The SFS is happy to announce that the Vice Chair for SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific will be Jun Pan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and the Associate Chair will be Chen Lin (University of Hong Kong). They join Chair Jun-Koo Kang (Nanyang Technological University). The 2020 conference has been postponed to 2021.
Associate Chair for SFS Cavalcade North America 2021
The SFS is happy to announce that the Associate Chair for SFS Cavalcade North America 2021 will be Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School). Professor Ivashina joins Chair Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley) and Vice Chair Andrea Eisfeldt (UCLA).
Postponed: SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2020
SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific, which was to take place December 11-13, 2020, will be postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19. We thank the hosts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shenzhen Finance Institute, for their flexibility.
Stefano Giglio Joining the RFS Team
We are pleased to announce that Stefano Giglio will be joining RFS as an editor. Stefano is a professor of finance at the Yale School of Management, an NBER Research Associate, and a CEPR Research Affiliate, and previously served as an associate editor of RFS. His first day will be July 1.
Introducing the Prior Review Process
The Review of Corporate Finance Studies is introducing a Prior Review Process. The goal of such review process is to help the editors arrive at a quick and informed decision on a paper based on feedback received by the authors from previous submissions. A paper is eligible for this optional review process if it was previously submitted to a few select journals. Starting on June 1, 2020, when you submit a paper, you can choose to submit it under the Prior Review Process. If you choose this option, you will be asked to upload the reviews from previous submissions of your paper to other journals. All material and correspondence sent to RCFS will be treated as private and confidential. If you are interested in this option, please see Prior Review Policy for more details.
Winners of the Cavalcade Best Paper Awards
The winners of the SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 Best Paper Awards were announced at the virtual Awards Reception on May 26. We are pleased to share the winners:
Best Paper in Corporate Finance
“Financial Technology Adoption”
Sean Higgins
Prize: $1000
Best Paper in Asset Pricing
“Forest through the Trees: Building Cross-Sections of Stock Returns”
Svetlana Bryzgalova, Markus Pelger, and Jason Zhu
Prize: $1000
The Arthur Warga Award for Best Paper in Fixed Income
“The Passthrough of Treasury Supply to Bank Deposit Funding”
Wenhao Li, Yiming Ma, and Yang Zhao
Prize: $750 (2% of the endowment)
Congratulations to all our award winners!
Happening Now: Virtual SFS Cavalcade North America
The Cavalcade begins today, hosted virtually by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Cavalcade Keynotes
Don’t miss the keynote speeches at next week’s virtual Cavalcade:
Tuesday May 26, 3:45pm RAPS Keynote by Campbell Harvey (Duke), “Tortured Data”
Wednesday May 27, 12pm Cavalcade Keynote by Antoinette Schoar (MIT), “Consumer Financial Protection as Whack-a-mole”
Wednesday May 27, 3:45pm RCFS Keynote: Thomas Philippon (NYU), “Efficient Programs to Support Businesses during Crises”
Thursday May 28, 12pm Keynote by Amir Yaron (Bank of Israel, University of Pennsylvania)
All times are in EDT.
RAPS Call for Papers: COVID-19 and Financial Markets
The editors of the Review of Asset Pricing Studies invite submissions of papers related to the COVID-19 pandemic, financial markets, and asset pricing for a special issue that will be published in 2020. All subscribers to RAPS will receive the special issue at no extra cost. The issue will include an introduction by Lars Peter Hansen.
We seek impactful papers that will provide foundations for future financial COVID-19 research.
The deadline to submit papers is June 6, 2020. The submission fee will be waived. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not currently under review. Please submit your paper via our website, http://sfsraps.org/submit-a-paper/, and select the submission option “Special Issue.” You may select the payment waiver “Paper was “invited” (solicited for submission) by an editor.”
To achieve our goal of publishing a slate of impactful papers on financial markets, selection will be stringent and the desk rejection rate is likely to be high. As such, desk rejected papers for the special issue may be later resubmitted to RAPS for consideration without prejudice.
Annual Meeting Update
The in-person SFS Cavalcade North America 2020 conference at UNC was canceled. The SFS Annual Meeting will take place as part of the virtual conference hosted by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.