The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) is enacting a Code Sharing Policy for papers accepted for publication, which will be effective on July 1, 2020. The policy is available here. This policy reflects the commitment of the RFS to the highest standards of quality, as we believe that the policy will help improve the reproducibility and replicability of published research and by this will support the credibility and impact of… Read More »Code Sharing Policy
The Review of Financial Studies is now featured on Academic Audios, which produces narrated audios of research papers, including the abstract, introduction, and conclusion. As described on their website, this allows “you to learn the motivation for the paper, its background, the issue or question being addressed, and the results,” all in an audio format.
The Editor’s Choice article for 33(6) is “Monetary Transmission through Shadow Banks” by Kairong Xiao. You can read the paper free online.
We are pleased to announce that Gregor Matvos will be joining RFS as an editor. Gregor is a Howard Berolzheimer Chair in Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Research Associate in the Corporate Finance group at NBER. His first day will be July 1.
RFS Editor Ralph Koijen’s research is featured in a Forbes piece titled, “Researchers Examine The Market’s COVID-19 Swings, Here’s What They Found.”
On Monday, May 11 at 12:30 PM EST, Jeremy Stein will join a webinar, co-hosted by the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance and the Society for Financial Studies, on the COVID-19 credit programs recently implemented by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury. Stein is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a former Governor of the Federal Reserve. The event will begin with a brief discussion by Markus… Read More »Webinar: An Evaluation of the Fed-Treasury Credit Programs
RFS is pleased to announce that Lauren Cohen has been appointed for a second term as an editor. We thank Lauren for his continued service.
Oxford University Press presents the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Collection, featuring the following papers from RFS: Destructive Creation at Work: How Financial Distress Spurs Entrepreneurship by Tania Babina The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments by Christophe Pérignon and Boris Vallée How Valuable Is FinTech Innovation? by Mark A. Chen, Qinxi Wu, and Baozhong Yang Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China by Lily H. Fang,… Read More »Innovation & Entrepreneurship Collection
The part-time RFS advisory editor position has been filled. We are no longer accepting applications.
Issue 33(5) of RFS is a special issue, edited by G. Andrew Karolyi and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. The editorial is free to read online. The Editor’s Choice paper is “Comparing Cross-Section and Time-Series Factor Models” by Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
