RFS News

RFS extends our gratitude to retiring Editor Dave Denis, who is completing his term at the end of the month. Dave has been an Editor with RFS since 2013 and previously served as an Associate Editor. RFS is pleased to welcome the following Associate Editors: Manuel Adelino, Carola Frydman, Stefano Giglio, Xavier Giroud, Camelia Kuhnen, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Anna Pavlova. We thank our retiring Associate Editors: Bo Becker, Benjamin Keys,… Read More »Editorial Team Updates

The Editor’s Choice article for 32(7) is “Shock Propagation and Banking Structure” by Mariassunta Giannetti and Farzad Saidi. You can read the article free online.

The Call for Papers for the Yale-RFS Conference on Real and Private-Value Assets is available here. The conference, which features a dual submission option with RFS, will take place January 31, 2020. The RFS sponsoring editor is Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2019.

The Editor’s Choice article for 32(6) is “Low Interest Rates and Risk-Taking: Evidence from Individual Investment Decisions” by Chen Lian, Yueran Ma, and Carmen Wang. You can read the article free online.

The Review of Financial Studies is launching a Twitter account. Follow us @RevOfFinStudies.

The OUP blog features a post by Oscar Stolper and Andreas Walter based on their paper, “Birds of a Feather: The Impact of Homophily on the Propensity to Follow Financial Advice,” from the February 2019 issue of RFS. To accompany the post, we’ve made the paper free to read online! Check out the blog post here and read the paper here.

The May issue (32/5) of RFS is a special issue, edited by Professors Itay Goldstein, Wei Jiang, and Andrew Karolyi, on FinTech. This special issue is the result of a 2017 initiative by the RFS editorial team to develop research proposals on FinTech. The editorial is free to read online.

RFS is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Editors: Holger Mueller and Manju Puri. Holger Mueller is the Nomura Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business, a research associate at The National Bureau of Economic Research, a research associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute, and a research fellow at The Center for Economic and Policy Research. Holger will join the RFS team on… Read More »Editors Joining the RFS Team

The program for the 2019 Conference on “New Frontiers in Banking: from Corporate Governance to Risk Management” is now available. The conference, which featured a dual submission option with RFS, will take place March 29-30, 2019, at Bocconi University in Milan. The program may be viewed here.