The submission period for SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 is now open. To submit, please visit SFS Cavalcade North America 2021. The deadline for submissions is December 10, 2020.
Dual Submission: The Cavalcade features a dual submission option with the Review of Asset Pricing Studies and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies.
Reminder for doctoral students: For papers in which ALL co-authors are doctoral students, the submission fee is waived.
We are pleased to announce that the Review of Asset Pricing Studies and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies have made the decision to begin publishing four issues per year, starting in 2021. Both journals have experienced a sustained influx of high quality submissions, allowing an increase in our annual number of published papers.
Due to COVID-19, SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 will be held virtually. The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, which won the bid to host 2021, will instead host SFS Cavalcade North America 2022.
UPDATED NOVEMBER 16, 2020: The position has been filled.
The Society of Financial Studies has an opening for a data collection assistant. This is a virtual position, which provides the flexibility to work where you wish. The typical workload is approximately 10 hours per week. Some familiarity with finance journals and papers is preferred. This position pays $20 per hour. Please send CV/resumes to manager@sfs.org by October 31, 2020.
The Society for Financial Studies invites bids to host SFS Cavalcade North America 2022. Please see the Invitation to Bid for details. The deadline for bids is November 1, 2020.
Oxford University Press presents the Responses to Economic Shocks Collection, featuring papers from RAPS, RCFS, and RFS. The following papers are included:
RAPS
-Preventing Controversial Catastrophes by Steven D. Baker, Burton Hollifield, and Emilio Osambela
-Economic Uncertainty and Interest Rates by Samuel M. Hartzmark
RCFS
-How Do Laws and Institutions Affect Recovery Rates for Collateral? by Hans Degryse, Vasso Ioannidou, José María Liberti, and Jason Sturgess
-The Financial Crisis of 2007–2009: Why Did It Happen and What Did We Learn? by Anjan V. Thakor
-Macroeconomic Risk and Debt Overhang by Hui Chen and Gustavo Manso
RFS
-Uncertainty and Economic Activity: A Multicountry Perspective by Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, M. Hashem Pesaran, and Alessandro Rebucci
-Destructive Creation at Work: How Financial Distress Spurs Entrepreneurship by Tania Babina
-Asset Price Bubbles and Systemic Risk by Markus Brunnermeier, Simon Rother, and Isabel Schnabel
-Shock Transmission Through Cross-Border Bank Lending: Credit and Real Effects by Galina Hale, Tümer Kapan, and Camelia Minoiu
The featured papers are free to read through the end of September on Oxford University Press’s web site.
Wei Jiang
Antoinette Schoar
On July 1, Antoinette Schoar became the SFS President and Wei Jiang became the SFS Vice President.
Antoinette Schoar is the Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She also served in chairing roles for SFS Cavalcade North America from 2017-2019.
Wei Jiang is the Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise at
Columbia Business School. She was an editor of RFS from 2017 – 2019 and an associate editor from 2012 – 2015. She served in chairing roles for SFS Cavalcade North America in 2014 and 2015.
Please join us in welcoming Antoinette and Wei.
Josef Zechner
Tarun Ramadorai
Josef Zechner completed his term as Vice President on June 30. Before serving as Vice President, Josef was on the Council.
Tarun Ramadorai completed his term on the Council on June 30. He has taken on an editor role at RFS, and previously served as an associate editor at RFS.
We are grateful to Josef and Tarun for their service.
Craig Holden
Allaudeen Hameed
Craig Holden has been renewed as Secretary/Treasurer. He has served in this role since 2012.
Allaudeen Hameed has been renewed for another term on the SFS Council. He has served on the council since 2017.
Liyan Yang
Liyan Yang joined the SFS Council on July 1. He is the Peter L. Mitchelson/SIT Investment Associates Foundation Chair in Investment Strategy at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Laura Starks
We are extremely grateful to Laura Starks, who completed her role as SFS President on June 30. Since 1997, Laura has served in five different roles across the SFS and our journals. Her guidance and commitment have been invaluable. Prior to serving as President, Laura was SFS Vice President, SFS Council Chair, an editor of RFS, and an associate editor of RFS. We thank her for her dedication.
Videos of the keynotes and paper presentations at Cavalcade North America 2020 are now available on the Cavalcade web site. Our thanks to the Kelley Learning Media team at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University for preparing the videos.
