Society for Financial Studies

Have you booked your hotel room for Cavalcade 2015? Information about accommodations is on the Cavalcade 2015 web site. Be sure to book soon–the room blocks end in April.

You can now register online for the 2015 SFS Finance Cavalcade, which will take place May 17-20, 2015, at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech. Early registration will be $100 for members and $140 for nonmembers. Beginning April 1, the registration rate will increase to $125 for members and $165 for nonmembers. The registration fee will be waived for doctoral students and Georgia Tech faculty. To register, visit the Cavalcade 2015 web site.

The decision letters for the 2015 Cavalcade have been sent. We received 866 submissions, which was a 32% increase over the number of submissions last year. The acceptance rate was 10.4%.

Congratulations to RFS Executive Editor Andrew Karolyi on the publication of his book, “Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma.” The book will be available in May. For more, visit the publisher’s web site here.

Happy New Year from all of us at the Society for Financial Studies, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and The Review of Financial Studies.

The Society for Financial Studies is pleased to announce that the host of Cavalcade 2016 will be the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Congratulations to Rotman on their winning bid!

Today is the last day to submit your paper to Cavalcade 2015. The submission system will stop allowing submissions at 11:59pm EST.

There is only one week left to submit your paper to Cavalcade 2015! The deadline for submissions is December 8, 2014. To submit, visit Cavalcade 2015.

Did you know that Cavalcade 2015 features a dual submission option with The Review of Asset Pricing Studies and The Review of Corporate Finance Studies? The submission deadline is December 8, 2014. For details, visit Cavalcade 2015.

The December issue of RAPS has now published online. View the issue here and check out the Editor’s Choice article, “Rating-Based Investment Practices and Bond Market Segmentation,” by Zhihua Chen, Aziz A. Lookman, Norman Schürhoff, and Duane J. Seppi here for free!