RFS Forthcoming Paper
“Investor Sentiment and the Pricing of Characteristics-Based Factors” by Zhuo Chen, Bibo Liu, Huijun Wang, Zhengwei Wang, and Jianfeng Yu
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RFS Forthcoming Paper
“Willingness to Pay for Carbon Mitigation: Field Evidence from the Market for Carbon Offsets” by Matthias Rodemeier
New Editor Appointment
RFS is pleased to announce the appointment of Viral Acharya as an Editor, beginning September 1, 2025. Viral is the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business, a Research Associate for NBER, a Research Affiliate for CEPR, and a Research Associate for ECGI. Viral was the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2017 to 2019. He also previously served as an Associate Editor for… Read More »New Editor Appointment
Advisory Editor Position Available
An RFS advisory editor position is available for the next academic year; the start date is flexible. The position is a particularly good fit for finance/economics post-docs or late-stage PhD students. The primary task is to provide editorial support in the review process and requires about 10 hours per week with a minimum commitment for one year (or preferably for two years). The position allows working closely with the RFS… Read More »Advisory Editor Position Available
Data Editor Positions Available
The Society is seeking to appoint two Data Editors (junior/senior) to conduct post-acceptance/pre-publication checks to verify/validate the code and data submitted to Harvard Dataverse by authors of articles accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Studies. The aim of the journals’ code and data sharing policy is to promote the transparency, reproducibility and replicability of research published in the journals. Applicants should be familiar with multiple programming languages, including at least Stata,… Read More »Data Editor Positions Available
Registration for SFS Cavalcade North America 2025
The program and registration for SFS Cavalcade North America 2025 are now available on the conference website. The Cavalcade will take place May 19-22 at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Register by April 7 to pay the discounted registration fee. The registration fee is waived for PhD students.
RFS Forthcoming Paper
“Societal Inequality and Bank Deposit Dynamics: Evidence from the Freedman’s Savings Bank” by Virginia Traweek and Malcolm Wardlaw
RFS Special Issue: The Next Chapter of Big Data in Finance
The March issue of RFS 38(3) is a Special Issue on The Next Chapter of Big Data in Finance, edited by Itay Goldstein, Chester S. Spatt, and Mao Ye. The Editor’s Choice is “Fractional Trading” by Zhi Da, Vivian W. Fang, and Wenwei Lin.
Program for 2025 WEFIDEV RFS-CEPR Conference
The program for the 2025 WEFIDEV RFS-CEPR Conference is now available. The conference will take place March 28 -29 at LSE, London, UK. The RFS sponsoring editors are Manju Puri and Tarun Ramadorai.
RFS Forthcoming Paper
“Fast and Slow Arbitrage: The Predictive Power of (Persistent) Capital Flows for Factor Returns” by Xi Dong, Namho Kang, and Joel Peress