Reminder: Everyone who plans to attend–including presenting authors, co-authors, discussants, session chairs, doctoral students, and University of Toronto faculty–must register.