Society for Financial Studies

The winners of the SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 Best Paper Awards were announced at the virtual awards presentation on May 25. We are pleased to share the winners:

Best Paper in Corporate Finance
“Friends in Media”
Guosong Xu
Prize: $1000

Best Paper in Asset Pricing
“Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality”
Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, Natasha Sarin
Prize: $1000

The Arthur Warga Award for Best Paper in Fixed Income
“Credit Fire Sales: Captive Lending as Liquidity in Distress”
Matteo Benetton, Sergio Mayordomo, Daniel Paravisini
Prize: $750 (2% of the endowment)

Congratulations to all our award winners!

Today is the final day of SFS Cavalcade 2021! The paper presentations begin at 11am and conclude at 3:30pm. Thank you to our virtual hosts, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. For more information, visit the conference website.

The paper presentations begin at 11am today.

3:45pm RAPS Keynote Q&A Session by Eugene Fama

4:30pm SFS Membership Meeting

For more information, visit the conference website.

The first paper presentations of SFS Cavalcade 2021 begin at 11am today.

1:15pm Panel Honoring Craig W. Holden

3:45pm RCFS Keynote by Amir Sufi

4:30pm Presentation of Awards

5pm Virtual Reception with rooms hosted by MIT:
Asset Pricing hosted by Lawrence Schmidt
Corporate Finance hosted by Egor Matveyev
Behavioral Finance hosted by Eben Lazarus
ESG hosted by Ed Golding
FinTech and Big Data hosted by Maryam Farboodi

For more information, visit the conference website.

SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 kicks off today with a Keynote by Chair Ulrike Malmendier at 5pm. A virtual Welcome Reception will follow with rooms hosted by MIT:

Asset Pricing hosted by Leonid Kogan
Corporate Finance hosted by Antoinette Schoar
Behavioral Finance hosted by Taha Choukhmane
Financial Policy, COVID-19, and Beyond hosted by Deborah Lucas
Macro Finance hosted by Emil Verner

For more information, visit the conference website.

SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 begins on Monday, May 24, at 5pm with a Keynote by Chair Ulrike Malmendier. The entire conference will be virtual this year. For more, visit the conference website.

Have your registered for the SFS Cavalcade yet? The virtual conference will take place one week from today! Register and view the program on the Cavalcade website.

A panel honoring Craig W. Holden will be held at SFS Cavalcade 2021 on May 25 at 1:15pm. The panel speakers are Stacey Jacobsen (SMU), Avanidhar (Subra) Subrahmanyam (UCLA), and Charles Trzcinka (Indiana University).